After screaming for more than two years that they wuz robbed on March 2020 by the conniving PPP – who were able to raise the dead and apparate the emigrated from a “bloated” list to vote for them – the PNC now (sheepishly) accepts that whatever else the list may be, its only “sin” – if we may call it that – is that it doesn’t “shock out” Guyanese just because they’ve emigrated!! And isn’t this what your Eyewitness’ been saying all the time??
But having Guyanese in foreign climes retain their citizenship rights isn’t a sin, is it? Problem is, the PNC’s been rigging so long they’re incapable of thinking about elections without rigging coming up. After all, in the very first election they rigged back in 1968, LFSB fiddled with the voters’ list!! Well, now that they’ve accepted what had always been obvious to the rest of the world, the question is whether they’re willing to do what it takes to “correct” what THEY see as a flaw. That is to demand all overseas Guyanese be stripped of their franchise!! Like the mentally incompetent and the incarcerated, they shouldn’t have the right to vote in our elections!!
Really, if they feel so strongly about the issue, that’s all it’ll take to resolve it!! But your Eyewitness knows they’ll never go down THAT road. Why? Because most of their funding and other support – including racial/violent ideological sustenance – come from those same overseas Guyanese. They’re the hardcore base who emigrated because Burnham had destroyed the economy, the society and even their houses. But THAT they’ll never concede – they yearn for the return to the “Burnham days”!! And they’re gonna be really pi55ed off to be told that they’re not REAL Guyanese!! But the PNC can’t have it both ways, can they??
They’re trying to finesse the issue by phrasing it in such a way that the blame is thrown at the Chief Justice – who’d based her ruling on the CONSTITUTION that GECOM can’t just throw people off the list because they aren’t RESIDENT in Guyana. That is, they aren’t at their address indicated on the list on the day of any “house-to-house” exercise!! So the PNC needs a change in the Constitution – which will take a two thirds majority vote in Parliament!!
Now your Eyewitness knows, Dear Reader, that YOU know all of this – if nothing else than it’s been regurgitated in this space ad nauseum!! But he’s doing it on behalf of the PNC and members of the Opposition. Since they must’ve blocked their minds to all information on the issue, this is gonna be news to them!!
The reaction from up north, however, is gonna be a death sentence!! Between a rock and a hard place!?!
…the evil in man
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you gotta be wondering what’s going on – what with a slew of young people slaying their elderly relatives. We’ve always heard of relatives killing each other. Even if you aren’t Jewish or Christian you would’ve been regaled at some point or other as to how Cain killed his brother Abel. Seemed Abel was a shepherd and killed a sheep as an offering to their God. Abel, the farmer, offered his produce – but their God preferred the meat. Guess he wasn’t a vegetarian!!
Anyhow Cain killed Abel in a rage – further displeasing their God who made him wander forever. Here, it doesn’t appear the killings are done out of jealousy. Seems it’s all about greed: the younger relatives just want to enjoy some ill-gotten loot. Now we can’t have that going on, can we? Next it’ll be OUR turn!!
Your Eyewitness says we gotta hang ‘em high!!
…Guyanese culture
Guess if it’s one thing that makes us “Guyanese”, it’s our looking forward to Christmas. It has long ceased to be a “religious” thing – excepting that it’s celebrated “religiously”!!
So, you gotta understand the public servants cheering their “back pay”!!