Foisting… or posing

After all the hullabaloo, we’ve arrived at the big day we’ve been waiting for – Parliament being convened for our politicians to listen to Budget 2026!! Your Eyewitness never thought he’d be saying that about a budget reading – where the biggest excitement is generated by counting how many glasses of water Ashni will need for his performance!! But today at the Convention Center ain’t really about reading the Budget, is it??
And imagine this is another TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET!! Meaning we will be hearing about getting that long-awaited $100,000 cash grant to every red blooded – and breathing – Guyanese adult!! So what’s really going down?? You’d had to’ve been living under a very remote rock not to know that it’s all about what the Speaker of the House describes as the start of the shame that’s gonna come by having Sanction Man – “an international fugitive” – as our Leader of the Opposition- the LOO if you don’t mind!!
Those who are oldsters – like your Eyewitness! – would have known the deep shame we had to endure for years when Burnham rigged elections right, left and centre – and unleashed the army to intimidate us. Your Eyewitness still remembers attending a foreign university and students wanted to know how it felt to be from the country that murdered Walter Rodney. And there was no uprising by the people!! Ahhh…the shame!! The shame!!!
So here it is…over 100,000 people voted for the international fugitive Sanction Man! And this being Guyana where we all know each other’s business and know what went down with the gold smuggling and worse!!! – doesn’t it bother them?? Is this where our Guyanese moral compass is pointing?? That we need a “Scamp Man” to tell us what to do?? And most incredibly, he’s gonna be chosen today by opposition MPs as their LOO!! That’s right…the PNC ain’t even ashamed about being whupped by the international fugitive at the polls – and will be voting for him to be their LOO!! It could be that they see something of Burnham in him??
Anyhow, your Eyewitness knows the truth of the folks idiom “time longer than twine”!! He knows that sooner rather than later that US extradition order for Sanction Man to be escorted to a Miami Court gonna will be approved.
And being the LOO, he’ll find out that the higher they rise, the harder they fall!!

…on integrity
Chicken Man – who Norton picked to be APNU’s Parliamentary Delegation – has come out to cuss out the Integrity Commission something terrible!! Seems he feels they’re giving PPPC Ministers a free pass!! But they say when you point your finger accusatory at someone you should realise that at the same time you’re pointing 3 fingers at yourself!
And so it is with himself and that fella Sanction Man he’ll be electing as his LOO!! They’ll now have to declare THEIR income and assets to the Integrity Commission- and if they’re out of synch it’s EXAMINATION TIME!! The burden of proof will shift to them to show where they got their outsized assets!!
From the evidence the Yanks have furnished, we know things ain’t kosher!! Their salami gonna be sliced very, very thinly!!

…sweetness
Your Eyewitness is pretty chuffed to see that the proposed Sugar refinery is proceeding full steam ahead!! This ain’t just a vote of confidence in sugar – but in our dear land of Guyana!!