Category: Eyewitness

Linden Provocateurs The reports of four deaths in Linden resulting from the Police trying to restore order in the illegal blocking of the McKenzie bridge, are deeply regretted. Human life is sacred and should not be wasted. And this is what the Opposition organisers of the protest have done: wasted these lives. It is a tragedy that could have been avoided. We’ve been warning of the callous exploitation of the planned equalisation of the Linden electricity tariff from the beginning. And that beginning was when the AFC under the leadership…

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Like it is Sam Hinds is a national treasure. He’s been prime minister for almost 20 years – ever since free and fair elections returned to Guyana after a hard battle against the riggers in the PNC. But that’s not why he’s a national treasure. He’s earned that appellation because he’s willing to be his own man on one of the burning issues in Guyana –the question of African Guyanese empowerment. On this question he was even willing to disagree with Cheddi Jagan, the man who chose him as his…

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Pay off Raphael Trotman is Speaker of the Parliament courtesy of David Granger – make no bones about that! Trotman knows it and Granger knows it: the only person who’s not in the know seems to be Moses “Shut yuh-so-and-so mouth” Nagamootoo. You on the other hand, dear reader, would remember how the AFC and the APNU ganged up and denied the Speaker’s chair to Ralph Ramkarran – which centuries of tradition demanded was his to refuse. The AFC proposed Nagamootoo and the APNU, Debbie Backer, to fill the critical…

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Rushing Ralph It was not unexpected. The AFC are in hot pursuit of Ramkarran now that he’s resigned from the PPP. But we’re still taken aback by the hypocrisy of their pleadings. Take Moses “shut-yuh-so-and-so-mouth” Nagamootoo. This is a fella who was bested by Ramkarran at every step of the way in the PPP – but burned with jealousy and dedicated his entire PPP life to ensure that if he didn’t get the Presidency, neither would Ramkarran. This attitude was so ingrained that it was pathological. Nagamootoo talks about “legacy”.…

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Lincoln the Lout One thing you can say about Lincoln the Lout: he can sure get his helpmate to churn out those mind-numbing letters to the press. We heard that said helpmate is MA Bacchus, who ever so often, wades in, in her own right. Now that’s service above and beyond the call of duty! But the duo seems to have lost the plot in their interminable ramblings. In matters constitutional they are oblivious to the reality that what the Constitution says and what it possibly ought to say, are…

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Throw the rascals out The good citizens of Georgetown deserve better. The citizens of all Guyana deserve better. After all, this is our capital city, isn’t it? We’ve all seen Georgetown gradually sink into the “caddy and mud” from which it had been laboriously carved out – 200 years ago. Let’s not even mention that it had once earned the sobriquet “Garden City” – visitors might end up with such stitches from laughing, they might collapse.  That we have had the same mayor at City Hall since 1994 – Hamilton…

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Caribbean debt The bad news first. Standard and Poor (S&P) the Wall Street credit rating agency recently issued a report on the Caribbean – “Caribbean Debt Is On The Rise”. It’s not nice to gloat when others are in trouble – especially when the others are supposed to be “family”. But we have to point out that Guyana is not part of the “Caribbean” that is rated or analysed by S&P. That’s not gloating, is it? But we would be failing in our duty if we didn’t note the licks…

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Cricket migration We all know that North America is Guyana’s Region 11. It’s also a parish of Jamaica, Barbados, and every other Caricom territory. So, we have a big diaspora population over there. But we have to remember that those West Indians are over there because of horrible economic conditions in the old days. So when Wesley takes the Caricom governments to task because they didn’t cough up US$20,000 to host a reception of the New Zealand 20/20 team, we wondered what exactly is he smoking. The question we first…

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Foot-in-mouth disease Now foot-and-mouth disease is a serious thing. It’s a fatal disease. Our Rupununi once had the problem. But there’s another similar sounding disease that affects politicians – “foot-in-mouth” disease. The AFC/APNU appointed Speaker Trotman seems to have a severe case of the latter disease: he just can’t seem to stop mouthing off. Most recently, he called for the CJIA contract to be investigated by Parliament. Have you ever heard of such a thing? More importantly, has Westminster – on which our Parliament and the position of speaker is…

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Assembly power grab After the Chinese Communist Party official Zhang Gaoli and his delegation visited the president, they paid a courtesy call on the National Assembly represented by Speaker Trotman and members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Assembly (FRC). Little did the Chinese visitors realise they were firing up old embers of PNC party paramountcy lurking in the little dark hearts of the opposition’s  Little Caesars in the assembly. We’ve already seen the overweening ambition in action as the opposition used their one-seat majority to railroad their…

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