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EGG AND SPOON DERBY – by Ewalt (Waltie) Ainsworth
10 19 2011

President select, representing the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, is trying hard, hard to duck out of the organized debate and socially engineer an egg and spoon derby as a substitute. Little does Ramotar know that a sobering tenet, a selling point for ideology and ideas and a building block for democracy is a great debate. Ramotar and those who are propping him up are instead poking fun and boring holes in his tinder box personality.
Money does some things but for everything else there is a great debate. In North America, the Republican Party will have another 12 more debates among themselves,. One sincerely hopes that Mr. Ramotar can see the wisdom in having at least two sessions against APNU’s David Granger and AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan. And then another one at least between the Prime Ministerial candidates: Sam Hinds, Rupert Roopnaraine and and Donald Trotman. There are about 40 days and 40 nights to election.

Please be reminded that if you cannot speak, you cannot lead. Do not blow an opportunity to sell yourself or else you will be sold out by those whom you presume and/or assume you represent. Statistically, you are leader of a minority party (Indo Guyanese are now around 40 %) while the combination of Afro-Guyanese, Mixed races, Amerindians, Portuguese, Chinese and others is around 60%.

The egg and spoon derby used to be a prominent feature at ethnic mass games and school sports of yesteryear, in the BC (before Cheddie) era. It used to be organized for a 100 yard dash involving competitors from the various competing school districts, just like the elections. Mr. Ramotar is among equals, grown men with a chemical dependency. They all have to keep their doctors close and ensure that they take their medication and exercise at the prescribed times.

Mr. Ramotar may not be able to articulate his plans, policies and programs for the Guyanese people and rather than embarrass himself against the reconstituted AFC and APNU, he is suggesting an egg and spoon derby.

Mr Ramotar over the last 18 years, has been preparing for this athletic event by eating “the roti with the elephant on the package,” according to informed sources. It has been reported that he has been part and parcel of the deliberate plan to sell unprocessed lumber logs to non-traditional markets; banking foreign exchange transfers in overseas banks; assigning embassy appointments to unqualified party supporters, while importing scores of containers rammed with undeclared contents. Maybe he is afraid that sensitive questions will be asked if there are debates.

Also ..having recipients of laptops signing absentee ballots, is also deceptive and punishable by law. Talk half, leff half.

The proposed debate is not to embarrass or make any one feel less than or more than. The debate is about getting an opportunity to cohesively present an action plan that will make Guyanese regain their core beliefs in themselves and good government.

Going back to the egg and spoon derby is the moral equivalent of back sliding, hocus-pokus, dilly-dallying and postulating. None of the other parties not the AFC, TUF, GPP, APNU, AFC, WPA or the rest, will be afflicted and or affected by this preposterous notion.

Mr. Ramotar, some advice: “speak now or forever hold your egg and spoon.”

The Author:
This article/story is one of many on this site that has been written by Guyana-born Ewalt (Waltie) Ainsworth. He left Guyana in the early 1980′s and now lives in New Jersey. He is now almost totally blind but this impediment has not stopped his academic studies or his ability to craft his interesting and sometimes amusing stories about Guyana, the USA, and life. E-mail: jenewalt@aol.com
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The Author:
This article/story is one of many on this site that has been written by Guyana-born Ewalt (Waltie) Ainsworth. He left Guyana in the early 1980′s and now lives in New Jersey.


He has anything to say about New Jersey? The fat governor there should be the butt of his jokes.
TI

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