…of sugar
Has the hubris of this man Tony Vieira no end? Is he competing with Finance Minister Winston Jordan to show how “big” he is by cutting down others? After his missive in which he declares Lennox Craig “incompetent” – his ability to steal TV content from US providers and then charge Guyanese to receive same through his “black boxes” presumably qualified him to pass that judgement – Vieira is revealed with another foot firmly stuck in his mouth.
Seems for some reason this newspaper and the Stabber excised Vieira’s claim that he didn’t look down on Craig or others of his ilk because of “class and colour”. But the Muckraker let it all hang out and quoted the former field Overseer of Versailles Estate in full: “To accuse me of being above others in class and colour is completely ludicrous, I spoke up for the Afro Guyanese since I saw a vicious attack on them by the PPP, since 1992 and when I sat in Parliament, I sat between Basil Williams and Debby Backer of the PNC/One/G, that speaks for itself.”
Now that should shut up Vieira’s detractors, shouldn’t it? How could a man who sat between Basil Williams and Debbie Backer – both evidently completely bereft of “class and colour” – for five years in Parliament be accused of classism and colourism??!! Well Basil Williams is around and kicking so maybe he can defend himself against Vieira’s charge of being a “low life” but poor Ms Backer isn’t. So this Eyewitness will say this – Vieira doesn’t even have the class of the clippings of Ms Backer finger nails!
But like most folks filled with hubris, Vieira doesn’t know when to stop. Keeping up his boorishness and crassness on the GNBA matter, he claimed it’s not he couldn’t have been Chairman – but with his appointment as the man to diversify sugar he’d rather focus on the latter. And, dear readers, if there were any lingering doubts about the death of sugar in Guyana, this announcement – if true – should put them to rest. RIP! Sugar after 400 years!
Vieira diversifying sugar? What qualifies him for that job? That he was an Overseer on his father’s estate at Versailles? Your Eyewitness may be missing something here…doesn’t that experience MAYBE qualify him for trying to suggest how they’d be moving cane from Wales to Uitvlugt? Or whether they’re just throwing good money after bad?
But what the heck? According to the Greeks who knew a thing or two about hubris, Vieira’s tale will end tragically.
Your Eyewitness just hopes the tragedy won’t be GuySuCo’s, or Guyana’s.
…of Democracy?
Your Eyewitness doesn’t want to be hyperbolic…but the old folks did say “you don’t need flash light to see what’s clear in daylight”. Or “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you might as well accept you’ve got a duck on your hands”! When the PPP/C was in power, because of the way the parliamentary system functions with the Executive also controlling the Legislature, the Opposition ideologues educated us to the possibility that this might be an “elected dictatorship”.
Why? Well it doesn’t matter what the Opposition says, does it? The Government will always have its way with them – especially when, as with the incumbent Speaker who’s supposed to guarantee “fair play”, he’s in cahoots with the Government. Has this fella even tried to appear impartial? What do you call the rejection of the PPP’s call for sending Minister Norton to the Privileges Committee for lying through his teeth in that honourable house? Or Prezzie traducing Constitutional protocols?
What do you call the Finance Minister berating the AG over committing the same act for which they’d demanded his predecessor be jailed? Etc etc…
…of fairness
The Muckraker a big “to do” about Opposition Leader Jagdeo accepting that mistakes were made by the PPP/C in sugar? Didn’t he say that before last elections?
But like “Voldemort”, that can’t be mentioned!
