’The Enquiry has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. What was promised to be the most professional and transparent enquiry ever held in the country has degenerated into a farce. It has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and damaged our reputation by confirming how Third World we are’.

So said head of Transparency International Victor Hart as he commented on the decision to shut down the Commission of Enquiry for four months.

’I find it passing strange that, whereas Thursday’s Cabinet meeting directed the line Ministers to have TSTT and PTSC withdraw petitions before the Industrial Court to have the CWU and TIWU decertified, Cabinet did not direct UDeCOTT’s line Minister to instruct UDeCOTT to withdraw its legal challenges to the Enquiry, despite calls by many persons to do so. The message is clear: ’Different strokes for different folks’,’ Hart stated.