Prostitute?
March 22, 2013 By
Disorder in the House
Speaker Trotman, in all fairness, does seem to be a very prim and proper chap. So maybe we can expect him to overreact on occasion about etiquette and such things. But his charge that in the last session “remarks such as ‘thief’, ‘liar’, and ‘prostitute’ were just a few of the ones most audible” from MPs, boggles the mind.
“Thief” we can understand. That, in fact, is how most citizens see some members of parliament, rightly or wrongly. And don’t think it’s the government benches – at least most have a job to do – whether as ministers or otherwise – in which case, they come under the strictest scrutiny. And if they’re not scrutinised by all those parliamentary committees, then it’s another reason why the opposition MPs should be called thieves. What are they doing to earn their salaries? We know that they show up once in a while (once in the last month, for instance) to have dinner that sets back the Consolidated Fund a cool Gy$ 1.7 million a pop.
Some of them even wrap up food in aluminium foil to take (thief?) away. And don’t forget the two duty-free cars they get every five years. The law says it’s not ‘thieving’ – but you know who makes the law! But “prostitute”? Our interest was piqued: were there prostitutes in Parliament? We’ve heard of politicians ‘prostituting themselves’.
In fact, that’s also probably par for the politician’s course – part of the ‘promise them anything’ rule. But not actually being ‘prostitutes’. Were the offending MPs using the term metaphorically? Nah… our MPs aren’t known for their figures of speech. They just say what’s on their mind.
Well, all we can say if any MP knows that any other MP is a ‘prostitute’, they should listen to the Speaker’s caution. Nowadays, we don’t use such terms: we say ‘sex worker’. You may notice the gender-neutral expression. We’re now enlightened and we don’t denigrate any type of work. Every person has their own calling, so to speak. We support the Speaker and we don’t think he is a prude.
Real prostitutes
But if we’re honest, we must acknowledge that the term ‘prostitute’ as a term of opprobrium – applied not just to those who sell their bodies – does sometimes have its uses. For instance, how else do you denote the MuckrakerKN owner Glen “Mook” Lall’s insistence on printing his screaming headlines that “Jagdeo gave Ramroop TV and Radio Licences” when his own editorial admitted these were bought fair and square from Tony Vieira.
Vieira, a fervent anti-government PNC supporter, even wrote a letter to the Muckraker explaining that the radio station was acquired subsequent to a court case in the pipeline when the TV station was sold to Ramroop. In his Muckraker, Lall revealed the reason for his latest attack on Ramroop: he’d applied for a TV and radio licence and wasn’t awarded one.
Rip Van Gibson?
Who’s this quack lawyer Gibson? Related to that wacko Kean Gibson? The fella quoted British cases from the 1600s to claim the courts can’t intervene in disputes between Parliament and the Executive.
Is he aware that we’re a Republic with a Constitution that explicitly established “Judicial Review”?
Power plays
March 15, 2013 By
The “AFC gaze”
Post-modernists speak of various ‘gazes’. They mean that certain groups with power are able to shape the views of various ‘others’, based on their own (obviously subjective) perspective. So we have the ‘imperial gaze’ of the British defining us as ‘ugly natives’ who are incapable of accomplishing anything. One of the AFC main advisors (and close friend of its leader Ramjattan) Freddie Kissoon is one of those ‘natives’ who’s accepted that description of himself.
He projects that onto other Guyanese who, he accuses of never measuring up to the ‘white man’. Only Sunday he kept on about some NIS bureaucratic regulation that once again “proved” Guyanese inferiority. As if the U. S. Social Security doesn’t have bureaucratic rigmaroles. Another sick consequence of the ‘imperial gaze’ is Kissoon’s obsession with ‘colour’. Obviously, Kissoon missed the “Black is Beautiful” movement in the sixties. But there’s a ‘gaze’ that works at an even deeper level and is even more insidious and widespread – the ‘gaze’ of gender. Specifically, the ‘male gaze’ that has been in play for thousands of years to define women as inferior on all counts.
And that women must accept that definition and spend their lives trying to measure up for the ‘man’s world’. Thankfully, from the 1960s, not only ‘people of colour’ and ‘colonial peoples’ rebelled against the ‘imperial gaze’, but also women.
