- Pardoning lawlessness? Ryhaan’s take - Immigrants of quality! Dammit!
Yes, Mocha and Arcadia is getting much closer to the “Good Life”. More quickly now. Delighted supporters were also told of lands being reclaimed from those who acquired them unfairly years ago. And I loved the words of the Housing Minister too. She assured the Comrades: “They ignored you but not us. We’ve got your backs.” Whilst the latter could be considered partial and political what community would not welcome them in terms of long-delayed rapid development?
Now I await the country-wide expansion of the sentiments and the village development works. APNU-AFCPNC government will now move into places like Canal No.2 Enmore, Port Mourant, the Baths and speed up needed assistance to these village-citizens. Even as Dr Jagdeo withholds “Co-operation.” No matter how the opposition supporters’ DNA compels them to vote. Right? Discuss.
Meanwhile across the pond in lovely Atlanta PNC Leader David Granger was waxing warm about his Founder-Leader Forbes. I smiled knowingly when the current Comrade-Leader asked his PNC audience to recall just how the PNC had “won” elections from 1964’68, then in 2015. How!?
Since others are “analyzing” Comrade Granger’s provocative remarks in Georgia, all I’ll posit is this: Will others, besides the PNC, be allowed any electoral victory in those 2020 Jubilee- anniversary- oilelections? Discuss…
Presidential pardoning of lawlessness?
Look! Early on, new President Granger declared two personal positions on crime. He is against the Death Penalty and he prefers even young convicts who (just) snatched (expensive) cell-phones to be in schools rather than prison. Now even I can win a debate defending his positions. But life is not a debate as it is about reality.
I bought the PPP-friendly Sunday Times on Sunday. I realised that activist Ryhaan Shah was back there after some self- imposed sabbatical. To me, both Ryhaan and Ravi, once rabidly anti-Jagdeo, have maintained a lively intellectual depth even since their seeming political epiphany. I like reading them, partisan or not.
Ms Shah was once again the victim of gun-toting car bandits- she wrote “feelingly” of related issues- like human decency, police ineptitude and the President’s “pardoning of lawlessness.” No time or enough space to comment on all that today. Bandits know not what persons sacrificed to acquire modern telephones or cars. Bandits- convicted or not- ought to be severely sanctioned by all sections of society. Especially by leaders. Me? I’m for both rehab and hard labour more later.
Immigrants of quality!
US President Donald Trump surely comes off as a maverick President. A non- conformist businessmanpolitician.
Frankly Speaking, I believe that Mr Trump speaks openly what others- especially his Nationalistic basethink and keep private.
Remember when our President Hoyte selected persons for the Georgetown City Hall and branded them “citizens of quality”? Well Mr Trump is in favour of immigrants of quality. The Statue-of–Liberty poem welcoming the world’s oppressed poor, “huddled masses” has outlived that welcome. America teems with diversity already. How much more must it accommodate when other parts of the world could be assisted to welcome the earth’s down-trodden - refugees and all?
Trump favours merit-based immigration into his country. What’s so wrong about that? Canada Australia, Israel, many others accept only whom they need for their purposes. Why not America? Discuss…
Time to ponder…
● 1) Keep your eyes and ears open regarding the two giant drug busts involving the racer- Cocaine in lumber- and the very recent one- Cocaine in rice. What will become of possible cases?
● 2) Real hope for crime-fighting? The massive Chinese police gifts, decentralisation and brand new senior officers?
● 3) When will the owner of old Co-Op Bank building in Stabroek begin…
● 4) Imagine the chaos on Georgetown’s pavements and sidewalks for the 2017 “season”.
● 5) What would Daddy Shiv Chanderpaul bother to tell son Tagenarine-Brandon if they are at the crease together?
’Til next week!
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