Reflecting… on Independence Bash

Now that Independence Day #60 has come and gone, it’s time for a bit of reflecting on what it was all about, ain’t that right, Dear Reader?? First is the decision to stage the flag-raising ceremony at Fort Island in the Essequibo River – claimed, of course, by Devious Delcy and her band of modern pirates seeking to enlarge their occupation of our Ankoko Island to the entire 62,000 square miles of Essequibo!! Just as Deviant Delcy signalled the Venezuelan claim by flaunting that brooch with Essequibo included on it, Pressie was signalling our continuous POSSESSION of Essequibo for almost four centuries – by raising our Golden Arrowhead at that spot!!
Back in 1679, Dutch Governor Abraham Beekman had ordered the construction of a fort on the island – to protect their settlements that had started upriver since 1621 – from threats by the Spanish!! Significantly, it was then called FLAG ISLAND to announce Dutch sovereignty over Essequibo!! The wooden fort was largely completed by 1687, and later, in 1743–1744, the Dutch built the brick fortress known as Fort Zeelandia – the ruins of which remain – that became the capital of the Dutch colony of Essequibo. As such, it was very fitting that as we await the decision of the ICJ on Dastardly Delcy’s greedy land grab, we’re stressing our historic control exercised over the territory!! The event was a masterstroke!!
But the execution was a mess – and we shouldn’t mince words!! If the GDF cannot execute a mission to just raise a flag, how can we telegraph to Duplicitous Delcy and her massive armed forces that we ain’t gonna be walkovers? The person(s) responsible for this stain on our name at such a momentous occasion has gotta be disciplined!! Just as with any military operation, wasn’t there some kinda dry run on running up the flag? How come there was literally a snag??
There’s been a lot of merriment over the discomfiture of one Guyanese fella who was literally “sent downstairs” by a Minister. Now this chap is a very staunch, public supporter of the Government – including over our defence of Essequibo from Devious Delcy’s designs. If there were anyone who shoulda been sent downstairs, it shoulda been the has-been Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent – who was rightly kicked out of office!! This is a sneak who was always in Mad Maduro’s pocket – and, of course, Delinquent Delcy’s!!
Your Eyewitness wonders why T&T’s Kamla wasn’t invited?? She has certainly proven to be a true friend of ours in our hour of need – for friends to rally diplomatic support!!
Anyhow, we gotta keep our defence of Essequibo on the front burner henceforth!! Determined Delcy ain’t gonna be giving up!!

…on a medical marvel
Pressie was appropriately chuffed over the latest success in his all-out drive to drag our medical system into the 21st century – and become a leader in the region on that front!! This was the performing of a cardiac surgery all the way in India – over 10,000 miles – by a team in Guyana using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery techniques!! In the last decade this has been the cutting-edge medical service delivery – and we just broke the record as far as the distance between doctor and patient!!
The robot actually has two components literally thousands of miles apart – connected through fibre optics or 5G wireless!! There’s the surgeon’s console – a screen displaying a 360-degree, high-resolution 3D view of the surgical site – and hand controllers the surgeon manipulates. The second is the patient-side robot, with several mechanical, pencil-thin arms fitted with surgical instruments and a camera.
This type of procedure had become quite routine with the doctor and patient in the same room – but today, with almost instantaneous communications less than five microseconds apart – they can be continents apart!!

…the Hormuz dilemma
It doesn’t look like there’s gonna be a settlement on passage through the Strait of Hormuz for a while. So, we better start putting systems in place to deal with rising inflation!!