If you, dear reader, had any doubts about the state of affairs inside the PNC in dealing with the PPP’s full court press, those doubts should be totally dispelled after PNC MP Vinceroy Jordan’s uncouth faux pas. Imagine literally blocking Public Services Minister Sonya Parag from interacting with residents of Belladrum!! So, they’re gonna fence off communities that had voted straight PNC since the 1950s?!! Reverse apartheid?? They remind your Eyewitness of deer frozen in headlights!!
Seems like when Pres Ali dropped in on the West Berbice community a few weeks back, he was asked about some assistance for some community project – an ICT hub or library, etc, for youths. He deputised Minister Parag to follow up. She duly informed the NDC Chair, and drove down to a community building – where she was to meet some of the residents who’d requested the assistance. And this was where the desperation exploded: blocking the door with the villagers inside was the PNC MP – along with the PNC Chair of the Community Development Council (CDC).
It’s déjà vu all over again of what happened at Mocha a few months back, when the PNC also considered they had “transport” over those residents. So, when Pres Ali held a meeting and their NDC Chair was cussed out when he tried to embarrass the President, the PNC saw their only Trump card remaining – the race card – become a Joker in the pack!! Let’s face it: you can only go so far to rile up your supporters by telling them the Government’s discriminating against them – even constructing an “emerging apartheid state” – when the same Government’s trooping into their communities doling out assistance and infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow!!
The PNC’s response up to now was to cry foul that the Central Government wasn’t “going through” the local organs they control – like the NDC. Destroying Local Government!! But Local Government is supposed to take care of things the Central Government can’t, right? So, when the latter wants to do the things, how’d you stop them?? Clearly, when the PNC observed “their people” didn’t mind the direct assistance –followed by the formation of independent or PPP-affiliated groups to ensure the handouts become more permanent for “development” – they know their “transports” are being challenged in the court of public opinion!!
But why physically prevent public officials from entering a public space – especially when invited by locals?? Isn’t that taking politics a bit too far?? Your Eyewitness suspects the PNC higher-ups feel that desperate times call for desperate measures. Now, frankly, there’s no doubt that the PPP are in full (and maybe PERMANENT) campaign mode. And they have the wherewithal to keep on going like the Eveready bunny!!
Poor PNC!!
…for Facebook
We all know the story of Facebook – which revolutionised how the world communicated. But if it’s one thing we’ve learnt in this tech business, it’s that obsolescence comes fast and furiously!! First it was the hardware doubling computational speed computation every two years – and now’s the turn of the software. Facebook – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – was launched only in 2004, and by last year had almost FOUR BILLION accounts!!
But, sadly, a few years ago, the young’uns – who keep these things going – concluded that Facebook was now passe – it was for their grandparents!! And into the gap had stepped new platforms like Twitter, Tic Toc and Twitch. What’s Facebook to do to keep its US$86 billion revenues flowing?? Reinvent itself as Meta, that’s what. It decided that the METAVERSE would be the next big thing. You’d just don those goggles and literally experience new worlds by purchasing virtual clothes, homes, women, men etc!! They invested more than US$10 billion annually.
But they’ve just slashed 11,000 workers. Bust??
…rigging
The evidence of the 2020 rig keeps piling up as the testimony continues flowing from those who were there in the Ashmin’s Building. Imagine ordering the GECOM Chief Security Officer to remove all observers, and when he refused, arrange for a “bomb scare”!!
