End of… WIN’s rear-guard battle?

They say that when a cow’s being dragged to the slaughterhouse, it doesn’t care where it lets out its bovine excrement!! Its choices are a bit too stark for observing decorum and niceties, eh?? Your Eyewitness is reminded of this piece of folk wisdom as he witnesses the so-called defences thrown up by Sanction Man in the courts – to avoid being extradited to the US to face 11 criminal charges – being thrown out one after the other!! The latest was the one just dealt with condignly by the Chief Justice!!
Now, can you imagine any sane person would claim that the Government officials – the Minister of Home Affairs, the President, the Attorney General, the Vice-President and the Government – were showing BIAS when they followed up on measures to have Sanction Man and his Daady extradited?? Jeez!! The extradition request from the US was made waaaay before Sanction Man entered the political hustings!!! The Government officials – explicitly the Minister of Home Affairs – were following up on procedures stipulated in the Extradition Treaty inherited upon independence and given further force in the Fugitive Act 2009!! Were these written just to get at Sanction Man sometime in the future?? In your Eyewitness’ estimation, the matter shoulda been thrown out for being frivolous and a waste of the court’s time!! As it is, Sanction Man now has to only pay costs to the parties he named in his suit!!
But we know what’s going on here, don’t we?? Sanction Man’s now gonna appeal the judgement upwards all the way up to the CCJ – hoping it’s gonna be dragged out and he won’t have to be fitted out for that orange jumpsuit over in Florida!! He’s boasted quite openly – and cynically, since he’s been going on about “justice” recently as the newly elected LOO! – about this strategy!! But he’s just delaying the inevitable and wasting the courts’ time. Time which they don’t have since we’ve been reading about the enormous case backlog at all levels of the judiciary!!
There’s still another remaining suit filed by Sanction Man – that the aforementioned Fugitive Act is “unconstitutional”. The High Court’s gonna rule on this one next week – and this too will be thrown out…and the appeal will flow. But in the meantime, today Magistrate Judy, who’s dealing explicitly with the US extradition request, will be announcing her decision. And for sure, it’s gonna be “sayonara” to Sanction Man and Daddy!!
Pathetically, in his new role as LOO, Sanction Man’s gonna be pontificating in parliament today about things the Government’s not doing.
But he will remain mum on what he oughta be doing to remove the stain he’s cast on our nation – created by the US indictment!! Hypocrite!!

…the Budget Debate
They say that all good things must come to an end…but it’s true for bad things too, innit?? Well, while not altogether bad, as Budget Debate 2026 winds down today, it certainly wasn’t the searchlight the Opposition promised. To expose the Government’s alleged shortcomings on what they were gonna be doing this year to steer our ship of state into more prosperous waters!! The centre of attention was on the newbie MPs from Sanction Man’s WIN – castigated up to now as Scrapeheads off the streets but now getting an opportunity to destroy any undeserved stereotypes!!
As your Eyewitness predicted, they were clearly told to take the high road – but he hoped they would’ve displayed some wit in responding to the expected banter from across the aisles!! Not that the latter were particularly waggish themselves!! So, were there any highlights that stand out in your Eyewitness mind – apart from the record-breaking six-and-a-half-hour reading of the budget?
As your Eyewitness closes his eyes to reflect, all he’s drawing is a blank!!

…Region 11?
We all know that there’re probably as many Guyanese abroad as at home. The revelation that in only the last five years, there were 70,000 passports issued to Guyanese in foreign countries – while 2162 remigrated – suggests a One Guyana??