Settling… anxieties

So, there you have it… After all the sturm and drang, Speaker Mansur Nadir finished with his international commitments and scheduled the opening of Parliament!! Inter alia, he also scheduled a caucus of the Opposition MPs for the election of the LOO! He emphasised the convening of Parliament was for the presentation of the 2026 Budget. But in making his announcement, he gave a glimpse of why he may have decided not to break his travelling commitments just to have the opposition leader elected!
He clearly resented being put in a “difficult constitutional position” to preside over the election of Sanction Man as the LOO – who he described as an “international fugitive”. Now one may say that Speaker Nadir should observe the convention that no one should be pronounced guilty until it’s been proven in a court of law! But in describing Sanction Man as an “international fugitive”, he’s not making any judgements – just stating the fact!! And why this troubled him was also explained: “If opposition members of Parliament feel it morally right to elect an international fugitive, then the stain on our Parliament and our country rests solely with them,” he declared.
In other words, he seems to agree with your Eyewitness that if Sanction Man and his daady believe they’re innocent, then they should do the honourable thing for the country by booking tickets to Miami to face the 11 criminal indictments!! They should have nothing to fear since – if they are to be believed – there can be no proof that they did the dirty!! Why are they spending so much money and time to deny Guyana fulfilling its obligation to honour their extradition treaty with the US?
Do they not realise how we’d fit into the stereotype of the “shithole banana republic” when at every sitting of the National Assembly the Parliamentary Committees’ reports would be carried across the globe about the “US-sanctioned fugitive” who is the LOO!! But your Eyewitness hopes that now that Speaker Nadir has explained that it was his decision to take the full allowed four months to convene Parliament, Sanction Man and others who blamed the PPP Government for the hiatus will now do the right thing and offer an apology!!
Your Eyewitness looks forward to the then LOO speaking without a script from his sister!!

…(opposition) scores
So just when you thought it might be safe to enter the political waters with Speaker Nadir severing the Gordian Knot over the LOO, up erupted a rather nasty catfight between the “LOO in waiting” and PNC/APNU executive Mahipaul!!
The latter revealed that Sanction Man weaselled out of meeting the APNU reps to sort out how the Opposition spoils – heads of committees, etc – “would be divvied up”!! Not surprisingly, Sanction Man wanted to hog the entire hog!! It should be an interesting 13th Parliament when the opposition will be castigating the PPP Govt for not sharing governance – when they can’t share opposition!!
Cat calling kettle black??

…the new order
It was pathetic to see France’s Macron pleading with Trump to spare Greenland – since they’d backed the US in Syria and Iran!! So, it’s ok to obliterate “brown” countries?