So the winner of last night’s pageant was: Miss Information! Following the Miss World high, the Miss Universe pageant grabbed the attention of the entire universe – and of course, the local onlookers were no exception. The show’s host Steve Harvey made the slip of a century by announcing Miss Colombia as the winner, then correcting himself by taking the crown away from the blushing beauty to give it to Miss Philippines. To add insult to crowned injury, in his Twitter apology, Harvey misspelled both countries’ names. The slip was so huge, that Guyanese even seemed to forget that unlike Miss World, we didn’t make much of an impact at this competition. Thanks to that, Shauna Ramdyhan may get off easy when she gets home. One thing is for sure, it’s a good thing Steve Harvey wasn’t the one who announced the results for Guyana’s past General Elections.
Pot & Kettle
Back on the local front, the political feud is ever brewing. PPP’s General Secretary, Clement Rohee has condemned President Granger’s move to pardon 11 mothers, calling it “haphazard” and accusing the President of abusing the Presidential pardoning process. Rohee even said that people should be allowed to serve their time in prison. The public accused Rohee of falling into a pot and kettle situation. Now, pardon me Rohee, but wasn’t it Ramotar who pardoned a child murderer who had been serving a life sentence? Persons were deep in discussion about Ramotar’s defense of his move on the grounds that he felt the man didn’t deserve to be in prison and thought the family had stopped grieving. If you ask me – I’d say both sides are equal as regards these controversial moves so Rohee should leave the criticisms to the public.
More bonus worries
I’ve said before that this $50,000 bonus got lots of problems surrounding it, and another trending topic proved this yet again as the PPP made known it’s call for the President to award members of the Disciplined Services an extra one month salary instead of the $50,000 across the board bonus. The Opposition stated that for many of the members, matching their salary would have given them more than the bonus given to public servants. How is it that the government can’t seem to please anyone this season? Will the PPP ever be content? Stay tuned.