Never the twain should meet

THE EDITOR: I would greatly appreciate your paper finding space to extend my deepest condolences to our Prime Minister, Patrick Manning on the tragic loss of one with whom he worked so closely up to quite recently. Of course, I refer to Mark Guerra. If we are to believe the police record of this high-ranking member of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen as reported in the press, the following question seeks an answer. What was the Prime Minister of this country doing holding peace talks with someone with such a record? Can any right-thinking individual envisage the President of the United States of America, in the era of Al Capone, sitting down to hold discussions on the then on-going gang wars in Chicago, with this procurer of evil. For make no mistake, there was little difference between the thinking of Capone and Guerra, yet the killing, gangland style, of this individual has invoked a sense of loss within the bosom of our Prime Minister.

E NOEL
St Augustine