Kamlagate...

On the evening of last Friday the Member for Siparia and this country's Prime Minister stood up in the House of Representatives and failed in her attempt to put the issue of the controversial appointment of Reshmi Ramnarine to rest; instead, she may have inadvertently succeeded in opening a new chapter in the sticky  mess by implicating herself by her own words to the Hallowed Hall.

The point that many are missing in the discussions that have arisen since her pseudo apology is this; that the moment she got up in the Parliament and accepted responsibility for the debacle that is now being referred to as the Reshmi affair, she exposed herself as an accomplice and co-conspirator in treachery that was designed to deceive the people of the country, and then sought to use the power of her Office if not to deflect it, then to make it go away.

It doesn't seem to want to.

Even if it went no further (and it is fair now to say that it is going to go much, much further), the Prime Minister ought to have followed that apology with her resignation speech.

At this point investigations are being opened to probe and examine to see if criminal charges can be brought against  all those who had a hand in this foul deed, and Mrs. Persad Bissessar may very well have her term cut short by her own hubris and an arrogance that is starting to mirror the very person whom she replaced.

Having compromised the Office (by her own admission) she can easily be deemed no longer worthy of occupying said Office, and like many notable examples from history before her, the discussion and the matter should be laid to rest right there.

No amount of misdirection, revision and spin-doctoring is going to erase this from Hansard or from history, and i dare say many others who ought to have known better and who first treated the revelation with derision and haughty disdain may soon find themselves hoisted on their own petards.

Cliches and aphorisms, having stood the test of time, serve us well in these instances; Novelist Sir Walter Scott seems to have summed up the whole sordid affair most aptly for us all when he quipped: - "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!"

If it is true that those the Gods make mad they intend to destroy, then the script for this scenario seems to have been written quite some time ago, in other places, by people who thought themselves Gods as well.