Desperately… seeking the PNC

With the official LOO consumed with finding new ways to block his extradition to the States – and thus avoiding clearing his good name that he insists is being besmirched by the US and Guyana govts working in collusion! – your Eyewitness searched about for the PNC/APNU for some critique of the government that Oppositions are supposed to provide in a parliamentary democracy!! After a lot of digging he struck gold – or so he thought when he saw an announcement by the PNC/APNU for a press conference that would be broadcast over social media!! Eureka!!
After all, in the last couple of weeks it appeared they had gone underground – and that didn’t seem as ominous as it would’ve been twenty years ago when some of its “political sophisticates” decided to launch a frontal attack on the state!! Buxton recaptured its reputation from the sixties in spades!! Rather than bodies showing up her and there – this time they were here, there and EVERYWHERE!!!
Anyhow, he dug out pen and paper – since he can’t type other than with his two index fingers and that ain’t never enough to write things down verbatim! – and stared at his laptop screen!! Only to receive a written announcement: “PLEASE NOTE: We are having some technical issues with our press conference and will issue the statement after it is concluded.” Can you believe it?? But sadly, it brought home very graphically (pun intended!!) the status of the PNC/APNU at this time!!
Your Eyewitness felt a twinge of regret at how low this once tall Palm Tree had fallen!! He thought that maybe Jagdeo had felt something similar – and that’s why he’d thrown them an olive branch – along with a rope to stop them from drowning!! So in the spirit of the season of light and goodwill, your Eyewitness gonna offer a few suggestions to Norton!!
The first thing he gotta do is to get rid of Black Pudding Man and his venomous, racially divisive podcasts – all the while bigging up the dead WPA when it’s the PNC that rescued him from oblivion and gave him a seat in Parliament!! Norton should’ve taken a hint from Granger who banished the twerp from his sight!!
The second thing he can do is gather the real PNC types and request a meeting with Jagdeo to discuss how the two oldest parties who were once one – can again work together for the development of our country!! This time there will be more realism than before -since there will be no need for the Burnham-like backstabbing that brought the house tumbling down in ‘57!!
It took a Nixon to make peace with China; maybe Norton can seal the deal with the PPP!!

…seeking Diwali
Your Eyewitness is throwing back today – on the public holiday occasioned by Diwali falling on a Sunday. He’s gorged himself with so much sweets that he’s actually sweating sugar in the heatwave that has descended on us!! But as he reflects on all the parades, and lights and diyas and girls dressed as the divine mother in her benign mode, he must confess that he feels Divali is going the way of Christmas!! All commercialized glitter and very little of the earnest worship he’d experienced as a kid.
Take a look at the centerpiece of the festival that gives it its name – the “string of lights” that translated to Diwali. As he walked around his village and drove around further afield, he could not spot a single diya – among the few placed perfunctorily among all the fairy lights and artificial candles – that was made by hand in the loving sculpture that used to demonstrate the personal effort to welcome the Mother into the home.
Change is inevitable, he knows, but authenticity is constant!!

…Digging up parapets
Earthen parapets are being dug up all over the place and filled with gravel – to offer parking for our (ubiquitous) cars!
Shouldn’t they go whole hog and install prefab concrete drains at the same time??