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FM
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IT ALL STARTED…
FEBRUARY 10, 2016 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER FEATURES / COLUMNISTS, PEEPING TOM
It started with some of the colours of the national flag, except it was not the national flag, but rather, the flag of the then ruling PNC party, that was being flown over the Court of the Appeal.
This all seemed fairly innocuous at the time, but it turned out to be far from that. It turned out to be the case whereby the entire country came under the doctrine of the paramountcy of the party.
When you fly the party flag over the Court of Appeal you are in effect saying that the court is subservient to the party. When the highest court in the land is forced to fly the flag of the ruling party its means that the party trumps justice and human rights, and this is exactly what happened, and which led Guyana down the road to destruction.
It started with the simple colours and it ended with the Disciplined Services having to swear loyalty to the party, and their heads having to turn up at congresses of the ruling PNC.
It started out all fairly innocuously and ended with workers being forced to march in parades intended to demonstrate support for the government. It started out with a party flag and led to the party card being the chief means of obtaining jobs in the public sector.
It started out with the colours of the party and ended up with people being pressured to go and work on Hope Estate just so that they could obtain basic rations which were then in short supply.
Beware of those colours because the decline of the economy started with those colours flying over the Court of Appeal.
A Partnership for National Unity used the colour green during its 2011 campaign. The AFC used yellow. When they combined for the 2015 elections, the party paraphernalia were in the colours of yellow and green.
Today it is all yellow and green or green. The National Sports Hall has been painted in green, an ugly-looking green. A certain Ministry has bedecked its staff in the colours of green. The boats and buses donated by private businessmen to the government to transport children to school are all painted in yellow and green, the colours of the ruling coalition. These assets are now the property of the State and should not bear partisan colours.
Guyana is now in an election season. Local government elections are due within the next five weeks. The government when it was in opposition had complained about the opposition using the State and state assets to advance the fortunes of the ruling party.
The same argument can be made about what is happening today. To have public property bearing party colours is to be using the State for partisan purposes. It is unfair.
We can make light of the fact that the country is going through a process of yellowing and greening. We can try dumbly to ridicule those who have raised the issue. But let us remember how the decline in Guyana started, how paramountcy took root and destroyed this country. It all started with the colours of a party flag.

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Let alone KNews that is a both sided cutlass. The people who supported this and seeing the changes day in and day out, will also be affected overtime by these changes. There is no turning back. I stand by my belief of what I predicted from this government. I foresee nothing less of a dictatorship regime in the making. On May 26, 2016, the PNC will celebrate their grip on power and want every Guyanese to join in the rude awakening. 

FM
Cobra posted:

Let alone KNews that is a both sided cutlass. The people who supported this and seeing the changes day in and day out, will also be affected overtime by these changes. There is no turning back. I stand by my belief of what I predicted from this government. I foresee nothing less of a dictatorship regime in the making. On May 26, 2016, the PNC will celebrate their grip on power and want every Guyanese to join in the rude awakening. 

awwww shaddup

if u were paying attention, u would have long known that KN has a "PPP" peeping tom who balances the other one(s) with ole regime/now opposition talking points support

yes, painting the sports hall in ugly green is gross and infantile . . . is that the best y'all got?

smh

FM

yuji22, nothing has changed at Kaieteur News which you consistently labeled "toilet paper" with appropriate photos too. Save for a brief period, KN has habitually granted column space to anonymous writers of the PPP, APNU and AFC under the "Peeping Tom"umbrella. Not only that, KN Editorials are sometimes critical of the coalition. That's how the independent press should operate. Regarding the colors issue, green and yellow are good for Guyana like grass and light bulbs.

FM
Gilbakka posted:

yuji22, nothing has changed at Kaieteur News which you consistently labeled "toilet paper" with appropriate photos too. Save for a brief period, KN has habitually granted column space to anonymous writers of the PPP, APNU and AFC under the "Peeping Tom"umbrella. Not only that, KN Editorials are sometimes critical of the coalition. That's how the independent press should operate. Regarding the colors issue, green and yellow are good for Guyana like grass and light bulbs.

You fellas are out of your mind if you think the KN is critical of the coalition. KN has been a rabidly antiPPP paper....and still is. Peeping Tom is mild compared to the shyte written by Freddie sometimes.

V
baseman posted:
Gilbakka posted:

yuji22, nothing has changed at Kaieteur News which you consistently labeled "toilet paper" with appropriate photos too. .... Regarding the colors issue, green and yellow are good for Guyana like grass and light bulbs.

You mean like Mitwah's and his crew's Cummingsburg Accord?

And very true, alyuh light bulbs gon light up when you start eating grass, then green and yellow will become the new red!!

Excellent coloring work, base.

I give you 97.3/100 marks. Penalty for eyepassing Mitwah.

FM

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