– Exploiting `compromise’ strategically
`Officer’ Lowenfield: The man in command
I know I would have quoted His Excellency’s Under-rated “Quip” – “Because I en leafing fuh juss now” – many columns ago. But because I love and respect creolese as part of our very Guyanese being and because I recognised the potent and portent nature of His Excellency’s lapse into Creole, I touch again on the implications inherent in the Leader’s “joke”. From my own strongly-held perspective, of course. Ok! Repetition for emphasis!
You see, at the beginning of June – say fourteen (14) weeks ago. His Excellency toured an East Bank Demerara Housing Project accompanied and guided by another of his former GDF Officers, Comrade Lelon Saul, Head of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH and PA), (I like something about that CEO army fellow…) When on the following Friday, I sought to caution and remind critics and all citizens of His Excellency’s real Presidential Power, I wrote the following.
“…provided for by Article 89 of the constitution, His Excellency is the State’s Supreme Executive Authority and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Services of the Republic”.
