…dimmed or erased?
Your Eyewitness was pleased that the PNC marked its 59th birthday. Seemed to’ve been a rather staid affair. But then…when you’re almost a pensioner it isn’t easy to “shake a leg”, much less get down and boogie!! But did it have to be so low keyed that none of the dailies covered it? Your Eyewitness had to depend on one of those fly-by-night internet news outfits that dot the Guyana landscape – worse than flies on a week-old road kill!
Anyhow, your Eyewitness isn’t complaining. (Even though there’s the old conundrum – If there’s an event but no one knows about it, did it really happen?) But if the birth of the PNC’s being remembered, shouldn’t the groups that helped form the party all be there? The celebrants seem to want us to forget the PNC didn’t just drop from the sky… but from an Anglo-American plan to oust the PPP – in which both Jagan and Burnham were leaders.
The super ambitious Burnham was egged on by those interests and split from the PPP to form the PPP (Burnham) which opposed the PPP (Jagan) in the 1957 elections. Even though he pulled off what he thought was a powerful “ethnically balanced” leadership core from the PPP (Latchmansingh and JaiNarine Singh from sugar Labour and East Indian Association), Burnham lost ignominiously to Jagan.
And that’s when the PNC was formed – by merging PPP (Burnham) with a party of the League of Coloured People elite and a force unto himself – Sydney King – who was to become “Eusi Kwayana”. Now this wasn’t just a merger for numbers – it was a merger of ideology – Burnham with his “socialism”, the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) with their conservative, white bias outlook and Sydney King with his incipient African rights concerns.
Mr Kwayana’s still alive… why wasn’t he invited for old times’ sake? So what if he left to form the WPA? That party’s now in the coalition, no? And even those out of government are giving “critical support”!! And what’s this about the PNC leading us to Independence? What was the UF and Peter D’Aguiar? Chopped liver? If it wasn’t for him… Jagan and the PPP would’ve had 28+23 years at the helm. They could’ve invited Nadir! Look out AFC – you’ll be erased, too!!
And how come Kamau Cush – of the Smart Solutions Parking Meter fame – gets a front seat when Van West-Charles had to sit behind him – all on his lonesome? That’s real cold to a fella who was once called “Baby Jesus”.
Why? Well if Haiti’s Papa Doc had “Baby Doc”, why couldn’t Burnham who fancied himself as the Supreme, have his “Baby Jesus”??
Ahhhh…memories are made of this!!
…dimmed past 100 days?
And here your Eyewitness thought things might be different. After all, when a party directly accuses the government of lying through their teeth about everything – including their name (was there a Civic?) – you’d think they’d be careful about their promises when THEY become the government, no?
Well, not this lot! Let’s count some of the ways they stiffed the slobs who voted for them on promises to be fulfilled WITHIN 100 days: NO to a “Significant salary increase for government workers including nurses, teachers, security personnel and civil servants”; NO to “Immediately implementing a phased reduction of VAT”; NO to “Reduction of President’s Pension”; NO to “Establishment of Public Procurement Commission”; NO to “Code of Conduct for Parliamentarians, Ministers”; and NO to “Adoption of a long-term sustainable economic development plan”.
Can these fellas actually stand in front of their constituency – those outside never believed their pitch to begin with – and hope to get their votes?
Loyalty of race?
…of leaks
There’s the old folk saying, “knock got knock back”! So after leaks spouted in the direction of GECOM’s CEO on some serious corruption charges, up came some about the DCEO.
GECOM battle of the leaks?
