IT has been in the headlines for weeks now, that is, the President’s pension plan. It is certainly the main idea for many a columnist since the Christopher Columbuses suddenly stumbled on the discovery that Jagdeo is the first president in the history of Guyana to get an astronomical pension plus emoluments far exceeding that of President Obama. This supposedly shocking revelation was designed to elicit widespread condemnation and if necessary mass protests. After all, it is election season and “the people” ought to hold these corrupt individuals accountable never to elect them to office. The information might have generated some interest if any, but judging from the fact that it was coming from their own ranks, as the saying goes garbage in garbage out. No one, even those with half a brain, took them seriously because the information was grossly inaccurate, purposefully intended to beguile and mislead its hearers. Persons could have easily separated established fact from their fiction.
What is utterly jocular is that none of the campaigners for the high office (including the originators of this rumour) has ever indicated to the people that they intend to change the present presidential pension plan, which tells me that it is the politicians’ mistaken belief that they were addressing a brainless Guyanese audience.

Seeing their original objective did not get the support or attention of the masses they have now resorted to plan B: continue the spread of vicious and more damaging rumours. The PNC/APNU with its poodle-like AFC are now levelling complaints against the PPP/C,  claiming their activists are offering monetary bribes for the purchase of eligible voters’ identification cards. What garbage! Why would the PPP/C purchase ID cards? What could they possibly do with them? Let me remind my friends in the opposition that the system of voting in Guyana since 1992 is, and will be one man one vote, rigging is dead and buried, except for those parties which want to resuscitate the rigging dead via a requiem. We might never know.