End of…the British Monarchy?

News that the younger brother of King Charles – who’d been “Prince Charles” for all of your Eyewitness’ life, and he can’t get used to the new handle!! – being arrested (on his birthday!!) for pedo activities revealed in the Epstein Files has led to questions as to whether the British Monarchy’s gonna survive this latest scandal! Now, dear reader, you may be asking what the heck this has to do with us – who are scrambling for a living in our new oil-fuelled economy?? And you deserve an answer!!
And the answer your Eyewitness has is that he’s unabashedly revelling in schadenfreude – which Wiki will tell you is “the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another”!! Now you might say this is being mean – but your Eyewitness’ feeling comes from a need for justice!! The fact is these people literally LORDED it over us natives who populated their empire! We were brainwashed from kindergarten that they were superior beings in all respects – including morally!! So, to keep them high, we had to be low!!
They have an army of publicists who carefully curate that image – and as a result we aren’t even aware of how we’re manipulated to see them as superior beings. Your Eyewitness can still remember when the then Prince Charles’ divorced wife – Princess Diana – perished in a car crash. A relative, who was scrounging like most Guyanese to make a living, started to cry uncontrollably!! I asked her what was the matter, and she looked at me uncomprehendingly and blurted out, “Princess Di is dead!!”
Anyhow, back to Andrew – who used to be “Prince Andrew” and “Duke of York” but is now just “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor”. Back when Epstein had been courting the rich and powerful, he’d become a willing tool to use his connections to promote the “financier” – who supplied him with money and nubile young women!! After Epstein’s 2009 conviction, he claimed he broke off all communications – but he’s been found to be lying through his teeth with the release of photographic evidence showing it just wasn’t so!! Before her death his mother, Queen Elizabeth – who’d previously said he was her “favourite” – stripped him of all his royal titles. But it’s been announced brother Charles had also stripped him of the same – implying that the initial stripping wasn’t as thorough as those he’s conducted on underaged girls!!
Anyhow, he’d retired to a modest 30-room “cottage” at Sandringham, where he was arrested and released but will now be tried. The old debate about supporting the Royal Family’s opulent (and evidently decadent) lifestyles has begun anew.
But knowing the Brits, your Eyewitness thinks they’ll survive!! In addition to enjoying standing in queues, Brits are masochistic!!

…southern insularity
With Brazil literally abutting (get it?) our southern border, you’d think after the Takutu Bridge crossed the river of the same name in 2009, by now we’d be practically integrated!! It’s not the fault of the folks living in Region Nine – since they cross over to shop and hang out like our West Siders visiting GT!! The problem is that with 90 per cent of our population still clinging stubbornly to the tiny sliver of coastland abutting the Atlantic, our eyes are just as stubbornly cast northwards.
However, as President’s recent visit to Roraima State and his tightening of our relations emphasised, the imminent completion of the Lethem-Linden Highway will unleash our long-awaited Continental Destiny!! The announcement of the opening of the new port on the West Bank of Demerara is just one additional piece of the strategy that’s gonna see us providing a new trade route for Brazil’s industrial exports from their city of Manaus!!
We can get a percentage for transhipping US$1 billion worth of goods!!

…low connectivity?
The development of our country in the 21st century is gonna depend on our connectivity within and without being improved exponentially. The newly branded number one provider, “One Communications”, seems to understand this – but their new US$25M investment is too little, too late.