Father Pedro must be turning in his grave!

Re: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161540781

Urban Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCoTT) board member, Anthony Cherry, is reported to have blurted at a hastily-summoned UDeCoTT press conference that:

"I can't understand why you are suggesting because there is a commission of enquiry we must take it wholesale. So you can sit there and be battered day in and day out, have all of your rights trampled against and sit there and say-the Government appointed it, so we must take what we get. There are certain ways that commissions of enquiry are to be conducted..."

At the same conference, Dr. Krishna Bahadoorsingh, the Deputy Chairman of the same board retorted:

"If (our line Minister, Emily) Dick-Forde or UDeCoTT's corporation sole, Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira, issues any instruction to (UDeCoTT) to withdraw its application for judicial review, it would not automatically follow the directive as it would have to seek legal advice...", or words to the effect.

They were, of course, responding to calls from within and outside of the Parliament for them to resign over UDeCoTT's decision to challenge the Uff enquiry in court.

Don't be fooled by his surname! Mr. Cherry's no virgin ---he's an attorney-at-law of long practice. Dr. Bahadoorsingh's no virgin either ---he's one of the most successful businessmen in the Caribbean, one who, over the years, has had his fair share of interaction with the court system, not so Mr. Elias?

Thus, both of them must know that the place where one defends oneself after a court action against one is initiated is in the court? Except, like me, one does not recognize the court? But, then, unlike them, I am not holding public office...am I?

In conclusion: I believe that Dr. Bahadoorsingh is a St. Mary's College old boy. I know that Anthony Cherry and the other UDeCoTT board member present at the conference ---Wendell Dottin--- are. The watchwords of that prestigious institute of learning is:

VIRTUS ET SCIENTIA

The trio of Latin words are deliberately set in the base of St. Mary's coat of arms, because they are the foundation on which everyone whom St. Mary’s touches in a meaningful way are destined to build the rest of their lives. In English, they mean:

CHARACTER AND KNOWLEDGE

The commonplace definition of “character” is: “What a person is when no one is looking at them”. Persons of steady character, then, are those who are the same in private as they appear to be in public. And the best definition of “Knowledge” is “Truth”, since to truth is the singular object of every pursuit of knowledge.

Regarding the UDeCoTT St. Mary's trio then, Father Pedro must be turning in his grave!

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