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Peyton Place
Life in a small town is without even an infinitesimal moment of boredom. Intrigue after intrigue occupies the thoughts and minds of the inhabitants of a tiny enclave as the world famous book Peyton Place so graphically portrayed.
In a small town, rumours, gossip, rough reality and unusual happenings meet constantly in an unbelievable confluence.
A commentator has to run away from Georgetown if he/she needs a quiet minute of just not thinking about Guyana at all.
Ms. Sita Ramlal and Norman Mc Lean have been freed by a magistrate of a charge of forgery. Ms. Ramlal’s visa was withdrawn. Curiosity has descended on Georgetown about whether the Embassy will restore the stamp. Another curiosity is whether the Embassy sees the act as one committed on US soil.
Once you enter a diplomatic compound, according to international law, you are on the territory of a foreign land. If that is so, then maybe the Embassy will persist with the revocation and maybe seek to charge Mr. McLean if he goes to the US.
Interestingly, the DPP did not seek to appoint a special prosecutor but left it to the police inspector.
Court cases and criminal matters tend to fascinate the tiny population of Georgetown.
The Polar Beer charges against wealthy businessman, Joshua Shafeek, were not pursued. Instead, certain GRA employees felt the brunt of the legal pursuit.
A Barbadian insurance company claimed that it was the victim of an attempted fraud.
The episode surrounded the fire that destroyed Sacred Heart Church on Main Street. Charges were laid against Dr. Fred Sukhdeo, an employee of an insurance company owned by the said Shafeek. The court proceedings seem to have hibernated.
What does the gossip circuit say about life in Peyton Place? The very DPP was the centre of attention in the pink suitcase cocaine incident. One of the police officer charged in the matter was freed when attorney Nigel Hughes took his grievance to the Full Court.
He informed the court that the officer was responsible for searching a suitcase that was associated with a relative of the DPP and her husband.
In a typical Peyton Place drama, Hughes described for the judges how the DPP wrote to the police asking for the dismissal of the officer.
It didn’t happen and he was also freed by the Full Court. The DPP lost both battles. What was said at the cocktail nights about these two episodes should be interesting.
Why couldn’t the police have searched the luggage of the DPP must have been the question asked all the time.
If you wanted to see Peyton Place in Guyana, then the story of Evan Persaud is dramatic stuff.
While on investigation for conduct unbecoming at UG — he was accused of strong sexual vocabularies in his class room— the guy turned up at the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting where he was made the chairman.
But there were more Peyton Place moments that shocked the inhabitants. Persaud, who is a dyed-in-the wool PPPite, hired anti-government commentator, Ramon Gaskin, to defend him. Of course I work at UG so I heard how the inquiry went. Gaskin is known for his histrionics which tend to frighten people; certain types of people that is.
You know the saying – monkey knows which limb to jump pon
The citizens of Peyton Place were laughing the other day. The laughter reverberated throughout the town. Henry Jeffrey who served the PPP Government for seventeen years has become a columnist for the Stabroek News writing about African marginalization.
The story of Jeffrey was that he was relieved of his Ministry over a disagreement with President Jagdeo on the Economic Partnership Agreement between Caricom and the EU.
Last year Jeffrey described what happened in a letter in the press.
He outlined how the President decided it would not be possible, in the circumstances, for Jeffrey to retain the portfolio of foreign trade.
But the President did offer the ambassadorship to Suriname. The deal fell through because as Jeffrey explained in that letter, he asked for additional resources but was refused.
Obviously, had his request been accepted there would have been no Henry Jeffrey column, no analysis of African marginalization from the pen of Jeffrey, and in 2011, Jeffrey would still have been an employee of Mr. Jagdeo.
Finally, the joke being told all the time in Peyton Place is about the new leader of Manzoor Nadir’s TUF. Suffering from some inexplicable problem of the throat ten years ago, the lady only found her voice to distance herself from Manzoor just months before a general election.
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