Take it from me. Post-elec­tion shenani­gans, trib­al con­flict, in­ternecine war­fare, boast­ful­ness, re­gret, gross­ly dis­hon­est promis­es, jock­ey­ing for po­si­tion and favour, and acts of shame­less­ly un­veiled par­ti­san­ship by clever pre­tenders will all even­tu­al­ly end or sub­side con­sid­er­ably.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion’s clear­ance last week­end of Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher of any wrong­do­ing has come at a cru­cial junc­ture, per­mit­ting her to re­tire from her pro­longed tenure as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice on Thurs­day, free of any le­gal is­sues.

This Fri­day is the an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the Boy Child, one of the less­er known in­ter­na­tion­al days. It should be bet­ter known. It is im­por­tant. It is an at­tempt to el­e­vate the sta­tus of boys, es­pe­cial­ly boys with­out fa­thers, who go on to be­come fa­thers with­out sons be­cause they are not present. It’s al­so im­por­tant be­cause this par­tic­u­lar day was start­ed here in T&T in 2018 by Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh, se­nior lec­tur­er in his­to­ry at UWI and son of the Rev Daniel Teelucks­ingh, for­mer mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church, and his wife, Joyce­lyn.