Shameless…
…blame game by Govt
This Eyewitness has just heard everything. The Government’s complaining that the Opposition PPP’s only criticising them and not “helping”. One even posited that “Opposition’s part of the “Executive”. Well, talk about the pot calling the kettle black!! When the present Government was in Opposition, not only did they NOT help, but they actively SABOTAGED the efforts of the then PPP Government to guide our country through some pretty treacherous waters.
Take the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill. We were told by G20’s FATF that unless we had legislation in place – for starters – we’d be blacklisted, resulting in all our international financial transactions grinding to a halt. So we’re not talking about a partisan issue here …all the Opposition had to do was state their objections – which the PPP assured would’ve been taken aboard.
But the AFC decided to blackmail the Government – they’d only sign on the dotted line IF the Government adopted Procurement Legislation. They were willing to play “chicken” with Guyana’s financial viability. The APNU were worse – they just dragged their feet with the patently risible excuse they wanted to “consult” with their constituency! What’s to consult on a topic where there was no wriggle room for whatever party was in Government?
The denouement of the recalcitrant spiteful actions to actually take the offensive and “expose, oppose and depose the PPP” was the “no confidence” motion the Opposition threatened unless the Government actually treated them as “the Executive”. Their one-seat majority in the National Assembly gave them “spunks”.
But what makes the Government spokespersons even more shameless was in reality the PPP didn’t unleash a “do fuh do na obeah” policy after they returned as Opposition. They offered right off the bat to help with the Budget – even as they were kicked in the teeth with firings and witch-hunts. Their offer was refused. But the Government ended up with mud on its face when their ineptitude caused even the State-owned Chronicle to report the Govt “blundered” on the budget estimates. There is a God!
Then the Opposition offered to help with the numbers on Amaila, which they claimed were “inflated” – even after Norway insisted on giving us US$80 million towards its costs. PPP offers poured in to intervene with Venezuela on the rice-for-oil deal that’s gone sour. To no avail. And, of course, only the Government would pretend to forget that Jagdeo personally promised to help with some pending tax cases that could garner $20 billion to the Consolidated Funds.
But why continue with this litany of shame for the Government’s shamelessness. But then, they have to grasp at even straws to shift the blame, no?
…on our coat of arms
– Jaguar’s skin
“Shameless” doesn’t even begin to describe Ramjattan’s crassness in refusing to remove the skin of our national mammal from his walls. And this even after Cathy Hughes, Minister of Tourism, personally wrote him about the ignominy he was heaping on Guyana’s eco-tourism drive. But it went even deeper – to our national pride, since the rampant jaguar’s on our coat of arms.
Can you imagine the Brits allowing PM Cameron – who once did unspeakable things to a pig – to nail the skin of a British Bulldog on his wall? And he’s a Prime Minister! But your Eyewitness’ upset because in the new picture that nailed Ramjattan as the troglodyte he is – the US Ambassador and his ChargÉ d’Affaires are blithely signing away grants to the wanker.
Have they forgotten the outrage America expressed when Cecil the lion from Zimbabwe was killed by the US dentist?
Does our Jaguar not bleed also?
…on toothlessness
While Ramjattan attempts to raise his libido by nailing a jaguar’s skin on his office wall, he was exposed as the impotent poseur he really is. The wife of a staunch supporter complained in the press about the run-around the Police’re giving her to investigate his death.
