New measures, laws in place to help reduce road deaths – Benn 

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Monday said there are new measures and laws in place to help reduce the alarming number of road deaths locally.

The country lost a whopping 178 persons by road deaths in 2023, even as the figures had dropped in the preceding years.

At the launch of Road Safety Month on Monday, at the Leonora Track and Field, West Coast Demerara, he pointed out that many changes are being rolled out to help ensure that there is improvement in road safety by 2030.

The theme, “Do the right thing,” is making the exhortation for persons to be guided by the laws when behind the wheel, he pointed out.

“Many things have been done with legislation to make sure that we improve, seatbelt laws were put in place, issues relating to driving drunk, issues relating to improving the capacity and resources of the Guyana Police Force have been put in place to improve their efficiency, their presence, their awareness and their responsiveness to bad behaviour on the roads,” Benn expressed.

“One of the things which we have to point out continuously is that we adults are not giving the best examples to our children,” he charged.

“A lot of what is happening is a result of bad adult behaviour; poor examples which children see and replicate,” he added.