THE EDITOR: One can fully understand that when the Prime Minister gave Fitzgerald Hinds the Ministry of National Security portfolio, he did not want to leave anyone behind.

As to why Hinds is still kept tethered to this post is beyond the understanding of many.

However, and arising out of this, what is clear here is that the PM has left the entire country, including himself and Hinds, to take the hindmost.

Those involved in internecine grassroots executions can never feel that they are at the uppermost, since they are forced to live in the shadows. Before they took to the dark shadows, they were the salt of the Earth.

It is not difficult to return us to a semblance of wholesomeness and decency. One of the ways to do so is to make gangland operations less of an option.

For the time being, many sucked into this vortex do not see themselves as having choices.

It is the job of anyone desirous of being a part of a meaningful reformation process to consider the implementation and fast-tracking of viable options for would-be murderers.

If a human being is murdered within a few feet of the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, or less than a mile away in either East Dry River or the foothills of Laventille Road, that should be of equal concern for us.

But it is not.

What the Brits think of us and if an England sports team is ordered to be more or less sequestered at the Hyatt during their time here is of little concern to the world market price of LNG or for a barrel of oil in our hydrocarbon-based economy.

And yet the location of a murder is of paramount significance for our sensibilities.

We need to be less reactionary to the ultimately inconsequential, and instead refocus our concerns towards righting the consequences of our joint abdication of what should always have been our collective concern: our people.

MICHAEL RAHMAN

WOODBROOK

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