…and the Courts
Have you noticed that, with all the various and sundry (and not so sundry!!) crimes committed in our dear, ole mudland, the Courts yet seem to be more taken up in dealing with POLITICAL matters, rather than dispensing justice to the poor victims of crime!! And the Chancellor talks of reparative justice!! What’s going on?? Well, remember what those two UWI academics who’d been part of the Recount Team wrote after THAT sobering rigging experience?? (Sobering cause Granger – who’d brought them in during a COVID upsurge – allowed some PNC supporters to challenge the recount in – where else? – the Courts!!)
Anyhow, the academics offered a big word we should all get familiar with to describe what’s going on – the “judicialization” of politics. Basically, this means that because some opposition politicians – or their tokens, like in the GTU – are too immature to follow the rules of political participation that’s been worked on — and worked out — for hundreds of years, they gotta call in a referee at the drop of a hat to tell them what to do!! And let’s not talk about “industrial dispute”, when we have a GTU official who’s also a PNC exec cussing out the Min of Education worse than some fisherwoman!! That’s right folks…immature, squabbling, tantrum-throwing political wannabees who MUST always have their way!! The GTU execs must’ve seen primary school kids in the playground arguing about whose turn it is to bat!!!
So, you have judges – who AREN’T elected by the people of Guyana – making decisions that the politicians – who’re elected by the people of Guyana and paid by them — should’ve made!! Can you imagine even a bunch of Grade 6 students arguing about whether you should be paid for not working??! Yet, that’s what the GTU – whose members are teaching this to our impressionable minds – insist that the Government is wrong not to pay them while they’re striking and leaving their charges on their own!!
And one Court AGREED!! But maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. Our judicial system is backed up with cases that go back to the year of Noah’s flood – as citizens languish in jail in many instances. But judges still get paid for the work they didn’t do!! The AG – as he’s had to do on so many occasions — has signalled that he’s gonna appeal all the way to the CCJ!! Can you imagine what this ruling will do to the economy we’re trying to build??
How many companies will open businesses here when their workers gotta be paid even if they don’t show up?!! No wonder even the staid Justices of the CCJ regularly roll their eyes during the hearings on Guyanese matters!!
…and free speech
Oh, what a tangled web our colonizers weaved when they taught us about the sanctity of “free speech”!! Of course, even while they taught us, THEY were the ones who determined – and they still do – what was “free” and what was not! They could call us “niggers” and “coolies” to their hearts’ content – and they had BIG hearts!! – but we dare not murmur they were murderers and rapists.
Well, the chickens are again coming home to roost – as they first did during the Vietnam War. Their own best and brightest in their Ivy League schools – where the fees run into over US$100,000!! – have now literally encamped in protest on campuses against their government’s support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza!! These universities have clamped down on the students – only the dogs are left to be brought out!! – and have even cancelled classes!!
The problem, of course, is the veil between official platitudes and what’s really going down has been ripped apart – and the kids haven’t been brainwashed enough to fall for the lies!!
…in Guyana
Hey, no one ever accused politicians of being saints. Corruption there was in the Garden of Eden – and your Eyewitness isn’t talking about those generating plants up the EBD!! – and corruption there is now.
So, we gotta keep plugging the holes!!
