– So what else is new?
HOW can anyone take the PNC leadership seriously? While the Government is engaged in the serious business of nation-building they are engaged in a number of puerile and fractious activities, meant to cause destabilisation in the land.

And the same way in which an ignorant child playing with matches can set a home afire, their destructive, divisive and puerile actions can cause a conflagration in the nation (as it has done many times before.)

All across the country workers are engaged in activities that build, not destroy. They keep their politics for elections and then concentrate on the serious pursuit of living in this nation of diverse cultures, where interaction and interrelation is a way of life for the average Guyanese.

A group of concerned citizens have been taking a leaf out of the opposition book and protesting against their nefarious pursuits, which has raised the ire of the opposition cabal, including their colleagues in the media.

The group was assaulted, threatened and chased from in front of Congress Place, which is true to the character of a Party that its own members accuse of rigging elections, and which demonstrates against what they term “undemocratic behaviour” by some persons, while denying others the right to do the same.

Without any evidence, again as per their norm, they have accused the PPP/C of “paying” the protestors, without considering that Guyanese are fed-up of their posturing and destructive behavior, especially their encouragement and championship of criminal elements in the society, who attack everyone, regardless of race or other considerations.

So, in the most childish manner, they in turn picketed Freedom House, in a tit-for-tat reaction, with their placards bearing the most scurrilous and unjustified accusations.

PNC Georgetown chairperson, Volda Lawrence, as was reported in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, said that their picketing activity outside of Freedom House was in retaliation for the protest conducted outside of Congress Place.

What was frightening, however, was the warning she issued, as reported by the Stabroek News.

Her words: “…if ‘they’ are willing to send protestors to Congress Place then ‘they are looking for trouble’” is a direct threat to the occupants of Freedom House, and given the type of persons who support their protests and related actions, and the history of this nation, one cannot help but become alarmed, especially when one recalls the consequences of “slow fiah, mo fiah” utterances and a bomb meant to demolish PPP leaders that martyred young Michael Forde instead.

And anyone who is aware of the role re-appointed PNC lieutenant, Hamilton Green has played in the history of this country knows that his current involvement with the Party has provided an even greater reason for citizens to fear the outcome of Lawrence’s actions and words.

And their penchant for blaming the Government and the PPP/C for every ill, no matter if the evidence is unsubstantiated and the accusations unjustified, hallmarks their traditional antics and semantics.

As in this instance where they have discovered that they do not have the monopoly on protests, and their chagrin at the discovery that their own “kith and kin” have seen through their posturing and meaningless and empty rhetoric and are intent on taking them to task for the destruction and division they have traditionally vested upon this nation, which is once more resulting in more threats by the PNC – so what else is new?