I pledge, upon whatever honour I have left, not  to return to this issue for many, many weeks – after today.

What issue? What subject?  Oh well, it’s my (almost morbid?) fascination with how money and funding derived from cocaine trafficking is used to construct buildings, businesses, reputations, status – and even dreams.  And that in today’s morality, crooked ill-gotten gains are blessed and accepted, with bandit-barons laundered clean, now in “standing”, are virtually role-models-to the young, the vulnerable and the poor.  (It’s Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Jamaica, Afghanistan  and Bolivia right here in Guyana!)

Yes friends, you’ve heard and read me, ad infinitum, on this before.  Right? And like the few “righteous” left that…..