Your Eyewitness fell off his chair yesterday morning when he read there’s gonna be an American Culture Festival at the Prominade Gardens!! It’s supposed “to provide an immersive American experience, celebrating the best of American culture in Guyana”!! Imagine that! They even have a theme – ‘What Happens in Miami…’ Guess the hosts don’t believe what happens in Miami should stay in Miami -but should be exported to our dear Mudland – which is probably seen as a “shithole country” in need of cleaning up!!
But hold it – Miami?? Isn’t their crime rate far higher New York City where almost every Guyanese have relatives – and have visited and warned to “be careful”?? And isn’t Miami the gateway for drugs – cocaine, heroin and marijuana –entering America from Columbia and other southern locales?? Or is this an attempt to have us get a glimpse of where America’s headed population wise?? Whites are supposed to become a minority within a decade but Miami’s already 75% Hispanic and 11% Black!! So we’ll feel at home?? Don’t we already have Little Guyana in Queens and Flatbush in Brooklyn??
But if we’re talking about imbibing “culture” hadn’t the Brits spent more than a hundred years “civilizing” us by literally beating our native culture and beating in theirs?? Didn’t we wear woollen suits in our tropical heat like the Brits -while sweating like stuck pigs!! – and stick our pinkies unto the air when sipping tea?? Jeez…there are still some women who wear those ridiculous hats at Easter parties!!
But the greatest irony in trying to “Americanize” us through a Culture Festival based on Miami culture is we’ve been Americanized ever since our British overlords lost their mojo during WWII and passed their civilizing mission – in addition to a couple of air-bases – on to the Yanks!! Sparrow didn’t just have Trinidad hd in mind when he belted out “Money in the land with the Yankee dolla bill!!” So, think of how the Blues and Soul dominated our airwaves since then. Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin as the King and Queen of soul – and we had our own local version in Johnny Braff!!
And food…do we really need an introduction to hamburgers?? And since when is smoking “premium handmade cigars from the Dominican Republic” part of an American culture?? We know the Mafia had a strong base in Miami from back in the day – and from the Godfather we also know the Mafiosi enjoyed CUBAN cigars!! Just because Kennedy banned Cuban cigars in 1960 because he didn’t like Fidel doesn’t mean if we’re gonna follow the Miami Mafia culture we have to make do with the mediocre DR substitute!!
Let’s get some real La Corona Coronas cigars like Al Capone!!
…conspiracy theories
It’s almost a year – since 6 December 2023 – that a Bell 412EP helicopter operated by the GDF crashed in in our western jungles abutting Venezuela – killing five out of the seven on board. Those dead were Col Michael Shahoud, Brig (Rtd) Gary Beaton, Lt. Col. Michael Charles (Pilot), Lt. Col. Sean Welcome and Staff Sergeant Jason Khan. Since then, all Guyana have been awaiting the findings from the US analysis of the recordings in the Black Box to understand what might be the cause.
That the crash occurred near Venezuela – at a time when Mad Maduro had ratcheted up his threats to annex our entire Essequibo by mobilizing his armed forces – not surprisingly led to suspicions that they had something to do with the crash. To the surprise of many, however, the head of the GDF, Brig. Gen. Omar Khan, said that Venezuelan involvement was “ruled out” – even though the Black Box hadn’t been analysed!!
Well last week, it was announced that the Report is finally ready.
So???
…Coalition
The clock on Elections 2025 is inexorably ticking. The Opposition that was in Government as a coalition had promised to get together after they fissioned following the failure of their rigging attempt.
How’s that project coming along??