The feminist movement exposed the pervasive means which kept women in subjugation. First, there was the view that women couldn’t do certain jobs – and if there were no men around, then men would decide which women could get the job. We saw this ‘male gaze’ operating in the AFC from the very beginning.
Even though their founding members were from three separate political parties, Sheila Holder – the female – never qualified for the ‘rotational leadership’. Did goat bite her? No. It was just the “AFC gaze”. The gaze was exposed over the Gomattie Singh issue – when the grassroots- oriented woman was bypassed for the more ‘suave’ Chantelle Smith. This decision was made by the male Raphael Trotman who ‘explained’ condescendingly that Smith was his ‘friend’. So this latest blow-up over AFC’s Charrandass Persaud deriding a female doctor as ‘fat’ is not a flash in the pan. The sexist gaze is deeply imbedded in the psyche of the AFC leaders. Women should starve themselves into anorexic twigs. AFC wanker – perverts!
Goat bite SC?
This ‘get Rohee’ obsession is making even normally balanced individuals get off keel. No… we don’t mean Eusi Kwayana and his missiles from California. That old man – played eight – was never known for his ‘balance’. We’re referring to Brynmor TI Pollard, SC, who just fired off a querulous letter to the Stabber News, wherein he questions the Linden CoI “exoneration” of Minister Rohee.
He said he’d hoped the CoI “would pronounce collectively or individually on the issue of the responsibility or otherwise of the minister, as the minister of government responsible for the police”. Well, jeez, wasn’t the ‘exoneration’ a ‘pronouncement’? The SC also noted the AG’s mention of Guyana’s constitutional practice of ‘collective ministerial responsibility’ and claims “it does not affect the right of the minister to resign his or her appointment or the right of the president to relieve an individual minister of his or her portfolio”. Well, we should certainly hope so! Guyana’s Constitution forbids ‘involuntary servitude’! Thus Minister Rohee could have resigned – for whatever or no reason – IF he so desired. Evidently, he doesn’t so desire. And the opposition better get used to that.
WICB calumny
The territorial boards that make up the WICB (excepting Guyana’s) should hang their heads in shame in light of their rejection of Clive Lloyd’s candidacy for the head of the WICB. Permanently languishing in the doldrums.
Birthdays
March 1, 2013 By
The Kabaka
In their free, sponsored Muckraker KN’s column, the PNC expanded on their founder-leader Burnham’s “weltanschauung”. No, that’s not his proclivity to ride round on horseback while insisting that civil servants weed ‘bush’ at Hope Estate. It’s a fancy German word the image-makers at Sophia dug up that means ‘world view’. They’re engaged in their never-ending yeoman efforts to rehabilitate Burnham’s legacy.
You have to give them credit. Then again, King Canute couldn’t stop the waves by his command, could he? But he tried. Anyhow, not unexpectedly, the Sophia wordsmiths filled their piece with hosannahs to the “Kabaka” as their leader was known to the faithful, once upon a time. The Kabaka was the hereditary ruler of the Baganda peoples of Uganda and we guess the acolytes wanted to remind one and all about Burnham’s kingly aspirations with an African word. Roots and all that.
Now far be it for us to deny that Burnham did some positive things. As the dear departed Robert Williams once reminded an audience at Stabroek Market, Burnham constructed the Demerara Harbour Bridge, didn’t he? People from Georgetown, noted Robert, could now go over to Tony’s on the West Bank, dance past midnight, and still get home before daybreak. But he was human – not the unblemished god, the PNC column made him out to be. So we thought we’d offer a corrective.
Our foremost historian Walter Rodney, a Queens College graduate like Burnham, acknowledged the latter’s royal ambitions, but as one who’d spent time in Africa, didn’t agree with the “Kabaka” title. He dubbed Burnham, “King Midas” – who, according to Greek mythology, was the ‘man with the golden touch’. But with a twist – everything that Burnham touched, however, noted the world famous historian, turned to “sh*t”.
By the late 70s, when Rodney made the observation, all the projects the PNC mentioned in their columns recently, had indeed turned into faecal matter. Sugar, bauxite, rice, timber… everything had collapsed as people scavenged to make flour (banned) from rice. Burnham, apoplectic at Rodney’s taunt and at the Square of the Revolution, advised the WPA of Rodney (not to be confused with the present lot) to ‘make their will’ because his ‘steel was sharper’.
