My Letter to the Prime Minister...

Dear Madame Prime Minister, as circumstances and space do not permit me much time for the niceties one would otherwise engage in in the penning of such a correspondence, please allow me to dispense with them expeditiously if not judiciously with a wish that you and your loved ones all enjoy good health at this time, and, that any and all who may not soon find their way to a speedy recovery.

Madame Prime Minister, to say that these are very confusing times is to risk understating that fact, and I write this letter to you on behalf of all the citizens of our great Republic regardless of race color, creed, class or political persuasion, and more importantly I write this on behalf of all those concerned citizens who are right now worried for the safety, well being and good health of our beloved country. Madame Prime Minister the people are laboring under the burden of your government, one that appears intent on soldiering on despite being hobbled by dark clouds of serious allegations of misbehavior hanging over their collective heads and it leading to social anxiety. It is clear Madame Prime Minister, that what has since come to be known as the Section 34 fiasco that transpired under your watch has indelibly broken the people's trust in both you and your government and that and all of the negative fall out from it continues to impact on the entire country. The sad reality Madame Prime Minister, is that because of the severity of these allegations you are no longer trusted to be the guardian of the people's interests and, sadder still, had we the means to fire you and your entire Cabinet for these most damning of abuses we would have done so already. Instead we stand here waiting for you to comply in a means and a manner that would see our country surviving intact as there can be no doubt that, for wrongdoing of this magnitude those responsible must be made to pay; in these instances Madame Prime Minister, as it would be a frustration of natural justice for you to be the judges of yourselves, all that is decent requires that you and your government be investigated by neutral and impartial parties to ascertain exactly what transpired, who were the architects of the plan and those others who might have been complicit in its execution. At this point it would be premature to say with certainty whether any of these allegations  are true or not, but for these purposes we rely on others trained to adjudicate and deliver judgement on such things. We may need to em-panel an independent Commission of Enquiry with a clear remit, and neither you nor anyone in your government can be involved in any way in the recommendation or employ of such a Commission.

Madame Prime Minister it is no secret that there are those who believe (and I count myself among them) that you are Prime Minister in name only and that others hold the true reins of power of your esteemed Office. Be that as it may it is still proper to observe protocols (even when you yourself believe them to be farcical) and I do so now out of the abundance of respect to the Office you hold. As students of history we learn that there are lessons in all things for those willing to learn and history has taught us that remedies cannot make themselves available until the illness is at first acknowledged.  Due to the nature of what you and your government stand accused of Madame Prime Minister, I ask for the record, for allegedly using the Offices entrusted to you by the people for seemingly evil intent and for being willing to uphold those who themselves have been demonstrated time and again as unfit to hold the Offices they hold, on behalf of the people of Trinidad & Tobago Madame Prime Minister, I ask you to find in your heart the patriotism and love of country required to admit where you have wronged and to clear the way for justice to be served, to dissolve the Parliament and return the mandate to the people.