Everyone knows Prezzie’s a cricket tragic – a fella who’s besotted with the game and not just a fan who follows players. Didn’t he just take time out from his extraordinarily hectic domestic and international political schedule to weigh in on what he thinks ought to be the future of WI Cricket?? Wearing his Caricom Chairman’s hat at the opening ceremony of the Caricom Regional Cricket Conference, Pres Ali revealed he’s working with the West Indies Cricket Board, CPL and the ICC, to develop a new cricket product for the region – the World Premier League!!
With a deep cricket knowledge going back to his childhood in Leguan, Prezzie had to’ve known he was bowling a political googly at the PNC when he made that seemingly impromptu walkabout in Brooklyn!! A googly, or “wrong’un”, is a delivery which looks like a normal leg-break but actually turns towards the batsmen, like an off-break, rather than away from the bat. Unlike a normal leg-break, a googly’s delivered out of the back of the hand, with the wrist flat to the ground. The batsman literally doesn’t know where the ball’s coming from!!
Considered as their stomping grounds ‘cause most Afro-Guyanese gravitated – and still gravitate – there when they go to the Big Apple, the PNC and their flunkies never expected that Ali would receive the kind of reception that he did!! Hadn’t they mobilised in the Churches and streets for the last decade with intensifying gusto to support the cause “back home” – to oust the “illegally-installed PPP regime”?? Yet Brooklyn dropped into the President’s hands like an overripe Buxton Spice mango that just needed a slight shake to make it fall!!
But the tsunamic effects of Prezzie’s unassuming and human connection – which showed he was dealing with folks as GUYANESE rather than pawns of ethnic politics – are still reverberating in the homeland – to the chagrin of the PNC. And it’s all because their toadies just don’t know when to stop!! Rather than pretend that nothing happened to their support in foreign, the Brooklyn PNC Brigade launched a BOYCOTT of the businesses that welcomed the gregarious President of their country!!
Can you believe that?? Well, a heck of folks who’re either IN the PNC or favourable to them still can’t get over the hubris that assumes ALL Afro-Guyanese must HATE the Head of State!! Most significantly, one of the more visible rising stars who’s been a fierce critic of the PPP in the PAC took to the letters column to declare: “Boycotting Guyanese businesses – “we own” people – in a foreign land is just plain stupid. How is that going to achieve anything good?”
The PNC just couldn’t read Prezzie’s googly!!
…on the CPU
Who woulda thought that an esoteric thing – to most voters – like a computer CPU would become a cause célèbre in the increasingly heated contest for the PNC leadership? Poor PNC members and supporters – and your Eyewitness! – have been hitting their Google search button to find out what it’s all about. And he’s told that “The CPU’s also known as the “processor” and provides the instructions and processing power the computer needs to do its work.”
Now when your Eyewitness heard that the PNC computer with the names of the delegates to the Aug Congress to vote on who’s gonna be leading the troops in the 2025 war…oops! – elections! – he thought that someone was fiddling with the members’ names stored on the hard drive. Like how Burnham had fiddled with the names on the voters’ list for years!!
But to mess with the CPU means someone in authority might actually be reprogramming the computer itself to produce “fixed” voting results at Congress!!
Like gaming voting machines!!
…with blackouts
Some might be wondering why Russia is concentrating on taking out Ukraine’s power-generating sites. Well, the Ruskies see blackouts as a war tactic – to make the frustrated citizens reject Zelenskiy’s Government.
And in Guyana?? Are blackouts sabotage??
