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Aug 04, 2008 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom
Today, I must remember to be positive in my assessment of the Government. After all, it is my purpose to analyse the news, not to make the news.
Peeping Tom and Freddie Kissoon must be doing something right to have received dishonourable mention during last weekend’s congress of the ruling People’s Progressive Party. I did not know that the columnists of the Kaieteur News were becoming so influential to have received such accolades from no less a person than Mr. Positive himself.
So, today, I want to be positive and say how pleased I am to see that the Government is spending millions in the information sector; how pleased I am that this sector falls under the purview of the Office of the President, and how pleased I am that, despite all the millions that are being poured into the sector, the Kaieteur columnists can still exert considerable influence on the minds of the Guyanese people.
It is a fantastic achievement of the Government’s propaganda mill that they have been effective in tolerating so many criticisms of the Government. They deserve, like Shivnarine Chanderpaul, to receive a national medal for service to Guyana.
I am so positive that, while I do not understand how anyone can pass off analogies as intellectual pieces, I will accept that such a pedantic situation is possible.
I also feel extremely happy to have noted the positive challenges facing Guyana, which were so positively outlined by our positive President in such a positive mood. Listening to his positive presentation was like doing arithmetic (not the type that Kwayana wants to do). He just kept adding challenge after challenge.
Somehow, though, when the Peeper finished adding up these challenges, I came out with a negative answer. But, then again, I was never too good at arithmetic.
It was so fantastic to hear our Great Leader repeat the same things that have been said over and over again in Guyana. It is good that it has been said again, because, in Guyana, you need to repeat yourself so that people are reminded of how good things have become under the PPP. Things have become so positive that people cannot keep track of the economic and social goodies that they are benefiting from each day.
The improvements are simply too much for the Guyanese people, and so they need to be constantly told, for example, how the debt burden has been halved. They need to be reminded that, despite not having in the twentieth century universal secondary education, the enrolment rate for secondary schools has improved tremendously.
Our beloved leader told us so many wonderful things that were happening in Guyana. It was a positive image for Guyana, and helped to make us forget what the enemies of progress would wish to remember. I am now more confident than ever that, by the end of this week, the security services will catch Fine Man and the courts will lock him away for life.
Why worry about the allegations of torture, or about a deal that stinks to the high heavens? Why worry that the Government now has discretion in granting tax holidays and concessions? Why worry about the deaths of inmates of the prisons, or about all the other things that we have been told is not right? I am confident that, in due course, Guyanese will be able to deal with the high cost of living and the rain which does not want to stop; the rising tides and the high cost of gasoline at the pumps.
What a great country we live in! What a great party is in power. Can you imagine how good things are that the ruling party can, without a leader and thus without a leadership, challenge and still issue a call for unity?
What a great congress we have seen. As an old communist, who had long been deceived into believing that the PPP had abandoned its Marxist- Leninist roots, it was so refreshing to see a sea of red shirts.
(Never mind the GOINVEST man did not sport the colour of the red party. He probably soaked his jersey the night before in too much bleach and it turned white.)
I am not worried at all about whom the PPP elects; sorry, I mean selects, as its next Presidential candidate. From what I have read, I am convinced that it does not matter. Anyone will work. They are all so positive about Guyana.
THEM PIMPING OUT GUYANA.
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