The surest way to de­stroy the new rat­ing by S&P would be for the Gov­ern­ment to set­tle all claims and de­mands si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly. Fi­nance Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an is cor­rect that the favourable rat­ing is a con­se­quence of Gov­ern­ment's pru­dent pol­i­cy in fis­cal mat­ters.

The Cli­co Pol­i­cy­hold­ers Group con­tin­ues to be­lieve that it has a right to con­tin­ued prof­it from a bank­rupt in­vest­ment and that the rest of the cit­i­zen­ry is ob­lig­at­ed to stand the cost.

Now Pe­ter Per­me­ll, deputy chair­man of the pol­i­cy­hold­ers or­gan­i­sa­tion, ap­pears to be seek­ing sol­i­dar­i­ty

with pub­lic ser­vants and con­trac­tors in his over­tures.

His per­sis­tent de­mands are now of­fen­sive and dis­gust­ing.

MF Rah­man

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