Category: Eyewitness

…against crime Somehow, crime-fighting Ramjattan’s innovations haven’t gotten enough attention on the campaign trail – even though crime reduction remains right up there on every single citizen-as-voter’s bucket list. Ramjattan’s baby was the “2am bar curfew”. It’s said this came out of his personal experience as a bar hopper – along with Moses Nagamootoo – with decades of practice under his (slackened) belt!! Was regularly mugged as he crawled his way home in the wee hours of the morning?!! Then there were his suggestions to supplement the reach of the…

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…shall be the PNC’s cry The PNC held its rally at the Leonora Track and Field Stadium in Region 3 last Friday night. Since in 2015, the PNC-led coalition received a literal handful of votes from Leonora – a die-hard PPP constituency – a whole lot of bussing-in had to take place to present a decent audience for the cameras. But we couldn’t expect the Chronic to show us a pic of the parking lot with more busses than Big [KM1]Market Square on a Friday afternoon at 4 pm, could…

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…to arms You gotta hand it to PNC Chairwoman Volda Lawrence. She doesn’t mince words when it comes to staking out ground for the PNC. With an unemployment rate that keeps heading north, who’s gonna get jobs in the public sector – the biggest employer in the land?? Well, duh!! “The only friends I got is PNC so the only people I gon give wuk to is PNC”!!! And, of course, there’s her latest candid call for a “nightshift” of strong young men to come out on election night to…

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…for Guyana On the cusp of an election that from all the signs –- barring the PNC getting away with their rigging by the “nightshift” – the PPP/C will win, Opposition Leader Jagdeo sought to reassure the nation that their government won’t go down any road of “witch hunting and triumphalism”. What he was saying, of course, is that the PPP/C won’t repeat the actions of the PNC-led coalition Government – which made the witch-hunting of Salem look like playing a game of tag in the schoolyard!! Now your Eyewitness…

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…heats up Well, we’re just a tad over a month away from what’s being billed as “the mother of all elections” in the history of Guyana. Is this because it’ll be the biggest turnout ever? But Granger’s been calling for an 80 per cent turnout…so that means he’s expecting it to be lower than that. What to do?? He knows if there’s a low turnout, it would mean he and the PNC are in some serious trouble. Traditionally, it’s his PNC constituency that has proven to be reluctant to come…

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…is Granger’s consent Unlike David Granger, PNC’s Chairwoman, Volda Lawrence, came through the party’s ranks— more specifically, the Georgetown PNC ranks. While Granger boasted of being a “member” of the PNC since the sixties, he was a key cog in another of the triumvirate institutions on which the Burnhamite dictatorship was built – the Armed Forces. The third leg, of course, was the Public Service, which Burnham straightened out during stints at Hope Coconut Estate!! Volda Lawrence isn’t called “Vulga” Lawrence just because her name is easily corruptible to that…

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…racial slurs The ERC was established to deal with “racial” matters in Guyana…which, most would concede is vitally necessary since “race” or “ethnicity” permeates every social interaction in our dear old mudland. Notwithstanding political correctness’ insistence that we REALLY don’t have a “race” problem and it’s only during the elections “silly season” that matters rise to the top. Like butter after churning milk! Save that what’s churned in Guyana is anything but the milk of human kindness!!!! But for whatever reason, the organisation hasn’t made much of an impact to…

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bad penny… …Nagamootoo keeps showing up One of the persons who stuck out like a sore thumb on Nomination Day to your Eyewitness was Moses Nagamootoo. What exactly is his role going forward in the PNC-led coalition? Shouldn’t that role be determined by the AFC which brought him to the dance to begin with?? Well, that party resoundingly rejected him as the nominee for the coalition’s PM slot and, instead, chose Khemraj Ramjattan. He then asserted he was not competing for any position in the party. So, who exactly who…

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…and the PNC While the incident might appear small, it has great significance in what it reveals about the fundamental nature of the PNC, which has unfortunately remained true since the 1960s. Knowing that it’s been the tradition in Guyana for parties to register on Nomination Day on a “first come, first served” basis, three small parties camped out in front of the Umana Yana overnight, to ensure they wouldn’t be lost in the circus to come later in the day. But as was plaintively recorded by a member of…

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…rampant with PNC Old people say, “Once dog suck egg, deh cyan stap!” It’s too sweet, never mind it’s someone else’s egg!! And in their first incarnation, the PNC sucked the “eggs” of the public purse so voraciously that one wondered why their supporters took them seriously when they made “egg sucking” their major attack against the PPP. We now know they were merely projecting their own fantasies about getting their grubby (not-so-little) paws on the treasury! Every single case of corruption they brought against PPP officials /associates has been…

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