Elections seem to be in the air in the southern Caribbean – with T&T first off, the block with a well-conducted one in that troubled country that saw the govt change – to no one’s surprise. And even though their ethnic mix and challenges are a mirror-image of ours, there were no burning and looting or even charges of elections rigging!! Then came the farce over in Venezuela where elections have been rigged for so long now – it’s not even commented on!! This time there was the lunacy of Mad Maduro holding elections in his country – for a FOREIGN country’s county – that was the buzz!! And third came Suriname’s even more elections potpourri where coalitions AFTER ELECTIONS have become the norm. That is, of course, when they aren’t executing coups to install dictators or holding elections to elect that same said dictator!! This time things were back to normal and the incumbent Santokhi has been replaced by a nice-looking lady.
And finally, of course, comes our dear old Mudland where Pres Alli threw a cat among the (opposition) pigeons by proclaiming that elections – constitutionally due this year – gonna be held come September. Pressie, of course, is too young to know of the 1961 movie “Come September” starring mature heartthrobs Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida along with young heartthrobs Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. He must’ve been inspired by something else – which in this case, was probably to catch the opposition and their on-off coalition attempts, flatfooted!! He succeeded.
So what are our elections known for?? Even if you just crawled out from under a roc, the trial dominating our headlines would’ve reminded you: outrageous rigging and riggers who all invariably do a Shaggy – “WASN’T ME”!! What the rigging trial’s doing is reminding folks that we don’t just have to watch the PNC at elections time – more important are those who support them and are in positions where they can put their grubby little fingers on the scale. Or in this case, on the Statements of Polls (SOPS) of which the PNC has never shown their copies while screaming “WE WUZ ROBBED!!” Yesterday we heard about the Police official who did his bit for his “kith and kin” in the PNC – as described by Desmond Hoyte!!
Now, the last time, even as they were doing the dirty with spreadsheets and stained bedsheets, the PNC insisted the PPP rigged the elections – though they were out of office and the state institutions were massed against them!! Maybe they know something as to how this coulda been done!! After all, they’ve qualified for post graduate degrees in rigging elections – having been practicing the art which they;ve got down to a science!!
The PPP should watch out for them!!
…ghoulish
Your Eyewitness is really turned off on how the death of poor Adrianna has been turned into a horror show by her family, relatives – and even some in the Opposition. How low will these people sink to exploit the outrage aroused by the police bungling in the early hours of Adrianna’s drowning? Your Eyewitness just learnt that the child’s body’s now been flown to New York City – where a new set of forensic pathologists gonna be dissecting and rummaging through it.
What your Eyewitness found distasteful was the child’s parents and several members of the family – the number is uncertain but quite sizeable – have accompanied the body up to New York. Why?? Well, they claim the new pathologists can then explain their findings to them directly!! So it seems that Zoom isn’t sufficient – or maybe they’ve become so versed in forensic pathology they will have be consulted!!
Your Eyewitness wonders whether they’ll invite the Delaware pathologist they brought to Guyana to look at the new findings!!
