…of PM Nagamootoo
The Chronicle’s headline blared: “Nagamootoo on state visit to India”. Your Eyewitness knows among the myriad onerous tasks he’s saddled with as PM, Nagamootoo’s in charge of the Chronic, but isn’t “state visit” puffing his portfolio a tad? “State visits” are when the HEAD OF STATE visits another State and is received by the head of THAT State.
OK…OK…when President Granger jetted off to the UN General Assembly, Nagamootoo was made “ACTING President”. But in the same edition of the Chronic there’s Prezzie, clearly back in the country swearing in Carl Greenidge as acting PM. So we can clearly conclude Nagamootoo departed Guyana’s shores as PM and not our Head of State, can we? No “state visit”!!
We expect a CoI to be constituted immediately to find out who inserted this headline, which is clearly in breach of protocol. Or is it more than that? Is it a projection of a palace coup being plotted by the ambitious PM? Or is it a case of his shill bigging up his boss so he could also step up into bigger and better quarters? And this Eyewitness wants to know why the said shill wasn’t offered the first-class ticket to India but that fell to some other flunkey in the PM’s office? Is that a hint all isn’t well with the shill’s sinecure?
Anyhow, now that your Eyewitness has hopefully cleared up the fact our PM won’t be getting any 18-gun salute or/and being received by President Pranab Mukerjee of India, we can move on to more important matters. Such as the identity of the PM. Just before the last elections, you, Dear Readers, would remember the PM-to-be had created quite a stir on the identity front when he declared he was “NOT an Indian”. He was just a “Guyanese”.
But he’s now jetting off, to a “Tamil” conference and says he’ll be connecting with his “Tamil Roots”. Will he be issuing a clarification after his return that he is “NOT a Tamil”. Equal opportunity disavowal and all that! Nagamootoo insists he’s of “Tamil origin” because his fore- fathers came from there. Really? Did he check his papers? At the time of PM’s forefathers’ departure, their neck of the woods was called “Madras Presidency” and included modern Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, and Telangana.
Anyhow, as PM Nagamootoo gets more granular about his roots, maybe he’ll find out he’s actually not just a “Tamil” but a “Tamil Tiger”.
So is PM Nagamootoo going to return all radical and stuff?
…of WI Cricket disaster
Every time it happens, your Eyewitness “wrings his ears” and swears, “no more!”. He’s bitching about our ignominious defeat in the T20 series with Pakistan, of course. Here it is diehards like him could at least retain a shred of dignity and boast “at least we have our once superpower status at the T20 level.”
He could even rationalise our retreat into the shortest form of the game by saying that “Test” wasn’t REALLY the WI form of the game. That was for stiff upper-lipped Englishmen daintily nibbling cucumber sandwiches and tapping their fingers when a good delivery was carted to the boundary.
No siree Bob! We were naturally adept at hoiking the ball OVER the boundary, playing in outrageous colours and screaming encouragement or insults at players. And now to be cut off at the knees by Pakistan – which can’t even PLAY in their own country?!! Oh…the shame of it all!
But we all know nothing will change unless we get root and branch reform, don’t we?
Meaning the WICB Board must go!
…of road carnage
The root of the road chaos that leads to carnage is the average Guyanese’s absolute refusal to “wait his turn”.
“Boring” is the mantra on the road.
