…on Trotman’s oil contract
Out of office for only one month and the AFC suddenly gets a Eureka moment on the oil contract that Trotman signed back in 2016: Ramjattan blurted out that there were “lacunae”!! That’s a fancy lawyer word for “holes”! Imagine that! For four years, every Guyanese and their (foreign) uncle have been screaming bloody hell over Trotman giving away the family jewels for a mess of pottage, and only now the AFC sees “holes”?! Heck…what Trotman left in that contract weren’t “holes,” but more like the craters on the moon, which are so large we can make them out from earth!!
But what makes Ramjattan’s statement even more incredulous is that he’s now calling for the PPP to clean up the mess they left!! This is more than chutzpah…this is raas pass! The PNC’s still insisting the PPP is an “illegal” Government, and they want this “illegal” government to fix the biggest commercial blunder made since the Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $24!!?? To quote to Ramjattan that Latin phrase he made so famous, “Haul yuh ass!!” and “Gwan da side!!”
How do you fix a contract where Trotman agreed for Guyana to pay for the oil company the 27.5% income taxes that all non-commercial corporations are required to pay?? Especially when you have inserted in the contract a “stabilization clause” that declared Guyana cannot introduce any future legislation to alter its own taxation regime – or any other laws that will cause the oil companies to lose profits!! After effectively signing away of Guyana’s sovereignty – not to mention our birthright – Ramjattan now wants the PPP to “fix” this??
The question Ramjattan should be asking is, “Why was Raphael so generous with the IOCs??” Was he feeling sorry for the oil giant?? Sure, Exxon hadn’t been doing so good, but it still made almost US$7 billion!! Or was it that he and his negotiation were treated so royally?? Global Witness reported on the trip: “Trotman flew first class, slept in pricey hotels, ate at Joule – Exxon’s exclusive Wolfgang Puck restaurant – and was chauffeured around in limousines. Exxon paid for it all.”!!
What does the Code of Conduct of the APNU/AFC coalition – drafted by no other than Trotman himself!! – say about accepting such feting from businesses?? Didn’t it say, “When it comes to accepting gifts, it is being proposed that public officials consider declining such gratuities if the acceptance of same could have an effect on their objectivity and lead to complaints of bias or impropriety.”
Anyhow, your Eyewitness does believe that on the oil contract, it’ll take a booming voice from the heavens to fix it!
Or save Trotman from Camp Street!!
…on dead meat
Ramjattan finally realised that his 2015 prediction of the AFC becoming “Dead Meat” if they ever hooked up with the PNC has been proven true. Not that he should be getting any awards for being a soothsayer or anything: half the country had figured that out, and half his party were screaming, “No, Praks! NO!!!” We all know which half!!
So here he is, with nine MPs – more than the AFC ever got on its own – and maybe, Dear Reader, you think Ramjattan’s AFC mightn’t be so dead after all?? Well, look a bit closer and you’ll realise that every one of those MPs has proven to be true-blue PNC to the bone!! Trotman? PNC! Patterson? PNC! Cathy Hughes? PNC! And so on down the line – all the way to Ramjattan!!
Surely, no one believes that any combination or permutation of the “AFC” MPs could garner more than, say, the TNM?
For the record, they got 224 votes from across the country! And they were full of young, innocent doctors!!
…on Moses Nagamootoo
Harmon had declared his support for Nagamootoo instead of Ramjattan for their PM candidate. Nagamootoo, he said, was “royalty”.
Even allowing for the hyperbole, Ramjattan should know he’s gonna be dead meat in the 12th Parliament!!
