YOU didn’t need to go to university to study politics to know that as soon as the Adriana Younge tragedy made the news that hyped-up anti-government minds in the opposition parties, including PNC, AFC, WPA and even ANUG (which I think has been damaged over the performance of two of its leaders on the Freddie Kissoon Show) began their conspiracy journey.

Two dimensions of this tragedy were evident. One is the emotions and feelings of the family. Even if dispassionate analysis was applied to the circumstances that showed no sadistic murder was committed, the state of mind of the parents was that they wanted to exhaust all avenues.

You couldn’t ask the parents to be reasonable and logical and look at all the circumstances in a holistic way. They were overcome with grief and wanted all types of medical investigations to be pursued. You cannot blame them then and because of their extant state of mind, maybe you still cannot blame them now.

The other dimension was that all the opposition parties and anti-government haters in civil society saw an opportunity to rally against the government. So they milked the feelings of the Younge family for partisan, political purposes. It is here where dimension one and dimension two merged.

The opposition got hold of the family and promised them to make the death a national tragedy for which the police and the government must take blame. What happened is that the opposition began to offer resources to the family. The Younge family was then placed in a labyrinth.

On the one hand, they needed all the resources they could get and all the solidarity they got. And they got it from the government including the President, Vice–President and Dr. Vindhya Persaud.

But the solidarity from the government ran into initial problems because the family was being influenced not to trust the government even though President Ali appeared graphically sympathetic in ways that could not have been questioned.

The family thus could not get out of the labyrinth of politicisation. Since the opposition had undue influence on them and since the opposition was prepared to go to hell to help them, the family rested their faith in the opposition (but a certain family member, not the father or mother, was a key to making the issue political).

The family believed that the girl was killed and the father genuinely was parachuted into a paroxysm of chagrin when he found out that the autopsy did not reveal homicide. He believed she was killed and the opposition milked his feelings.

It was after the autopsy that the Younge family became part of the opposition story to dramatise and politicise the tragedy. The family was told that the three pathologists and the family doctor and family lawyer were “infiltrated.”

This explains the alienation from the family by the two professionals with the lawyer taking to social media to protect his reputation.

After the autopsy, the opposition went into intellectual and political mediocrity. I will explain why below. They pinned their hopes on homicide not because they believe in it but because it was the crucial political game that the opposition had to play.

It was their trump card. An interesting development took place the week following the autopsy between the family and the two opposition parties.

The family wanted a second autopsy because they sincerely felt more medical investigation might reveal something. So they asked their known resource-providers to arrange a second autopsy.

The opposition knew a second autopsy was a self-employed trap but they could not get out of it. The opposition knew a second autopsy was a bomb that would explode on their lap because it would not differ from the first one which was a top-class examination.

But they could not get out of the family’s request even though there were concerns about the Trinidadian pathologist. It was the fiasco of the Trinidadian angle that tangled up the opposition.

The family said since the Trinidadian doctor looked like he wasn’t coming, the family asked their resource-providers to go international. The opposition had no choice but to arrange and finance travel to the US and to organise visa facilities.

We have come to the end of an extraordinary conspiracy. There is absolutely, and I use absolutely again, no way anyone can use that second autopsy to say the girl was brutally murdered.

Two post-mortems by four doctors did not find any evidence that Adriana Younge was murdered and the murder took a certain angle which the autopsy revealed. To continue with murder chants will lead to wild speculations which medical science will not be able to prove.

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