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No Christmas shopping permitted in Georgetown on December 21

Dec 15, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

 

 

My honest opinion is that there are persons in the PPP hierarchy whose fox-like thinking is way above many of the effete leaders in the APNU+AFC fortress. There is a strong sense of hunting in the PPP leadership that the mediocre performers in the corridors of power cannot match. This is sad, because Guyana does not deserve the continuation of the PPP’s presence after what the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabals did to Guyana after 2001.
But life is harsh. We have to live in a world where the strong are foolish but they dominate. The US is the major player in world politics but powerful Republican lawmakers in both houses of the US system are far more foolish and dangerous than their counterparts in some banana republics. The brutal reality in Guyana is that since the PPP lost power in 2015, they have strategized in brilliant ways to make many of the government’s leaders look inept.
The PPP should postpone the no-confidence debate from December 21 to a date in January 2019. This is four days before Christmas. On December 21, Georgetown will be a human jungle of shoppers. This is normal at this time of the year. With Parliament meeting on December 21, there would be unimaginable chaos in the heart of the city.
Our “esteemed” parliamentarians and our “all-knowing” ruling politicians have extended the cordoning off of the parliament when it is in session, from three streets during the reign of the PPP to seven streets. The result is what most of us who use Georgetown know – traffic insanity that is very painful. Please remember the asinine traffic edict of our circus organizers does not affect Georgetowners only, but citizens from the other nine Regions that have to come to Georgetown for one reason or the other.
Yet Volda Lawrence does not understand why the PPP in opposition took seats from the PNC during the recent LGE. When you come into power and you behave more lawlessly, more idiotically, more insensitively, more dastardly, more ignorantly, more contemptuously, more arrogantly than the previous rulers that you beat, people will dislike and hate you and want to vote you out. Volda Lawrence has to call another Region 4 party conference and invite me to talk to PNC delegates about the lessons that President Macron of France learnt this week.
These same lawmakers and powerful politicians who want us to acknowledge that parliament is sacred so there must be no vehicle passing on the roads when they are debating, are the very ones that have destroyed the image and credibility of the National Assembly. This week when the House was in session, a parliamentarian had a box of food quite happily eating in front of the entire House. The Speaker observed her and she put the box of food on the floor.
If I name her, I know I will get a libel suit. She will lose it of course, because her behaviour was reported in the media and the words of the Speaker chastising her for her unbecoming conduct were carried in media. She will lose because of the facts. But that will not stop her from filing a writ. It means that you have to pay a lawyer and spend time in the courts.
This is Guyana – there is no other country in the entire world where the police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a public servant who is alleged to have defrauded a state corporation of dozens of millions and is in hiding in a foreign country, but still sues for libel when the Kaieteur News reported on the matter. An alleged thief is hiding from the law, but says his name was damaged, so he files a libel writ to protect his image, credibility and character.
Here is the irony. When he sued this newspaper, a lawyer sent the writ. The newspaper had to offer a defence. If I name him, the man will sue and I have to respond. Suppose I say that I am ignoring the writ because he cannot come to Guyana to fight his case. The court will say that I was delinquent and impose judgment on me. Obviously, he cannot collect, but I still have to lodge the money.
So I cannot name this lady who was “feeding her face” while parliament was in session this week. That is life in Guyana. If the PPP is smart, it will avoid the anger of the Guyanese people and postpone the debate; unless the PPP knows it can win by having two APNU+AFC parliamentarians vote for the no-confidence motion, thereby toppling the grand coalition.

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