THE EDITOR: HAVING returned from his voyages to Ghana and India we were expecting to hear that Prime Minister Rowley was bestowed with chieftain in Ghana and a verbal medical report on the health of Nana and Nani, and a partnership agreement with Reliance Industries on the establishment of a cricket academy to rival Brian Lara’s.
His exclamation of “unnecessary bacchanal” could only be the result of his assignment of duties prior to departure. Delegating the reins of the nation to a greenhorn substitute was provoking a wasp nest.
Has the Minister of Finance shown proficiency in this area without assistance? On-the-job training rarely gives an individual total experience of the grey corners of a job. Furthermore, this finance minister has not shown the temperament of an accountant or even the propensity to observe the watchwords of the profession.
Acknowledging mistakes of that magnitude requires humility, not lame excuses, not fabricated answers and should even shy away from the willingness to go to court to get justification from a supporting body that is potentially pro-government.
The Auditor General represents the people and is the protector of the treasury so that the Finance Ministry must come squeaky clean to face the scrutiny of the Attorney General, not the other way around. I hope Dr Rowley has enough court clothes to take a walloping from Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass, the giant.
Bacchanal two: I feel sorry for the Minister of National Security and the Commissioner of Police, the scapegoats, the hosts for a number of failures, yet still Erla Harewood-Christopher is the best option.
Was her job specification ever made public or everyone was left to speculate? Did the high rating come from business and John Public, or people with sinister intentions?
Media reports gave the impression that solving crime was Harewood-Christopher's mandate. Do citizens feel any safer? Is there a reduction in murders? Corpses are carted to the mortuary in fours.
Crime is a societal problem and no one person can shoulder that responsibility, though someone can lead an institutional charge against it. Our assumptions led us to think that making the TTPS an institution that protects the law was priority.
What do we have instead? The membership divided between renegades and those who know only about protecting and serving; ammunition and guns unaccounted for; rental of uniforms and those who will die with their boots on; and Police Complaints Authority officials wearing the body cams (to save face) that were intended for the patrolling police officers.
Has Harewood-Christopher corrected any of these ills and sealed the cracks in the TTPS? Most plans to curb crime were advertised as the brainchild of the CoP. Who claimed success on her behalf?
Was Gary Griffith given another chance, this time unbiased? Or his blissful bubble punctured for good? Did the selection panel search as far back as the possibility of the return of former police commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and deputy commissioner Jack Ewatski? Is th
