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#BTColumn – Bajan wearing masks on their brains

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by Roderick P. Harris

I read your editorial of last Monday and subsequently followed its progress on your Facebook page and was astonished as to the level of illiteracy of some commentators.

The editorial dealt with whether the Government could be sued for its management or response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially where persons die as a result.

It seems yours was a legal perspective more so than a political one.

I found that in addition to ignorant retorts, there were quite a few political responses. And I say this because from reading your other postings some familiar names for whom the present Government can do no wrong, were among those suggesting that even to ask whether government could be sued was ridiculous.

Rather than play video games or indulge in perusing porn sites, some of those obviously living under rocks ought to use their devices to realize that all over the world where citizens believe they have suffered the loss of family members through their respective government’s negligence, they are bringing lawsuits against the state or agents of the state.

The Barbados government’s management of quarantine sites can be questioned.

Government’s failure to close our borders or perhaps ban flights from Britain as your editorial suggested, can be questioned. But it seems that some Barbadians have their masks over their mouths, noses, eyes and brains.

I cannot see such action winning as the relationships between politicians and the legal fraternity are too tight and anyone bringing a case will be confronted by immeasurable political roadblocks, not to mention delays of process that frustrates the process.

I wish potential litigants well but aggrieved parties will hardly take the legal plunge, because this is who we are.

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