Kamla's Flying Circus....

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, boys and girls of all ages - please direct your attention to the center ring where you are about to see the magic art of illusion like you have never seen before....Lies will be told and retold as if they were the truth...Grand Pianos will be made to disappear and reappear right before your very eyes....People will be employed by invisible people to head security jobs with magical qualifications from imaginary institutions...Ministers will be shuffled WITHOUT any actual reshuffle....and much, much more...

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It seems like the entire country is now one big top tent with high flying trapeze performers twirling overhead.

Magicians mystify on every street corner while we the audience, jettisoning our collective reason, are left watching the unfolding drama wide eyed in awe with a collective suspension of disbelief.

Did Empress Kamla really look into the cameras and tell the nation 'now that Reshmi has resigned move on?'

Has she gone mad?

The questions that are being asked HAVE to be answered and answered to the complete satisfaction of the people who pay her salary, chief among these being:

- Who recommended Miss Ramnarine to the SIA in the first place?

- Who hired her without checking the veracity of her credentials?

- Who recommended that she be promoted over many senior and seasoned operatives despite her lack of experience and necessary qualifications?

- Did she commit a crime by submitting fraudulent credentials?

- Who told Cabinet Ministers to lie?

- And who is going to be fired over this monumental fiasco?

Because like it or not, someone has to be fired over a catastrophe of this magnitude.

The Government that camapaigned on the promise of having ALL of the answers for everything ailing the country appear in reality to have none.

Not one; and the list of accomplishments that are read out over and over by them and their supporters could have been done over the summer holidays by a temp; if the Government appeared inept and off balanced during the embarrassing missing piano fiasco, they are now looking downright foolish and comical.

So who is to blame?

The one common thread throughout all of this appear to be none other than legal luminary to the stars and satin- draped caped-crusader - (taaa daaa) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan (flourish and a bow), which makes me ask (because someone has to), why does this man still have a job?

You Anand, despite being surrounded in Cabinet by some mystical creatures (who possess amazing powers of zaniness in their own right), you Sir are Kamla's Flying Circus' Main Attraction.

You have become the Head Jester and the spectacle we are all waiting to see.

Your comical inability to function in the position you were appointed to is becoming obvious to even blind Party supporters and the list of failures on your watch are too long for eight short months; they really ought not to be excused any further and I think you yourself know this.

The proper and decent thing to do when you realize that you are in over your head my friend, is to come clean  to yourself and to others, as admitting the problem is the first step to redemption.

Anand, we don't know how we are going to get along without you, but we are willing to try; for what remains of your integrity, for the national psyche and for the good of our beloved country, follow Reshmi's glowing example and do the right thing and resign.

Before you bring the whole damned Big Top Circus right down with you.