If even regarded by some as ramblings or waffle, I return to my lead issues with pointed brevity.
In this week’s Sunday Stabroek an item not directly related to our pervasive politics, but, most likely, never-the-less, the product of our self-serving “politics” of governance, caught my eye, arrested my attention.
Captioned “Local anti-laundering unit remains invisible – – even as assets of suspicious figures being disposed of “ (Page 15), the story lamented one vital failure of the “strategy”, or lack of it, to arrest the success of local money launderers and drug-traffickers, to wit, the failure, indifference of an existing (?) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to “pursue (even) investigations into the origins of the assets” of even local convicted Drug Traffickers and Barons. The Court of Public Opinion cannot convict suspects but their nefarious wealth acquisition-activities are easily known by elements
