EXCELLENCY ALI OUTDID THEM ALL

America needed 100 hours of Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait in 1990.

ThemightyIsraelisrequired 90 minutes at Entebbe to freeitshostagesin1978. In 2023, Guyana’s President

Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali deftly dispatched with the state of this country in the mere matter of 78 minutes.

If I were to assign one minuteforeveryhourthatit tookAmerica’sarmedforces andLt.GenSchwarzkopfin the desert, Guyana’s almighty Ali outmatched, outpaced, outdid, and outflew the vaunted AmericanEagle,thissideof the Tropics. It must be the advance of technology

Perhaps,ithassomethingto dowiththesizeofthebrain, the packaging of words crammed into canned formations I wonder if Exxon used its good offices to recruit the Pentagon to guide Guyana’s Head-ofState as to what must come outofhishead.

Thanks for nothing, Mr President This is the sorceryofDr Transparency, his imperial majesty

ExcellencyAli. Foraman,a national leader, who could be garrulous with the frivolous, 78 minutes was nothing if not what is mischievous. Something has gone to the President’s head; perhaps, it can be tracedtowhowhispersinhis ear, what Exxon told to him that has to be said, done. C’mon, Dr President, one reporter per media house? Inthisdemocracy,andplace of free expression, one question only, Mr. President? I detect presidentialmuzzlingofthe right of the people to know what is happening in this “fastest growing economy in the world.” Tell the world, I exhort respectfully Dr President about all the hungry people in Guyana, andthosewhocan’tbuythe fare at the markets, maybe don’tevenhavethebusfare to get there Indeed, Excellency Ali Guyana’s GrossDomesticProducthas tripled, but an illiterate could have done the same with what is below the seabed,itisonautopilot,sir As the economy is tripling Mr President,howandwhy is almost half of the population in Guyana struggling?

IhearorreadaboutGDP r e g i s t e r i n g t h e s e astronomical numbers (and they are), but the secret, sir, is where does upwards of 90% of it goes? In whose hands, Mr President, if not those fabulous few, the less than1%ofthepeopleinthis country?

President Ali, the man markedly developing a gift for the gab, made doubly surethathisspinwouldgrip and drip in his choice of emcee for the royal occasion. IwonderwhatDr Cheddi is thinking Dr Ali (wherever he is, political or dental heaven), given the bestialities that were his lot fromsuchhumanresources. I notice that the president’s peoplegotslackandlazy,for there were their cut and paste jobs now regurgitated by the presidential academician turned statistician. Statistics is a dime a dozen, and can be rented from U-Haul or haul your you know what President Ali was in full RyderTruckform,intaking

Guyanese for a ride

‘ P r u d e n t f i s c a l m a n a g e m e n t ’ a n d ‘progressive policies’, lord, why even in a donkey cart economy, the donkey could be discarded, given the super steroids Guyana has strived on in the last few years. In other words, any jackrabbit, any joker, any jack-in-the box government couldn’tdoworse,giventhe presence of what the Arabs call the ‘black blood of Allah.’ ThanksbetoGod.

For President Ali’s enlightenment, the world knows that his so-called progressive policies are what strengthen the stranglehold of Exxon and HerrAlistairRoutledgeover Guyana.

His prudent fiscal management is what empowers foreign storm troopers to swagger around likegothicmedievalmasters over this dark sea of oil called Guyana. We have gone from the land of many waters to the land of many slaves,arguablythegreatest many serfs to be found anywhere, including in paranormaldomains.

W e h a v e a government and a politicalleadershipthat limit its appearances before the people, then limit them regarding when they can open their mouths and then how often. One question only, Mr President? Is that the best that the presidential gastric system, the presidential cranial capacity, can handle in Guyana’s glorious revolution, the span of 78 minutes? Andforthosewho have persisted before with i n c o n v e n i e n t a n d uncomfortable questions, there always is the Gestapo outfit, PPP owned, controlled, and protected, online predators going by the lascivious name of Live in Guyana to maim them.

Perhaps, both His Excellency Ali and the fabled emcee of Guyana’s political antiquity can stoop togiveGuyaneseananswer tothatissue.

Themoreimpressive(in hisownmind)thatPresident Ali believes he is, the more evasive, the more destructive, he strikes citizens to be whenever it is theinterestsoftheGuyanese people that are involved. A word of appreciation is giventothePresidentfornot being his usual aggressive and abrasive side this time around One hour and eighteen minutes were all that 750,000 Guyanese merited. Thanks for the time,Mr President. Aword of objection for the patronization and the paternalism Guyana’s President Ali learns at the feet of the best. Guyana’s Ali learns from America’s AlistairRoutledgeonhowto chainGuyanesetothefeetof Exxon. Ifthatwasagenuine national press conference, thenallGuyanesehavebeen condemned to Exxon’s fossilfurnace.

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