…on Trotman’s perfidy
They say the husband’s the last to know in matters of betrayal. Well, we don’t really know who was the husband and who was the wife when Rafael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan hitched up to form the AFC back on September 29, 2005, but we now know for sure, Ramjattan was cuckolded by Trotman. Or as the Trinis say…”Boy….Ramjattan get real horn”. Or as we Guyanese might cackle, “Ramjattan get big blow from Trotman!!”
In a speech recorded during the LGE campaign in Bartica, Trotman was effusive as he tried to head off a challenge to the APNU/AFC candidates from the independent BIGA candidates. But as an AFC official – evidently wearing his yellow shirt – he felt constrained to connect with what he felt was a PNC crowd. And as they say, “mout’ open and story jump out!”
He revealed that “10 years ago” – which would be in 2005 – he was at some conference in Nassau, Bahamas, when he and then private citizen David Granger had a private tete a tete. In Trotman’s words – lest your Eyewitness be accused of fabricating:
“So we met that night and he shared certain things with me, and up to today, he speaks about it. But in the end of it, certain things were done. On the day when the (2015) election results were announced, he shook my hand, I told him, “Congratulations!” He said, “Raphael, this is Nassau.” The point I am trying to make is that the man had a plan.”
First let’s talk about the Nassau meeting. On the AFC website, we are informed: “During 2005, Mr Trotman was invited to participate in The United States Department of Defence sponsored Advanced Policy Making Seminar on: “Transformation, Defence and Security Challenges in the Caribbean”, Nassau, Bahamas, February 2005.” Mr Granger was also there so Trotman isn’t fabricating the circumstances. But was the attendance of the two coincidental or was it orchestrated by other forces brokering a plan to oust the PPP – which would cause Mr Granger to exultantly SAY “Nassau!!” after his 2015 victory?
The AFC site also noted Trotman attended “The European Union Visitor Programme at EU headquarters in Belgium and Luxembourg in January 2005.” And “The United Kingdom Government sponsored visit to Houses of Commons and Lords and meetings with senior Government officials in March 2005.” So in January, February and March of 2005, Trotman was given the grand grooming tour by the West for the finale in September when the AFC was launched. When Ramjattan would be “given blow”.
Or is he like those wives who know what’s going on but go along for the perks?
…”sharing” gone fuh channa
For some reason which escapes this Eyewitness, some folks are surprised APNU/AFC took all of the seats on the Finance Committees for the Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Bartica and Linden municipal Councils! What did they expect? That the APNU/AFC would share with the Independents? Heck! If the AFC complained APNU wasn’t sharing fairly after the LGE…who are the Independents to think they’d get a piece of the action. And trust this Eyewitness, baby – the Finance Committee’s where the action gonna be in local government! As the Americans say, “It’s the money stupid!”
APNU’s been talking this “sharing talk” even since the PNC snagged some paper-parties to form a “coalition”. Some coalition! What power do any of those “partners” have today? Ditto for the AFC. If APNU could de-gut a signed “sharing agreement” with the AFC – remember Cummingsburg? – what about “no agreement”?
The Independents’ goose was cooked the moment AFC backed off from their 40 per cent split!
…on Lall’s SUV’s deal?
There’s a big brouhaha brewing over luxury SUV’s seized by the GRA over “import taxes”. Reminds this Eyewitness of the $100 million the Government was bilked by Mook Lall with his two Lexus SUV’s.
Will TI – struck dumb then – now call for the veil be
