The wages…of (anti-PPP) protests 

Your Eyewitness returns to APNU and WPA’s Black Pudding Man’s call for “revolution” against the PPP Government for legal evictions by the owner of private lands at Friendship on EBD!! Now this fella’s been around the block and then some when it comes to protests against the PPP. Invariably it comes down to inflicting violence against those who’re considered supporters of the PPP – and as Black Pudding Man insists, these are Indian Guyanese!! Violent protests in Guyana are always ethnically directed violence – against Indian Guyanese down the line!!
Now that’s a subject that should’ve received a lotta attention over the decades it’s been happening. But obviously nothing meaningful has been done about it since it keeps on happening with numbing regularity. In these matters there’s one thing those who unleash violence have in their minds – what’s the downside risk when they go after any group? They know since Black Friday 1962 to Scrapes seeking “justice” for Adrianna in 2024, Indians and their businesses are easy marks!!
The other thing is what the “protestors’” idea of the reaction of the Police and other upholders of law and order is gonna be to the mayhem they create. In Guyana, they know in most instances they’ll be treated with kid gloves. Didn’t one of Black Pudding Man’s cohorts actually dare the Government to send the Disciplined Forces against them rioting?? He predicted they’d never turn their guns on them!! Desmond Hoyte explicitly called the Disciplined Forces, “Kith and Kin”!!
And so protesters targeting Indian Guyanese have absolutely got to fear. Even if they’re arrested – as some were after the Mon Repos Anti-Indian Mayhem protesting Police excesses  – they know at best they’ll get a slap on the wrists. One person wrote that rather than punish these miscreants, they should be trained, given jobs, given food, the community should be counselled, etc!! Okay… then what?? What about that thing called “deterrence”?? Just like all work and no play make Jack a dull boy, all carrots and no stick make rioters into hard-core criminals!!
And now for the Indian Guyanese folks at the receiving end of the sticks at Mon Repos? Okay… They were compensated for their loss of goods – and for their stalls and cars, etc that were vandalised. But what about the trauma they had to go through?? “How much more time, Bhagwan?” they must be wailing. Who’s gonna compensate them and all those in the past and in the future for the uncertainty they face about their lives – for the rest of those lives?
But most of all, will the handful of Wild Men like Black Pudding Man not even get a slap on the wrist for stirring up hate among African Guyanese – which will be directed against Indian Guyanese??

…of new colonisation
We had four hundred years of colonisation by the West – never mind Gabriel Marquez’ “One hundred years of solitude”. We were never cut off from the tentacles of Western power through the myriad forms assumed – art, culture, language, politics, economics and so on. But in all those years, we in the south were never “settler colonies”. The bottom line was the British, for example, would live here for a while, crack their whips, but in the end return to Old Blighty to end their days.
Even when the Americans took over from the Brits – after they installed Burnham in power – they never descended on us like the proverbial swarm of locusts. And even before that, when they built our airport and stationed troops there during WWII, didn’t they get out before Sparrow could say, “Yankee Dollar Bill”?? Well, there’s a new coloniser in town – the Chinese. But unlike the West, they send in their folks to actually settle here.
How’d you deal with locusts??

…for Paul??
Remember that old saying, “Peter pays for Paul and Paul pays for all?” Well, it looks like in Guyana, Indian Guyanese are the incarnation of Paul, and they’re supposed to pay for whatever sins are cast their way.