Here we go again: Khemraj Ramjattan announced that as of this year-end, the AFC’s parting ways with the PNC-as-APNU!! How many times haven’t we heard this song before?? It’s “Break up to make up” by the Stylistics – which Ramjattan and Norton are both long-in-the-tooth enough to know!! “Tell me what’s wrong with you now, tell me why/ I Never seem to make you happy though heaven knows I try// What does it take to please you? Tell me just how/I can satisfy you woman, you’re drivin’ me wild/ Break up to make up, that’s all we do/ First you love me then you hate me/ That’s a game for fools”!!
It all started so romantically after the smooth-talking Granger dropped on one knee (he reserved the two-knee drop for the Church!!) and proposed back in 2015. Ramjattan played coy and blushed that he’d become “Dead Meat” if their transgressive union were consummated!! But in the end, after the Sanctimonious Granger signed a prenup (called the Cummingsburg Accord) Ramjattan was persuaded by the promised Dowry!! Nine Ministries, a Prime Ministership on steroids to his ex-PPP sidekick Nagamootoo – and outriders even to pick up a “large” at the corner Rum Shop!!
But leopards can’t really change their spots, can they?? So how could an old PNCite like Granger – who was suckled with PNC milk at the feet of Burnham himself! – share power?? Ramjattan should’ve filed for divorce the moment Nagamootoo got “Larwah” rather than “powah” – and half of his Ministry was hived off to Felix!! But that’s the problem with these Marriages of Convenience, isn’t it?? They’re totally transactional and cold blooded – unlike Marriages of Commitment where, after a long courtship, the couple know each other and tie the knot because they have the same goals.
But Ramjattan and the AFC did get those nine MP seats and the big fight coming up after they depart after December is whether they’ll be allowed to keep those jewels. Ramjattan seems to be pinning his hopes on Granger being the Representative of the List – and with his beef with Norton – will stiff them!! Ramjattan can claim he’s merely getting his deserved alimony!! But after Ramjattan and his AFC endured so much humiliation during the marriage, there gotta be some action by Norton that was the final straw.
Like most abused spouses, he hadn’t left because “where would he go??” He’d risked a trial separation at the last LGE and was left naked and bleeding!! Your Eyewitness thought he’d remain with the PNC at least till the next LGE – where he could garner some local power from under their skirttails!!
So was he constructively kicked out after being denied any rewards – like in Linden??
…at Queens??
After all the hoopla of getting one’s kid into Queens there must’ve been a tsunami of schadenfreude sweeping over all the parents whose little darlings hadn’t made the cut!! Seems that behind the walls of that coveted institution – pretty much formed to be a finishing school for the elites – life was no different than in your average ghetto school!! Ahh…how low has the mighty fallen!!
It’s like all the other institutions the Brits bestowed on us – and we let the jungle back in? Like Parliament where MPs wave dildos, blow whistles, seize the mace and assault its guardian – while hurling racist imprecations!! The rot started when Burnham made Queens co-ed in 1976…Eton and Harrow still only accept boys!! Now if you think your Eyewitness is “sexist”, chew on this: Do you think that father would’ve protested if there was a scuffle between his son and another boy??
Nah!! The father became irate when a BOY assaulted his DAUGHTER and was then she was forced to APOLOGISE!!
…of “real” Guyanese
With the Local Content Policy about to be tightened to prevent “rent a Guyanese” front men and women for foreign businesses compliance, expect some ingenuous ruses.
Like foreigners marrying GUYANESE to get OUR citizenship!! Imagine that!!
