Aug 11, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Great and commendable stuff, on the face of it. If one was uninformed, that would be the conclusion. A PPP Govt caravan rolling into the village. Village after village from Region One to the next, until all are given a taste of this magical mystery tour that is not such a mystery. From seniors to juniors, it seems as the whole government is on the move. Is there anyone left to mind the store in town? I’m afraid that some ruff stuff will now have to be dragged into the picture. This whole, big, government circus should not be on the dead bodies and unclosed wounds of those grieving over a hundred lost. Simple citizens are given the joys of 2030 in 2026. Would have been wonderful, applauded from this corner, but only if so many were not dead, so many questions still unanswered.

From town to country, and all over in a dazzling circle, there was and is the PPP Govt in motion. No one was so vulgar as to wear red. Since the occasion called for white, then white was the costume that had to be. I see men and women with their hair and pants on fire. Many would call that damage control. I call it dancing on the dead. Want a model city? Say hello to the right people. Been wanting a full-service government facility? It will be a reality before anyone can count to twenty. And, so the music played, as if in atonement for 100 dead. Sad sweet music that savages the dead.