Back in the day, there was a fantastic R&B band out of Philly – the Stylistics – who featured the best-ever falsetto voice in the business. One of their greatest hits was “Break up to make up” – which your Eyewitness was reminded of when he read the AFC leader saying there is still a chance for him and the PNC leader to make up and form an alliance/marriage of their parties to contest the Sept 1 elections! Granger had tied the knot with Nagamootoo and Khemraj even though – more than anyone else around in the political arena – he had his nose firmly stuck in the air!!
While it may strain credulity, your Eyewitness could just hear PNC’s Aubrey hitting the high notes and crooning in falsetto, “Tell me what’s wrong with me now. Tell me why I never seem to make you happy, though heaven knows I try. What does it take to please you? Tell me just how I can satisfy you Nigel; you’re drivin’ me wild. Break up to make up; that’s all we do. First you court me, then you dump me. That’s a game for fools!” In a (Guyanese) word, Aubrey wanted to know if “goat bite he”!!
After the end of the long and drawn-out marriage negotiations, the AFC leader baldly claimed that any coalition with Aubrey at the head was doomed to failure!! How’d he know that? Divination?? Didn’t Aubrey win the leadership of the largest party in the Opposition – fair and square?? Was it his looks – as some have unkindly claimed?? Poor Aubrey… They want to have it both ways. First, they insist the PPP gotta be managed by a tough leader – yet they insist Aubrey’s face is too ferocious!! Over in Uganda, Idi Amin, who’d dealt condignly with his “recalcitrant minority”, wasn’t about to win no beauty contest, was he?? Poor Aubrey just can’t win – no pun intended!!
But with the AFC’s leader presumably more wholesome mug at the head of their ticket, they were a sure bet to kick the PPP out and ensconce themselves in charge of all that oil money!! They’re so sure of themselves they not only demanded “anybody but Aubrey” – including a rank neophyte outsider – but also a majority of the Parliamentary seats any coalition would garner!! Talk about counting chickens before they’re hatched!! So, it’s no wonder Aubrey retorted that the said chickens were coming home to roost!! The AFC on its own is gonna lose corn and husk!!
Knowing this, the AFC fella should now be forced to eat humble pie – crawl on his knees to Aubrey and beg pardon!! But even then, Aubrey would know he’ll be courted only to be dumped later!!
That’s a game for fools!!
…war break
Israel’s war against Iran is now over a week old – and if nothing else – is demonstrating the latest variation of hurling missiles from slingshots and catapults – raining down bombs from drones!! We’re getting our news from Western sources; we gotta be cautious. We should’ve learnt after bitter experience that “truth is the first casualty of war!!” So, when we read about all the successes of the Israeli war machine against the Persians, we should remember there’s a blackout against showing what damage the latter are wreaking on Israel.
But one thing the Israelis seem to have forgotten is Shiites are historically willing to suffer… They’re not fighting an enemy obsessed with life and selfies. They’re confronting a civilisation built on martyrdom, memory, and mission. Tehran’s message is clear: we’ve survived Pharaohs, Crusaders, and Empires. We’ll survive this too, will you? For years, Israelis have believed that nothing could hurt them, that they are invulnerable.
Now, that belief is dying — one explosion at a time.
…carpetbagging
Here it is; Aubrey Norton worked FIFTY YEARS to help build the PNC. Yet one prima donna just resigned because she wasn’t made leader after five years of being an ornament brought in by the Sanctimonious Gangster Granger!!
