If a patient loses blood for any reason – cutlass chops, surgical incisions, injuries, internal bleeding, whatever – we all know they gotta get a transfusion of blood if there’s any hope of surviving. Well, the PNC’s bled quite profusely in the leadup to Nomination Day – with so many big wigs departing – yet leader Norton says the party wasn’t affected any!! “Our party structure is intact, our party base is intact, that is not to say one or two persons might not, but there will be no negative impact on the party. I don’t want to get into specifics but I don’t believe any of them can pull three votes,” he said.
Was he whistling in the dark – or was he burying his head in the sand like a proverbial ostrich – with his behind in the air?? Contrary to his bravado, however, he himself went out beating the bush and brought back three mid-level recruits from the ailing AFC – one of whom he had to play his biggest card to make her his PM Candidate!! The test, of course, would’ve been if he could’ve bled the PPP (who he said had to be weak if they needed bodies from the PNC!!) even a bit and snag some worthies from them!! That DIDN’T happen so he’s had to make do with the old faithful who stuck with him. At the Rally in Melanie last week, your Eyewitness saw Hamilton Green and Basil Williams – and he wondered if either of them could pull three votes!!
Juretha’s claim to fame was supposed to be her Bartician and Amerindian roots – but in her first foray to a PNC meeting on her native hunting grounds she clearly flopped. And it wasn’t as if she hadn’t beaten the drums to let folks know she was “home” – she’d gone on a house-to-house walkabout to invite them!! Clearly her decision to hook up with the PNC had damaged her “brand”. She hadn’t learnt anything from Ramjhaat!!
But even though your Eyewitness has already mentioned one new face that intrigued him – retd Dep Com Paul Williams – he does believe the fella deserves a closer look. He came out of two closets!! Firstly, in the Police his ENTIRE adult life, the man announced he couldn’t wait to get out to “provide leadership in the PNC”!! So, now we know why he used HIS time and THE FORCE’S money to pile up all those degrees!! And he’s surprised the PPP didn’t make him COP??
Secondly, he boasted being from “the ghetto’ (of BV??!!) and took time to tell present-day Scrapes he didn’t like their name!! Cause the police “allows” them to create mayhem – just to call them “Scrapes”!!
…with this loud music
Your Eyewitness is quite miffed he hasn’t seen any of the parties coming out with a position on what he considers to be the most important issue in front – and in fact all around – us: LOUD MUSIC!! Now your Eyewitness likes his music as much as the next fella – but Jeez!! – he likes his eardrums and sanity even more!! He used to be bombarded in the buses he’d travelled in, but since, like most Guyanese, he’s graduated to a car, it doesn’t bother him no mo’. Not that it ain’t bothering others!!
And he now has to put up with being bombarded in his house – which he once naively thought was his castle – at all sorts of unholy hours after midnight from portable sound systems in cars!! So yes!! If any of the parties were to promise they’ll get rid of this hellish cacophony assaulting his ears, they’ll be getting his “X” come Sept 1st!!
WIN, of course, is excused since their position is “We know nothing”!!
…with Rowley??
Former T&T PM Keith Rowley on an Interpol Watch List?? Seems he was detained in Antigua and blames his successor, Kamla for ratting him out!! Maybe our Sanctimonious Gangster who he’d warned, “It wouldn’t end well”??
