Your Eyewitness is stocking up on popcorn for what looks like it’s gonna be a “rumble in the jungle” shaping up right here in our ole Mudland!! Over in one corner in his bright green trunks is the ever-pugnacious Noxious Norton from Bam Bam Alley and the PNC – and in the other is his nemesis Sanction Man – in his capacious slack orange Bukta!! The latter is clearly trying to get used to the colour he’ll be wearing for an indeterminate period in the general population of Miami’s Dade County penitentiary later this year!!
Behind the usual beef between competitors for the same LOO Championship Belt is Norton gloweringly complaining that Sanction Man’s fighting dirty by pushing proportionality only when it’s convenient to him!!  After WIN won 16 seats in the 2025 elections, APNU won 12 and FGM one, Sanction Man started jumping up and down screaming that the three Opposition-nominated Commissioners on GECOM should reflect the new reality – and be replaced by WIN nominees! He’d suddenly discovered the sacred principle of parliamentary arithmetic!!
Now, on the face of it, your Eyewitness saw a perfectly-respectable democratic argument there. Unfortunately, there arose the small matter of Opposition nominations to the Local Government Commission (LGC)!! When it came to appointments there, the arithmetic apparently became considerably less sacred to Sanction Man!! APNU, with its 12 parliamentary seats and a substantial elected local-government presence, was left out in the cold holding wood!! Sanction Man was clearly less enthusiastic about the proposition that the latest electoral results should determine who gets represented!! Imagine giving FGM with one seat – one seat on the LGC, but PNC with 16 seats ZILCH!!
So, Sanction Man’s emerging WIN “democratic” doctrine appears to be wonderfully simple – when WIN snags 16 seats, the election results gotta be respected but when APNU’s got 12, that’s arguable!! Your Eyewitness can almost hear the constitutional principle being sharpened to fit the occasion!! But Sanction Man can’t have it both ways!! While there’s nothing wrong in demanding that GECOM reflect the present parliamentary balance, if he wants to claim the mantle of democratic renewal, he better start practising the old-fashioned principle that rules gotta apply – even when the result’s inconvenient!!
But then this gotta be traumatic for a fella who cut his teeth on breaking the law about paying taxes on exporting gold and importing luxury cars!! So, while the PNC can hardly complain about being squeezed out at GECOM if the rules genuinely require it, Sanction Man gotta be careful about arguing for that while simultaneously treating the PNC seats like they mysteriously vanished at the LGC!!
After all, while sixteen is bigger than twelve, twelve’s still bigger than zero!!

…the doldrums
As you Dear Readers would know by now, your Eyewitness firmly believes that we over here in ole Mudland gotta keep our eyes like a hawk on what’ going on next door to our west in Venezuela – since no matter how you cut it, slice it or puree it, they’ll NEVER quit coveting our Essequibo!! So, as he noted yesterday, we’re gonna be hitting around 1.2M barrels of oil with our latest FPSO later this year – we should also note that Venezuela has already slowly inched past that already!!
But what’s more important than that bare statistic is they’re shipping MORE THAN HALF OF THEIR PRODUCTION TO US REFINERIES ON THE GULF COAST!! Those refineries were customised to refine the very heavy crude that Venezuela produces – and from which America gets the diesel fuel that keeps its factories and electricity plants going!! Our Brent Light mostly ends up in Europe – with only a fraction to the States!!
Combined with their 300BILLION Barrels reserves – this puts them strategically ahead!!

…our reverie
As the Warriors continue with their winning ways – as they did the other night against the St Lucia Kings – your Eyewitness expects that the seemingly less-than-stellar turn-out to their home games will turn around!!
Go Warriors!!

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