{"id":35991,"date":"2016-04-15T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/?p=35991"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:44:04","slug":"power-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/power-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Power hungry\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u2026AFC<\/h4>\n<h4>Old people do warn: \u201call smart fly does end up in cow backside\u201d. And when these smart flies get entangled with the stuff in that orifice, it\u2019s hell no hell to get out! Well it looks like the AFC and its \u201csmart flies\u201d are up to their neck in \u201centanglement\u201d with what one of their fervent supporters described as \u201cmiasmic substances\u201d.<\/h4>\n<h4>From the moment the spoils were divided up between APNU and AFC after the elections, this Eyewitness \u2013 and most AFC supporters \u2013 pointed out that notwithstanding what was in the Cummingsburg Accord, the AFC got \u201cLarwah\u201d. \u201cAbsolutely not!\u201d screamed PRIME Minister Nagamootoo\u2026 everything was shared fair and square and everyone \u2013 and he and party boss Ramjattan \u2013 were happy.<\/h4>\n<h4>But the Committee hurriedly cobbled together to \u201clook into\u201d the accusations of \u201cbad faith\u201d by APNU \u2013 headed by the then President of the Guyana Bar Association \u2013 was a tip-off somebody was lying through their teeth. However, as nothing came out of the \u201cinquiry\u201d and the AFC maintained they were satisfied with the status quo, what were outsiders to do? It\u2019s like the abused wife refusing to testify against the abusive husband \u2013 there\u2019s nothing the judge can do.<\/h4>\n<h4>Cynics felt the duty-free SUV, air conditioning and refurbishing of PM\u2019s mansion in Georgetown and 50% bump in salary, might\u2019ve muzzled Nagamootoo. But who\u2019s to say? Then came Prezzie\u2019s announcement of how Executive Power in terms of \u201cline responsibility\u201d was divided between Ministry of the Presidency and his Cabinet. All Nagamootoo got was Chronicle and NCN \u2013 and to sit next to Prezzie at Cabinet meetings and LOOK important.<\/h4>\n<h4>Now the office of the Prime Minister used to be a very powerful office \u2013 and your Eyewitness isn\u2019t even going back to the days of Hamilton Green and Desmond Hoyte. He\u2019s thinking about Sam Hinds with his energy portfolio. But Nagamootoo immediately got his shill to shrilly shout, \u201cNagamootoo is powerful!! Nagamootoo is powerful!!!\u201d In addition to the Chronic and sitting next to Prezzie, he boasted as to how \u201cGovernance\u201d was now taken back from Trotman and given to Nagamootoo.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Guyanese populace are still waiting on what power this conferred to Nagamootoo. But Nagamootoo maintained stoutly as to how he was \u201cfull of power\u201d.<\/h4>\n<h4>The latest statement coming out of an \u201cAFC retreat\u201d, however, suggests Nagamootoo was full of something, all right \u2013 but not power! Nagamootoo and company are now whinging Harmon from Ministry of the Presidency is \u201ctoo powerful\u201d.<\/h4>\n<h4>Wasn\u2019t this what your Eyewitness said when he pointed out Nagamootoo\u2019d been STRIPPED of all power? Go figure!<\/h4>\n<h4>Nagamootoo should know elementary politics 101 declare: \u201cPower must reside somewhere\u201d. But it\u2019s not with the fly in the cow\u2019s backside!<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2026Cameron<\/h4>\n<h4>Two Camerons have been in the news recently \u2013 and not for reasons they should be proud of. The one in England, David \u2013 who happens to be their PM and whose father left him with money in a Tax haven even as he\u2019d exhorted his people to pay taxes \u2013 finally ate humble pie and confessed. It\u2019s good for the soul \u2013 and good for politics when you have an indefensible record.<\/h4>\n<h4>On the other hand, the one in the West Indies, Dave \u2013 who happens to be President of WICB and has alienated his players so profoundly they were willing to walk away from a tour of India \u2013 has decided to tough it out. This is a fella who evidently believes players still have to doff their hats and look at the ground when in his presence \u2013 just because HE\u2019s head of the Board!<\/h4>\n<h4>But interestingly Cameron evoked Castro\u2019s revolutionary, \u201cHistory will absolve me\u201d tag line after his first attempt to overthrow the dictator Batista.<\/h4>\n<h4>History will vindicate the players of the WI, who\u2019ve made all of us so proud! Never Cameron.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2026and Codes of Conduct<\/h4>\n<h4>The AFC\u2019s demanding passage of the long promised Code of Conduct. Well, if Trotman announced the draft when he was in charge of \u201cgovernance\u201d \u2013 now with Nagamootoo \u2013 isn\u2019t it the AFC\u2019s responsibility?<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026AFC Old people do warn: \u201call smart fly does end up in cow backside\u201d. And when these smart flies get entangled with the stuff in that orifice, it\u2019s hell no hell to get out! Well it looks like the AFC and its \u201csmart flies\u201d are up to their neck in \u201centanglement\u201d with what one of their fervent supporters described as \u201cmiasmic substances\u201d. From the moment the spoils were divided up between APNU and AFC after the elections, this Eyewitness \u2013 and most AFC supporters \u2013 pointed out that notwithstanding what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyewitness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35992,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991\/revisions\/35992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}