After some three years, your Eyewitness still keeps hearing about the Opposition parties – the PNC, the AFC and the WPA (your Eyewitness is trying to be kind to those geriatrics!!) – “talking” about forming a coalition!! What the heck’s going on??Back in the days of chivalry, knights in shining armour – grunts had to keep them shine! – used to spend years “courting” their fair ladies.
Now, your Eyewitness is as nostalgic as the next guy, but haven’t we moved past those days of sending perfumed love letters and love poems, singing romantic songs under balconies, and offering gifts to women? The latter, of course, were just expected to swoon yet protect their chastity!! Your Eyewitness has always wondered about the pressure that then fell on the fella not to take advantage during the swoon – in which the woman falls on her back on the lounge chair that’s handily available, with one arm flung behind daintily!!
So, are the Opposition parties courting, rather than – as is usual nowadays – “hitting” on each other?? Here, either party – literal or figurative!! – can “hit” on the other, and there’s no shame as there used to be for the woman to do so!! In “hitting”, one makes it clear that what is being sought is a “Slam! Bam! Thank you, ma’am/sir!” relationship!! It would be breaking the rules of the new game if one party tried to find out everything about the other; or – God forbid! – swear to love unconditionally!! So, is this what’s preventing our Opposition parties from “getting it on”??
Look, we’re already in 2025, and with elections due, we don’t have time for courting!! Look how even an old roughneck like PNC’s Corbin was able to consummate the APNU coalition within months – and pass it on to a fuddy-duddy like Granger. And that old geezer put the present lot to shame in the hitching-up sweepstakes when he pursued the coy AFC under Ramjattan – who feared he’d become “dead meat” if he went ahead and agreed to the union. Ain’t nothing scarier in hooking up than becoming “dead meat”!! Yet even that was consummated within months, and announced (romantically!!) on Valentine’s Day!!
Maybe the present lot can observe and learn. The clinching factor seemed to be the DOWRY Granger brought to the arrangements – not just more seats than the AFC had ever snagged on their own – but a 50% salary raise and perks!! This included outriders galore to move aside the rabble when they travelled about!!
Your Eyewitness notes that the geriatric WPA’s being quite avant-garde to insist that, even after the union is consummated, they want to retain their “maiden” name!!
The word “maiden”, your Eyewitness expects, is figurative when associated with geriatrics!!
…screwed up??
Your Eyewitness notes that distribution of the $100,000 one-off cash grant to pensioners in Region 3 – where he observed the pandemonium – was an unholy mess!! And that is the only word that can describe what he saw. Now, in Guyana, there are some 70,000 pensioners,and if they’re in proportion to their overall numbers, Reg 3 has around 10,000 at least.
Now, if the transaction for each person at the three stages took 5 minutes each, then NIS needed a total of 50,000 minutes, or 25,000 minutes at each of the two assigned centres. This works out to 417 minutes – or about 7 hours for each of the five days – if everything worked like clockwork and no one took even a minute break!! But them someone decided to allow everyone over 55 years old in the pool – adding God knows how many others to show up to demand their $100 grand!!
Now, this was a recipe for confusion. Pressie needs to have someone on the carpet for this fiasco!!
…sly Rowley
Rowley made a big deal when announcing he won’t serve out his term of office – which ends this August!! Big deal. He knows that, with crime having spiralled beyond control, his goose was well cooked!! Passing the buck!!
