Taking…precautions

Your Eyewitness is writing this on Youman Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, which is (thankfully!!) a public holiday!! After all the bleary-eyed, late nights he’s spent following the campaign, he expected this woulda ended Monday after some of us trudged over to our friendly neighbourhood polling station to stain our index finger!! Yes, yes. We also placed an X opposite one of those six symbols to elect our representatives in Parliament – and not so incidentally, our president. Sadly, however, rather than your Eyewitness enjoying one of those “easy like Sunday morning” days Lionel Ritchie crooned about, he’s had to keep his eyes peeled and his ears cocked for news about how the recount the PNC demanded for a section of Reg 4 (East Coast Demerara) is going.
They also demanded a recount of Reg Five, and that will follow. Sanction Man’s WIN had demanded recounts of the entire Reg Four and also Reg Eight – but these were denied because – as usual – they didn’t follow GECOM’s mandatory procedures!! Some 101 Reg Four ballot boxes were recounted on the first day, and after working through the night, another 159 were completed – leaving 208 to go. This means that it’s quite unlikely that even with the quite industrious GECOM staff working through today’s holiday, they’ll complete matters before tonight. So, since there’s a vetting process that must then be satisfied before GECOM’s chair can issue a declaration, any swearing in of Irfaan Ali as president for a second term won’t happen till tomorrow at best!!
So what’s the count been revealing – and expected to reveal?? Well, even the usually circumlocuitous PNC-nominated GECOM Commissioner Alexander had to agree with a PPP-nominated Commissioner and concede at the end of Day one that there was no evidence uncovered to change the count materially!! Yesterday, your Eyewitness had questioned why Sanction Man’s WIN was questioning the counts – since everybody felt they’d achieved unparalleled success for a party that’s only an infant of 3 months!!
Well, we’re seeing playing out right before our eyes that there are two interconnected reasons. Sanction Man really thought he’d capture more than thirty-three seats and win the Presidency!! This woulda given him immunity from prosecution for the US$50M (GY$12 BILLION!!) the US claims he didn’t pay for taxes owed to the GRA on tonnes of gold exported!! And we ain’t even counting the taxes he cheated on the Lambo and Rolls!! So he – and his sisters – is riling up his Scrapes base, which we now know has broken off from supporting the PNC. He’d convinced them his “polls” had shown WIN winning – and them having access to all the oil money rolling in!!
Your Eyewitness calls for our protective forces to be on alert!! Be Prepared!!

…on Mad Maduro
With all the action going on in our always minefield-laden elections, we can be forgiven for not keeping our eyes as peeled as they could’ve been on what’s going on with the existential threat to our national existence from that madman to our west!! The US flotilla off Venezuelan waters assigned to take out the drug cartels just blew a boatload of eleven Tren de Aragua drug terrorists literally out of the water – along with their drugs!! While this might sound like a case of a mountain straining mightily only to produce a mouse – the incident is significant.
By declaring a “war on drugs” and defining drug smugglers as terrorists, the US will now be engaging them under the rules of war!! Meaning they can be shot on sight!! So since Mad Maduro Maduro was indicted in 2020 for partnering with the FARC to use cocaine as a weapon to “flood” the US, expect a Seal team to extract him – a la Noriega – for trial??

…an inspiration
As your Eyewitness said, yesterday was Youman Nabi – the Prophet of Islam, Muhammed’s birthday. Once again, we’re reminded of our religious toleration since we’ve just elected a Muslim President and Opposition Leader. And possibly a Muslim Speaker??