Survival…of the PNC

With the National Assembly about to be convened – any day now – by Pressie, one of the hot topics du jour is whether APNU can survive. Another hot topic, of course, is whether Sanction Man might be rendered by the US to face those charges in Miami before he faces the embarrassment of making a speech from the floor – without a teleprompter!! Let’s face reality in Guyanese politics, shall we?? And start with this arrangement called “APNU”, shall we??
To try to hide its sins from the electorate back in 2010 or so, the PNC under Robert Corbin had done his darndest to convince us it was now part of a “coalition” – APNU! Like a Russian Babushka doll hidden within FOUR PARTIES, we’d now consider it as just another party from the hood!! Trouble is, none of those parties – separately or collectively! – could ever muster more than a handful of votes – generally from friends and relatives!! One of them was the vestige of the WPA that had sold Rodney’s soul and was worshipping at the feet of his assassin, Burnham!!
It was like an elephant trying to hide behind a literal fig leaf!! Granger had exposed the enormity of the PNC’s cynicism when two of APNU’s paper parties departed and he unilaterally declared that a member from each had immediately created two new parties – to become members of the “APNU Coalition”!! One of them who had been with the WPA is now a big one in Sanction Man’s WIN!! Talk about political opportunism!!
What your Eyewitness thinks is Norton needs to do a couple of things if he wants the PNC – which has been around for almost seventy years – to survive. Firstly, DUMP the APNU label – it has done NOTHING electorally for the PNC, and yet, to keep the illusion going, he had to give a seat to the WPA’s Black Pudding Man!! The APNU label in general and the inordinate influence of Black Pudding Man and Neanderthal-type politics in particular were why so many from their traditional base moved over to Sanction Man’s blue team!!
Nowadays, no one wants to hear the convoluted, confounded nonsense that the dinosaurs from the WPA spout. Their rhetoric comes from a time and place that’s completely irrelevant to the world the present voters in Guyana live in!! They see opportunities abounding all around them. The second thing Norton should do then would be to announce with gusto that the PNC’s totally committed to having those who support them get rich by exploiting the opportunities in the new economy!!
No more of the blame game and victim mentality politics of Black Pudding Man and his ilk!!
It’s then gonna be a whole new ball game!!

…and FDIs
Ever since colonial times, we were convinced we needed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to “develop”. Money made the world go round, and we didn’t have any money. We had resources, we boasted, so we needed money to extract and develop them to bring in money and higher standards of living. Our own Caribbean Nobel Prize-winning economist Arthur Lewis pushed the idea.
Burnham, however, had his own ideas – or rather the ideas he cogged from Uganda’s Nyerere’s “Ujamaa Socialism”. FDI would “recolonise” us!! Burnham thought he was clever to’ve just changed the name to “cooperative socialism” to make it “original”!! Anyhow, we know that folly collapsed ignominiously. His successor Hoyte dumped the co-op idea and tried to attract FDIs. He didn’t do too well, and it took the PPP 23 years to get things back on an even keel. So with the PPP back in the saddle and oil revenues pouring in, whither FDI??
Since money comes to money, it’s beating a path to our doors on its own!!

…of riggers
The rigging combine on trial for their 2020 attempt to keep the PNC in power are using every artifice – and then some – to delay judgement. Absent and ill lawyers and unwell defendants are only some of the ploys!!