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That narco-submarine
Once again, Guyana captures the spotlight for less than commendable reasons. It is what adds to the growing disrepute of this country before a vigilant world that snared the narco-submarine. That same world wonders what next this little place could conjure up in its clever laboratories dedicated to operating on the dark side of the tracks.
We have progressed from a familiar urging; that is, to buy local. Nowadays, we export and sell local everywhere, which is an indication of how astute local thinkers, innovators, manufacturers, and marketers have become.
For the initial evidence of that captured narco-submarine, points to being made in Guyana, heralding the now proven skills of Guyanese. This is how creative Guyanese are, with a narco-submarine of all things. A nuclear powered one could be next, and a full-fledged aircraft carrier on the drawing board, too.
At this rate, ExxonMobil had better be careful, for Guyana could get ideas and construct its own oil rigs, complete with the necessary cutting edge technology to tap into its petroleum treasure. Because to configure first in the mind, and then to construct any such submersible vehicle requires ingenuity, versatility, and heavy industry.
It called for manpower, money power, and the staying power that moves mountains. That underwater contraption was not constructed on treetops, or in deep underground caverns. It was put together by local hands at the behest of foreign minds (most likely) and at somewhere resembling ground level, which is a problem.
The problem is like that butterfly whirring its wings way over there in the Orient and generating the initial wisps of energy for a hurricane to rage in the Caribbean Sea. To put differently, and more pointedly, there are few, if any, actions in this secretive society that do not breach existing codes of silence.
As an example, a leaf begins its descent in the hinterlands, and people in the know, in the city, know. They know by that peculiar and unique delivery system that is the invisible people’s express that gallops breathlessly across the vast, uninhabited spaces of this land. Loose lips sink ships, save for this one sub, of which there could be several.
To make that narco-submarine thus stands as an achievement in physical adaptability, cultural credibility, and engineering ability, which calls for a doffing of the cap and much deep bowing. But to make men hold their tongue, relative to its existence in this radio station of a nation is an altogether, even more spectacular, achievement.
That calls for more than the money power; it demands the most disciplined kind of willpower.
Men who should know, and always know everything, suddenly knew nothing–absolutely nothing about the creation and customisation of that craft for a plague of a purpose, a daringly dangerous, but profitable, purpose.
As has been our forlorn experience, one government after another has struggled with an airport project, elevator operation, road robustness and the litany of propositions that made losers out of the Guyanese taxpayers.
Yet here it is, through this innovation of innovations, Guyana is now suspected of being the proud builders narco-submarines, as is now showcased before a bewildered world. The plural of submarines was employed, as there may be more than one of the creatures navigating the oceans of the world, like Jules Verne of schoolboy fame.
It must be admitted, reluctantly, that in a depraved way, it is a beautiful thing and a tragic one, too. It could be splendid and spiraling, if only there could be rechanneling those same creative mentalities and energies toward prioritising and truly starting the work of nation building, to arrive at some fragment of a place.
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