Two men who were involved in the alleged undeclared transportation of foreign currency to Trinidad and Tobago last year were in the news yesterday.
Joseph Baptiste, a 57-year-old fisherman, was denied bail at the Port of Spain Magistrate’s Court for supposedly failing to declare US$660,000 to Customs officials.
Jack Warner, a 69-year-old MP, was awarded the post of Acting Prime Minister for seven days despite an unfinished police probe of his role in the transportation of roughly US$1 million on to local soil by disgraced ex-FIFA presidential candidate, Mohamed Bin Hammam.
As late British PM Benjamin Disraeli once explained: What is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few.