Several automotive and tint applications shops in the city were packed today as the new tint regulations took effect, allowing all vehicles to carry a specific level of tint on the windows and back windscreen. The regulations do not allow for any front windscreen tint, even with a tint waiver permit.

Appearing on the New Day morning show on Gomoseley Radio this morning, Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond, said vehicle owners should simply follow the new regulations. Taking a similar position like Prime Minister Mark Phillips, the Home Affairs Minister said the regulations should be obeyed and persons should not be calling her to seek favours.

“It’s for people like me, those of us who are leaders in society not to permit those kinds of calls. And we have already been sending the message that there is a reason why we have the regulat25ions in place, its very clear and you need to comply with the law. It is very easy to tell a person, this is the law, don’t call me. As the Prime Minister had said in one of our traffic conferences, he said ‘don’t call me’. If it is that you have not complied with the law, don’t call me, just comply and that is the message that we are sending to all our friends and foes alike, don’t call me! The law is very clear and you should comply”, Minister Walrond said.

Under the new tint regulations, vehicles are allowed a 25% tint level for the front windows and 20% level for the back windows and the back windscreen. Those who are granted tint waiver permits are expected to use their discretion with the darker tint level, but will also not be allowed any front windscreen tint. The Home Affairs Minister said it became important for the Government to have the regulations as it widens its safe country programme with the installation of CCTV cameras in public spaces.

“I just came back from a regional conference and Guyana is head and shoulders above its Caribbean regional peers in relation to the serious crimes solving. We want to improve those figures. We have had a 25% decline in serious crimes and we want that to go down even lower, we want success stories like we had last Christmas when there were no serious crimes in Main Street Georgetown…the criminals understand how the cameras work and so those huge visors on the windscreen, we can’t see the faces and so the facial recognition system would not work, when they are driving through traffic recklessly, they can’t be detected through the cameras and so this will be direct assistance with our deployment as we expand our safe country cameras”, she said.

And as for those persons who may be driving across to Guyana from neighbouring countries, the Minister said they too will have to follow the local laws with regard to the tint regulations.

“Anybody who comes into our country has to abide by our rules and our laws, I don’t see us being able to turn up in another country and saying we are not subject to the laws of that particular country. So those vehicles, if a foreigner wants to bring a vehicle here, they will have to make sure that they are compliant with our laws and regulations”, Minister Walrond said on the morning show.

The Home Affairs Minister the online portal remains open for persons to apply for tint waiver permits, pointing out that they would have to detail the reasons why they believe a waiver ought to be granted to them.

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