Jagdeo the shifter

Aug 16, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

Kaieteur News – First it was the son, now it is the father, according to Vice President Jagdeo. He plucks what he was sure is a rose out of thin air, and when it rots in his hand, he then adjusts his mind and his mouth and claims it is a sucker tree. This is how he makes suckers out of all Guyanese (except this one). In the developments surrounding the visit of a Mohamed to the Venezuelan Embassy, Jagdeo was creative enough, and craftily so, to throw caution to the winds in his haste to nail Mr. WIN Mohamed. If he really is so sure of a “landslide” he wouldn’t spend one second on a dark horse like WIN Mohamed. But that’s not the case, as his trembling lips, spittle-flecked speeches confirm. Also, that’s not how Big Bee Jagdeo operates.

He started out with one Mohamed, then it was two Mohameds (or more). Demerara Waves articles of August 13th, and my contribution in the same paper on August 14th, provide the details. From one to two, then back to one Mohamed. From Mohamed the Younger to Mohamed the Elder. Perhaps, it was the younger one disguised as the father in some cloak-and-dagger visit to the Venezuelan fortress. I withdraw cloak-and-dagger, for I just remembered Minister Joe Hamilton’s “in a box” contribution to Guyana’s political culture, and thought better of it. Racing from one to two and then walking back to one is classic Jagdeo. BJ the shifter. JB the shuffler. The former national leader is that kind of a snake dancer. It’s why I hold him in such high regard. A landslide the man says, and WIN Mohamed has him sliding on his face, sliding on his derriere.

The VP being the VP, he tried another move. Shuffler and shifter, remember. “His father visits the Venezuelan embassy; he’s a member of this family. Don’t tell me that Azruddin Mohamed doesn’t know about it or the daughter, the active one on social media doesn’t know about it. They all know that he did visit the embassy and they know the purpose of the visit. And so, I am today, you notice they’ve gone silent since that information came out.” Will some kind Guyanese give the man a glass of water in a red cup, please? He gets the highest marks for trying, for never giving up. From me, he gets a shaking of his shoulders: know when there is a losing hand, know when there is time to take a strategic retreat (whatever the hell that is), and start over with new plotting and replotting. Check this out.

Ask Guyana’s oil rajah, policy maharajah, a question about oil audits or oil discoveries and he doesn’t know. Ask Vick (minister), who is out of town. Ask Godfrey (Tax Chief), whose first name lost the first three letters. Jagdeo doesn’t know what he doesn’t want to know. But there he was extending that gift to WIN Mohamed. He even dragged in the daughter. The son or the daughter should know what is going on in the family, and with that visit by Mohamed the First with the conquistadores. Jesus Christ! This is one hell of a tangled country. I checked and rechecked: Mr. Nazar “Shell” Mohamed is not running for president. For full disclosure, I know Mr. Nazar Mohamed from a past life, and if I measured him right, he is too smart to run for president. So, if he goes to the Venezuelan Embassy, how does that rise to the level of a contentious campaign issue, sanctions and all? Here is another question. How is it and why was it that the chief policymaker and chief immigration officer of Guyana was not all lathered up, very silent, when the same WIN Mohamed went through the airport to meet with American envoys in Bridgetown, Barbados? It could be he didn’t know of that American arrangement.

What Jagdeo doesn’t apply to himself, those are the standards to which he holds others. Ah, the ways and wiles of shifters and shufflers. He tried to pin the tail of the Venezuelan donkey on WIN Mohamed due to his own palpable elections dread, only for the sounds that emerge out of his majestic vice-presidential head come across as some heehaw singsong. Somebody is working tirelessly to make suckers of the Guyanese people, and it is not me. I am not running from anything, especially the light. The day that the general secretary can say that, he is sure to rise from the bottom of national estimation. I have begged the big man repeatedly. Shape up, step up. He has a love, instead, for this shifting and shuffling breakdancing at which he is now a true grandmaster, a regional political prodigy. Yo, Bharrat: best of luck, with that landslide, bruddah.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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One thought on “Jagdeo the shifter”

Denise Jones August 17, 2025 at 9:38 am

So true and well written. Bar-the-Rat is having nightmares. He should sleep with a monitor for when he starts screaming in his nightmares!

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