Moving… ahead

Well, there you have it!! After all the drama and fussing, President Irfaan Ali’s again the President of the Republic of Guyana and world leaders are tripping over each other to congratulate him!! He’s a man of substance!! He ain’t just about us set to soon exceed Venezuela’s oil production of 900,000 bpd but also being able to feed a whole lotta mouths in the world through increasing and diversifying our food production in grains, meat and fish!!
But sadly, his programs gonna just be sniped at by new Opposition Leader, Sanction Man – and his WIN srapeheads he’ll be sending to parliament!! Inquiring minds wanna know if Sanction Man knows that he gotta speak extemporaneously there – and can’t bring along his teleprompter!! VP Jagdeo was so taken by this possibility – for its entertainment value, obviously!! – that he’s considering attending some sessions in the National Assembly!! But then Sanction Man can always choose one of his MPs to speak for him. But can you imagine the kerfuffle that’s gonna erupt when Doggie refuses to be guided by the Speaker on him refusing to address Norton as “the Honourable member” – rather than his trademark expletives – in the hallowed chambers of Parliament?? Your Eyewitness is stocking up on popcorn for the fun and games!!
You asked why would Doggie be addressing Norton, Dear Reader, since you thought he’d have slinked off into the sunset in shame for consigning Burnham’s party to playing second (discordant!) fiddle to a three-month-old party whose leader’s sign of intelligence (according to his proud papa) is he used to memorise car plates’ numbers when he was a kid!! Linden Forbes must be turning in his grave and demanding that the Reg 10 township return his name “Linden” – since Norton allowed them to slip into the hands of a fella who’d have a problem pronouncing “paramountcy”!!
But your Eyewitness is still having some problems with Norton not stepping off the stage. Is he a glutton for punishment? His visage would suggest that but you’d think there’s a limit on how much he wants “his people” to wash their mouth on him, wouldn’t you?? Or does he think that once Sanction Man opens his mouth in Parliament – or more likely, he DOESN’T because he can’t!! – he’ll look that much better!! But he should know after his time on the hustings that while he can utter words, he just can’t connect to people!! A communicator he ain’t!!
So as far as moving ahead, we have an Opposition that’s gonna be so paralysed by their contradictions that apart from the aforementioned entertainment value, in no way, shape or form they’re gonna be doing their Opposition duty to scrutinise the PPP’s actions!!
And present alternatives!!

…out Mad Maduro
Now we’ve got the elections out of the way, your Eyewitness at long last can lift his eyes a bit off the local scene and chat a little bit about what’s been going on in our nation’s neighbourhood!! And his first thought is “plenty”!! We can do worse than look at what Pres Trump has called his “war on drugs” (WOD). Now this had been going on for decades but since the 1990s the US had launched their “War on Terror” (WOT) – which made them swivel their attention to the Middle East – from Lebanon and Iraq to Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the cunning Chinese were making hay while the US shone its light away from Latin America where the WOD had been fought. They moved in not with bullets – but with investing the US dollars they’d squirrelled away after the Yanks made them their manufacturing hub!! And within two decades their trade grew from US$26Billion to US$300+Billions!! While drugs continued to inundate America!!
Hence, the new, improved WOD!!

…influencers
In this era of social media, your Eyewitness must confess he’s behind the eight ball when it comes to the goings-on of the “influencers”. But he’s had to concede their success with Sanction Man’s scrapeheads in politics!!