AFC leader Ramjattan hasn’t been given enough credit and acknowledgement as a Guyanese seer. Back in 2015, he predicted that if his AFC were to hitch up with the PNC – with or without their APNU fig leaf – then his party would become “Dead Meat”. And as they say in the Bible – that’s chockfull of stories about seers – lo and behold, he went ahead and tied the knot – on Valentine’s Day even!! – and duly became Dead Meat!!
But in politics, becoming Dead Meat isn’t an event – it’s a process!! Dead Meat results from political hypocrisy and prostitution. Take the closure of four sugar estates by the APNU/AFC coalition, that threw 7000 workers out on the streets. It was from among these sugar workers the AFC had snookered some of the Indian-Guyanese votes that usually went with the PPP. You’d think the AFC would’ve raised even a murmur of protest, wouldn’t you?? After these workers had given them the street cred that made the PNC court it!!
But the AFC – in the person of Ramjattan – actually congratulated Granger and the PNC following the closure!! Did they think the latter would have any respect for them after betraying and biting the hand that voted them in?? And did they think they were then subsequently worth anything to the PNC?? Didn’t they realize the PNC knew they were now bereft of the lifeblood of politics – warm bodies that would place their Xs on the line?? That this now made them “renk” Dead Meat?? But Ramjattan has never said he’s sorry for going along!! Like Frank Sinatra, he proudly insisted he did it his way!!
The second big blunder the AFC made was when their co-leader Raphael Trotman signed away our oil inheritance for a pittance to Exxon. Now, you’d think that Ramjattan would throw up his hands and echo Shaggy’s singing “Wasn’t me!” After all, Trotman had practically declared he’d returned home to the PNC when he winked at Granger and said, “Nassau”, after the coalition won in 2015!! And the person whom he insisted told him to sign along the dotted line certainly wasn’t Ramjattan!! But no siree Bob, Ramjattan never wavered!!
Even now!! Here it is, just this week during the AFC’s presser – after they’d parted from the PNC – Ramjattan still says he has “no regrets” about the worst contract ever signed in the more-than-100-year-old oil industry!! He’s actually claiming, “It is one of the finest economic decisions ever made for the benefit of this country”!!
Guess he realizes… “And now the end is here/ And so I face that final curtain/ My friend I’ll make it clear/ I did it my way!!”
Goodbye, Dead Meat!!
…housing
Back in the day, Burnham – who would’ve been 100 this week – promised to “feed, clothe and house the nation”. Since he failed miserably, and left us hungry, homeless and naked, your Eyewitness wonders how he would’ve judged the present PPP Government in these areas of national aspiration?? Unlike his successors, who’re bitching and moaning from morning to night because the PPP’s stealing their thunder, since he’s supposed to’ve been a “big thinker”, would he have been pleased his dreams are being realized??
And they are!! Your Eyewitness knows that, right now, inflation’s eating away at the “small man’s” pocketbook. After all, he’s a card-carrying member of the “small-man brigade”!! But he knows that jobs are opening up all over the country – even in the hinterland!! And that the externally-driven price rises have to end in a while. In the meantime, the food’s there, the houses are being built, and the clothes are aplenty!!
Your Eyewitness thinks Burnham would’ve been pleased!!
…with small willies
For years, there’s been the claim that fellas who hanker after big, fast sports cars were actually compensating for their perceived small willies. Now a study from the University College London has actually demonstrated the physiological link.
Will this affect the sales of sports cars??
