One day…more

Well, with just one more day to go – and all the big rallies done – your Eyewitness knows that some of these politicians might be getting withdrawal symptoms!! Yep!!! Jumping on that stage with thousands of faces – well, at PPP rallies!! Hundreds at PNC’s and WIN and tens at AFC’s – can become addictive with all that adrenaline rushing into your head!! But all good things must come to an end – and so has Campaign 2025 today!!
So what has stood out for your Eyewitness?? He’s been around the block – and some! – but can truly say in this campaign, the PPP has risen to new heights in so many ways. Right off the block is their fulfilment of Dr Jagan’s dream of having Guyanese of all stripes – and strata, as he would say! – stand shoulder to shoulder to support the Cup!! He’d been heartbroken when Burnham selfishly split the national movement. Your Eyewitness believes there can be no turning back – now that the fences keeping our peoples apart have been breached.
Then there are the youths. Even without a Progressive Youth Organisation, there have been more youths on PPP platforms than when there was a PYO!! What this tells your Eyewitness is the PPP’s gonna be around a long, long time to lend their shoulders to the wheel to steer our nation into the waters of perpetual peace and prosperity where old men shall dream dreams, and young men shall see visions!! Yup!… It’s been a long time comin’, but the PPP has stuck to the vision of a young man named Cheddi who passed it on to another young man named Bharrat who passed it on to another young man named Irfaan and so on…!!
And what of the PNC, you ask, Dear Reader?? Well, that’s a sad, sad story which proves that karma’s a bitch!! The PNC was created on the fears of our African Guyanese that they were being passed by on the good life by their fellow Indian Guyanese citizens. But rather than having faith in the people who’d created this country that they could do as well as anyone else in the world, they continued to cripple them by nursing their grievances – even creating some when there was none!! Well, oil has enabled the PPP to demonstrate concretely what African Guyanese can do!! And sadly, if this sounds like a requiem for the PNC – it is!!
The AFC was formed to stand between the PPP and PNC. So if there’s no PNC, what’s the reason for the AFC? So it’s bye-bye, AFC!! And the new kid on the block, WIN?? They’ll pick up the PNC’s scrapeheads this time – until the PPP develops them in the next five years!!

…back then with PNC
Nothing explains the PNC’s demise better than the failure of the African Business Roundtable– founded under their government in 2016 for “the sustainable development of Guyana’s economy; the economic revitalisation of African villages in Guyana; the nurturing of African entrepreneurship, especially among youth; the establishment of partnerships for sustainable growth; the establishment of business linkages with African-Guyanese businesses in the diaspora; and the hosting of business expos from time to time.”
The nurturing of Caribbean trade linkages for African-Guyanese businesses and the nurturing of south-south trade linkages with the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa; The fostering of joint ventures with other ethnic and business groups in Guyana; Working with PSC, the GCCI and the GMSA to build bridges; The provision of think tank position papers, incubator and business services to the Guyanese community in partnership with other groups and stakeholders, and the development of competitive, sustainable, job-creating African businesses across Guyana and in the diaspora.”
They claimed to already have “a full-service banking licence; nurturing of an Association of African-Guyanese Construction Companies which meets at the headquarters weekly.”

…no tolls
John Donne had advised, “…send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” Well, Pressie’s ensured our bridges will toll for no one!! Vote him back!!