…after the recount?
Like most Guyanese, your Eyewitness doesn’t wake up any longer thinking “today’s the day!”. The “day”, that is, when we’ll get to know when the recount will start. And that in itself tells you a lot of what’s happened since March 4, when the Reg 4 SoPs were Mingoed. Tells you that folks aren’t even EXPECTING a result any time in the near future. They’ll be satisfied right now just to hear when the Caricom team MIGHT be coming in to start the recount! Lowered expectations.
But even though in our everyday life we might be forced to live “one day at a time” in this age of COVID-19, we still ought to spare a thought as to what might lie ahead – if and when we ever get past this recount. Both the PPP and the PNC have said they won the election, but we know that there can only be one winner when we’re counting votes. Just like when we’re counting noses!!
In your Eyewitness’ (humble) opinion, the PPP have presented a better case for its argument. With their SoPs from across the country plastered across their website for almost two months now, no one – including the PNC – has been able to prove that any of them have been altered to favour them. Some have shown some minor errors – for instance, regional totals inserted in the national totals – but these are insignificant. After the Mingoing, however, outsiders were able to show that numbers on the second batch of SoPs were all altered to give the PNC more votes. In one instance, if the PNC were to be believed, more people voted for them in a Soesdyke constituency that were registered!! Res ipsa loquitur – the thing speaks for itself!!
The PNC, however, – while not conceding that Mingo did the dirty with the Reg 4 SoPs – implicitly lend credence to the PPP’s assertion, by counterclaiming that the PPP did some jiggery pokery in some of the regions that predominate. The argument being “do fuh do na obeah”! So, what happens after a recount? Well, one certainty is the PNC ain’t gonna accept any result that has them losing. They haven’t defied the entire free world, to meekly cave in after a mere counting up of ballots! No siree, Bob!!
T&T’s PM, Keith Rowley, who’s been around the Caricom block and then some, has assured us that “this thing (the recount) isn’t going to end well”. What does he mean??
We just have to look what the PNC did after every election they lost in the modern era after their decades of rigging – 1992, 1997, 2001, and 2006.
They’ll riot and burn Georgetown down. Forewarned is forearmed??
…for Gayle??
Who woulda thought Guyanese politics could spill over to cricket all the way in Jamaica? If there’s one thing we’re united in – not just we Guyanese, but all West Indians – is our cricket. Especially T-20 Cricket, which is essentially is the way we always played cricket. It’s OUR thing. So’ your Eyewitness, being the cricket tragic he is, is really mortified over the accusations made by Chris Gayle, about the Tallawahs management and especially his former teammate, Ramnaresh Sarwan.
Gayle’s always been a great favourite of his with his swashbuckling style and oversized image – but who delivered. Now that he’s approaching the end of his career, it doesn’t redound to his legacy to leave in such a bitter atmosphere. Whether the facts are as alleged or not, this was not the way to express his feelings.
For us in the West Indies, to use a cliché which makes it no less true, “cricket is not just a game”.
Your Eyewitness hopes that good sense will prevail and the parties will shake hands. “In the middle”!
…on COVID-19
With the experience of other cities like NYC, news that Georgetown has become an epicentre of the pandemic isn’t necessarily reason for panicking.
The NCTF just has to tighten the enforcement of the lockdown rules.
