Threat …from the Venezs

The Venezs became too slick for their own good when – after questioning the jurisdiction of the World Court to deal with the controversy they provoked on our western border – they proposed the Brits gotta be a party to the case in front of the same Court!! Now, they can’t have it both ways, can they?? If they’d won their point, Britain would’ve had to belly up to the bar at The Hague!! But now that they’ve lost, they can’t very well insist that the Court has no jurisdiction, can they??
In for a penny, in for a pound!! And even though the pound ain’t doing so well nowadays, it certainly carries more weight that those Bolivars Venezuelans use to wipe their behinds!! Now, some folks might be wondering why Maduro and company wanted to rope in the Brits. It’s rather elementary – if you’ve been following the thought process of our bellicose western neighbour!! You see…when the Border was originally arbitrated, the tension between the Brits and their erstwhile American ex-colony had been somewhat elevated. The reasons oughtn’t detain us today. But the moment they lost, the Venezs always blamed “perfidious Albion”!!
And they played to the sentiments of the then greater part of the world that was under Imperial rule, that they were being taken advantage of by the big, bad British Lion!! And boy, did they again play this “poor bullied us” card from the moment the Yanks again entered the picture, when the Brits were about to grant us Independence around 1962!! Convinced that Jagan was a Commie, the Yanks under JFK didn’t have to do much to convince the Venezs to create the controversy on the canard that the 1899 Arbitral Award was flawed for fraud!!
In parting, however, before granting us Independence under the connivance with the PNC of Burnham, the Brits made the latter sign onto the Geneva Agreement. So, the Maduro Administration would like to again use the Brits as a whipping boy, especially since the Yanks have him in their sights!! Anyhow, the World Court just weighed in with their decision, whether the Brits are an indispensable party to Guyana’s claim. And they’ve unanimously declared “NO WAY, JOSE!!!” Which, of course, infuriated Maduro even further, since his first name ain’t “Jose” but “Nicolas”!!
So, what does this mean for us?? Well, for starters, it signals to Maduro that the decision on the substantive matter – which is about the Geneva Accord, since the 1899 Award is “full and final” – is gonna be for us!! So, what is Maduro gonna do?? Some folks think he might invade. Your Eyewitness doesn’t think so. He’s already making gooey eyes at the Yanks to remove their sanctions!!
He gotta go along!!

…the Opposition
Now, before your Eyewitness can consider this critical matter, he gotta first address his mind to who exactly are the “Opposition”!! After all, even before they were bounced out of office in 2015, the APNU/AFC coalition – now the “Opposition” – had fissioned like those atomic bombs dropped over Nagasaki!! “APNU” had seen JFAP and WPA dump them, cause they didn’t like being measured for orange jumpsuits – after Mingo’s rigging attempt!!
David “Sanctimonious Gangster” Granger, however, had two scions of the JFAP and WPA instantaneously conjured up – Abracadabra!!- two new parties, and made them full-fledged members!! So, what about the rump WPA?? Are they part of the Opposition?? Then there’s the AFC. They’ve parted ways as per the pre-nup they’d signed. And they won’t be contesting the LGE.
So, from where your Eyewitness sits, he thinks that the old adage – a house divided gotta fall! – is playing out. So, all the huffing and puffing from one of the old coalition members is just adding to global warming!!

…new economy
While we laboriously clear, plough and plant – and hopefully reap – soya and sweet corn in our Intermediate Savannahs – let’s keep an eye on the Masters of the Universe from Wall Street. They actually set prices via “futures?!!-