Protecting…

…the world
Some folks are wondering why the US is spending all that money to send eight warships, a squadron of F-35s, a Marine expeditionary force, etc, to the Caribbean. Well, a superpower’s work is never done, is it?!! Yet it’s a thankless job – as we can see from the second guessing and snarky comments from armchair generals!! Think about it. When the Brits were the superpower, they had to look after so many countries…er…colonies…the globe was speckled red to signal their responsibilities!!. That’s right…we natives just couldn’t get our act together – and the po’ Brits had to take up what they bravely called “the white man’s burden”. Kinda like Atlas with the world on his shoulder!!
OK…OK…Mad Maduro and his band of drug dealers in Venezuela mightn’t be the biggest supplier of drugs to the Caribbean and then onto the US and further north – but they DO ship drugs, don’t they?? You think those tons of cocaine in the big busts in Reg 1 were flown directly all the way from Colombia?? You gotta be living in la la land if you do!! The drug smugglers work with the generals in Mad Maduro’s Cartel of the Sun – and they actually control the trade!! So the US – as the lone super-power who’s fighting off the threat from China – is taking on the Venezuelan low-hanging fruit – while checkmating the bully in the Far East who’s been propping up Mad Maduro’s criminal enterprise dubbed “the Venezuelan Government”!! Two threats dealt with by one expedition!!
We should be thankful the Yanks aren’t following the Brits’ modus operandi and turn us in the Caribbean and Latin America into colonies under their star-spangled banner!! No Siree, Bob!! We haven’t been asked to cough up a penny to deal with the existential threat from Mad Maduro!! The burdens…the burdens of being Big Brother!! That US companies are investing massively here and in T&T to help us get our oil and gas out from under the sea, of course, give the US Govt an incentive. But we can’t look a gift horse – much less an expeditionary force – in the mouth, can we??
The irony, of course, is Mad Maduro’s shamelessly weeping and wailing and gnashing his (big) teeth that the US is actually attempting to overthrow him – to get at Venezuelan oil reserves. Yes…the same man who’s waged continuous warfare against us for a decade to seize Essequibo – two-thirds of our national territory with most of our mineral and energy reserves!! So yes!! Your Eyewitness supports the US actions in the Caribbean Sea!!
And to those like Ralphie Gonsalves who suck up to Mad Maduro because they get a “freck” through the PetroCaribe fund they should take a flying leap into the Caribbean!!

…teachers
Yesterday was Teachers’ Day!! If it’s one good thing that came out of our British past, it was the respect inculcated in students for teachers. It really came out of the respect for education by our fore parents who came out of slavery – and later indentureship – as the tool to deliver real emancipation. As such, your Eyewitness is very disappointed to read about attacks on teachers by students with rising violence in schools. And the weapons these students now tote around!
But let’s face it…this behaviour’s coming straight outta Compton and other American inner city ghettoes. Sadly, it’s the culmination of the glorification of that ghetto culture by youths that’s taken over schools in what’re now called “hoods” and produces scrapes!! It started with the misogynistic Gangsta Rap to glorify and promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming and weapons – that’s the first step. Look what happened in Jamaica – which had the same colonial background like us.
Bring back caning in schools!!

…Guyana
Beefing up our collaboration with the French – which just opened an Embassy here – is an important step in expanding our defence materiel capabilities to counter Mad Maduro’s machinations.
They also have a military base in French Guiana that can be mobilised!!