…for political investors?
ominic Gaskin’s a funny guy. He has to be…for claiming there will be no favours given to the businessmen who shelled out $43 million to the AFC’s campaign war chest. Yeah right! And if you believe that, dear reader, there’s a bridge across the Essequibo River, I can sell you – on the cheap!! What this Eyewitness would like Gaskin to do if he’s serious, is release the list of creditors so we can erect some statues in their honour for these paragons of selflessness!!
Fact of the matter is the new Leader of the AFC explicitly announced that folks who spend on political parties are “political investors” – who expect a return on their investment. So is Gaskin – who’s still wet behind the ears where politics is concerned – contradicting a man who has to be the sharpest political operator in the land? And don’t think your Eyewitness is being hyperbolic about Trotman!
This is a fella who boasts Burnham’s his hero. So just like Burnham joined the PPP because he’d already decided he was going to be President of Guyana, Trotman signed up for the PNC of Desmond Hoyte because he figured he had the “right pedigree” – unlike Corbin – for the job. But when Corbin proved too much for him because he didn’t play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules, like his hero, he promptly left to form his own party.
Playing Ramjattan like a well-tuned fiddle, he made his point to the PNC and now he’s back home, courtesy of the Nassau Accord. So Trotman knows what he’s talking about when it comes to political manoeuvring, OK?
And we return to the AFC and its debts that’s the topic de jour. What Gaskin should’ve said is the AFC has absolutely no power in the Government and is in no position to pay-off anyone. They’ve already shot most of their wad with their Wind Farm PPA to the fella who Ramjattan confessed had built the new AFC headquarters. Whatever remained went to the friend they sent to GPL, and who’s busy playing CHINESE Chequers with a mega contract that has more holes than Swiss cheese!
Now you may object, dear reader, there are still AFC Ministers who can play footsies under the table with the campaign funders. But you have to understand, that most of these have also returned to the fold. Do you think it’s a coincidence none of these “big ones” had any time to attend AFC meetings over the last year-and-a-half? Or none of them really put up a fight to get on to the national executive?
There’s no percentage in repaying the debts of “dead meat”!
…for the parking public
The outrage by this Government and its minions at City Hall against the citizenry continues to mount. The nonsense peddled when they oleaginously claimed they couldn’t mess with the decisions made at the Municipal level, was exposed by their admission that the by-laws authorising Smart City to operate, haven’t yet been approved by Cabinet!!
They admitted that the by-laws had to be signed by the Communities Minister Bulkan – but that’d only hold up matters for a day. What say they, now that Cabinet has to give its OK? Or is the Government just a rubber stamp for whatever City Hall does? This doesn’t appear so far-fetched when you observe the way King operates.
One big illegality in those by-laws – as revealed by Smart Solutions’ flak – is to “authorise” the company to go way beyond collecting and enforcing parking fees, and “enforce traffic by-laws”!!
This is a Policing function that’s waaaay above local government’s pay grade!
…the truth
Seems our Honourable Attorney General isn’t so honourable after all. He claimed the Dep Solicitor General made an illegal “feral blast” against him – forcing him to respond!!
All the Statutorily-protected officer did was to follow procedures and file her complaint with the Public Service Commission!
