So Patrick Man­ning has fi­nal­ly ac­knowl­edged the er­rors of his ways. It is said that con­fes­sion is good for the soul and as such it should be that he has led the way for oth­ers of the PNM to fol­low. So for all their mis­deeds of the past, I look for­ward to con­fes­sions from all those who served with Man­ning. This will be a good start to the year 2012 to let them tell the na­tion why they sup­port­ed him when he vi­o­lat­ed all the norms of democ­ra­cy by ap­point­ing his wife to the Sen­ate and then gave her one of the most im­por­tant min­is­te­r­i­al keys of gov­ern­ment.

Then how about his spir­i­tu­al ad­vis­er who was sent all over the world with a diplo­mat­ic pass­port to spread the gospel ac­cord­ing to Man­ning? I hope you all en­joyed the ride, it must have been nice, but you sold your soul to Man­ning who has now un­masked him­self. I won­der if this was the re­sult of the thou­sands of light­ed deyas that pen­e­trat­ed his heart? So if Di­vali could do this, per­haps we should have a sev­en-day hol­i­day so that we may save a few more PNM souls. I think it is worth try­ing. Any tak­ers?

Dr Clif­ford Ram­cha­ran

St Au­gus­tine