…game show
During the case management hearing earlier in the week, Chief Justice George was pretty pleased with her technical staff for arranging the Zoom facility that allowed her to remotely take oral presentations yesterday. Your Eyewitness was also pleased, but for reasons that had nothing to do with the law. He’s had it up to his kazoos with the law – especially concerning the March 2 elections.
For one, how many times could the PNC run to the courts to litigate the same matters that had already been decided on by courts all the way to the CCJ?? Isn’t there that rule on “res judicata” that forbids this practice? So, every time another PNC member decides to have a go at what should now be settled law – using the same lawyers from the earlier cases even!! –should they be allowed to hold up the world?? What a farce.
No! Enough of that nonsense!! What perked your Eyewitness’s interest was the visual impact of the case management hearing. It reminded him so much of one of those old game shows wherein the panellists were in cubicles stacked over each other and the host would ask them questions.
He can’t really remember the name of the show, but he does remember that it had him in stitches back in the day when Viera and his black box were the only entertainment game in town.
So he got out his popcorn and settled down for the oral presentations that were in fact delivered yesterday. And he wasn’t disappointed. There they were, just as he remembered. The little boxes were filled with anxious little men and women, all waiting to be grilled by the host – who just happened to be Chief Justice George. And she was in fine form!!
First off came a fella named Jeremie, whom your Eyewitness had seen now on at least four occasions – all the way to the CCJ. He hasn’t figured out whether this Trini SC has worked out his schtick at the bar as that of the bumbling ambulance chaser who hopes to get a favourable decision for his client out of sympathy by the courts, or whether he’s just hopeless!! But the man was rewarded with silk! What gives? He Googled the man and saw that he was an AG of TT – a political appointment – who was rewarded by his boss.
Kinda like our own Basil Williams over here – who received silk even though he’s the losingest AG in the history of Guyana!!
Jeremie stumbled over his presentation so badly, one might’ve thought he’d be grateful when the CJ asked him a question and give him a break. But no such luck!!
It ain’t easy fighting a losing case!!
…and sanctioned Sanctimonious Gangster
Granger must’ve thought the unkindest cut of all was that Pompeo chose his birthday to tell the nation – and the world – that he and his regime were being subjected to visa sanctions!! Oooh! That was some bitch slap!!
Granger is very big on pomp, ceremony and show. One couldn’t have missed all the preparations that had already been put in place. They were almost on the order of the Jubilee Independence bash he threw in 2016, and he was clearly expecting!!
But how things have changed!! Rather than the accolades from his adoring supporters and the Diplomatic Corps in audience, the only folks who showed up were the Cabinet Members, who were all clinging on to their sinecures.
Heard the one about giving a party and no one came?? This was it!! Your Eyewitness was reminded of nothing more than Hitler in his bunker as the Allies in the West and the Russians from the West closed in on him!!
Granger’s running to the rock – but there’ll be no rock!!
…and a new order
Guyanese have to reflect deeply on this PNC grab for power more deeply, and ensure they cannot be allowed to hold the country at ransom again.
This means that they must be made pariahs in every which way.
