Hunting…the terrorists

The Police must be complimented for their quick reaction to the midtown gas station bombing. Three persons were arrested within a day, and an enhanced pic of the main terrorist was widely circulated across all media. In these matters involving folks like the Venezuelan migrant that has been identified, it’s best to also offer an attractive bounty because they form a subculture that’s very opaque to the snitches the Police would’ve cultivated among the “usual suspects” of domestic vintage!!
One private security firm – probably the one hired to protect the facility – has offered a bounty of $1 million. As your Eyewitness said yesterday, this bombing – like the ones last May – demonstrates it was planned and executed for maximum (destructive) effect!! This man knew what he was doing – it showed he was trained. If he’d been allowed to leave the bomb in the garbage bin next to the gas pump – which is connected to the underground gas tank reservoir with thousands of gallons of gasoline – we would’ve had an explosion that would’ve rocked the entire city and taken dozens of lives!!
Secondly, this was no channa bomb – that’s simply a wick attached to a bottle of gasoline – but a bomb that needs specific knowledge to source and put together the components of an IED: the explosives; a switch – in this case which could be triggered remotely via an electronic signal; an initiator to start the explosive charge; and a power source – like a battery – to activate the initiator. From the (small) size of the bomb the terrorist was carrying like garbage, the explosive charge was probably a military-sourced one like C-4 or Semtex. This would give the bang to lift several cars into the air, burn one and kill and maim its occupants, and destroy the walls of the mini-mart and rock buildings like the High Court over 100 yards away!!
So, whether we like it or not – and we certainly don’t like it – we’ve now gravitated from the terrorism of throwing bombs at the gate of a Police outpost and a GPL substation, which are “passive targets”, to bombs that are intended to take out an entire city block – and its habitués. Now, at the time of writing, the Police didn’t have the perpetrator in custody as yet, so we couldn’t say with 100 per cent certainty he was an agent of Mad Maduro – even though the madman publicly put us and T&T in his sights for “siding with the Yankees”. Your Eyewitness believes “when blind man seh ‘e gonna pelt you, ‘e done gat brick in ‘e haan!!”
Our Police should better make sure he’s accorded all his rights if they don’t want Mia Motley and Ralphie Gonsalves to condemn them as “fascists”!! Virtue signallers!!

…clean power
We’re doing our darndest to cut our carbon footprint after striking oil big time cause – while we ain’t leaving it under the sea as some wackos want – we do take our global citizenship seriously!! So, we’re weaning ourselves off heavy bunker-C oil to fire our electricity generators and using natural gas to power us up!! Produced less carbon dioxide!!
But a decade back we had a totally green proposal to generate 165 MW of electricity at the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project. The seed money was from Norway because we were conserving our forests; we had the financing in place through a Chinese soft loan, and we had a most reputable contractor in Sithe!! But it was all scuttled by AFC and APNU, which then had a majority in the National Assembly! Well, the Government just announced it’s seeking requests for proposals (RFPs) for the development of AFHEP and only under a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model.
Opportunity for the Private Sector to step up to the crease!! Go green!!

…virtue in dictators
Someone protested Hoyte being dubbed a “dictator” by an ex-speaker. Hoyte rigged the 1985 elections, protested the 1997 elections, leading to the deadly “slo’ fyaah; mo’ fyaah” strategy, denied criminals were in Buxton, and canonised Blackie London!!