…or regroup?
So, we have an agreement between the Caretaker President and the Opposition Leader that there’d be a full recount of the March 2 votes cast in all the regions by going into the individual ballot boxes. Or do we?? Word had just gotten out about the arrangement when the Government Commissioners of GECOM insisted the “COMMISSION hadn’t been OFFICIALLY informed about any such arrangement” … and in the end it is the Commission that will have to make the decision!!
They truculently lectured Granger on the requirements of the “the law” – as they saw it – on recounts. Since these worthies had been appointed by Granger to represent the interests of his government – were “creatures” of Granger to use Hoyte’s candid phrase – some conjectured we were witnessing a “hard line” faction of the PNC coming to the fore. “Forward ever; backward never!!” keeping power by any means necessary.
Your Eyewitness is neither fooled nor amused: Granger and these jokers are just trying out their “good cop, bad cop” routine! There’s no split or even a crack in the PNC. Don’t be fooled into thinking that as a soldier Granger was out of the PNC shenanigans. Granger himself confessed that he was always a PNC member – going back to 1965 when his career and the GDF were simultaneously launched by Burnham!!
He’d revealed that during an address to the 5th Biennial Conference of the PNCR’s North American Region in Atlanta, Georgia, back in Nov 2017. He didn’t realise the event was being streamed! But his other revelations are even more germane about what’s going down in front of our eyes.
“Whatever you will choose to discuss today and the weeks and months to come, I think there are several questions that you have to ask yourself as you look to the future. You have to ask yourself how did the PNC gain office in 1964. Ask yourself how did the PNC remain in office and what did it do during that period. Ask yourself how the PNC regained office in 2015 and ask yourself how would the PNC retain office after 2020.”
Well, we don’t need a soothsayer to explain what Granger meant!! The PNC got into power in ‘64 in coalition with a small party: so, did Granger in 2015. The PNC remained in office after that through rigging – and this is what Granger promised three years ago!! So that recount?? The PNC and Granger, its leader, are just regrouping for the next series of blatant manoeuvres to ensure the ballot boxes are “Mingoed”!!
Your Eyewitness repeats: Granger has nothing to lose. America’s not about to land troops here. And he figures he can ride out sanctions.
Never mind the country can’t!!
…is Mingoed
Your Eyewitness got permission to “hold the press” till the recount began before he completed this piece. So here it was, at just after 7pm, he sees the leader of the Opposition explaining on TV that the recount still hasn’t started!! Luckily, he hadn’t been holding his breath!! But he would’ve never guessed what stunt the PNC would pull (GECOM, PNC same difference!) to throw a spanner in the works.
The Ministry of Health – headed by (who else?) Volda Lawrence – ordered that the Convention Centre where the recount was to be conducted BE FUMIGATED for coronavirus!! Can you believe this?? Now this was no “disinfecting” like you have in airplanes that can kill some viruses. Naah, this was malathion that kills pests!!
Earlier in the day, he’d heard GECOM wouldn’t start unless Granger and Jagdeo sign their agreement!! Imagine that. The day before, they’d said they had to delay, because the decision to recount was a GECOM decision – and there could be no “side deals”.
And now they want a signed side deal!!
And the Mingoing continues!!
…the Caricom connection
Could Granger and the PNC be so contemptuous of Caricom and its leader Mia Mottley that they could diss them the way they have?
Or is it all a carefully orchestrated tango??