Letter: Fatal Breach of the National Trust

The people must be forgiven for believing that this Government is dishonest at least in its pronouncements.

Returning AG the Hon. John Jeremie announced his crusading intent against corruption and warmed many hearts for a little believing while.

Alas, naught of his promises has been manifested to change his party’s polity image.
In-your-face corruption is now pervasive in this land.

Outrage must not give way to submission to this evil pervasiveness. This official attrition must not succeed in its gnawing attempt to subjugate the will of the nation.

The Senate has just completed a worthless exercise to validate the UFF Commission of Inquiry, and the position of the abstaining Opposition has been vindicated.

The Government was not prepared to give any assurances of the effectiveness of the Validation, nor any promise of a completion of the Inquiry nor the publication of its report.

The AG merely offered an expectation based on assumed suasion that the Commission would not be stopped in its tracks.

This placebo has not worked. Magically, UDeCOTT has prevailed over the great PNM and humbled the AG, the PM and the entire Government at once.

But is that the true assessment?

It is not far fetched to conclude that the AG allayed fears to ensure Independent support for a bill that was never expected to be effectual save in its PR value for official concern.

UDeCOTT and its board and head are employees of the Government, and can be terminated. The Aegean stable can be cleaned with the water of official will.

But it is not being washed out. And why? Perhaps the filth is less dangerous than the malignant corruption it masks?

Was the AG innocent when he gave his assurances? Or was he party to a national deception? Did he truly expect the Lawyers of UDeCOTT to abandon their brief? The nation must be as ignorant as the Hon. Mariano Browne avers.

This Government has never met its promises. The nation is being violated on every front. This government must have a strong wish for national confrontation.

Its preparation for confrontation seems directed against the populace and not the criminal element that prospers under its patronage. The time has come again for the removal of the PNM. It is again an historical imperative for the salvation of the very soul of the nation.

The serial mishaps of this Commission add up to official chicanery. From forced appointment to orchestrated failure after pre-embedded faults from flawed Commissioners to compliant Government.

Senator M.F. Rahman, via email