…and Nagamootoo
Nagamootoo always betrayed a predilection for crassness and crudity. And expressed same in a manner which proved conclusively you could take the boy out of the fishmonger business but you can’t take the stench out of him. Forget his foulmoutedness to grown ups…Who’d ever forget his boast to Parliament that he yelled at his poor grandson, “Shut yuh so-an’-so mout’!!” You can take the wanker out of the gutter but you can’t take the gutter out of the wanker!!
Now…denying Opposition Leader Jagdeo’s observation that he, Nagamootoo, has allowed the Constitutional position of “Prime Minister” to be stripped by Prezzie of all its enumerated and customary powers, he exposed his dirty fishmonger slip once again for the world to see. Said he to Jagdeo’s assertions: “And he knows (that no power was taken from the PM), so he is trying to do his own stripping. He loves, of course, to strip me, and I suppose he has a reason for that.”
Nagamootoo – who obviously thinks the “double entendre” on “stripping” is a cutting repartee still doesn’t get it. He’s supposed to be Prime Minister of this country and he has to conduct himself with a certain amount of decorum. Jagdeo himself had to upbraid one of his MPs from using a far less crass expression about President Granger: will the latter now do the same to Nagamootoo? Don’t hold your breath…by now Prezzie knows – as President Obama put in – you can put lipstick on a pig, but it still remains a pig.
If he believes Jagdeo was wrong, why doesn’t Nagamootoo disprove the claims? Let’s start with the Cummingsburg Accord which was announced on Valentine’s Day as the agreement to define the extended powers Nagamootoo would exercise as Prime Minister. If he delivered the 11% from Berbice – which he did. Does Nagamootoo chair Cabinet meetings? What exactly does he do at Cabinet meetings excepting sitting on the left hand of Granger and simper?
More to the point, the chairing of Cabinet Meetings wasn’t supposed or intended to boost Nagamootoo’s ego, but to facilitate his responsibility for “governance” of the country. Could Nagamootoo tell his 11% which initiative on “governance” over the last year-and-a-half, he spearheaded? And which ministries of government he coordinated? Then there’s the official role to “represent” the President in Parliament. Hasn’t President Granger pre-empted this role with his frequent visits to Parliament and his working through his Chief Whip and bottle washer, Amna Ally?
But then President Granger might just point out Nagamootoo’s bungling of Government in his first foray so that even a Chronicle reporter had to dub it, a “debacle”!!
…the green from business
In the States, where business is supposed to be at the pinnacle of its glory(?) they say the only colour business respects is “green”. Meaning, of course, business is all about money…everything else is secondary. This notion’s about to be tested in Guyana, where an African Business Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has just been launched by ACDA. Not “African-Guyanese” Chamber of Commerce but “African”.
It seems this group’s been around for a while as the “African Business Roundtable”. But even though your Eyewitness knew about an African Business Roundtable which was founded in Africa during the nineties…he didn’t hear about a branch here. But this might explain the lack of a hyphen in the name of the new Chamber of Commerce.
So who’s gonna belong to this new Chamber? Do they really believe in the ethnically polarised climate of Guyana, this initiative won’t be seen as sending out some subtexts as to who should be doing business with whom?
