Monday was another day on the campaign trail – and as usual, a whole lotta verbiage was spewed by the big, not-so-big and even the buck-bead guns from the parties in the running for running our dear ole Mudland!! Now since your Eyewitness can’t be here, there and everywhere, he gotta go by the news reports as to what’s going down. Of course, with social media available to all and sundry, if your Eyewitness has the energy, he takes a gander at their pages for THEIR take on their rhetoric and impact.
As he looked over the reports, he was reminded of the old folk wisdom that advised “moutar was guitar”!! Meaning that the real thing – the sound of a guitar – can never be replicated by the sounds the inebriated fellas in the rum shops would make with their mouths (Moutar!!) to accompany the squalls of their even more inebriated comrades!! For here was Pressie on the East Coast in the village of Enterprise – a traditional PPP redoubt! and PNC/APNU leader Norton not too far away in one of his strongholds at Bare Root. The WIN-sanctioned upstart – tilting at windmills like Sancho Panza to get immunity through electioneering – was over at Sophia. In his case one couldn’t very well call it a “traditional” stronghold since prior to this political foray, his “tradition” was spending his dad’s ill-gotten gains as a playboy!! But from the number of Scrapes who showed up at Sophia, it could very well become his stronghold – if he would keep on sharing out the funds from the taxes he didn’t pay GRA!!
The pressie was the guitar!! He didn’t just make grandiose promises – and even those that may’ve sounded highfalutin were merely projecting from accomplishments during his term of office!! So, if he promised new bridges over canals – there’s the fixed-span Demerara Harbour Bridge that’s about to be completed – and didn’t just replace the old floating bridge that was well past its expiration date – but its gonna totally transform our national profile and our self-image!! That’s the sound of a real guitar – played by a master like Jimmy Hendrix!
Over in Bare Root – which when it was named a couple of decades ago your Eyewitness thought was “Beirut” -then being bombed into oblivion – Norton was overshadowed by his two-man coalition partner who has a fixation with Bamsies!! Overshadowed not in speech but overshadowed literally because the fella – who only eats black pudding from African Guyanese – has goten MASSIVE!! Norton kept on making promises – which it was clear from his delivery he didn’t really believe! Moutar!!
Finally, the sanction man at Sophia was expansive about what he’d do when elected President!! Not even moutar – but “Blow-blow”!!
…vs the real Judge
In our very polarised political arena – and it IS an arena! – the judiciary’s the umpire that has to apply the rules of the game as laid down by our Constitution, fair and square, if we’re to keep our country on an even keel. So it was with great delight that your Eyewitness saw Pressie swear in Justice Roxanne George, SC, as the new Chancellor of the Judiciary!! That she’s only “acting” is due to the spitefulness of LOO Norton – who refused to agree with Pressie that her record speaks for itself – and it says “professional and non-partisan”!!
The irony is that the good jurist’s father – Justice Kenneth George – had been regarded as a preeminent jurist by no other than Norton’s hero, President Burnham – who appointed him Chief Justice in 1981! Hoyte made him Chancellor in 1988 – which position he held until he retired in 1995! As such, his daughter, who excelled at every step of the way as she followed his footsteps – has pedigree!!
…and realpolitik
India – hitting back at US President Donald Trump after he threatened steep new tariffs over its continued purchase of Russian oil – dubbed it as “Unjustified and Unreasonable”
Trump wants to reign in Modi!!
