…in old wineskins
Granger continually virtue-signals with well-publicised pics of him kneeling in church but he’d know that Christ himself warned: “Not everyone who says ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven”! Today, he (Granger, not the Christ!) will kick off the PNC’s– let’s not even detain ourselves with the “APNU/AFC fig leaf! – election campaign at D’Urban “Jubilee” Park. But don’t hold your breath that he’ll explain how the $1.5 BILLION was spent on the termite-infested structures!! Campaign contributors have to be rewarded!!
But even though your Eyewitness doesn’t wear it on his sleeves, he knows his Bible – after those compulsory church attendances!! So, when he thinks about Granger’s presentation this evening, what came to his mind is this passage: “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins”. And trust me, Dear Reader, Granger is one old wineskin!!
Let’s face it: this isn’t just even only a new year, or a new decade; with the advent of oil revenues, this is a whole NEW BEGINNING for this country. And the kind of new ideas that are necessary to deal with this new reality just cannot be assimilated by the old, fixed mindset that Granger has congealed over the seven decades since he was in short pants at Whim with Moses Nagamootoo! For all we know, Granger may even want to take in these new ideas – but he simply just can’t!! You can’t put new wine in an old wineskin – it’ll pop!!
Just look at the how he’s dealt with the oil bonanza that fell like manna from Heaven into his hands – just as he took office in 2015. He couldn’t even acknowledge the strategic vision of Janet Jagan to invite in Exxon in 1999 – as a bulwark against the same Venezuelans who, he claimed, made him accept the token US$18M sixteen years later!! He is still consumed by “the hurricane of protests” from the sixties, which the PNC propaganda team threw at her feet. Old wineskin!
That congealed, old mindset also made him let that world-class advisor on the oil sector, Jan Mangal, leave after the latter disagreed with some of his decisions. Why have an advisor if you won’t even listen to his advice?? They say the abused child becomes an abusive parent: Desmond Hoyte’s blanking of him – after making him “security advisor” in 1990 – has obviously damaged that wineskin!!
Why else would he immediately appoint an ENVIRONMENTAL economist to head the Energy Agency that’ll oversee all our energy policies!!
So what to expect this evening? The same old banal, homilies delivered with that simpering smile he cultivates to hide his vacuity!!
It’s a shad, shad, shituation!!
…at UN?
Granger reacted strongly to a report that his handpicked man at the UN – Michael Ten-Pow – had resigned after the intrigues for his appointment were revealed during the massive shakeup of the Foreign Ministry that followed. And what was all the hullaballoo about? Granger’s old wineskin of a mind!!
Stuck in the past, it’s truly said that “old men remember; they don’t think!” – Granger had insisted Guyana campaign to Chair of G77 and China at the UN, which Jamaica had declined, because of cost (almost US$1Million)! And what exactly is “G77 and China”? As was revealed before, it’s a relic from the 1970s when it was launched to take on the “imperialist West” and further a “New International Economic Order”!!
As we know, it all came to nought but at the time it allowed Burnham to hobnob with the “progressive” Third World leaders who huddled together for some ontological validation!! Membership will simply give Granger the opportunity for a photo-op on Jan 15, when Guyana assumes G77’s Chair!!
The vanity of old men!!
…and light oil
Poor Tullow finally struck light oil but in limited quantity – unlike Exxon’s finds.
“For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him, that hath not, shall be taken away”!
