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Dec 02, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
The minute, the very minute you announce that Mr. Jagdeo should be allowed to run for a third term (hereafter referred to as TT), two impulses are immediately unleashed. One is from the population itself. Mr. Jagdeo’s record comes into play.
Citizens will want a description and analysis of what he has done for them since 1999. Secondly, political observers, commentators, analysts, opposition parties and bloggers will begin the dissection process. It will not look good for Mr. Jagdeo. His dull, unproductive record will not bring him plaudits from the ordinary citizens.
For the TT campaign to shine and attract, there has to be something offered on a platter. So far, Mr. Jagdeo hasn’t offered anything. There seems to be a discontinuity between the TT campaigners and the beneficiaries of the bandwagon. The buttons, flyers, media advertisements and bill boards were to be organized after Copenhagen.
Somebody threw a monkey spanner in the works. Someone went ahead and pressed the overdrive button in the midst of the failure of Copenhagen. Climate change success in Copenhagen was the driving force behind the TT orchestration.
Mr. Jagdeo announced dozens of billions of dollars for Guyana alone. As it turned out in Trinidad last week, about 150 Third World Countries might have to split a few billion dollars among themselves if they get any money at all from the developed world.
The TT bandwagon comes amidst a crucial failure on the part of Mr. Jagdeo thus the decision to pull down the billboard at Avenue of the Republic and Robb Street. But we have not seen the last of the TT jet fighter. It will roar over Guyana by next year during the local government elections.
Important for the TT campaign is a nice balance-sheet for Mr. Jagdeo for the TT boys and girls to work with. No such balance sheet exists at the moment. What is going to happen is that we will see after Christmas, a dormancy of the TT exercise. As the local government poll approaches we will see a number of initiatives from Mr. Jagdeo.
There is going to be a “top up” for the entire population. Mr. Jagdeo will announce that Guyana has been insulated from the global monster that devastated the world economy and as a gesture of goodwill, he will give all public sector workers a few percentage increase.
Next, there will come a freeing up of the radio license. This will be followed by a Freedom of Information Bill. This will be preceded by the installation of an Interim Management Committee (probably headed by Jerry Gouveia). The IMC will be assigned loads of cash that will be too much to hold in the Atlantic Ocean.
Municipal workers will emulate their French counterparts and comb Georgetown clean so that we will outdo Seoul, the South Korean capital for an immaculate ambience.
There is going to be a Cabinet reshuffle. Some unpopular figures will go. Rohee will be sacrificed to allay fears that security for Guyana has broken down. Robeson Benn may have gone too far with his “bruk-up madness” and may be a casualty.
Kellawan Lall, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, Kwame McCoy–all three that the media have exposed over the years will be removed. Some fresh faces will turn up at New Garden Street, one is likely to be Ravi Dev. Moses Nagamootoo will be offered a cabinet post and will accept. In the middle of this so-called wind of change, the TT conspirators will re-emerge. It will be moneyed party. Mountains of cash will go in the drive. There will be whole page advertisements in all the newspapers.
Guyana Times and the Evening News will lead the charge. Nightly advertisements will be played on all the television channels.
As the local government elections move closer, the PPP will announce that there will be a question on the ballot paper asking citizens if they would like to change the Constitution to remove term limits. The PPP will come up with all kinds of justifications as to why it wants this referendum.
The PPP itself will argue that the party feels Mr. Jagdeo’s candidacy is an unbeatable one and if the electorate agrees, it will field Mr. Jagdeo as its presidential candidate. Since I began writing on the TT prospects, I have consistently asserted that Mr. Jagdeo wants a third term and he has sufficient votes in both the PPP’s central committee and executive committee to get it.
I don’t think citizens should get unduly worried. The PPP will lose in 2011 but long before then, the American will issue indictments that will break up the TT party.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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