At the most recent GoB press conference, a controlled event (Gestapo style) for a few news people and a gallery of government officials, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington did not have to say that on matters ICJ he acts on instructions, that he is directed by the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. In the national interest he could have fallen on his sword. He could have, as they say in baseball/softball parlance, taken one for the team. Surely, the good fortunes of your nation come before your insignificant little self.

It is difficult to see Wilfred Elrington losing anything consequential if he had bowed out with grace. History has recorded that his ICJ performance was a poor show. The poet said that when a man’s got nothing he’s got nothing to lose. In the conclusion it was pointless that Elrington chose self, which on matters ICJ had been battered, crushed to a pulp, over nation.

History is never kind to people who sulk and pull people under the bus with them when they are fired. If Elrington had owned/tried to own the ICJ strategy, clutched it to his breast like his personal baby, he could have, to some extent, de-cluttered the path for the soldiers coming after. Instead, like brown skin gyal, hihn fling down the daam baby.

Clearly, it mattered naught to him that it was his party’s general that was stepping to the plate. He’s had his run, so a little gratitude was in order. The man should have protected his boss. Instead, he pulled his leader and the entire Cabinet crew down Davy Jones way with him.

Dean must come clean, or he will need a foe

Now that PM Barrow has picked up the spear, he will, if he will have greater success than the previous man of the hour, have to figure out how to explain to the nation why we should follow his lead to the INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice after he lost every case in the international arena.

Barrow knows why we lost at the CCJ, and in London and Florida. He knew that we did not stand a “snowball’s chance in hell” of winning abroad. It couldn’t have been for principle. A man can take himself to the guillotine, on principle. A leader has to know when to throw up the white flag.

Said Musa knew it was a waste of the people’s money to take a local case to an international court. Local rules do not apply abroad. Said Musa knew that local sentiments and ambitions did not figure in an international court. Did Barrow not know?

We can put aside all the charges by Lord Ashcroft, John Avery, and Ambrose Tillett that the Intelco was a retirement plan for boys named Glenn Godfrey, Ralph Fonseca, and Said Musa. In 2008, for perception or truth, we tried the latter three and found them guilty as charged.

The PUP, which had handed over the golden share to Ashcroft (what were they thinking, machinating?), realized that Ashcroft, like the shitn kid who couldn’t kech game but owned the ball, had muscled the whole show and ran away with it.

I prefer when a man puts his words in permanent ink on paper. Musa explains his truth of the story in his book, With Malice Toward None.

In his book, Musa says that his government challenged BTL’s monopoly for the purpose of “bringing down rates, expanding access throughout the country, and providing free internet to schools.” Musa wrote that for “the same reasons…our government entered into an agreement with Intelco in 2003…” But Musa’s government could not give Intelco a license to operate because BTL blocked it. Those of us who didn’t know the innards of our world, later learned that the BTL principal announced that he was British, and Musa had to back off.

When BTL bucked Musa’s agenda, he forced Ashcroft to sell. Musa borrowed the money, bought BTL, and then sold it to Prosser. (Remember that Musa had, shockingly, bought wholesale into Margaret Thatcher’s privatization program, so nationalizing BTL was not in his cards.) Ah, when Musa forced Ashcroft to sell, he, Ashcroft, won the condition that “they were given first option to repurchase, if any new investor failed to pay up, and further, that they be given the same concessions as were being extended to the other investor.”

Hmm, at this moment I am feeling a little phlegm in my throat, so allow me a pause while I go outside to dispose of that in an out-of-the-way place.

By the way – aside, aside – the American media star, Megyn Kelly, exposed something for all the world to see during her time on the stage. Megyn reportedly lectured some people who were upset with a white Santa. I won’t bother to delve into the complete story of that because I don’t encourage ridiculous. What is incredible is that Ms. Kelly insists that Jesus was white. How could such a highly educated woman believe something so preposterous? Well,the truth is that for a lot of white people, particularly those who live in the USA, history started in 1492.

Barrow had to know that we would lose those cases in international courts. Maybe, maybe he had a little hope that those courts would have practiced mercy, be lenient. But that doesn’t change the substance win/lose in the rulings.

They say Barrow dubbed himself/was called “the master of the games.” At some point in every game, there comes a long whistle. The whistle blew when he decided to take over the brief from S Elrington. Now he will have to tell the nation the real deal about the cases da foreign.

If he wants the new team, the one minus the jettisoned Sedi, to take us to a “yes” vote in April, he will have to put on sack cloth. That he will have to do. If he doesn’t he will not be able to swing the vote to the yay side. Sin admission of guilt, looking to Assad will not help much.

Some would call it high irony (I will stick with “interesting”) that the most credible person when it comes to the business of going to the ICJ, is the man whose credibility Barrow and company damned. Said Musa tried to hold on to his soul but he did become a pawn for base capitalists. But the record shows that he did not pursue cases he knew our country would lose. Barrow did, and for that he’ll have to swallow. If he doesn’t, he’ll have to lean on his foe.

Why Joe ditch honor

While scrolling the morning shows on Monday I came upon a gleeful Vaughn Gill (Vybz) gloating over a story that Fonso Noble (WAVE) had been suspended from his morning show. A quick glance at WAVE, and I didn’t see Fonso, and another glance on Tuesday and I again I didn’t see Fonso. On both occasions I saw Joe and that set me a-wondering, and worrying. Has this man no honor?

Before I go on, I don’t trust Vaughn Gill. I trust people who look like they love physical work. I don’t trust people who are so-soh words. The story goes that Mr. Gill tried to tamper with a banner belonging to Kenny Morgan and Zenaida Moya, and they beat him up. A man like that will carry beef, so when he speaks about people on the side of the fence that muscled him, you can’t trust. But, as Lovell said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and what my eyes saw was no Fonso, oanli Joe.

And that brings me to my point, that if da soh as Vaughn Gill seh, then Joe has no honor. Belize might have to fight yet and you can bet that Fonso will not want to be in Joe’s company. If Joe were British, he would have known that honor dictated he had to stand with Fonso, get suspended with him.

I know some people who might say I’m being too tough on Joe. They might think that he, like Vaughn Gill, is just a wordsmith, and so he will naturally try to avoid tussle. They might put a two and two together and add up that the suspension for Fonso came not from Barrow, as Gill seh, but from Juliet. And that Joe might remember what Z did tu Vaughn Gill, and before J did the same to him, he ditched honor.