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The weakening of the PNC continues

Dec 16, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I believe the general elections will follow within months of the local government polls. In that local government scenario there will be a referendum on changing the Constitution to excise the clause that stipulates a two-term service for presidents.
Even if the referendum fails, the PPP is united in the attitude that the sooner the general elections, the better. You don’t have to be an economist to know that disaster will envelop 2011.
The GPL Wartsila babies will need some rest so blackouts will haunt the land. GuySuCo’s expected stultification will take place. Remissions from the US will continue to lessen because the world economy needs another two years to achieve resuscitation. There will be no end in sight for brutal crimes.
As an aside, the low-level participants in the drug trade have lost their incomes since the US captured the kingpins. These people have no money and they have turned to non-drug crimes like brutal robberies, kidnapping and car-jacking. Don’t expect crime abatement because the structural problems of the police force the Government cannot deal with, because it will lessen the unsavoury touch of the interventionist hands of the politicians.
To make a long story short, our economy will worsen. Better then to call the election sooner than later because an earlier date may be more profitable. It is commonsense. Why wait for the numbers of the alienated to climb?
But just as important as this commonsense lesson is the political reality inside the PNC. Freedom House knows that the PNC is in an emaciated and emasculated state. It knows too that this condition is only temporary so it is best to strike while the PNC is down.
If the elections are left to August 2011, there is every possibility that Corbin and his foot soldiers will become a footnote and a group of no-nonsense leaders will emerge. Whoever takes over the PNC leadership will deal condignly with the PPP because they know that is what their supporters want. The PPP knows this and will not wait for August 2011 when the gladiators moved into Congress Place.
The PPP also knows that the sooner it holds the general elections the better because all the critical television channels are gone. Channel 28 is now owned by the Guyana Times directorate. And here is the bombshell. It looks like President Jagdeo scored a stunning victory over the PNC by co-opting the management of Channel Nine.
The name of the channel is Blackman/Hoyte Television.
But its PNC face is gradually being given plastic surgery to look anything than a PNC visage. This writer has been given confidential information that a senior management official at Channel 9 and a high-powered activist in ACDA may have some large mining concessions going the way of Channel Nine and a few folks in ACDA may be in the bargain.
There is nothing wrong with Channel Nine people and ACDA seeking mining concessions. That is their right. Guyana is their country. The gold and diamond mines of the interior are not the property of the PPP and/or Jagdeo.
If they accept concessions from the Government it should not be at the expense of their political principles. This will be a colossal blow to the hopes of African Guyanese.
If Channel Nine falls to the Government it is yet another Roman tragedy within the PNC. But there is an invisible variable in this vortex that the PPP may not have the capacity to comprehend.
The PNC in office needed the preservation of the PPP to remain in power.
The PPP desperately needs the PNC to be around to drive huge chunks of fear into the East Indian population. The PPP will give anything to put a few hundred African PNC supporters with placards on Regent Street.
The invisible variable that the PPP is too stupid to see is that if they buy out PNC leaders then a dialectical contradiction automatically comes into play. Where are the “monsters” that you will invoke to scare Indians? The psychology of Indians may be altered to expel the perennial trepidation they have of the PNC.
With the PNC out of the way, Indians will now have to make a choice between the PPP and a non-African organization; perhaps even more than one non-African political party. So while the PPP is in a hurry to hijack the PNC, the unfolding drama may reach its dénouement, in that East Indians may eventually achieve catharsis by exorcising the PPP from their psyche. In the meantime, tune in to Channel 9.

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