(In honour of the late SN columnist Arthur Allan Fenty, who authored a column on Fridays in this newspaper for 30 years, Stabroek News will be running some of his earliest contributions. This piece is taken from the June 30th, 2000 edition.)
Real weekly fans of this column would have recognised, over the past seven years, that I have allowed myself to have pre-occupations with certain topics and themes. Had I the time and resources I would have studied, for example, worldwide immigration and emigration, the economy of narco-trafficking and the consequential implications for people’s morals, African under-achievement in a material world and the rule of law and how justice is dispensed. (If wishes were horses…)
Because I can’t find a copy, or my notes, I explore cursorily again the high incidence of guilty accused happily falling through our justice system because of prosecutorial deficiencies or what the law allows judges and magistrates to decide. In short, a few examples of how the obviously guilty go free.
