Professor Rajendra Ramlogan’s thesis, however impressively framed in law, does not register in any practical sense when applied to the realities of Caribbean governance. The argument – commissioned by whom, one must ask – reads less like an independent legal analysis and more like a document in search of a predetermined conclusion. Forty-eight pages of legal scaffolding cannot disguise the fact that someone, somewhere, went in search of a crime. That, as we are seeing all over the world today, is becoming a familiar pattern.