The pendulum swings

Earlier our country struggled to understand a ruling by Justice Herbert Volney in the case of the Naraynsingh murder trial that allowed accused persons to go free much to the astonishment of the ordinary Joe in the streets.

Now the pendulum has swung to the other extreme where Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls has imposed the maximum penalty on a once nationally well respected former Prime Minister for failure to disclose assets to the Integrity Commission. This has again perplexed the common man in the streets.

I think the latter incident will serve to reassure our citizens that justice must indeed be blind and must be, like Caesar’s wife, above suspicion.

Even the miscreants who today unsettle our lives with mayhem and murder will have to know that their day of reckoning will be a bitter one and the so called white collar criminals should take this as a warning that they should desist from their pernicious practices.

The country needs more judges with courage and testicular fortitude to make the tough decisions and to assure the citizens that there is someone guarding the guards.