Sarah-Ann Lynch has become a household name across Guyana – without the “Lynch”!! Even though the US has loomed large in our post-WWII history, no other US ambassador had achieved her level of recognition – all the way to the grassroots. And it all goes back to those fateful days in March 2020 when the PNC decided to return to their rigging ways that had destroyed our country and society. PNC leader David Granger had been a young army officer back in 1968 when Burnham launched the first Big Rig of 1968. While that year saw a series of uprisings in the West calling for greater democratization, in Guyana, the then US Ambassador, Delmar Carlson, looked aside from Burnham’s anti-democratic fiddling!!
Granger probably thought history would repeat itself – as he “tried a thing” with Mingo and his other Fifth Columnists in GECOM. But Sarah-Ann rose to the occasion and showed him that “this time na laang time”!! She boldly went where few ambassadors have done before as she demonstrated her country’s commitment to a democratic order. Now, your Eyewitness isn’t so naïve as to believe the US doesn’t do what it has to do to protect what it considers to be its interests! Think 1964!! That’s the way the (international relations) cookie crumbles!!
But this time there was an alignment in the stars, and the US interests in democracy coincided with ours – and Sarah-Ann delivered. Of course, the EU, CARICOM, Commonwealth, etc. also did their bit…but basically, let’s face it – they simply fell into line!! If, say, Sarah-Ann hadn’t staged that now iconic “walk out” from Ashmin’s – would the others have been so bold?? Your Eyewitness doubts it! Anyway, all good things must come to an end, and Sarah-Ann is about to depart our shores – having long exceeded the usual 3-year stint of US ambassadors.
In parting, she gave a message to the politicians in Guyana – which it would be in their interest to heed. “A hint to Beneba mek Quashi tek notice” and all that!! And what did she say?? “My words of encouragement are: talk, communicate, debate, and listen. You know it’s through conversations that we all grow and we all learn from each other, and political parties and Government officials are no different than citizens. It’s important to communicate, to talk, in order to be successful and grow…The people of both the Government and the Opposition want the same; I think they both want the same for the people of Guyana.”
But Sarah-Ann should know that while both the PNC and PPP want the same thing – gaining office – the PNC is willing to use undemocratic means to achieve their goal. This will not do!!
…on necromancy
“Necromancy”, the dictionary tells us, “is the practice of magic or black magic involving communication with the dead – either by summoning their spirits as apparitions, visions or raising them.” Anyone desirous of witnessing this ancient rite, which has been forbidden in many countries, should amble over to Rose Hall Estate, where the AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan is attempting to raise the dead. Taking advantage of the rehired sugar workers trying a thing, he rushed down to provide “support”!!
Thing is, if anything needs support, it’s the AFC, that keeps staggering from one disaster to the next. Do they really think sugar workers have forgotten how the AFC threw them beneath the (PNC) bus when they shuttered four estates??
Anyhow, your Eyewitness advises that if you want to see the first raising of the dead in 2000 years, you walk with some Limacol. Even though there are normally “spirits” served at these functions as “libations” to get participants into the other world…after five years, dead meat does become “renk”!!
…to traffic Police
Your Eyewitness thinks that the licences of all those drivers caught DUI ought to be immediately suspended. And their licences be investigated as to whether they were bought or earned after going through the regular drill.