Within a year, Rodney was assassinated by elements linked to the army, which by then was headed by the newly-promoted David Granger. Of course, with the WPA’s Roopnaraine now Granger’s second in command, all might have been forgiven. So the PNC propagandists didn’t have to mention all of this. Happy Birthday!
Guyana’s Birthday
So on Saturday, we celebrated our 43rd birthday as a republic. And we certainly celebrated in fine style – with dancing and prancing in the streets of Georgetown to the sounds of high decibel music. We call our celebrations for Republic Day – Mashramani – which in case you’ve forgotten, means “celebration after a hard day’s work”.
We’re not so sure about the ‘hard work’ part but we’re quite sure of the ‘celebration’ part. With the Marriott going up at one storey every week, we know where ‘hard work’ is being done for sure – but we didn’t see any Chinese flouncing around. We guess they don’t celebrate after every day’s work. But if they hang around much longer, we’re sure they’ll pick up our Guyanese ways soon enough.
But one thing that stuck out was in all this ‘Guyanese’ celebration, the vast majority of the floats were sponsored by either the central government ministries or the various regions. What’s going on? If we’re all so gung ho about the occasion, shouldn’t more private citizens and companies sponsor floats? Or have we nationalised Mash?
Go Clive Lloyd!
We ask all patriotic West Indians to look beyond parochial interests (like what goes on in Caricom) and back Clive Lloyd to be called on for the revival of cricket in the West Indies. There’s no one more qualified – in every aspect – than Lloyd.
Honour your parents
March 1, 2013 By
Cheddi neglected
Alvin Thompson is one of our most distinguished historians in the region. As Professor Emeritus of History at UWI (Cave Hill) Dr Thompson has inspired more than two generations of Caribbean peoples. One of the more positive features of this year’s observance of our attainment of Republican status was the Culture Ministry’s invitation to several international academics to offer perspectives on topics relevant to the event.
Professor Thompson’s topic was “The Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763: Historical and present-day significance”. The ministry was obviously responding to trenchant criticisms over the years that Republic Day had become torn from its roots. Those roots, of course, had to do with why February 23 – was chosen as the day for the fateful transition: the struggle of Cuffy for our freedom. We must remember, said Dr Thompson, the role of our ancestors in getting us where we are today.
As the old people say, “We didn’t drop from tree.” At that time Berbice was a colony and Cuffy’s rebellion shook up the status quo for years. But the great historian didn’t stop as most do with a regurgitation of Cuffy’s exploits in the distant past. In the second part of his remit – ‘the present day’ – he reminded us that others of more recent vintage had followed Cuffy’s footsteps. And that we should also honour them.
Just as we did with Cuffy with the magnificent work of Philip Moore at the Square of the Revolution, he suggested that we build statues of the latter-day heroes. And he called names: Burnham, Critchlow, Ramphal and Cheddi Jagan. The first two already have statues – and Thompson singled out Jagan for special mention and acknowledgement. And it was not just because, like Cuffy, Jagan was also a Berbician.
Nowadays it has become fashionable in some quarters to rip apart Jagan. Professor Thompson’s comments were a welcome corrective. Jagan made his share of mistakes, but it’s patently unfair, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, to blame him for every problem in the Republic – and then some! At the most mundane level, Jagan, as a qualified U.S. trained dentist in the 1940’s could have enjoyed the ‘good life’ of a middle class professional – as so many of his peers did. He didn’t. Against a background of unremitting hostility to his call for ‘root and branch’ change in social relations, he irredeemably altered the trajectory of Guyana’s history. Positively. Build the man a statue!
Terrorised diaspora
The Guyana Diaspora Project was launched in Washington last Saturday. It’s being funded by the UN’s International Organisation for Migration and is meant to give us a handle on Guyanese who’re ‘outside’. We’re particularly interested in their ‘skills and resources’. Kind of helping us hone in on those who might want to invest ‘back home’. Not a bad idea actually. So many countries have done it successfully. But we’ll tell you why we think it’s going to be an uphill task for us. Most diaspora populations – for instance Trinidadians and Jamaicans – are very upbeat about their native countries. Not Guyanese – even though most of them haven’t been home for years. Why? The number one reason is the negative news they get about Guyana from the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Every week since they entered the main Guyanese diaspora markets they’ve been sensationalising the crime and murder situation in Guyana. And it’s not reported as statistics – but in blaring, lurid front page photos that make even hardened thugs, cringe. TT and Jamaica have much higher crime rates but their overseas newspapers still stress their positives. Clean up Kaieteur and Stabroek News and well-heeled Guyanese will be flocking our shores.
