GUYANA: GOVT DISREGARDS UK GROUP'S CALL TO END DEATH PENALTY

the government of Guyana brushed aside calls by a United Kingdom group for the abolition of the death penalty, stating that the law should be enforced as long as criminals are around. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said capital punishment is in the country's laws and the state is obligated to administer it. "The administration does not see as an imperative to have any national discourse on capital punishment," Luncheon told the media at his post cabinet press briefing.