SOME APNU supporters are only too ready to jump on Dr Rupert Roopnarine whenever he speaks on behalf of APNU. Increasing displeasure with Dr Roopnarine comes from his admission that GECOM has delivered the requested hard copies of SOPs. Apparently some are fearful that Dr Roopnarine’s concession of GECOM’S cooperation will undercut support for APNU’s lacklustre street protests.
Following the storm about the PNC’s omission of its former General Secretary Mr. Aubrey Norton from Parliament, APNU seems enmeshed in many little fires. 
Claiming the Speaker’s job has now raised the hackles of the ruling PPP/C which feels it should get it as the largest party.
Can achieving power-sharing and good old fashioned equality by threatening violent street demonstrations be ever reconciled?  A sobering realisation that APNU is seriously hurting its case for respect is still to be realised. Nevertheless, noting APNU’s top heavy military leadership, all this marching may be a strategic method in APNU’s madness to get power by force. 
The PNC is yet to renounce violence and terror to achieve political power. Mr. Granger actually began training to march in Nigeria to win wars.  With APNU in possession of the means and the motives it is working to create the opportunities to enforce its demands.
Unfortunately, PNC/APNU has been an absolute failure to win the peace and maintain it economically even if it were to prevail.   However, with his successful shedding of PNC leader Mr. Robert Corbin, Mr. Granger is the party’s emerging powerhouse and he may yet surprise.  Power-sharing is his new mantra.  Even though worldwide parliamentary practices find the largest party (PPP/C) getting the Speaker’s job, it also awards the second largest party (APNU) both the Opposition Leaders and Chief Whip’s slots.  However, Mr. Granger may now concede the Opposition Leader’s job to the AFC’s Mr. Ramjattan. Trading for the Speaker’s chair instead, they may choose to concede the Deputy Speaker’s slot to the PPP/C.  In effect, something for everybody exemplifying what they preach. Would APNU walk the talk of power sharing?  Allah O’ Akbar!
Will the WPA champion any acceptable compromise? Few opportunities for redemption exists after dumping the assassinated (they settled for the PNC’s “killed” description) Dr Rodney’s legacy.  WPA’s silence or avoidance of this course will speak volumes of their weight and equality at PNC headquarters. With Guyana experiencing a hung parliament the AFC does not want to be locked out.  They are also demanding   their choicest piece (correct spelling) of the pie, that is, the Speaker’s job. Wisdom suggests they be courted assiduously whichever party is to prevail.  The AFC however acts as an innocent virgin by joyfully revealing her first suitor’s private advances in public; in effect scaring away other suitors who may fancy her and has more to offer in spite of the suitor’s alleged shortcomings.  In fact, the AFC’s Mr. Raphael Trotman is behaving like a jealous old maid bridesmaid’s sister who ought to get more attention.  A “loser takes all” mind is difficult to waste?
Whiles the PPP/C was previously subjected to fierce criticisms (slow fire more fire) for racism and marginalization, the case was built mostly on a “winner takes all” perception.  Now with APNU (with only 26 seats compared to the PPP/C’s 32 ) unashamedly demanding “losers take all” disguised as shared government, will it be entitled to  a Nobel prize for matching racism, inequality and arrogance?  The second larger party’s traditional (APNU’s) entitlement to the Opposition Leader’s and the Chief Whip’s positions absolutely contravenes any justifiable demand for the Speaker’s job as well. 
Such APNU “loser takes all” mentality leaves nothing for the AFC and exposes PNC as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Dr Rodney’s former erstwhile colleagues are now in effect faithfully serving as cook (Trotman?) and maid (Dr Roopnarine?) to deny all Guyanese their meals.   A shameful travesty indeed!
Nevertheless, the PPP/C’s brains must drastically adjust to the reality they are a minority government. Their working-class base abandoned them due to the PPP/C’s neglect of their needs, fears, crime, drugs and their insecurities.  Will they readjust to a proactive accommodation to the opposition to compensate for their slim majority? Either they quickly and drastically recalibrate to compensate for their negligence or they sink faster without any meaningful changes.  Urgently pursuing the racial balancing of Guyana’s armed forces must be a prerequisite for everyone’s political stability. Alternatively, they must all concede either partition or federation are better natural alternatives.
While the PPP/C can  take  proud comfort that they have drastically  improved Guyana’s economic status, especially that of our Afro-Guyanese they nevertheless must face the reality of a black  backlash which preferred their “kith and kin.” It is conceivable that it may not be all race prejudice but also economic motives.