Sour grapes?
Ex-Speaker Ralph Ramkarran, who has tried his darndest to become the presidential candidate for the PPP since 2001 – and so become the president, now figures the presidency is too powerful.
A man’s home…
February 21, 2013 By
…is his castle
We’ve talked about rules being the line between us and cavemen. We’d looked at what was going on in Parliament with the MPs from both sides of the divide acting as if they were in a rum shop. One of the more disreputable ones, without a bouncer.
But it seems there’re elements determined to push the envelope even lower than the MPs. Word is that Mark Benschop just picketed the HOME of Winston Brassington, the CEO of NICIL. Now you might’ve heard of behaviour that’s lower than a snake’s belly? Picketing a man’s home even lower – way lower.
Explicit rules and laws aren’t the only things that hold a society together – tradition and customs, summarised as “folk wisdom”, play a crucial role. So it’s not for nothing there’s a PROVERB on the subject: A man’s home is his castle. Meaning, that in a civilised society – or one with some hope of becoming one – a person’s home is sacrosanct. You may harass him on the job, but when he goes home and closes his door, he’s entitled to peace of mind.
Now Benschop’s obviously determined to keep himself in the news. He was the “Wild Man” who coached Douglas to make the infamous tape with the latter brandishing an AK-47 on TV. We know he invaded the presidential compound. Pardoned by President Jagdeo he picked up right where he left off after his incarceration.
And now this picketing of Brassington’s home. So what if the poor man’s wife and children might be traumatised by him parading in front of their home? And who knows? It might just remind the youth-men and women from YCT, who’d picketed the homes of the chairman and CEO of GECOM after the last elections, to join in the uncivilised behaviour.
Why? We never heard any condemnation from their ‘seniors’ who ought to know better. In fact, several were rewarded by being sent to Parliament.
Where, of course, they just continued blithely with their uncouth behaviour. They’re in graduate school, so to speak. What was it that Martin Luther King said? “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.” But we hope that saner heads in civil society will stand up and be counted: condemn this descent into barbarism.
Grader failure
Our old piñata “Thunderbolt” and Rose cited a WIKILEAKS cable purportedly detailing former President Jagdeo’s “priorities” for his second term: “breaking Guyana’s wave of violent crime; improving the investment climate; a 10-year plan to climb out of poverty; better working relationship with the donor community; including more IDB debt relief with support from the USA; pushing for local elections; building parliamentary capacity; expanding civil society’s role; and opening the media.”
But incredibly, the dyspeptic duo, who obviously can’t count, concluded, “Of these eight priorities set by the second Jagdeo regime, only one can be considered as being achieved – debt relief.”
Now there’s nothing wrong about knocking Jagdeo’s record. Hey! It’s a free country. But at least don’t misstate the facts so blatantly. Let’s take a look. First, “breaking Guyana’s wave of violent crime.” Last time we heard the bandits terrorising Guyana, they were all killed – by the security forces. Then “the investment climate”. So could the wankers say why we’re practically the only Caricom country with five per cent growth rate? And this answers the next question of climbing out of poverty: just another decade of high growth rates.
Let the good times roll
And we continue. Which donor has bad relations with us? Unless they try to push us around. The IDB funds continue to roll in. Local Government elections are held up through the opposition’s lassitude. Civil society is being consulted and there are 10 new radio stations in the offing. Next question?
Bedlam
February 21, 2013 By
(Dis)order in the House!
To be human is to have differences of opinions. But since our days as cavemen (and cavewomen), we’ve worked out ways of settling those differences other than bopping each other on the head with clubs. But to read the reports of what transpired in Parliament last Thursday night, you wouldn’t be blamed for concluding that such information hasn’t trickled into Guyana.
The screaming and shouting from both sides of the House got so bad that THE SPEAKER WALKED OUT!!! You heard that right. We’ve had the opposition walking out (nowadays whenever Rohee is allowed to speak)… we’ve even had the government walking out, but probably for the first time in the history of parliamentary governance, a Speaker picked himself up and walked out of Parliament!
