The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered by the State.  The PPP Govt. killed him.

Nov 08, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s completely under their control, then it’s a testimony about what agents of the State believe they can do, and still get away with such atrocity. A mentality developed. The government is criminal, so can we. The ruling aristocracy can coverup murder, so will this one be.

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A hue and cry surge from official mouths. Investigation. Justice. The four cops are expendable, small fish in the big political sea. But what about the senior who looks like me, overlooked that killing, and of whom nothing is heard about? Not among the four that are under close arrest, and at whom the book will be thrown. They will be thrown to those insisting on justice. Occasionally, it makes sense to appease the crowd. The PPP has learned this, and when the evidence is overwhelming to such an extent that there is no case, no room for coverup, then those four cops are history.