{"id":21776,"date":"2024-08-27T20:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21776"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:09:29","slug":"minister-benn-advocates-for-increased-fines-and-technology-to-improve-road-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/minister-benn-advocates-for-increased-fines-and-technology-to-improve-road-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Benn Advocates for Increased Fines and Technology to Improve Road Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By <strong>Saskia Warrick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has called for increased fines and the use of technology to address the rising number of road accidents in Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Benn highlighted that young males are primarily responsible for these accidents, especially during extended weekends and late-night hours after social events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that offenders often evade justice through bribery or by leveraging connections with high authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To combat this issue, Minister Benn believes that stricter penalties and enhanced enforcement measures are essential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police officers will soon be equipped with body cameras to document their interactions with the public, which is expected to improve accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, discussions will soon be held with the Attorney General regarding the increase of traffic fines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative aligns with Guyana&#8217;s commitment to the UN&#8217;s Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021\u20132030, which aims to reduce traffic deaths and injuries by 50 percent by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has called for increased fines and the use of technology to address the rising number of road accidents in Guyana. Minister Benn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news","category-technology"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21777,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions\/21777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}