The PNC has a habit of giving names to its announcements – such as the “Declaration of Sophia” when Burnham announced that the PNC was “paramount” over the State!! More recently, we had the WPA – which is now joined at the hip with the party that assassinated Rodney – announcing the “Buxton Declaration”. No, this wasn’t a repeat of the “Buxton Freedom Fighters” declaration of war against the Guyanese State in general and the Police in particular.
It was to demand that the Government not use the oil revenues to create a sustainable future but dish out $1,000,000 yearly to every one of the 223,000 Guyanese families!! Clearly, they’re too “educated” to have read “The Grasshopper and the Ant” – where the Grasshopper ate, drank and was merry all summer long while the ants laboured at saving grains for the winter!! Seems the WPA types are comfortable with us begging the world for handouts when our oil runs out!! While Eric Williams had bragged that “oil doan spoil”, his successor Rowley’s having to deal with the reality that “oil does done”!!
Anyhow, now that the PNC and their front groups have returned to dear Mudland after their presentations to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), your Eyewitness has decided to dub their outpourings, “The Washington Whine”!! ‘Cause that’s all it is, innit?? It was like a kid whining and wailing to his mother that “the table hit me, Maa!!” They took no responsibility for even collecting proof of their allegations – and yet expected the CBC would influence the Biden Administration to remove the PPP from office!! After their role in the Mingo manoeuvre to rig the elections, irony clearly isn’t their strong suit!! The CBC effectively bitch-slapped them and told them to grow up!!
But the PPP Government has responded to their whines and your Eyewitness will take a gander. To the complaint that the PPP ain’t engaging their local representatives, the former insisted it ain’t so!! As one who observes these things, the Opposition clearly sees “engagement” as the Govt negotiating around some table with their reps – while the persons who’re supposed to be served languish on the vine!! It would appear that the PPP’s determined to break specifically “ethnic” representation – by demonstrating that they are governing for ALL the people and as such, can direct service all the peoples!!
On the specific charge that the Government wasn’t executing their commitment to the Decade for People of African Descent agenda, here again the Government insisted that subventions were going DIRECTLY to people of African Descent and their organisations – rather than self-appointed guardians with agendas of their own. Ditto for political representation.
Your Eyewitness believes the PNC gotta do some serious introspection!!
…the Haitian dilemma
Your Eyewitness returns to the tragedy of Haiti – which has now become a poster child for anarchy. Any Guyanese who feel that a country can’t remain at the bottom of the barrel indefinitely ought to consider Haiti’s plight. Now the US is being blamed from some quarters for the Haitian situation and their recent efforts to cobble together an international force to bring some order to give Haitians some breathing space is being dubbed an “invitation by proxy”!!
Kenya is gonna lead the incursion under the auspices of the UN Security Council which just passed a resolution. So what’s the solution to the gangs controlling the Haitian capital and making lives unbearable for the citizenry?? This would simply prove the old aphorism that “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” Caricom has already accepted in principle the need for an intervention in its member state Haiti.
Your Eyewitness believes that Guyana ought to step up to the crease and commit a specific number of troops!
…the Washington Whine’s resolution
The Washington Whiners passed a “resolution” starting with the claim that “1400 young black men” were killed by PPP Govts. Where’s the proof disputing the Stabroek News’ 400 executions finding – one-third being Indian Guyanese?
