In the 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Guyana the US Department of State identified several areas of concern, among them are:
- Corruption by police officers was frequent
- There were reports of arbitrary arrest and unlawful detention
- Lengthy pretrial detention remained a problem
- Delays and inefficiencies undermined judicial due process
- As of September, police reported that only 48 percent of reports of rape resulted in criminal charges
- Domestic violence and gender-based violence, including spousal abuse, was widespread
- NGOs alleged some police officers could be bribed to make cases of child abuse “go away.”
- The political party system was overwhelmingly race based, with Indo-Guyanese forming most of the government and Afro-Guyanese forming the majority of the opposition as well as the civil service
- The ruling party’s monopoly of state media created an imbalance in public discourse and tended to give the party a public affairs advantage, since the opposition did not have an outlet of its own.
