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Reply to "Corruption Remains Entrenched in Guyana"

Does Ramkarran really believe anyone can just wish away corruption?  Then he is naive!  He was part of the machinery all his life, what did he do to fight it within his own ranks?  He is being hypocritical to expect it to go away!

Corruption runs deep in the society and, like any corrupt society, it has become a sub-culture within the national culture going way back to the old PNC days. Corruption will not just go away by shouting, it will not just go away by legislation, it will not even go away with a firing squad, just ask the Chinese!

Corruption is a complex issue and needs to be addressed with both a stick and carrot. All I hear everyone talk of is the stick, how about the carrot?  Corruption has become the livelihood for some and a supplemental income for many.  Unless you create dis-incentives and value-at-risk incentives, corruption will be the risk people will be willing to take to get by!  This will be a generational struggle!

FM
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