Dear Nesta,
In two days time, all de runnin’ up an’ down in Sin John gine come to a en’! We now enterin’ de “homestretch” an’ bofe sides pullin’ out all de stops an’ gettin’ real acid! Mos’ people believe duh know de results a’ready, so dey en no need fuh me to use a crystal ball to predick de outcome o’ dis fight!
Fuh de pas’ two weeks, Philomena an’ muhself been watchin’ a football match between de Dees an’ de Bees! Duh been kickin’ de Polyclinic ball to an’ fro in a game dat gine only en’ one way – a goalless draw! But dah en all, we been gettin’ real sport at de antics o’ some politicians!
I suppose desperate times call fuh desperate measures an’ anyt’ing yuh feel could get yuh a vote is worf a try. I got two priceless pictures to frame wid de BLP candidate starrin’ in bofe! One is wid he an’ de party chairman – still in de expensive hat bizness, I see – eatin’ roas’ breadfruit wid de Vice President o’ de Constituency Branch, an’ all t’ree tryin’ to gi’e de impression dat it is one o’ duh fav’rit dishes, an’ anethuh one showin’ he an’ de whole fambly up ’pon de platform one night, tryin’ to imitate de late Prime Minister slogan o’ “Families First”!
I t’ought Owen say dis campaign gine be “clean”, but from de way some politicians now behavin’ – wors’ in one camp dan de ethuh – all bets seem to be off! We expeck dat some bouncers mus’ get bowl, but wuh comin’ out o’ some speakers mout’s, en jes’ bouncers, dem is balls to stun yuh an’ put yuh in de Intensive Care Unit! Election time always seem to bring out de wors’ in mos’ politicians!
Duh cyhan stick to issues, duh mus’ get down an’ start de mud-slingin’!
I don’ like how de BLP tryin’ to push de fack dat Mara is a Sin Lucian! She not only was married to a Bajan, but she been livin’ hey fuh mo’ dan twenty years an’ got t’ree Bajan trildrun, so I en see why she place o’ birf is now a big keep-back. Now, ef I remember rightly, wasn’ it de same Owen Arthuh as Prime Minister dat push fuh de CSME to go t’rough? From my li’l onderstandin’, dat suppose to bring Caribbean people mo’ close, right? So wuh wrong ef Mara now tryin’ fuh a seat in we Parliament?
An’ to-besides, she won’ be de firs’ woman in dis part o’ de worl’ to get involve in politics o’ a country dat wasn’ she birf place. Amurican-born Janet Jagan was in Guyana politics soon after she went dey to live wid she husban’ Cheddi, an’ after ’e deaf, she rise to become president o’ Guyana! I really en see de need fuh all de fuss dat comin’ from de Opposition camp, ’cause it en neffin new to politics in dis area! De ethuh night one speaker try to slip in de colour card – now, dat was not nice! – all de time stressin’ de fack dat Mara en Bajan!
Somet’ing got muh a bit confuse! I keep hearin’ de word “dynasty” over an’ over, but de only one I could recall, was dah TV series ‘ears ago! I wonder ef it is dat duh talkin’ out? ’Cause ef so, I won’ be sorry ef it come back. It was a good show! But, as I say befo’, desperate times call fuh desperate measures, an’ yuh got to ketch at wuhevuh straw yuh feel might help out de situation!
De BLP candidate t’row out some fightin’ words when ’e promise to “Bring it home”. Come T’ursduh, after all de votes in an’ de counk finish, all I got to say is “Congrats” to de winner, an’ to de loser, “Try an’ try an’ even try agen; yuh might succeed one day”!
Tek care o’ yuhself
Yuh frien’ Babsie