But a great irony was lost on the MPs – who just followed the Speaker out as if he were the Pied Piper of Georgetown. He should’ve led them down into the Demerara River to suffer the fate of the rats from Hamelin. The irony is that, of all the institutions intended to lower the rate of head-bopping in modern times, Parliament probably has the most intricate set of rules to prevent the sort of nasty behaviour that was displayed last Thursday night.
For instance, MPs aren’t supposed to address each other directly – their speeches are directed to “Mr Speaker”. They refer to each other as ‘the honourable this’ or ‘the honourable that’. MPs are supposed to speak only when recognised by the Speaker. The point was that it was admitted that the quest to take national power might fray some tempers – and the rules were meant to temper the said outbursts.
Throw out those rules – or disregard them, which amounts to the same thing – and what you have is the law of the baboon. The one that can scream loudest or beat their chest most thunderously carries the day. And this is what happened last Thursday. The Speaker’s words are supposed to carry the day, but the opposition showed what they thought of that office when they disregarded his ruling on Rohee’s speaking.
They obviously thought that having secured him his seat, he was supposed to overlook their transgressions of the rules. In a brutal further example of their disrespect for the office, when the deputy speaker had to temporarily take the Speaker’s seat, she refused to follow the incumbent’s precedence and denied Rohee his freedom to speak.
“Mischief, thou art afoot.” The course it will take is the destruction of Guyana – unless better sense prevails.
Double standards?
We noted with dismay the ugly verbiage on the Chinese government’s initiative to share news and information from their country and their country’s perspective via a TV channel. We emphasise that the granting of permission to broadcast etc are matters for the government to explain. What we’re concerned about is the attempt to muzzle alternate views.
The institution of democracy demands an informed citizenry that can make decisions on issues before them. We now live in a globalised world. How can the ordinary citizen become truly ‘informed’ if he/she hears from only one quarter? In this regard, we note the initiative by the U.S. Embassy to launch “American Spots” at the National Library and UG – with more in the offing.
As the U.S. ambassador pointed out, the American Spots will “have books on the National Parks of America, on notable American leaders, on U.S. history and government and Native American culture”. What’s so different about the Chinese initiative apart from the fact that the latter is more high tech? From a purely pragmatic standpoint, we’d better start appreciating that, as even the Americans are talking about a “Chinese century”.
Big eye?
What’s this unseemly fracas between the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)? Did the new building ‘full’ somebody’s eye? Put Guyana first!
Rod of correction
February 21, 2013 By
No licks?
In an age of increasingly unruly children – and not just boys – the United Nations’ push for Guyana to abolish corporal punishment for children in the family and in schools is going to raise a lot of hackles. The Ministry of Education (MoH) has already held some ‘consultations’ in various locales in the country on the issue – and were told in no uncertain terms by irate parents: “No way, Jose!!”
It didn’t help matters that in addition to advocating “no licks for any child”, the ministry was defending its “no child left behind” policy. That just convinced parents that the authorities were actively pushing the end of civilised life. While not all of them might have read Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” – which describes the inevitable fall into anarchy when a group of shipwrecked boys had no elders to enforce order – they obviously had hands-on experience with its message.
They knew that, beneath a very thin veneer of externally imposed discipline, there lurked, in their little darlings, multitudes of disorder. In our neck of the woods, shaped as it is by the biblical wisdom: “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame”, the ministry was asking for a revolution in thinking about child rearing.
And as we said, the evidence around them didn’t encourage experimentation when the older parents compared their own sedate school environments – created by the philosophy of ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ – to the rampant disorder that abounds today. Read the report of the South Ruimveldt High School recently? The UN, via the MoH, is assuring parents that children can be disciplined without resort to physical punishment.
While all parents agree that corporal punishment has a downside, they are adamantly unpersuaded that they outweigh the dangers posed by the ‘no licks’ road. When those parents look at the jurisdictions – such as huge swaths of the U.S. that have abandoned corporal punishment in their schools – they see a direct correlation with rampant indiscipline.
The problem with the proponents of the UN’s view is that they refuse to admit their position. It is also based on a particular view of human nature. They are convinced that children (and all humans, ultimately) are ‘rational’ beings that can be convinced through just rational argument. Sadly, while obviously there are exceptions, history does not support such optimism.
