…Claudette
From the way the Opposition – especially the PNC – are going after Chair of GECOM, Justice (retd) Claudette Singh, you’d never suspect that, following the procedures for selection, it was they who’d nominated her!! Clearly, they’re still in thrall to the views of Comrade Leader Fat Boy, who insisted that GECOM Chairs – like Harry Bollers, for instance – must only ask “how high?” when told to jump!!
For years now, PNC supporters and leaders have been marching up and down the streets outside the GECOM Office, demanding various and sundry changes to election regulations – plus Claudette’s head!!
Now, your Eyewitness has explained that it doesn’t matter what “changes” they demand. Even if they were granted, some new ones would be demanded!! The PNC know they’re gonna be whupped in 2025, and all the protests for new rules is to give them an excuse to come out and riot after the elections!! Remember when they lost the 1997 elections and rioted, claiming the PPP rigged?? When the CoI showed that everything was kosher, they went to the Courts, claiming it was “unconstitutional” to use National ID Cards to vote – even though they’d agreed to it in Parliament!!
And guess who had accepted their plea and cancelled the results of the elections? That’s right – Miss Claudette – who was then on the bench!! And maybe that’s why they’d nominated her?? So maybe they’d forgotten she was then merely following the law!! Like she is doing right now with the “bloated” list they are carrying on about!! The law says we can’t take off the names of Guyanese who’ve registered but might now be abroad!! Claudette shouldn’t be taking them on; and as she said, she should just proceed with her work!!
But we should remember that the PNC hadn’t placed their protests and riots on pause back when Claudette was musing over their case!! For that matter, when they lost the 2001 elections – following Claudette’s ruling in their favour – they INTENSIFIED their rioting!!
Now, dear reader, you must be wondering: since the PNC will be rioting once they don’t get their way, why do they bother with the demands and march up and down outside in the hot sun? It again goes back to the template Comrade Fat Boy left them!!
He had this cynical rule going back to his training as a lawyer – that the substance of the law can be traduced, but the FORMS must be followed!! For instance, once when he and Cheddi were walking out of Parliament in their early unity days against the Brits – before exiting, he took the time to BOW to the Speaker!! And that’s why, when he became a dictator, he yet held elections – which he duly rigged!!
Expect riots in 2025!!
…Modi
Your Eyewitness would never have thought that Modi would be accused by anybody of “campaigning” for the PPP when he praised three of their leaders – Pres Ali, Jagdeo and Ramotar – as “Ambassadors of Indo Guyanese”!! But there it was: one of the Indo-Guyanese leaders of the PNC was asked by a journalist if that wasn’t the case, since HE hadn’t been declared a member of that fraternity!! But the PNC leader claimed that wasn’t the case, and the description wouldn’t help the PPP.
But what he should’ve done was to praise Mr Modi for not dubbing him an Indo-Guyanese Ambassador!! Remember the last time he stood up for Indo-Guyanese, when they were insulted by an Opposition WPA activist who claimed they had originated in the slums of India?? He was duly cussed out as a “slave catcher”, for defending the enemy against one of “his own”!! he must’ve been quite happy he bit THAT bullet!!
And it’s the PPP leaders who might be troubled by the description!!
…Maduro
They say “time is longer than twine”!! But it still looks like time has run out for Mad Maduro, after the US House passed the BOLIVAR Act – “Banning Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Venezuelan Authoritarian Regime”!! Now for the Senate!!