Despite a worldwide economic recession, everybody wants more goodies like some PPP/C elites were ostentatiously accumulating and torching the Jagan’s legacy of simplicity and modesty. Factor in the PNC’s graduation from its metamorphosis after Mr. Forbes Burnham’s passing and it is now a more lean, mean and disciplined fighting machine. While the PPP/C exulted in its grandiose rallies, a militarised Mr. Granger quietly amassed his former military foot soldiers and dealt both the AFC and PPP decisive blows in recouping former black supporters. Back to black, all taken back has certainly re-energised APNU with its race base now reconsolidated. President Jagdeo may be an excellent economic wizard in peacetime. But his silver spoon glide to power absolutely ill equipped him to counter or marshal the PPP/C’s neglected grassroots machinery during election time. With the PPP’s matriarch Mrs. Janet Jagan gone and experienced stalwarts sidelined and humiliated, the PPP’s machinery was in disarray and unprepared, especially after they cancelled their scheduled pre-election party congress.  Mr. Jagdeo must accept responsibility and accountability for his negligence because of his dominance of the party’s machinery.
However, President Ramotar is now in charge. He can now quickly recalibrate or continue to exclude experienced party stalwarts whom he now desperately needs. His wisdom will determine if the PPP/C rapidly rebuilds its party’s machinery and averts inevitable decline and disunity. Any PPP/C expectation that they must get the Speaker’s job (and Mr. Ralph Ramkarran has been very fair Speaker) must also undergo review.
Conceding that the AFC gets the Speaker’s slot (Mr. Nagamotoot?,) while they get the deputy spot in light of APNU’s capture of   both the Opposition Leader and Chief Whip jobs cannot be an unfair compromise. But the PPP/C has to take the initiative. The PPP/C may even alternatively offer AFC’s Mr. Raphael Trotman the Tourism Ministry, giving the AFC the Deputy Speaker with themselves getting the Speaker’s slot. The AFC has a very strong record of possessing multiracial support across Guyana to which the PPP/C aspires and which APNU takes great delight in frightening away.
Inevitably, any PPP/C accommodation of AFC must ensure the armed forces are balanced as a paramount pre-requirement in the deal. So far, APNU’s relapse to its traditional violent street demonstrations which inevitably leads to arson, attacks on private enterprise and always innocent targets evidences an inability to renounce violence and terror. Fire bombing two PPP/C supporters (Mrs. Philomena Sahoye-Shury and Mr. Odinga Lumumba) homes is a clear message that the opposition has no respect for democracy.  Notice the silence of the Guyana Human Rights Association, Red Thread and the religious community on this attack. Mr. Jesus seems to have completely abandoned the PPP/C altogether. The PNC’s name change to APNU was a clever camouflage. The experienced military expert Mr. Granger has even been transformed into an historian. He is a smart cookie all right according to the PSC’s Mr. Gerry Goveia, who worked with him. Guyana will soon find out if a soldier turned historian is equipped to manage its economic affairs in a worldwide recession. 
In fact, “the Egyptian dog God Anubis also known as (coincidentally?)  ANPU is a crossbreed between a dog and a jackal and/or wolf.  It was one of the most ancient of Egyptian Gods closely associated with funeral rites and the afterlife. He was guide to the dead and the one who weighted the souls of the deceased against the feather of Maat (truth and order). Greek philosopher Socrates referred to Anubis when he swore “by the Dog of Egypt.”
When one remembers how the PNC “let loose the dogs of war” (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) in the 1962-1963 riots, then dumped their UF coalition (1968) and subsequently refused to honour an agreement  rotating the Mayorship of Georgetown after the 1992  elections, it leaves a bitter taste of  fear and distrust.  Latin’s “Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem”- the wolf changes his coat, not his nature is best exemplified in Shakespeare’s Richard ll:  “Lions make leopards tame…. Yea, but not change his spots”. It can only remind Guyana of what the PNC seems programmed to follow.
APNU’s Ms Laurelene Nestor has already promised street demonstrations in January 2012. Soon we will know whose funeral rites will be determined when APNU continues with its “loser takes all” demands for shared government dishing out the agony of its public ecstasy. The ship builders of the spring armada have already been summoned from overseas. The attack dogs of war are currently rehearsing in the streets. Inevitably, many people in one’s nation in crisis are being shepherded to embrace separate destinies by APNU.   But look at the entire election results. Who amongst us is without sin…?