Whatever happened to…

…Honesty, Integrity and Decency?
David Granger ran on the APNU/AFC’s 2015 ticket as the man with “Honesty, Integrity and Decency”!! Imagine that!! “Honesty” – as not prone to telling lies?? Integrity and Decency as with having moral principles and uprightness and living in accordance with them? After five years of watching him in action, your Eyewitness can only conclude that Granger has to be the biggest hypocrite in Guyana for trying to fob that off on his poor, gullible supporters.
We don’t have to go far back to check out his claims to HID. We can take the advice of Julie Andrews and start from the very beginning – which is always a good place to start!! And that’s his coalition with the AFC, isn’t it?? After all, he saw in 2011, even with the very best organisational efforts of his old squaddies, he just couldn’t get out enough votes to pip the PPP. He needed more bodies to throw at the PPP to capture that hill. And the AFC fit the bill.
He sealed the deal with the Cummingsburg Accord – signed symbolically on Valentine’s Day!! But this was no romantic nuptial, was it – even though the attention-starved Moses Nagamootoo certainly lapped it up!! The AFC kept their promise and Granger became President. But where was the Honesty, Integrity and Decency when he told Nagamootoo, “Oops!! I forgot when I promised you to sit at my right hand and chair Cabinet meetings, that the Constitution doesn’t allow that!!” Sure!! And if you need to buy a pontoon bridge, your Eyewitness has one at Schoonord!!
As an inducement to get Ramjattan to sign along the dotted line in the pre-nup, Granger had backtracked on his promise to shutter sugar. He even launched a CoI with Clive Thomas at the head to plot a course for sugar. And they proposed that GuySuCo be stabilised for three years and then brought to a point of sale. No sooner had the Report been handed to him, Granger backflipped and unilaterally closed four sugar estates and threw 7000 workers into the streets!! So much for Honesty, Integrity and Decency!!
And we arrive at the most sensitive topic in Guyana – race. Granger had boasted that his alliance with the AFC had brought the first REAL multiracial coalition to office in Guyana. But apart from kicking multiracialism in the teeth with his actions to sugar workers, the man proceeded to land a few well-aimed kicks in its groin when he appointed 16 out of 17 Permanent Secretaries from one ethnicity!! Honesty, Integrity and Decency??
What makes Granger’s claims even more dangerous is that he took his leadership starved followers into the gutter.
Nasty!!

…K.I.S.S.?
Your Eyewitness must confess that his eyes start to glaze over nowadays whenever politics is taken into the courts. He also rolls his eyes, but that’s grist for another mill and another day. Back to the glazing of eyes. As a commentator on current affairs, why must he be subjected to all these Latinisms?? Please…did the learned GECOM Chair have to reach back into her legal days and inform us about nocitem a sociis?? Wasn’t “context” enough??
Your Eyewitness is upset that Ramjattan hasn’t been playing a role in all these excursions into the Courts. At least his earthy “haul yuh ass” resonated with ordinary folks like your Eyewitness. And it’s not only the Latinisms that’s destroying whatever certainties your Eyewitness had in this world – it’s the deconstruction of ordinary truisms like “2 is greater than 1” or “more votes than…” Derrida had nothing on these lawyers!!
Thank God for the PNC, though. They’re the one thing that hasn’t changed a whit over your Eyewitness’ lifetime.
Still lyin’ and cheatin’ their way through the world!!

 …mothers as fathers?
It’s not the politically correct thing to say on “Fathers’ day”. But isn’t it time to call out all those deadbeats who cause the book “My Mother who fathered me” to still be relevant 63 years later??