Aug 16, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – It pains to listen, read, absorb the descendants of slaves and indentured servants make public representation that prioritises chasing after those condemned. Leakers. After all the great sacrifices made by foreparents, in the jaws of fearsome savagery, this is where matters terminate. An emphasis, a priority, on tracking leakers. Notwithstanding all the education, some of substantial quality, this is the sum of, shall I say, intellectual and ethical curiosity. The heart of issues, its commanding pull, is the first casualty that collapses. The next has to be we ourselves – me and you.

Coming out of Trinidad, some serious men and women with hard-earned reputations for illustriousness took the bull by the horns. There’s a problem at the CCJ. At the top. In some of the worst ways possible. Coming out of Guyana, the reaction was telling and chilling. Pursue the leakers. Is this for real? Is somebody serious here? The matter at hand is not of some government ministry with a suspected long programme of corruption and generalised wrongdoing.