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FREDDIE AND PREZZIE
We here at Kaieteur News have long learnt that there are certain quarrels that you should not get involved in. To do so is to end up with the wrong end of the rope.
I have seen it many times before. There is a row between two individuals and someone who does not like to mind his/her own business decides to get involved and take sides, only to be burnt when the two persons who were quarreling mend their fences and leave the ‘pot salt” sandwiched in between.
When it comes to certain quarrels, it is therefore advisable to sit on the fence and not become involved. One of them is when Uncle Adam and Glenn have it out.
These two guys are buddies and within minutes of them shouting each other down, they are across the road sipping a beer. You learn never to take sides in these guys’ quarrels because in the end you will be left on your own since they are buddies.
It is the same thing with the President and Uncle Freddie. Do not get involved in these two guys’ name-calling.
The President and Uncle Freddie certainly have a high regard for each other, since they both seem extremely concerned about what the other is saying or writing.
The President certainly would not have been calling Uncle Freddie a fool if he had not been reading what the professor had been writing about him, the President; and Uncle Freddie would not have been as unceasing in cussing out the government had he not cared about the performance of the President.
The more you think about it, the more it is clear that these two guys are very much alike. Uncle Freddie and the President are two sides of the same coin.
They have the same mentality and they tend to behave and react almost similarly to criticism. So leave them alone! While these guys are similar in many respects they also have their differences.
At his press conference, the President said that he met with some top officials of the European Commission and they told him in confidence that some Caricom leaders had urged the EU to lean on Guyana since our position on the Economic Partnership Agreements could cause problems.
Now, if this was told to the President in confidence, one did not expect him to reveal it, but he did which he ought not to.
He is, however, far different from Uncle Freddie who would not have only revealed what was said to him, but also who told him, where they told him and why they told him.
I am glad, however, that the President has made public the fact that some Caricom leaders were backstabbing Guyana in relation to the Economic Partnership Agreement when all we are doing is fighting in the interests of the region.
If this is what is going to happen to Guyana when it places the interests of the region uppermost, then it is time that the Guyanese people come out and instruct the President to remove Guyana from CARICOM.
We can begin to do this by closing down the CARICOM Secretariat.
Since it is Guyana that built the Secretariat – with help from the Japanese government – I think it would be fitting for the Office of the President to relocate to where the CARICOM Headquarters is at the moment since it is quite a lovely building and we would hate after we would have severed ties with the region to see such a structure go to waste.
There is one additional reason why the Office of the President should move in to where the Caricom Secretariat’s Headquarters is.
You see right next door to that headquarters lives Uncle Freddie and this would mean that the President and Uncle Freddie would be right next to one another and you know that Uncle Freddie would love nothing better than to look through his window all day to see what the President is doing in his office.
Who knows, Uncle Freddie may even decide to become a candidate for the 2011 elections. Word from the University of Guyana is that both Uncle Freddie and Bharrat “coming off” at the same time and since there will in 2011 be a vacancy in the Office of the President, who best to take up the position than the long–haired renegade from next door.
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