Yes, my regular readers would discern whenever I attempt to be escapist. To avoid the unrelenting stress of “Pressing matters of national significance.” (Just how does a certain columnist manage to buse the government every day!? Mind you, this administration lends itself, easily attracts criticism and hostility. Even from angels! But I’m incapable of sustained hostility. Hats off to that gentleman for his mental strength and dogged mission of regime change.)
So today I border on the light-hearted though you’ll detect that the levity still transmits both the resignation and recommendations of thousands of depressed, dispirited and frustrated citizens, some given to hopelessness.
The quote in the lead caption was uttered by a well-known young business executive as we remarked on the tragi-comedic goings-on at Georgetown’s City Hall. Thoughts were exchanged on the Local Government Ministry’s innovation of implanting hand-picked “IMC’s” – Interim Management Committees- to supplant locally elected councils throughout the country when those who were elected, democratically, to administer their communities lapsed, for one reason or the other.
More often than not, it is alleged that the government would impose those who favoured it on these “committees” charged with running the communities for
