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Mar 08, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
For those too young to know, this was an old song from the early 20th century that the famous singer, Harry Belafonte covered and made internationally popular in 1962. Here are some of the lyrics:
“There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza
Then fix it, dear Henry
With what shall I fix it, dear Liza
With a straw, dear Henry
The straw is too long, dear Liza
Then cut it, dear Henry
With what shall I cut it, dear Liza
With an axe, dear Henry.”
Space does not allow for the rest of the story to be told. Liza wants to make a fool out of Henry. In the end, she does. Henry goes through a series of endeavours to get the hole patched. He reaches the point where to eventually get the straw into the hole to patch the bucket, he needs water. He then inquiries from Liza, what to use to bring the water? Liza then contemptuously tells Henry, from the very bucket. Well if the bucket needs to have the hole plugged how can he bring water in it to patch it in the first place?
This comical tale applies to the relationship between Clement Rohee, Minister of Home Affairs and Henry Greene, Commissioner of Police. Rohee, at the police conference last week, told Henry there is a hole in his bucket.
Henry suggested that Rohee fix it but ends up laughing at Rohee. What Henry does is to make up for what Liza did him. So he takes out the spite on Rohee.
Such an attitude is called schadenfreude. Rohee is not amused. But Henry is laughing. Rohee is livid with the Commissioner of Police over the inability of the top cop to fix the bucket. This is a golden saucepan that Rohee needs to have repaired in order to win the presidential nomination of the PPP.
Time is not on Rohee’s side because the general election is fast approaching. The hole in this golden gem is gargantuan. Henry knows that Rohee cannot plug it because the vastness of it cannot be measured even by the most phenomenal computer of the American space agency NASA. It is called dictatorship. But what can Henry do? Liza didn’t help him.
She just robotically went on and on, urging Henry to fix it, laughing at Henry in the process. This is what Henry is doing to the goat-ain’t-bite-me politician.
The real reason for Henry’s hearty laugh is that Henry knows Rohee cannot cover the hole because to get the straw, Rohee has to go in the pen and inside the pen is a goat that bit a lot of Rohee’s colleagues before, including the boss man himself, Mr. Bennettitaceous.
Rohee knows that when goat bite yuh, cat eat yuh dinner. You are no longer good for anything. You are a good for nothing.
Now since the DNA in Rohee is boiling up, telling Rohee that he has a good shot at becoming President of the Republic, Rohee has to take the bucket of gold to the 35-member Central Committee and clinch the deal.
But the bucket cannot hold the gold because it has an immeasurable hole caused by The Big Bang (the event that led to the formation of the universe – check the internet for more information)
Rohee pleads with Henry to fix this BLACK HOLE (a black hole is a term in physics in which there are regions in space from which nothing, not even light can escape – check the internet for the details) because his future depends on it. But Henry is content to play the role of Liza.
For a good description of the dialogue between Rohee and Liza – oops, make that Henry – see a good piece of journalistic reporting on Rohee’s speech at the just concluded police officers’ conference where the boss man, Mr. Bennettitaceous got deeper in controversy with his shoot-to kill advocacy to the police.
Rohee really pleads his case to Henry. He tells Henry that his letters go unanswered. When some pieces of correspondence are replied to, the advice is like when goat is eating grass. Here is Rohee in his own words, talking about Henry in Sunday’s edition of this newspaper (page 9); “The matter (patching the hole) strikes at the core of the efficiency of the Force and must be addressed without delay.” In other words – fix the hole right away.
Meantime, Rohee was about to return to the US Embassy to collect his visa but a goat was at the entrance.
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