In this time of self-isolation and lockdown, we’re all surely in need of entertainment. By now, the time it takes to scour through Netflix for stuff one hasn’t seen is enough to make even the Three Stooges look tedious. But today, the PRO of GECOM, of all people, made your Eyewitness burst out into such a loud guffaw, his better broke social distancing rules to check if he was OK.
And what was so hilarious? Well, the PRO ended her latest release with this beauty: “The Guyana Elections Commission remains resolute at ensuring the recount exercise commences within the shortest possible time and concludes in an expeditious, credible and transparent manner”!!! Just retyping that just now had your Eyewitness ROTF lmao!! Shortest possible time!?!
Exactly what does Claudette Singh and her merry band in the GECOM Secretariat understand by that?? Are they living in some sorta Bizzaro alternate universe where everything, including time, is backwards? If GECOM wanted to finish this recount in the shortest time possible, the moment Mingo claimed he had the vapours and insisted he be rushed to the hospital, Lowenfield should’ve insisted a Deputy Returning Officer step in to clean up the remaining 358 SOPs.
But instead what we had since has been more slapstick comedy than the aforementioned Three Stooges plus Monty Python Flying Circus combined!! Excepting, of course, GECOM is messing with the very existence of our country as a viable state. But then there’s the genre called Black Humour which they’re doling it out piecemeal like in those old fashioned “serials”. Comedy Serial? Here, the hero (in this case Guyana) is left hanging on for dear life to some cliff or other. How will he ever extricate himself from that certain doom? Nail-biting comedy?
In today’s episode, before the risible assurance mentioned above by the GECOM PRO (now a wry smile by your Eyewitness), she took time to remind us that it was “the intervention by HE President David Granger that nothing should be done or appears to be done that could delay the start of the recount process”!! More ROTF lmao, by your Eyewitness!! It doesn’t appear that the PRO hasn’t gotten the memo that Guyana now has a CARETAKER President or realised that the “citizen” who filed that petition to stop the recount is one of APNU’s candidates. With Granger as the head of the list!!
But to those who may wonder how much longer this farce will play out, the answer is “nobody knows”. The buck has now been passed to the Caricom Secty General to arrange for the Caricom “validating” team be tested.
It’s gonna be a long, long cloudy day!!
…before sanctions?
With all the threats the Western countries have issued – including one each by the Brits and the EU yesterday – to the PNC-led APNU/AFC rigging combine, some folks are wondering whether the situation might become a case of “the boy who cried wolf”. But really, do you need to apply sanctions when they’ve already kicked in by COVID-19!!
Think about it. Why has the PNC staged this entire rigging exercise?? Yep! Go to the head of the class!! The oil money, of course! But the bottom has literally dropped out of the oil market to reach levels not seen for a century!! Right now, for certain types of oil, you have to PAY folks to take it off your hands!! Negative prices!! Jordan was forced to admit that the next THREE shipments won’t bring in what the first ONE did!!
And about those personal sanctions? Why take away visas from the riggers and their coterie when there’s a lockdown across the world?
And, in any case, their foreign bank accounts are already frozen!!
…will Moses take larwah
It doesn’t give your Eyewitness any pleasure to have his prediction yesterday that Nagamootoo would do a somersault and rescind his “quarantine” on the Caricom recount team vindicated.
It gotta be painful to execute a somersault from bending over!!
