By Taurus – The Heckler
OUR COALITION COLLAPSE
Would you all believe it? AQUARIUS has abruptly left our one-week coalition. Those of you who saw/read our first edition last Thursday would have seen, the by-line, “Aquarius and Taurus, the Hecklers.” Raging that she, by virtue of being a part of the first month of the year, should get “priorities”, she fumed, did not contribute and sent in her resignation. Good riddance! I Taurus will no doubt see her appearing elsewhere – like bald-plated, toupeed RAV 4. So I go it alone ‘til the next government is in place. (After all I was born, decades ago, on the 11th May 1944)
CAMPAIGN MUSIC
Music, Songs and Dance. Typical Guyanese – Caribbean elections campaigns bring out the expressive creative arts in both campaigners and voters. In Trinidad the Opposition refers to the ruling Party’s “Rum-and-Roti” campaign. In Guyana it’s music, song and dance fuh so at the “rallies”
Original Party Songs and Jingles, various drums and dance moves. BOB MARLEY’S spirit especially, should bring some copyright laws as the major parties here invoke his messages, as theirs.
Meanwhile, it is rumoured that the Elections Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) is considering a BAN on all songs with the slightest hints of RACISM. This means that “Tonite the Blackman going to party”, Mystic’s popular “Coolie Bhai”, calypso Monarch Perai’s reference to “Buckman” and similar songs might not be played or sung by contesting parties at this time. What a shame, right?
PRIME-IN-WAITING
Interesting are the various Prime-Ministers-In-Waiting or as the Americans long-invented, “the Running-Mates.” What political irony if Moses gets through! Couldn’t be President via his then lifelong PPP. But Prime Minister through AFC-PNC?
Taurus is wondering how fair that is to folks like Rupert, Nigel, Vincent, Carl and so on. What? They still could be Presidents? VICE-Presidents? Okay
Elisabeth (“Lis”) surely has cool looks, lasting charm, professional expertise and lots of guts. She served under Rohee with distinction but Taurus hopes that the folk proverb “When yuh lie down with dog puppy, Yuh get up wid dog flees” will not apply to the good lady. She married a national cricketer so it is hoped that she’s never caught in the slips.
PARTING SHOTS – In Creolese
- LGBT QUANDARY – de local LGBT community an electorate is facing serious election challenge. Dey need candidates dat could represent dem in any new government. Dey see no obvious choices as yet. So dey might juss launch dey own party. Dey could get thousands of members and volunteers.
But dat group itself gat class – structure: from de closet, sometimes marrid, professionals to dem bhais, girls and oddas wukking nitely outside de Cathedral. Dem latter know of big ones in big parties dat guilty of serious abuse. So who to vote fuh? Polling is of lifelong, importance, after all.
By April seventh decisions gun be made. Dey tekking to de streets on Nomination Day alongside all dem goats, cows, lion, sheep and donkey dat vex. Two a dem gun appear on Party list too.
- But look Rohee face when e seh 73% a wee happy
- Cheddi did ask Asgar Ally why e-sgar – need two/three kyar. An Henry Jeffrey relate how, in Bartica, e leff de Doc darning e sacks in e room. Y’all guess how much sacks de Earth Champion gat.
- Man, y’all know dat if de Coalition accept de leader of de Healing/Theocracy Rasta Party we in Guyana will lose de chance of getting de fuss Rastafari Prime Ministuh in de region – Guyanese Canadian Ras Leon from New Amsterdam?
- HEAR DIS ONE! A lil bhai did grow up in a home dat was thoroughly, completely PNC. Pure Burnham dat lil bhai hear all e young life. So when was time to pul out two teet e granmuddah she she goin to tek e to Dr. Jagan to tek dem out. Hear de poe lil fella. “No-no Granny doan kyarry me to JAGAN, kyarry me to BURNHAM!”
STAY SAFE, VOTE WISE.