Category: Eyewitness

Losing it Nigel Hughes fooled himself he was big and bad. In the courtroom, he would browbeat poor witnesses who obviously didn’t have his knowledge of the arcane legal matters he would raise. Well on Thursday, he met his match – and then some. In a repeat performance in the Linden CoI, he tried to ‘rumble’ against Senior Superintendent Hicken – a fellow second only to Rohee on Hughes’ “hate list”. By now it’s become obvious that “truth” as to what led to the death of the Linden Three is…

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Oppose and depose It’s when a rat’s cornered, it’s most dangerous. It’ll strike at anything in its frustration. It’s the same with political parties. The recent ignominious humiliations inflicted on the opposition AFC hit them where it hurts most – loss of credibility with their constituents. Expect them to hit back soon – and viciously. Completely unconcerned about the damage to the society and relations between the people of this country. When hit by APNU’s re-capture of the votes they’d filched in 2006, they were quiet and bided their time.…

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Tell a lie long enough… It was Hitler who first talked about the potential of the “Big Lie”. Tell a stupendous whopper and people won’t dare think anyone would be so “barefaced” to lie on such a scale. Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbels was to later refine the technique: “tell a lie so often, eventually everyone ends up thinking it’s the truth”. Mark Archer, the ‘communications officer’ of APNU served under David Granger in the GDF – notice the military-style designation? Granger’ responsibility was indoctrinating GDF officers into swearing personal fealty…

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Opposition media The rationale for the government to have its own media has always been that the private media wouldn’t cover its activities. Not “sexy” enough. But the Stabber and the Muckraker have shown there are other biases at work that have nothing to do with ‘politics is dull’. And everything to do with them being in the opposition’s pocket. Take this Sunday’s Stabber. Their headline blared “Politics, poor training lead to police incompetence – Granger” and the article went on for two pages. A second (sub) headline complained “Gov’t,…

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Speaker Rafael Trotman had some seemingly placatory words for the three political parties that sit across the benches in the National Assembly. But when you look behind all the platitudes about “democracy” and “sacred trust”, what you butt up against is just another ploy to strip power from the elected PPP government of the day. Trotman declared he wants “the National Assembly… (to) be the central hub from which democracy radiates outwards.” For ‘democracy’ read ‘power’ and you’ll see where he’s coming from. Ever since the opposition got their one-seat…

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One of the problems with the present crop of lawyers is their very cobbled and cribbed exposure to concepts outside a most narrowly definition of ‘law’. Take the resuscitated case where Freddie Kissoon accuses former President Jagdeo of ‘ideological racism’. From the onset the president’s lawyer (the attorney general) should have interrogated Kissoon’s usage of the term ‘ideological racism’. And he could have shown that the president – under Kissoon’s definition – could have absolutely no responsibility, even if any racist acts could have been shown. Finally it took Kissoon’s…

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Passing the buck Chandradass Persaud is part of the AFC Berbice leadership. Like Nagamootoo, he’s a latecomer to the bar. Big men sitting with kids in “Lil ABC”. He’s the fella who sued some lady for slapping him at a cultural event. No gentleman this! Typical hick behaviour. Anyhow, Chandradass has joined the frenetic attempts of one faction of the AFC to distance themselves from the Agricola violence, which rained down on thousands of poor and helpless schoolchildren during their “protests”. Which faction? Not the one headed by Nigel Hughes,…

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Outrage Lincoln Lewis is outraged that President Ramotar referred to the dears who blocked the road at Agricola as “thugs”. The fellows had only tossed burning tyres and logs on the highway, trapping thousands of hapless and helpless commuters and schoolchildren for five hours in their vehicles. They’d only kicked and pummelled policemen as they brandished cutlasses and clubs. They’d only robbed and assaulted numerous men, women, and children who were forced to trek back in darkness to the Stabroek Market Stelling – where their cohorts picked up from where…

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Tragedy and farce Marx complained that sometimes history repeats itself: first as tragedy and then as farce. The Linden tragedy is being replayed before the CoI – and what a farce it’s turning out to be. Not a “ha! Ha!” farce – but a charade and travesty that exposes the Machiavellian mindset behind the Linden tragedy. Sharma Solomon, the wannabe-warlord of Region 10 was exposed for the manipulator he is – as far as the law and the lives of those who see him as their leader. It was another…

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Lies On Monday, September 24, Hughes, attorney for the three men shot during the Linden protests – but more pertinently the chairman and would be presidential candidate for the AFC – said: “We are specifically alleging that in the 45 minutes immediately preceding the shooting there was at least one telephone call from the minister to Officer Hicken.” He made this bold and unequivocal assertion during his cross-examination of acting Commissioner Leroy Brumell. The phone records just produced by the telephone company, however, shows that Hughes was lying in his…

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