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Another tribune for accident reduction

Editorial- Guyana Chronicle April 28th 2005 

WHEN the Police Traffic Department began enforcing the country’s seatbelt law at the beginning of June last year, we editorialized our support for the initiative amid complaints by drivers and passengers alike that seatbelt wearing was a cumbersome, time-wasting exercise.
 

We felt, then, as Guyanese generally did during a national consultation on traffic law reform, that the institution of a seatbelt law was vital to reducing human injury and death from road accidents.

We’re expressing another tribune for accident reduction because reports are coming through that the non-wearing of seatbelts is a major factor in …


Traffic lights plea

Letter-Guyana Chronicle April 14th 2005

I AM appealing to the authorities to install new and working traffic lights at the junction of Camp and Lamaha streets in Georgetown.
 Accidents are occurring there every day.
I was a victim of one of these accidents in the first week of the school term but God spared my life.
Now, as I pass there every day, I see so many little children, elderly people and others just waiting to cross but none of the vehicles going by would allow them to pass.
I recently witnessed yet another accident.
The reason for most of these incidents is all …


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