As you, dear reader, would know by now, when it comes to commemorative days, your Eyewitness mostly waits (lurks?) till the day has passed, to see how things went down with the rest of his countrymen, before putting in his two cents’ worth. Giving the citizenry “fair play”, so to speak!! Being such a great “influencer”, he wouldn’t want to change the flow of history, would he?!!
Now, having written the preceding sentence, he wonders, since he ain’t on social media, whether he can be described as an “influencer”!!
Anyhow, October 5th passed almost without comment!! Can you believe this?? That the PPP bigwigs passed up the opportunity to remind the PNC it was on that day in 1992 that democracy was returned to this great land of Guyana!! After 28 years of PNC dictatorship by Burnham and Hoyte, the people’s fundamental and inalienable right to choose their Government, which had been viciously and callously stolen, was then returned!?! Guyanese could now sing along in unison with Johnny Nash – “(We) can see clearly now the rain is gone…all the dark clouds have disappeared!!”
So, what happened to all the celebrations the PPP usually unfurled and unleashed?? It ain’t just about the past…surely, they could’ve connected Oct 5 to the PNC’s May 2020 attempt to return us to those dark days!! So, what’s really going on in the Government’s camp? Were they too worn out by their Cricket Carnival exertions?? Or…GASP!! – have they concluded that the PNC’s given up on their riggin’ ways – and it’s time for the PNC lion to lie down with the PPP lambs??!
Now, that might not be as farfetched as it sounds. Even though it might not be out of some epiphany the PNC leaders had on the way to Parliament Buildings – but more like pure laziness!! You can’t even get a purr from these PNC lions, much less roars – they seem lost, and it’s not because their leader was off to the US and Canada in Region 11. They’re just dazed that they’ve lost the opportunity to dip their hands in the cookie jar!! No longer can they put in plums and pull out diamond-encrusted gold bands!!
Anyhow, back to Oct 5 and its inauguration of “free and fair” elections. Surely, it couldn’t have escaped the attention of the powers-that-be that all this agitation by the PNC about “clean voters list”, elections petitions, biometrics, GECOM Chair etc simply mean that their leaders haven’t accepted that elections means that either party could lose? With them, they’ll settle for nothing less than controlling the Government – it’s a birthright thingy!!
And with their support in the Public Service, army and Police, that means having absolute power!! No democrats them!!
…from dear gasoline
And the heading certainly DOESN’T signal “affection” – but outrageous price gouging that constrains our recently acquired right to motorised transportation. A car in every driveway is now a birthright after our find of 11 billion barrels of oil under the Atlantic!! So, to bring the price – and availability – of the dear gasoline that it takes to move our now indispensable cars within our means, the Government just announced that they’ll allow the construction of a 30,000 barrel-per-day refinery. This will use our Atlantic oil to produce the 2600 barrels of gasoline we use daily – plus other products, like diesel.
Now, you may say that this is a free enterprise economy, so why wasn’t a refinery established before? And the answer, dear reader, is we’ve been trying to save the planet from climate change, and the Government hadn’t given permission for the refinery!! That’s right!! Now, can you see how ridiculous this is?? The US alone use 8.6 MILLION barrels of gasoline daily – and they ain’t cutting back!!
Freedom of movement!!
…for Uigurs and Tibet
Nothing’s wrong with participating in the Chinese commemoration of the foundation of their state in 1949. But just as we criticise the US for its shortcomings in race relations, why are we quiet on the aspirations of Uigurs and Tibetans for autonomy??
