…at COVID straws
It’s a thing to behold! Your Eyewitness is talking about the reaction by PNCites to the announcement that the US was releasing less than US$1/2 million to Guyana from the US$3million they’d allocated to the Caribbean in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re literally shouting hosannas from the rooftops!!
Sadly, their joy has nothing to do with the humanitarian gesture the US is demonstrating to the people of Guyana, as the PNC continue to dawdle in this literal life-and-death issue instead of getting ahead of the expected onslaught. The PNC want folks to believe that the US is stepping back from its disgust at the blatant rigging they’re attempting to execute in broad daylight – and from the sanctions they have been threatening since the Mingoing of the SOPs at Ashmins.
Any port in a storm, your Eyewitness guesses. Never mind that the electoral storm they unleashed is growing into a veritable hurricane. And the thunder of condemnation with lightning bolts of sanctions are still poised to strike down the miscreants in the PNC who’ve dared to believe they can stick their fingers into the eyes of countries that have been in our corner all these years.
But they misunderstand the point the US Ambassador made just a while ago: while every country has its own interests foremost, in this instance, however, their interest and ours coincide: democratic governance. And the rigging stunt the PNC are trying to push down their throats and ours vitiates it. In the present circumstance, the US, as it has always done with us, is making a distinction between the people of Guyana – who’re in need – and the PNC-led Government, filled with greed for power.
Everything in its own time. Like the PPP, the US is going to wait out the PNC’s stonewalling on the recount process. They all know this can’t go on forever – even though the PNC would like to think it can. The COVID-19 pandemic was a fortuitous straw – like the suggestion about 33 not being a majority of 65 – that the PNC seized as they were going down for the count – and recount!
It has bought them some time, but sooner or later – COVID or no COVID – we’ll know what’s in those ballot boxes, and know also why the PNC doesn’t want Reg 4 SOPs to be tabulated transparently. That final recount will be the CCJ informing the PNC that they were acting outside the law all along. And it’s at that time that we will have the western powers coming down on the PNC leadership like a ton of bricks.
Some ah dem guh hallah; some ah dem guh bawl!!
…and unclutching
In the local parlance, when someone’s “blowing hot and cold” – saying one thing now and different thing later – they’re said to have a “hold me, loose me” attitude.
Claudette Singh, being a former judge and all that, seems to have raised the practice to a whole new level, which we’ll call “clutching and unclutching”. “Clutching”, because each of her decisions on the surface seems geared at throwing the PPP a bone, and then “unclutching” to satisfy the PNC.
Remember her (in)famous decision to stop the H2H registration process foisted on us by Patterson and Lowenfield? Clutching for the PPP? But then she integrates all the unverified data gathered into the NRR! Definitely unclutching for the PNC!! And now the decision for a recount – for Granger and Jagdeo?? Certainly not even clutching for the PPP, which had called for just a re-tabulation of the Mingoed Reg 4 SOPs. And the present never-ending process certainly is certainly unclutching ever so slowly for the PNC.
Sadly, she’ll have to be the one to make a final declaration.
Will she clutch or unclutch?
…on for dear life
Moses Nagamootoo conceded that Guyana’s requests to the IFIs for funds to fight COVID-19 are being held up until a new government is formed.
So why’d he try to delay the count?? Wanker!!
