Honing in… on (Guyanese?) terrorists

Well…well…well – imagine that THREE of the seven individuals who were charged yesterday as terrorists for the heinous and cold-blooded bombing of the midtown gas station that snuffed out a young life and wounded four others are described as “Guyanese”!! You coulda knocked over your (stunned) Eyewitness with a feather!! Guyanese joining Venezuelans to kill fellow Guyanese – to send a political message to the Government?? Are they “Guyanese Guyanese” or Guyanese who had resided in Venezuela?? Where are we headed??
Well, it looks like – unfortunately – we’re joining that growing terrorism wave sweeping the world. Used to be when powerful groups in a country had a beef – or wanted some resource – from others in another country, they’d exert their influence on their Governments to go to war!! Like Hitler supporting the German industrialists who wanted to cut their competitors in the West down to size. But nowadays the tail is wagging the dog – and groups with gripes are attacking states by going after their citizens – which is the very definition of “terrorism”!!
Bombings have become their trademark modus operandi – since the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) they use literally give the biggest bang for the buck!! While we may have become used to the image of the Islamic suicide bombers concealing their IEDs under their flowing and voluminous robes and taking down the “infidels” who’ve invaded their lands – we’ve also seen them using the same tactic in the infidels’ countries!! But even before then, hadn’t the American youths who disagreed with the war in Vietnam used bombs to deliver their message?
Similarly, we got domestic terrorists like Fineman and his gang – who went after both civilians and police to make a point to the PPP Government. And now we’ve experienced foreign terrorists who may be acting on their own or as agents of the Venezuelan Government to warn off our Government from supporting the US in its fight against Venezuelan and Columbian narco-traffickers – with whom they’re connected!!
So we return to the Guyanese terrorists. We know – through confessions – that the main bomber is a member of a Sindicato gang (Organisation R), which – through their connections to gold miners who they extort – would have access to explosives, initiators and switches for IEDs. We’ve heard of some Guyanese from Reg 1 going over to Venezuela’s Mining Arc to prospect for gold – and they were not only shaken down but actually killed by Sindicatos. Could some of them have joined the gangs under an “if you can’t beat ‘em, you join ‘em” philosophy?
These are questions that demand answers since if the answer’s “yes”, it means we gotta scrutinise our returning Guyanese just as closely as Venezuelan refugees!!
Welcome to the (not so brave) new world!!

…on NYC upset
With practically every Guyanese having a relative in the Big Apple, your Eyewitness is sure we all know that 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoralty against Andrew Cuomo. The latter had to run as an Independent after his primary defeat!! While being a sex offender didn’t help, being a past NY Governor and part of the Democratic Establishment couldn’t save him from Mamdani’s onslaught!! Thus, the latter becomes the first person of South Asian descent and the first Muslim to lead the city.
Surprisingly, even though NYC’s branded as “liberal” state, Mamdani actually ran as a “socialist” – at a time when Republicans under Trump had derided even liberals as “communists”!! Mamdani focused on trade unionism, housing for poor New Yorkers, as well as expanding social services like universal childcare. Most controversial was his declaration that billionaires shouldn’t exist and he would tax the rich!!
It ain’t surprising that Republican Trump had backed Cuomo – and promised to slash the US$10B federal funding to NYC!!

…on just desserts
Some wags are saying that the death of George Bush’s VP Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney at the age of 84 just proves the truth of the saying, “Only the good die young”!!
But not your Eyewitness!!