A brave… new (Drone) world?

Your Eyewitness was quite chuffed when he perused his Sunday rag and noticed that three young business entrepreneurs are launching a Drone Delivery Service!! Imagine that!! Your Eyewitness thought it was revolutionary when he could DRIVE to the shop or market – rather than walking – to forage supplies to feed his family!! Before that he remembers old man Sugrim bringing “rations” from the salt-goods store to his grandmothers’ home!! He never got around to using the delivery services the fast food joints use nowadays to bring over his food – cause he’s in deep country and deliveries to his home cost more than the food!! Not a viable option for him!!
And here it is, he’s gonna just place his order and a drone will fly in whatever he purchases?? The mountain coming to Mohamed so to speak!! He’d read of one company doing this drone delivery in Ireland –the owner called it “Manna”. Like “Manna from heaven”, get it?? Being Ireland and all that, your Eyewitness wondered at the time whether the Irish craving to have their nip created that market!! It’s not for nothing that their name for whiskey is “uisce Beatha”- literally meaning “water of life”!!
Anyhow back to our about-to-be-launched drone delivery service – which has been named “Drone Dash”!! Your Eyewitness suspects that because of that gas station bombing in mid-town GT recently, the first thought that came to his (paranoid?) mind was “Ain’t this gonna make it easy for terrorists to deliver their (explosive) packages??” So he rather suspects that a strict regulatory regime’s gonna have to be introduced and refined not just to deal with logistical challenges like drones hitting cranes and such like – as happened in Frisco to an Amazon delivery drone – but substantive ones to ensure the stuff being delivered is what was ordered!!
In the States, the FAA had to create a web of drone regulations to keep the technology in check – including a drone remote ID law!! Are we ready?? Amazon’s Bezos has boasted back in 2013 about 30-minute drone deliveries becoming as common as delivery trucks – but that still hasn’t happened innit?!! The first company in the US took wing in 2016 and growth has been extremely slow. There gotta be a reason, no? And we should find out what that is!!
Now there’s no question there’s gonna be a market for this new delivery service. Right off the top of his head your Eyewitness can think of out-of-stock medicines to all these new hospitals being constructed – and also to our medexes and health centres in our remote interior!!
But while we shouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, we shouldn’t rush in where (US) regulatory angels fear to thread!!

…politics in Guyana
Your Eyewitness is getting quite antsy about when this new rising of the dawn of non-racial politics gonna kick in!! He was assured that the performance – not just promise – by the Indian Sanction Man pulling most of his 110,000 votes from the African Guyanese camp owned by the PNC for some sixty-odd years, was the harbinger of this new age!! And he was as happy as a pig in a slop of garbage!! At long last folks were gonna be discussing the pressing issues of the day affecting them and from which the politicians would deliver them!!
But instead, all he’s been hearing about from the harbingers are the intricacies and nuances of a 1931 extradition treaty with the US!!! What the heck does this have with the price of bread at Youngs Bakery?? And for those of us who can’t make roti, it’s bread that keeps us going, innit??
Why can’t Sanction Man show that the new politics means being willing to face the music??!!

…new relief supply
Your Eyewitness’ eyes lit up on reading that DDL sent a container of relief to hurricane-hit Jamaica. He has some great Jamaica friends and knew they missed their rum.
Only to find out DDL sent just water and juice!!