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Guyana’s own Mark Anthony in flashing rhetorical effervescence

Nov 01, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I must confess that when I first saw the name that I had to skip two steps backs.  My first thought was on the Puerto Rican-American singer, then I noticed the missing ‘h’ and came to Julius Caesar’s Mark Antony. In his Sunday missive to the media, the Guyanese Mark Antony, Prime Minister Mark Anthony Phillips, (also a man of military calling and bearing) made clear that he wrote not to praise what was making the rounds, compliments of the Opposition, but to bury it. I wait now to see how much of a frenzy the good PM raises up in ranks of the PPP faithful yearning for any kind of hero to carry the baton, with its people crumbling under pressure of clamors for disclosures about equity, transparency, and inclusivity.

Like the Roman General that Shakespeare dressed up for the occasion, the Guyanese General, our very own Mark Antony, came across as cleverly but cleanly partisan, emotionally invested, and powerfully resonant. I regret immensely that the Hon Prime Minister left out that part about the “evil that men do lives after them….”  Unless PM Phillips lost his sense of smell from being around too much cordite and dynamite in the army, he has to detect those evils from his friends, neighbours, and fellow countrymen in the PPP cabal. Although the PM may be far gone in his political conversion, I doubt, would be troubled, if he is so far gone that he now neither sees nor hears nor knows no evil, and especially when they abound right under his nose.

I like the PM’s salvo into the always murky realm of infrastructure and that bit about house lots.  I am reminded of that one, which I am sure that PM Phillips is familiar with, which is how the soldiers beneath the cross at Calvary threw lots for not a piece of precious land, but a piece of cloth. There are no statistics for those kinds of things, whether the spiritual or the political is the area under scrutiny. I go to the pain of reminding PM Mark Antony (Phillips) that his namesake from literature did call Brutus noble, and I do hope that in his next writing he would not affix that same seal of nobility to anyone of his political brothers, who conspire darkly with scheming outsiders to bring foul deeds to this tormented land. If I had a soothsayer to share such a frightening omen with me, I would preempt Prime Minister Mark Antony and say spare us, beware that dratted day that has gone down in ignominy.

Just when I thought that the inspiring things in life were felled by the hands and daggers of local political assassins, I come across the scintillating rhetorical effervescence of our own living Mark Antony (Phillips) in a time of struggle, an era of anguish, an age of uncertainty.  I wonder who the Guyanese Calpurnia is, and what dreams she dreams.  Editor, if there is a Mark Antony, there has to be a Calpurnia.  And if there are both of them, there must be a Cassius and Casca, and all those other knaves of a tumultuous time. Perhaps in his good time, in the timeless seasons of men toiling and calculating and plotting under the Guyanese sun, Guyana’s Prime Minister Mark Antony Philips will condescend to step from his pedestal and share with us political pagans and peasants (the same thing) and identify them for us from the Guyanese political pantheon.  And while he is at it, I would hope that he remembers not to forget to tell his enraptured and enthralled Guyanese audience where and to what depths matters ended up in the corrupt, callous, and crooked Rome of old. There was nothing civil about that fateful and fatal destination.

Sincerely,

GHK Lall

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