Saved by de Speaker

My simplest understanding of de House of Par-Liar-Mint in particular Budget Debate, is dat dey are two sides” (i) de Nah-shun-all Executive in Par-Liar-Mint or de Go-venom-mint side, de ULP, elected wid ah clear majority of Seats and has de Man-date to properly run de Business of Go-Venom-Mint for ah five year term.

And de Leader of Go-venom-mint’s Business in de House is de Prime Minister, whose main responsibility is to ensure dat Cabinet Members attend to their Parliamentary responsibilities foh example, passing Laws, receiving all State Revenues whether thru Taxes, Dues, Services, Lie-sins etc, and in turn allocating these monies to Nah-shun-all projects, public servant salaries, Public Utilities and services etc.

Now to ensure dey’s De-Mockery-see, Transparency, Accountability, to prevent de ruling side from doing way dey hell dey like wid de state’s Finances, dey’s de other side, de Awe-position, de NDP, dat performs de role of ah Watch-Dog oops Watch-Man! Yes dis other side commands de minority number of seats.

As an act of precaution, dey’s ah punctuation mark at de end of every year, when de Party in Power who has been spending de money, is required by Law, to submit ah Financial Report, referred to as de Budget Session giving ah comprehensive account of dey stewardship. Dis year, de Minister of Finance occupied all of five hours to indicate what money was collected, what money was spent where or on what, what money is needed to continue bla! bla! And de Leader of de Awe-Position in reply took all of three hours to tear it apart. De next stage is not clear. De ideal situation would be for each Minister to give further detail of his/her stewardship over de last year (s), and den de other Awe-position members will respond accordingly. That would be an I-deal situation.

Dis year it is clear dat de Awe-Position did its Home -Wuk, and from de word go, de Leader of de Awe-position, Dr Fry-dey did not leave room foh de experts in Finances Fitz Bramble and May-Jah Lee-cock, he tore de Budget to rags. So by Choose-dey, day number two, dey were early signs dat members of de Go-venom-mint side ah Business were going to ask de Speaker to wine-up de Debate early Wednesday morning and Save dem de embarrassment.

But talk was circle-aching dat by Friday when de Leader of Go-venom-mint Business also minister of Far-rain Ah fear and Crime had planned to make his presentation, he would be long gone on ah Jet Plane wid its Transponder turned off, he cannot be traced. By de way whatever happened to de missing small Jet Plane dat took off from can-one last month? What is de story dat de Trandsponder was allegedly turned off? and she was hoping to hear from de PM de truth about “ dem High Man-tenants women dat causing de young men to be shooting up each other.”

She wants ah souvenir copy of de photo wid PM and de map of Guyana, oops Venezuela.

Now on ah very serious note, it is ah shame and ah state of Hopelessness dat de 2024-2025 Budget Debate, dat several Go-venom-mint Ministers failed to deliver an account of dey stewardship. While some feel it was an orchestrated plan, others are seeing sure sign “Captain de ship is sinking!” And wid dat is gone ah gone again.

One Love Bassy.

• Bassy Alexander is a land surveyor, folklorist and social commentator.