When your Eyewitness was in short pants, he’d heard the story of the “dog and bone”, hadn’t you?? There’s this dog who found a bone and snapped it up in his jaws. While going to a shady spot to enjoy a good, leisurely and satisfying chew, he had to cross a bridge over a stream. But as he did so, he saw his reflection in the water; thought it was another (ugly!) dog with a luscious bone and attempted to grab it. But, of course, being a dog, he had to open his mouth to do so – and his real bone dropped into the water, lost forever!!
Now, even if the PNC Opposition types had heard the story, it looks like they didn’t realise that it had a moral that was supposed to teach them a lesson for life. To wit, don’t be too greedy lest they lose “corn and husk”, to mix a metaphor!! Four years later, whether they scream “illegally-installed-regime” from now till kingdom come or not, they’ve lost the 2020 General Elections; they will be facing the 2025 elections. Nothing they do will change that!!
Rather than hitting the streets and mobilising, they seem to be putting all their eggs into two baskets: one to follow the advice of their “elder” Hamilton Green and rig the elections or alternatively, discredit the elections – which they know they’re gonna lose!! Since they’re insisting on claiming the PPP rigged the 2020 elections from the outside – maybe they will now do the same?? On the latter, they’re claiming that the electoral list – which they used to win the 2015 election and capture the Government – is “bloated”!! And the PPP’s gonna be using the dead and migrated folks they snucked in to win the 2020 elections to do the same with the 2025 elections! Can you believe that?? Now even if that’s true, since they know how the rig’s gonna be done, can’t they use their scrutineers in every polling station to stop it??
In the meantime, the PPP’ve threw down the gauntlet at Babu Jaan, they better “come good”!! Meaning they’re ready to rumble!! They’ve been giving “traditional PNC supporters” the full court press Michael Jordan would’ve been proud of!! And as they deliver services like they’ve never been delivered before – with the unprecedented Oil Money at their disposal – the PNC might just become lost in the wilderness??
So we hope their Brain Trust is more than ONE brain and they’ll decide to start tempering their rhetoric and start playing smart COALITION politics!! Meaning that just like the PPP’re biting off small new chunks, they gotta follow suit!
One, one dutty build dam. They need all the dutty they can collect for 2025!!
…in Parliament
The Opposition Leaders keep complaining that the Parliamentary Sectoral Committees aren’t meeting because of the PPP Government’s intransigence!! What the heck is your Eyewitness hearing?? He’s been raising his hands to the skies and calling for these Committees to meet and put the Government’s feet to the fire for the last four years!! These Committees – Economic, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Social Services – cover every aspect of governmental activities in real time unlike the Public Accounts Committee that deals with history!!
Now half of these Committees are chaired on an annual rotating basis by a member of the Opposition!! So if the Committees haven’t been meeting, what have those Opposition Chairmen been doing since 2020?? Sleeping?? They should’ve been screaming bloody murder to the Guyanese electorate!! All of the complaints – discriminatory handouts, house lots distribution, jobs, contracts, land, “emerging apartheid government”, etc, could’ve been investigated by summoning officials of the administration to give testimony on penalty of sanctions!!
It’s clear the Opposition just can’t get their act together!!
…about development
Between 2015 and 2020, the PNC had executed a three-billion IDB RAID programme to resuscitate and make agri sustainable in four Afro-Guyanese villages – Ithaca, Buxton, BV and Mocha. Can’t they use the Doosan Excavators, Caterpillar Bulldozers, tractors with implements, etc, to keep things going?
