The fallout from the violent attacks and looting of the Indian-owned stalls at Mon Repos market continues to roil our political and social landscape. And well it should!! We just can’t have innocent citizens traumatized like this for nothing else that being who they are, can we? We might as well do away with the state and all the governmental apparatus that costs us such a bundle since such violence is nothing more than a reversion to life in the jungle where life is “nasty, short and brutish”. And “brutish” is about the only way you can describe what went down at Mon Repos.
Your Eyewitness has already deal summarily with the ignorant piffle that it was “infiltrators” who committed the mayhem. That particular bucket’s bottom has loooong dropped off – and it ain’t holding no water no mo’!! So the question is what’s the authorities gonna do ‘bout it?? Security was – and continues to be – the number one reason for the state and its government so the government better get on with the program. And what program might that be?? Well, to paraphrase that tag-line that became popular during Bill Clinton’s campaign back in 1992 – “It’s the police, stupid!!”
That’s right, dear readers. We can’t pussyfoot around the elephant in the room any longer. The PPP inherited a GPF in 1992 that was woefully unprofessional due to the machinations of the Machiavellian Burnham who (mis)used them to keep him in office. For whatever reasons, they didn’t shakeup the Force in the 23 years they were in office – and had to do an end run around them when the local politics became an armed assault on the state. That further deprofessionalised the GPF!!
And when Granger and (PNC) company returned in 2015, the first thing they did was to decapitate the entire top brass and insert their own picks. That a former Top Cop and a GDF Chief of Staff became top functionaries of the PNC govt only proves how the PNC’d penetrated the entire Security Forces had become!! Demoralized the second tier to no end!! But when the PPP returned in 2020 they finally took the bull by the horns and picked a no-nonsense go-getter as the Top Cop. But before you could “Sanctimonious Gangster” the Opposition went on the offensive to the Courts, to the Social Media and to the Streets to prevent any reform.
Clearly, there’s not much anyone can do about creating a “kinder, gentler” PNC. They’ve written off getting back to power thru the ballot box. So what’s left for them?? The Bullet, that’s what…literally or figuratively! Guyana better get used to another round of “mo fyaah; slow fyaaah” from the Opposition.
Hold onto your seats, folks!!
…Dead Meat?
Well, what’d ya know…the AFC has made a decision on its own!! We can’t be completely sure but there it was: AFC heading off on its own by year-end from APNU – when the Cummingsburg Accord expires. Your Eyewitness is all agog in anticipation at the show-and-tell he hopes is in the offing!! Ramjattan won’t speak before the Accord ends so he must be an honourable man, no??
Will we then be told why he allowed his party to be used as a doormat for Granger? Why Moses accepted emasculation of the Prime Ministership powers that the constitution guaranteed him? Will we now get the scoop on Trotman and the Oil Contract?? And what about those Russian spies?? Will we ever know how they were going to rig the elections? Anyhow, your Eyewitness wishes the AFC well. The demographics of Guyana allows a party with just two seats to control the two big boys.
They just have to get rid of that Dead Meat stench!!
