Aug 07, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – There is a peculiar tendency among many local commentators to look at a disaster and see a conspiracy before the investigators have found the wreckage. These commentators possess the rare strategic gift of knowing not merely what happened, but why it happened, who benefited from it and what the government was thinking when it happened—all before the evidence has finished sinking to the bottom of the Atlantic.

It is a remarkable intellectual accomplishment. Most ordinary people wait for the facts. But there are some commentators who apparently regard facts as something that can be collected later, once the conclusion has been safely reached.