Category: Eyewitness

…for trade unions? It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world!! Not many today will remember that classic comedy caper from the 60s, where a bunch of strangers learn of buried loot and each try to find it for themselves. It was quite a gas!! And it would be same for the PNC’s efforts over the decades to earn some goodwill over the Enmore Martyrs, after they did – and continue to do – everything in their powers to destroy sugar workers. By 1976, having rigged the 1973 General Elections to…

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…at UG Why isn’t your Eyewitness surprised that UG’s Vice Chancellor, Ivelaw Griffith, has proposed that the Council that oversees his administration of the tertiary institution be drastically reduced in numbers? Well…just that every single action the bow-tied wonder has undertaken at UG since he was catapulted into his position was to promote his accumulation of power! For starters, even before he had time to settle down, the old YSM biggie was awarded a Cacique Crown of Honour!! But then, he’d just made the Army Officer’s training module a UG…

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…“Dotard” meets “Rocket Man” If you thought it rather juvenile of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un to be trading schoolyard name-calling, you’ve got to admit they finally ended up meeting in Singapore without actually sticking their tongues out at each other!! Maybe they got their hostilities out of the way with their infantile antics? Jagdeo’s been known for his acerbic assessments of opponents….maybe Granger needs to let his hair down and let ‘er rip over this GECOM business? Like your Eyewitness said, Kim Jong-Un’s already won the game. As a…

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…PPP officials The DPP’s supposed to review all cases the Police – or in this case SOCU – wants to prosecute. In the case of long-trumpeted accusations by the PNC/APNU and AFC of the PPP government “siphoning off billions and billions”, it took them over two years after their “forensic” audits of dozens of agencies to bring charges against two PPP Administration officials – Brassington, CEO of NICIL and Singh, Minister of Finance. And what charges!! It was as if the mountain strained – and produced a mouse!! Criminal “Misconduct…

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…who we are Your Eyewitness is pleased as punch that Guyana’s first Gay Pride Parade came off without any confrontation between the LGBT marchers and the Neanderthal Tribe that evidently still survives in Guyana!! Islam takes about the hardest line based on some of the same passages that are cited by the Neanderthals, yet Pakistan, as staunch a Muslim country as could be and created as the land of the “pure” – along with India and Bangladesh, created a “third” gender category to accommodate folks who just don’t fit in…

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…or neutralising the Public Service? Your Eyewitness is beginning to see a method to the presumed madness of President Granger painting State House with that lurid PNC green. Yes! Yes, we know he wanted to mark the building with a distinctive sign, to claim ownership against other challengers — territorial claim and all that; and it was better than him peeing on the sides!! But there are clearly other uses. Have you noticed, dear reader, that whenever Granger is at odds with a group or wants to court a group’s…

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…of power There are some who claim that Granger, the present leader of the PNC, doesn’t have an ideology like his mentor, Forbes Burnham. They couldn’t be further from the truth!! The question that arises is: “What was Burnham’s ideology?” That is, the body of ideas that both “explained” the world and simultaneously guided him in negotiating that world. The short answer is Burnham’s ideology was encapsulated in one word – ‘power’. There are, running around, some who’ll want you to believe that Burnham’s ideology was “socialism”, or Marxism, or…

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…with the Ming Swing Even with all the criticisms of the illegal, sole-sourced design for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) – for both procedural and substantive reasons – the PNC-led Government, as usual, are plunging straight ahead. And, if their attitude’s anything to go by, the Devil should take the hindmost – which includes, obviously, those Guyanese who’ve expressed doubts about the project design! The bids from the 11 mostly Chinese bidders will now be evaluated by this month-end, and three will be shortlisted. Even this procedure is highly…

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…AFC’s keep The leaders of the AFC have moved from the risible to the ridiculous. Khemraj Ramjattan wants “constitutional” change – as promised since he hitched up with Trotman – AND he wants to give a statutory imprimatur to the common law criminal charge of “seditious libel”??!! God help us all on this benighted speck of real estate on South America!! Has the fellow ever heard of “incommensurable paradigms”?? That’s what “constitutionalism” and “seditious libel” constitute. The latter arises from the days of the absolute Monarchy, when the rule was:…

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…Security reaction to water-bandits Crime’s always been around – including violent crime. But in the first decade of this millennium, it took a whole new dimension with the entry of armed criminal gangs. Mass killings became routine. The denouement came in early 2008, when the Lusignan Massacre took 13 lives; the Bartica Massacre took 15. But Guyanese demanded action to stop Guyanese lives from being snuffed out by criminal gangs which had absolutely no regard for human lives. Within months, the PPP govt-directed Joint Forces had tracked down the killer…

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