Sometimes we’re our own worst enemies! Take alcohol: nobody puts a gun to our heads and commands us to drink!! Yet we pour it down our throats, become alcoholics, and destroy not only OUR lives, but of those around us! And this self-destructive behaviour occurs at every level of our social lives. Take our towns and villages where we live on the Atlantic coast. Now all of this “land” was once mangrove swamp, hence its early name the “Mosquito Coast”. It was pretty much created from the mud brought down by our rivers and creeks – but most of all by the mighty Amazon 1000 miles away across the Atlantic!! Imagine that!! Now you know why we don’t have blue-water beaches!!
The Dutch drained the swamps using enslaved labour – all under sea level! – through an intricate network of dams, canals and kokers to create plantations on which they grew sugar cane, cotton and coffee. Let’s not forget that Georgetown wasn’t created on no highland or such like – but from plantations created from those swamps!! Yep, La Penitence, Werk-en-Rust, Cummingsburg, Thomas Lands etc were ALL plantations, with canals leading to kokers draining them at low tide – just like all the other plantations, such as, say, Enmore!!
But somehow, we insist on pretending that the law of gravity acting on water falling on these former plantations has ceased to operate – just because we baptized them “towns” and now “CITY”!! So, we filled up most of the canals that once divided East Street; Main Street etc, to create those oh-so-pretty walkaways where we can hold hands and stroll! EIGHTY PERCENT of the waterways draining Georgetown have been filled up – and the remainder are filled with debris!! And we expect that it won’t be flooded when you have four inches of rain in as many hours??
Also, those canals didn’t just drain the land, but acted as reservoirs between tides. And the now totally concreted one-square-mile basin doesn’t allow any water to percolate into the soil. We expect to drain a one-square-mile flooded basin using pumps?? Isn’t that sorta like the reverse of plugging a hole in the sea wall with your pinky?? Or pi55in’ in the wind with all your might?? Ain’t gonna work!! And the rising seas due to Climate Change – which the polluting big countries declared “FULL STEAM AHEAD!!” – ain’t helping none!!
So, all your Eyewitness can say is Pres Ali should take the offer by the selfsame big polluting countries to compensate countries affected by their profligacy and complete Silica City ASAP. And knowing where the (city) shoe pinches, make sure we also don’t repeat mistakes like vending!
You gotta know when to hold it and know when to fold it!! Time to fold it!!
…in Mad Maduro’s BS
So, what’s really going down with Mad Maduro over in Venezuela?? Your Eyewitness is getting kinda confused with the news coming out of that benighted country!! We always knew the rig was in play – all we needed to know was how would the defenders of democracy deal with Mad Maduro’s continued dictatorship. Which for us means more refugees pouring into our country and more sabre-rattling over his annexation of our Essequibo!!
Your Eyewitness wasn’t expecting the US to stage an invasion or anything like that: the days of landing Marines in Latin America have long been over. Its last gasp was the invasion of Grenada – all 135sq miles of it!! But he thought at least some sanctions would be imposed!! All we got was a recognition of Mad Maduro’s opponent Gonzalez as the winner – then this was quickly altered to “waiting on proof”!!
Even the amnesty the WSJ said was offered for the Madman’s leaving – via Panama – hadn’t been in play. So that’s it??