Once we weed out sadistic teachers, some condign corporal punishment can achieve wonders.
Chavez’s decline
It is obvious that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is very possibly fatally ill. While we were somewhat sceptical in the early days of his presidency, for all his bombastic domestic rhetoric, Chavez was very much a moderate on the question of Venezuela’s pretensions towards our Essequibo.
For this stance alone, which earned him the ire of his right-wing opponents – he deserves our well wishes for a recovery. Guyanese should be reminded that it was a prior aggressive Venezuelan president who nixed our previous attempt at energy independence in the 1970s. Loan offers dried up when Venezuela raised its claims. It is doubtful that the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric Project would have proceeded as far as it has if Chavez had rattled Venezuelan sabres.
Then, of course, there’s the Petrocaribe oil credit facility that has allowed us to deal with the volatile oil markets.
Last but not least, we have to admit that key to the buoyant rice production has been the Venezuelan purchases arranged by Chavez and then President Bharrat Jagdeo.
So let’s keep our fingers crossed for a full recovery of the Venezuelan president. Even a successor from his party might bend to domestic pressures on the border issue.
Fiddling…
February 15, 2013 By
…. while murders soar
The Emperor Nero, we’re told, “fiddled while Rome burned”. While he may’ve actually played a harp while his city was razed, you get the idea. Not surprisingly, the phrase has come down the ages illustrate the insistence of some to do nothing while knowing that something disastrous is happening.
Well, at least good sense prevailed on Thursday in our National Assembly. With murders, robberies and carnage on the roads rising in the first months of the year, the minister of home affairs, Clement Rohee had announced he would present his Police Reform Strategy to the legislature. We know we don’t have to go over all the back-and-forth the opposition has engaged in to prevent Rohee from speaking in that honourable Assembly.
Their bottom line was, even though the court had preliminarily ruled that no one (including the National Assembly) could take away Rohee’s right to speak in representing his constituencies, the Speaker had indicated that he would not comply until there was a definitive ruling. So you could understand that there was quite a bit of suspense in the lead up to Thursday’s sitting. Would the government have Rohee speak? Would the Speaker gag the minister? Would the opposition walk out as threatened?
As we said, good sense prevailed: Rohee rose to speak; the opposition walked out but the Speaker – like Solomon of yore – decided to do the right thing, for the greater good. Taking cognisance of the ground realities on the subject at hand – threats to citizens’ security – and that the minister was going to expand on how the state was going to address those threats, he allowed Rohee to speak.
He didn’t fiddle, (or more literally, twiddle his thumb while our nation was held at ransom by the forces anarchy. And so while we have thrown some brickbats in the direction of the Speaker in the past, we have to offer bouquets when he rises above partisan posturing. The rules of the institutions that govern us were all crafted to ensure that our nation’s well-being is secured. Those rules cannot be applied in a Procrustean and dogmatic fashion: it is not the letter of the law that is paramount but its spirit.
As for the opposition, we’d like to believe their walkout was just a face-saving gesture. The test as to whether they’ll fiddle while Guyana burns will come when it is time to vote on funding of the Police Reform Project.
To shoot or not to shoot…
The police have often been accused of simply reacting to crimes rather than being more pro-active. ‘Intelligence-led’ policing is the way to go, they’re told in no uncertain terms. So last Wednesday, the police got a tip that a robbery was being planned on the home/office of a miner. What’d they do after receiving this intelligence? They pro-actively ‘staked-out’ the location, until – low and behold – some armed characters disembarked from a car, and entered the premises.
Now if the police received info on what was going down, they‘d most likely been told about whom the robbers were – known perps of armed robberies. But whether they had this info or not, the drawn handguns clearly showed that they were not about to offer the miner a plaque. The police and the miner confirmed that after the robbers were hailed, they opened fire and the police followed Standard Operating Procedures and returned fire.
The wife of one of the bandits not surprisingly is quite distraught. She claims that her husband had ‘surrendered’ but was still shot, according to neighbours. These neighbours should come forward. But in the meantime, kudos to the police for acting rather than reacting.
La fiddling continua
With the National Assembly postponing Local Government Elections one more year (due since 1997!!) the fiddling of our local Nero (Hamilton Green) continues. Will we never have a chance to rid our city of this pestilential mayor?
Different strokes
February 15, 2013 By
