…PNC?
For decades in the seventies and eighties, Burnham and the PNC made Guyanese ashamed to face their brothers and sisters in the Caribbean. Whatever we might’ve said about the British and their colonial rule, they did impart to all of us a respect for the rule of law and for dealing with our affairs with a sense of dignity. We sniffed haughtily at those “excitable” Latin types around us with their tin pot dictators and starving populace!!
Until Burnham – for us Guyanese.
When fellow West Indians complained about their hurricanes and earthquakes, we checkmated them by simply pointing out: “We have Burnham!!”
With the return of free and fair elections in 1992, the PPP didn’t just have to repair the shattered economy that had scattered our people as servants across the Caribbean, they also had to repair our reputations as a “starving guts” people. And they did. But we can’t forget the help of our Caribbean brothers and sisters, who didn’t just do so by taking is in; but even at the governmental level, when, for instance, T&T forgave almost half a billion in US dollars’ debt!!
And don’t forget they all came around to help fix our political system when the PNC insisted it had won the 1997 elections – even though all Observers certified them as credible. They brokered the Herdmanston Accord with its far-reaching agreement on Constitutional change. But here it is again, two decades later, the PNC is not only disputing another election – one that it was caught red-handed fiddling with the ballots! – but now biting CariCom’s hand that once again is stretched out to help our beleaguered Guyanese people.
As CariCom Chair, Mia Mottley, had cause to remind this bunch of ingrates in the PNC – starting with the Sanctimonious Gangster David Granger – she and four other Caricom heads didn’t have to come to Guyana when Granger suggested a recount – supposedly to fix the rig. But they did. And they didn’t have to send “the most trusted interlocutors” – the CariCom Observer team for both the elections and the recount – but they did.
And what did they get, just for reporting what they saw? One of the nastiest cussing out in the region since Toussaint defeated the French Expeditionary Force!! Bruce Golding, ex-PM of Jamaica; Owen Arthur, ex-PM of Barbados; and incumbent PM (and current CariCOM Chair) Mia Mottley have been insulted in the worst way possible.
While the world is roiling from the anti-black racism, especially in white-majority countries, here in our Caribbean – where blacks have been ruling since the 1960s – the PNC have the temerity to accuse all these black Leaders of being paid off by the PPP!!
Et tu, PNC??
…Basil Williams?
Yesterday, your Eyewitness dropped in on the CCJ’s “Case Management Meeting” dealing with the Appeal brought by the Opposition parties about our Court of Appeal arrogating itself jurisdiction to hear the PNC’s petition to prevent the GECOM Chair from instructing her CEO on what data to use for his report. He concluded that one of the positives that’ll remain after this COVID-19 pandemic will be these long-distance meetings via Zoom. Like “Google”, “Zoom” is destined to become a communications verb!
He also found out that as far as loyalty to the PNC cause goes, Basil Williams isn’t prepared to go down the line. After PPP Counsel Mendes complained that after being served, Lowenfield still absented himself from the hearing, after he’d played fast and loose with the CoA’s order to stay put; Williams rushed to Lowenfield’s defence with a convoluted explanation, but after Mendes suggested that he (Williams) inform Lowenfield about his obligations, the newly-minted Senior Counsel huffily snorted, “I ain’t no messenger!!”
After all that Lowenfield has done!! Et tu, Bannuh?
…Nagamootoo??
How far will PNC doormat Moses Nagamootoo go to save his super salary?? He just accused the US of “interfering” in Guyana’s elections because of their interest in ousting Maduro next door!!
Is it not enough to cuss CariCom leaders?
