My pet didn’t get baked chicken on Old Year’s Night

Jan 04, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

On Thursday morning I sent off my New Year’s column to KN. It was about GPL. In that column I complained about the almost (not daily, almost) daily blackouts we get where I live at Turkeyen, right next door to the Caricom Secretariat. Had I submitted that article a few hours after I originally sent it off, I could have included the fact that on Old Year’s Day, we got seven hours of electricity withdrawal; from 11.30 am to 6.30 pm.
It wasn’t only the chaos the blackout brought but the disruption to your schedule. Normally you lock up the dogs on Old Year’s Night because the fireworks really scare them. Dogs cannot endure fireworks; it makes them hysterical. Our pet dog likes stuffed, baked chicken. She had that for Christmas. We decided we will bake stuffed chicken on midday, feed it to her then walk her around the block countless times until she gets tired so she would sleep out the fireworks. GPL made sure that didn’t happen. At 11.30 am blackout came. We have a stove that only works with electricity. That was a bad judgement but we had no choice because that type was the only kind the stores had when we bought it in 2007
Lights came back at 6.30 pm and that was when the chicken went into the oven. Our pet didn’t get her stuffed chicken until the next morning. I have written enough about the disaster that is GPL so I will sign off now only to say that life in Guyana has defied and continues to defy logic. As 2015 was about to close, the news was published that GPL managers got a hefty salary increase. Only in Guyana it could happen where a company that doesn’t perform, its big boys are rewarded with salary increases. Let me move on to other crazy lives in the dying moments of 2015.
Is there any human being out there in the world that can understand Guyana? The APNU-AFC when in opposition took prodigious swipes at Winston Brassington. The pre-2015 opposition was convinced that Mr. Brassington’s outfit, NICIL was drowning in a pool of illegalities and corruption. When it came to power, that very opposition retained Brassington. Brassington stayed with the post-May dispensation until the final days of 2015. Yet in the fleeting moments of 2015, the police went to Brassington’s office and took away throve of documents. The police said it heard about documents being removed.
What do they expect to find? The stupidity of the police action stands out like a skunk running through your bedroom. You tell Brassington way back in 2012 that you are going to get him when the PPP goes. The PPP goes and you start a forensic audit into NICIL, then on completion, you cite the committal of serious offences. What do you think that since May 2015, this chap, ensconced in his office, is going to do? He held a press conference when you announced your audit findings and exclaimed that he did nothing wrong. Why then do you think he would have incriminating papers lying about? Any school boy can tell the Guyana police how detectives operate once suspicion falls on a serial killer. They immediately get a warrant and search his home. On a majority of occasions they find incriminating evidence.
As 2015 was about to end, one of our controversial magistrates was at it again. Mr. Alex Moore sentenced Raymond Khan to 10 months for stealing 85 pints of pepper. The pepper was worth 25,000 Guyana dollars. Readers should recall that this same gentleman gave a suspended sentence to an accused found guilty of possession of 150 pounds of cocaine and possession of an illegal shotgun. If the pepper has a street value of 25, 000 Guyana dollars, I wonder what was the street value of 150 pounds of cocaine? Surely you are talking millions of American dollars which would be billions of Guyana dollars. I cannot help asking if Khan didn’t steal the wrong colour – red instead of white.
Very few people in this country didn’t observe a very tiny, amusing fact in 2015.One of the longest serving leaders of the PPP is Mr. Hydar Ally of Pradoville One. Before the loss of power in May by the PPP, he was both a member of the Executive Committee and the Central Committee. Since May, Mr. Ally writes a letter each week to the KN and SN and as always the topic is on God and the world but never on local issues. He avoids local topics like the plague. I wonder why?

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