Your Eyewitness is having a hard time understanding the position of those Opposition types who schlepped all the way to Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, to hold their press conference. He understands WHY they went there – plain old crass and cynical opportunism to guarantee press coverage – knowing that if they were in front of the hotel where poor Adrianna met her end, they could milk her memory, which still held the public imagination.
It’s the position they took to identify with the Scrapes that your Eyewitness doesn’t get. Look at them in the picture that accompanied their release: most of them are card-carrying members of the African middle class who would’ve given their eye-teeth and their firstborn back in the day to down some swizzles at the Georgetown Club!! Yet, imagine, they had the gall to announce, “We know what it’s like to be dismissed, devalued, and used”!! Really??
Even with the benchmarks they’re setting for themselves, did they really believe the Scrapes would believe they were once scruffy-looking deadbeats who seized the opportunity to loot mattresses and fittings from the torched hotel?? Or loot their Chinese supermarkets?? Pleeeeze!!
These were folks who’re used to looting in a much more rarefied atmosphere, and wouldn’t be caught dead holding a channa bomb!! Your Eyewitness could recognize one was wined and dined in the fanciest 5-star hotel in Houston before he signed away our 11 billion barrels of oil (and counting!!) for peanuts to Exxon in Houston!! No Scrapes allowed THERE, thank you!! Another is actually the LAWYER for Exxon, and a third is a billionaire fast-food franchise holder – if a famous columnist is to be believed!!
The only one who could possibly be accepted into a Scrapes gang is that former government minister who had her driver practically gun-butt a security guard at Amazonia Mall because he was delaying her picking up her fried rice from New Thriving!! Hell hath no fury like a Scrape being kept away from food!! Why’d you think supermarkets are such popular sites for looting by Scrapes??!!
Truth of the matter is that the only entity that “dismissed, devalued, and used” those pretend Scrapes was the APNU/AFC coalition, which cut their runnings when they failed in their rigging attempt!! One of them couldn’t extort more diamond-studded gold bangles!!
Another whose runnings were cut by APNU was a self-styled “Bishop”, who demanded that David Granger keep all the laws on the books that forbid same-sex relations, such as buggery!! Doesn’t he realize that Scrapes are very much into broadening their sexual horizons?? Or, by saying he’s a Scrape, is the Bishop coming out of the closet??
The only one who was a real Scrape is the pandit fella!!
…from propaganda
Yesterday was “World Press Freedom Day”. Your Eyewitness knows press freedom was a cornerstone in the construction of democracy over hundreds of years by the west. If democracy meant “we the people” choosing our government, how else could we do so unless, at a minimum, we had solid facts about what the fellas running for office stood for??
But America itself is in the throes of showing that bastions of the “free press”, like the NYT, had such strong liberal biases that they completely misrepresented conservative views. Another problem is confirmation bias, enabled by the press picking the individuals they interview, like the BBC’s “World Questions” that was gonna be taped in Guyana. They picked more Opposition types in order to guarantee the outcome they wanted!!
And finally, there’s the Israeli genocide in Gaza; where, of the 124 journalists killed worldwide in 2024, 85 of them were killed by Israeli soldiers. But this was not highlighted by the “free press”!!!
