I tip my hat to the VP for his cleverness

Aug 19, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I have heard sober, mature men object sharply when Guyana’s Hon. Vice President is described as ‘brilliant.’ They agree, however, on incomparably cunning. Others prefer a different qualifier (one with Manichean overtones) but there is settlement for conniver par excellence. Personally, I am more for a combination of magician and sorcerer of a certain kind. I am trying to get away from the diabolical, but confess to not doing so well. Whatever he really is, I tip my hat to the VP for his cleverness in moving men of peculiar character, a common strain, to jump to do his bidding, regardless of what that may be. It takes a special kind of inspiration, I would say exchange, to make men drop whatever they are doing, distance from what they said they stood for, and transform into spineless, mindless, characterless partners of the VP.

The first coming to mind in this pantheon of great Guyanese heroes occupy pivotal spots in the National Assembly. Somebody forgot to remind them on that little part about doing duty unbiasedly and honourably. I suspect the conclusion was that it was going to be water on duck’s back anyway, so conserve energy to save the Guyanese planet. The bottom line is that the VP’s wand has them waltzing around the local House of Commoners unashamedly. Virtual sleepwalkers they have become, just ask the Opposition. In my best preacher’s voice, I plead: forgive them, they know not what they do. They did it for what drove Donna Summer crazy.

To confirm the reach of the VP’s cunning machinations, he even has a Guyana scholar eating out of his hand. Must be some sweet nectar he is sharing out upstairs. I call it a taste of honey from the VP’s special farm. The man doesn’t even have a proper title befitting a Guyana scholar, but he too is a versatile street dancer and drill rapper for the VP. That’s showing the homeys where it’s at, bro.

And as an indication of his universal appeal, the VP got a Chinese chap to join in the fun. All the VP would admit to (in a rare moment of limited accuracy only) is that the man is a tenant. I love it. The fact is that all Guyanese know by now that Mr. Su has certainly sang a song of sixpence, and a pocketful that does have a rhyme, given the object of his affections. It is, however, more than sixpence, and likely much closer to six billion. Oh, by the way, that is not in traditional Guyanese notes, our local way of counting. But, imagine that, even the foreigners eating out of the Vice President’s hand. Or feeding from his table, might be the better bedtime story.

Now the VP’s cleverness takes a twist and turn, and it not a Guyanese or a Chinese involved, but that most curious of creatures: a Guyanese turned American, then miraculously reborn as Guyanese bean counter. I mean all of us could learn a thing or two about bobbing and weaving from this luminary. Not Mohamed Ali (the local political paperweight pretending at substance and presence), nor the real deal, the Louisville Lip from Kentucky, but someone of self-proclaimed learning, and definitely knowing how to jump high. Talk about killing two birds with one stone: one bird is new local bank, the other being American billions deposited in a Texas bank. How the VP keeps coming up with these characters is simply astonishing.

Some strong-minded Guyanese employ strong words to describe this latest star attraction in the VP’s stable of curiosities. I employ stable, others crushed with ‘house.’ I recall those other upstanding Guyanese doing duty in the time-honoured local way in the house of the people. This is the transformational beauty of the honey that has been perfected by the VP, and I gather that he talks with a different kind of currency, and in amounts not normally seen by little people like me. It is set the price, roll the dice, and let the mice play; we do have some overgrown ones here, don’t we? I do hope that when that other merry local legal luminary, the Hon. Attorney General finishes the crafting of his constitutional reform baby that he would have left out that nuisance, that little hiccup, that unwanted stepchild of loyalty to country first. For what I conclude that is happening here every day is nothing but treason, with men handsomely paid for it, and nicely recognised for their national exercises in tragic deceptions. Like it or lump it, but pick a card, it takes an alchemist (wicked, evil, or cunning) to succeed so often in collaring men like these.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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