Rattled…

…PNC
Well! Well! Well! Who woulda thought!! The PNC summoned their Congress and all they talked about was how to counter the PPP!! Imagine, they’re the incumbent Government — with all that that implies – and yet they are being so rattled by the Opposition PPP!! But really, it’s not just the PPP. Sure the PPP’s been waging a vigorous campaign to “oppose, expose, and depose” the PNC. But that’s what an Opposition’s supposed to do, isn’t it?
No…what has rattled the PNC is a section of their traditional constituency getting restive. Which segment?? The same segment which wouldn’t stand for their excesses under Burnham. And we know that segment ended up standing up to them, don’t we?? And this is what’s scaring the bejesus out of the PNC!! This is the strata of educated, upstanding African-Guyanese who would’ve been in the League of Coloured People that initially opposed Burnham for being too crass.
Call them the “middle class” or what you will, they just can’t stand what they consider to be the “thug element” in the PNC. And they don’t need a soothsayer to tell them the present iteration of the PNC is being hijacked by that section.
Granger, as a card-carrying member of the LCP, had been expected not to go down that path…but here you have it!!
They’d been very upset at Granger’s undermining of the Rule of Law, undergirded by the Constitution. They’d been livid at the gross ineptitude of the AG, who’s the CHAIRMAN of the PNC. What does it say of them if they’re being led by such an untutored mind?? The law is very important to this segment…it’s what helped to create their strata, to begin with! They’d been very upset at the economy being allowed to go into free fall – and putting all their eggs into that oil basket. They have much to lose. And it’s not as if the PNC hasn’t been warned about “Dutch Disease”.
So why the focus on the PPP?? Simple. The PNC’s signalling that strata: if not us, it’s THEM – the PPP — who’ll be allowed to return. As the group that historically saw it as their birthright to rule after the departure of the whites, they have little love for the PPP, whom they consider interlopers!! What the PNC is scared sh*tless about is that that group may strike out on its own – and then strike a modus vivendi with the PPP, who at least can run the economy!!!!
The PNC’s attack on the media fits the above scenario. The media haven’t been supporting the PPP per se. They’ve simply been highlighting the missteps of the PNC — allowing their erstwhile middle-class supporters to see the Emperor wearing Burnham’s old clothes!!

…and rolled!
Well, it wasn’t Big Joe Turner belting out the old Blues classic “Shake, rattle and roll”. But Ben E. King’s “Stand by me” wasn’t that far from the mark at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in staid, proper Windsor Castle chapel!! While “Stand by me” is overtly a love song, coming out of the Civil Rights era, in which they were turning dogs on black folks in the American South for just sitting at the same counter with whites in a diner, it does have some deeper reverberations.
But they seemed to’ve flown over the heads of the gathered “royalty” and “nobility” – just like Rev Michael Curry’s classic sermon, drawn from the depths of the Black experience all the way back to the days of slavery. Your Eyewitness wonders whether the perplexed, behatted, posh crowd got Curry’s message: that it’s only by accepting Jesus’s REVOLUTIONARY message of “loving your neighbour” – like the black slaves of yore did – might the present political schism decrease.
Curry quoted MLK, but Gandhi also said, “God is love”!!

…investors
Another newspaper repeated your Eyewitness’s caution at the Government seeking to JAIL Government officials for offering incentives to investors. The US South offers the biggest incentive packages in the world!!
Of course, such actions will rattle investors!!