Part 2…

…PNC

Scott Fitzgerald once said: “There are no second acts in American lives”. Fitzgerald felt that people who’ve done things “their way” for a very long time…just wouldn’t change. Even if they want to show the world they’re different…their real selves will come “out” – sooner or later.  So we come to a letter from two recent converts to the PNC camp – ex-AFCites Khemraj and Ramsaroop.

The two twerps swear there’s a PNC Part I and a PNC Part II. Yes, really. Even though they know these sequels are always variants of the same theme!!!  If you’ve seen one “Nightmare on Elm Street”, you’ve seen them all – Freddy’s gonna get you in the end. There are no second acts. But not the PNC, according to the new PNC sycophants.

And what precisely demarcates PNC Part I from Part II? Well, the death of Burnham and the rise of Desmond Hoyte. The fact that Hoyte was the handmaiden of Burnham, from the very beginning – cuts no ice. The poor slob was just following orders!! But before we get to the record of Hoyte – who’s being beatified – we hope the dyspeptic duo cleared their confirmation that Burnham was a demon. No redeeming feature and all that. We wonder what their blue-eyed boy Granger will say about that!! I mean, you can’t just go around bashing your leader’s leader, can you?

So let’s look at PNC Part II. We heard about the heart-rending kindness of Hoyte because his Government bought flowers from flower-boy Ramsaroop. But hey!!! Former President Jagdeo rebuilt all those roads in Buxton, which even the PNC hadn’t fixed in their 28 years. Doesn’t Jagdeo get cut some slack? Not by these two slackers! Then, of course, Hoyte lifted the ban on Dhall which is more effective than any possible apology!!!

But let’s examine the new leaf that Hoyte turned over, a bit closer. Remember his claims that the 1997 elections were rigged and the violent street protests that were unleashed by the PNC? Arson and shutdown of whole sections of Georgetown! Wasn’t Burnham, was it? Then after he bullied the PPP, chopped their term by two years and then segued into  “Slow-fyaah-mo-fyaah???” Now let’s think carefully. Wasn’t Burnham, was it?

You never know. Maybe like Elvis, he’s alive and rose from Seven Ponds to create mayhem around Georgetown and the East Coast after 1997!

…on drugs financing

The head of GECOM, we’re told, is a very serious fella. Don’t mess around. Remember his no-nonsense ripostes when the last elections count dragged on a tad? Took no nonsense from APNU which marched up and down in front of his House. Wasn’t intimidated even though he had to abandon his sipping of that special bottle of Dom Romane Conti 1997.

But we do think he was a bit too direct when he called recently for a cap on campaign financing. Instead of talking about the usual – level playing field and all that – he cut to the chase and said he feared drug lords would take over the country, since they’d be able to buy out some politicians.

Now we don’t think he was talking about the PPP/C. With all those accusations of graft with assorted contractors that the Muckraker alleges every day of the week (and Sundays), they don’t need funding, do they? Then, it couldn’t be the PNC. They just sold some sod over at Sophia, which should take care of business.

That leaves that AFC. With New York gone, one is reminded of their cocaine-in-pepper-sauce funder. We do think the GECOM head has a valid fear!!!

…on race

Seems David Granger told a New York gathering of East Indian-West Indian-Guyanese American-New Yorkers that Guyana is now a “post-racial” society. Henry Jeffrey disputes this. And we thought David Hinds was the “race man”!