On the question of a Majority in the Legislature, the Governor, naturally, did not choose those people to be detained in the interests of public safety with any regard to what their functions or positions were. He had to deal with a difficult security situation and I do not think that it would have been right for him to treat differently people whom, in the interest of public safety, he considered should be detained, just because they were members of the Legislative Assembly.

I cannot say anything at the moment about the question of charges, but the purpose of these emergency regulations, as in all countries in situations like this, is to enable people to be detained whom it is thought desirable to detain for the sake of public safety. Very often, as the House knows, and I think that I have made this clear before, it is not easy to bring charges against people even when the fullest evidence is available, for the simple reason that, in a country like British Guiana, it is extremely difficult to get witnesses to appear in open court, or even in camera, and to give evidence against somebody when they think that their house may be burned down the next night.