Well, there you have it: just as your Eyewitness had predicted!! The temperature’s been raised by the Opposition in their traditional strongholds, to hold off the PPP’s inexorable nibbling away; it’s combustible!!
Have you been following the news out of Linden?? After committing the first ethnic cleansing in the hemisphere by chasing out all perceived PPP supporters – read Indian Guyanese – in 1964, the then villages of Wismar, Mackenzie and Christiansburg were renamed “Linden” after Burnham, who’d inspired their actions. Ever since, they’ve prided themselves in being “most militant” against the PPP.
Never mind Burnham and the PNC destroyed the bauxite industry that gave them the highest wages among Guyana’s workers!! They lap up the PNC’s standing libel that their economic plight is due to the PPP!! And they’ve remained fertile ground for PNC extremist actions, and pride themselves for being “militant”.
Back in 2022, they waged pitched battles with the police, and blocked the Wismar Bridge – which they had set on fire. After two protesters were shot and killed, they burnt down several Government buildings – including a school!! The point made afterwards was that they were only shooting themselves in the foot when destroying their township’s infrastructure.
Even though the PPP has made valiant efforts to reverse their economic decline – and is right now building a new bridge across the Demerara River to better link Lethem and Brazil through Linden, they tried to torch this new structure in the latest round of rioting and violence, after the police had unfortunately shot and killed a crime suspect.
How could the Govt be blamed?
Now, your Eyewitness would be the first person to demand that suspected police excesses be investigated; and the police, and even the President, have quickly announced the order to do just that!! The police said they’d turn the matter over to the Office of Professional Responsibility, and the President proposed the Caribbean Regional Security System (RSS) to investigate the matter; but the residents of Linden immediately started rioting – on the CONVICTION put into their heads by their local and national leaders that they’re victims, and the PPP govt doesn’t care for them!! Sadly, with the rioters taking on the police and hurling rocks and missiles at them, one protester was shot and killed. But rather than taking the side of the police – as the Opposition claimed – Pre Ali rushed to Linden and met with the relatives of the two victims.
According to a PPP release, “The Party supports the widespread calls for a full, thorough, and professional investigation into both incidents. In this regard, we welcome the assurance from His Excellency President Dr. Irfaan Ali that the officers involved in the two shootings are currently under close arrest, as advised by the Commissioner of Police.”
Forewarned is forearmed?
…by Mad Maduro
If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s Mad Maduro rattling his sword in the west!! Last Saturday, he announced he had put his army in a “state of alert” to respond to a “false flag attack” on an ExxonMobil ship in our waters. A “FALSE FLAG” is a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that’s designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the perpetrator.
This, he said, was a plan of the just departed US Secty of State Marco Rubio – whom Maduro called “an imbecile”!! – alongside Erik Prince, founder of private security company Blackwater, and an ally of US President Donald Trump!! He said they wanted to “spark confusion and trigger an escalation of aggression” against Venezuela. Talk about taking your doo-doo and daubing it on another’s BT!! And for good measure, the madman complained that “the territorial issue of Essequibo has been dragged into the ICJ…in open violation of the 1966 Geneva Agreement.”
What a wacko!!
…for a recession
Now that we’ve joined the Big Boys’ table, we gotta start using their metrics to recognize recessions. Seems “The Brothel and Stripper Indexes” – which track whether usage of these institutions goes up or down – are very accurate!!
