Yes, there ain’t no PNC “Camp” – it’s now been converted into a bunker, as the bedraggled troops of Burnham – such as they are – desperately scramble for survival. Remember Hitler and the remnants of his Third Reich as the Russians advanced from the east and the Allies from the west?? With defeat staring them in the face, it was every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost!! Some underlings even went to Britain to try to cut deals!!
And so it’s turning out in Guyana, as the PPP continues its political blitzkrieg along all fronts – economic, political, social, cultural etc. – against the leaderless and moribund PNC. Unlike Hitler – who tried to mass his troops till the (bitter) end – PNC leader Granger immediately retreated to his bunker at Pearl after his rigging gambit – and hasn’t been seen or heard from apart from one comment during the LGE!! The 2021 leadership elections threw up a leader – but he was just supposed to be a utensil!! When he balked, they undermined him and the PPP moved in to fill the leadership vacuum!! The rump PNC can expect at least another 23 years of wandering in the political wilderness staring at them in the face.
Not surprisingly, there’s much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth – not to mention stentorian lamentations! – about what’s gonna be the fate of the PNC.
In politics, if your following are trooping across to your opponents’ banner, there’s no tomorrow for you. There’s the object lesson of other parties that once had tens of thousands of followers who’ve now collapsed into black holes from which nothing emerges – even radiation!! AFC anyone??
But you’ve got to give it to the new PNC leader – he’s at least trying to have a go at putting together their Humpty-Dumpty party back again after its great fall. There’s gonna be a PNC Congress by this December, and we see the various factions floating their candidates whom they think would be able to stop the PPP juggernaut. In a sense, what we’re seeing is an attempt to raise the dead in 2023, years after the first and only successful attempt!!
And as you may suspect, it ain’t gonna be easy getting that Congress scheduled! As the then comparatively uncharismatic Desmond Hoyte showed – he who controls the party’s bureaucracy can call the shots, even against hugely popular opponents!! Look at what he did to Hamilton Green!! Kicked out the man whom everyone and their uncle in the PNC thought was gonna be Burnham’s successor.
So, this being the PNC, the smart money’s on whichever candidate they figure controls the Accreditation Committee. They decide who gets to represent their group at Congress – and so ultimately will call the shots, since rigging’s a given!!
So, the PNC still ain’t getting no female leader??!!
…with domestic violence
Your Eyewitness lifts up his hands to the skies (Heaven?) as he echoes John King, “How many more, Jah?” The opening lyrics went, “Rose up early this morning/ To the sounds of crying/ Another mother shedding her tears”. While King was bemoaning the police killing sons, he could as well be singing about all the mothers and other women who’re shedding tears every single day with the violence being meted out to them.
Defeat isn’t implicit in the lines, “Heavenly father, won’t you hear my plea?/ Send a helping hand for this country/ In man, there’s no solution/ (How must we carry this load?). It’s just that the pattern seems to be so deeply imprinted in the men who batter the females in their lives that drastic interventions are necessary. Is it, “Too many big shots with too much connections/ Too many loopholes in Babylon system”?
Maybe bringing back the cat-o-nine tails might work?
…on seafood
There’s a lot of handwringing about us importing seafood because of “disappearing” fish stocks. But have we noticed how much we EXPORTED in seafood last year?
Is it a supply or regulatory problem?
