As Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, winds down his three terms as Maximum Leader of Belize, the researchers will have an interesting time checking all the critical moments in the Barrow rule when he wiggled himself out of dangerous situations by pleading, “I don’t know. I just don’t know.”

Listen, rich man, your job as Maximum Leader is to know. That is why you have the Special Branch. You know more than anyone else in this society about everything. You are briefed about everything. From the time of the Elvin Penner passport scandal in 2013, you started this “I don’t know business.”

That is also just about when you made it your personal business to use your awesome power to weaken, and hopefully destroy, Kremandala. No one can take your many millions away from you, Mr. Prime Minister, but history will have something to say about your time in office. You were like your late uncle, the one Slide. You slipped away under cover of ignorance every time the people’s purse was being ripped off by your cronies. I don’t know. I just don’t know. And check it out. We didn’t even mention the one Vega …