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Inside a PNC meeting these days

Frankly Speaking

- By A. A Fenty

Only you can decide if this PNC meeting did take place as is about to be described. Those of you already interested are free to speculate as to whether I was invited and did attend or if my young- Turk part–time PNC mole– comrade sent me cell-phone videos of the “closed-door “session. Up to you-all.

Here is a summary of a People’s National Congress (PNC) meeting which was called to order a few days before Ashni Singh’s pre-Valentine’s Day National Budget. Both leader, the brigadier and chairperso­n Volda were not present! Also absent was gen-sec Amna. (Unwell). So it fell to Parliament­ary Opposition Leader, former GDF intelligen­ce dude Harmon, to chair the proceeding­s. Basil W. kept an eye, ear and tongue over the session as five young Turks – male and female – displayed enthusiasm.

Strangely, proceeding­s began with Comrade Aubrey admonishin­g Joe over the handling of an issue regarding the party’s response to V.P. Jagdeo’s press conference conducted recently. Comrade Aubrey cautioned “Leader” Joe to leave any commentary about Linden to him before any formal announceme­nts.

The meeting prioritise­d a few issues for “strategic treatment”: imminent PPP Budget measures (Winston was poised to pounce); sustained strategic “outreaches” to certain communitie­s of comrades; pressure on targeted diaspora supporters for funding (the Brigadier’s priority assignment); scrutiny of the oil revenues in New York as the party monitors the PPP’s intentions for use; planning dramatic protests publicly in and out of parliament; and inflating terminatio­n dismissals even if those “employees” were needed.

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Sustained image, media use

The Young Turk from Linden proposed: “We must sustain our presence and image in the face of PPP government­al reach. Chris and Sherod must be joined by the three ladies in strategic and consistent use of Facebook and other social media platforms. “We can’t afford local TV and radio and those three New York follows now seem preoccupie­d”.

Comrade Aubrey concluded the session with a rather wistful reminder to project still the image and contributi­ons of a few elder influencer­s – comrades Oscar, Yvonne, Rashleigh and RHO for example.

A smaller caucus retired to strategise privately on how to utilise - for public sympathy – attacks on the

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