The Roaring Rodent

The handling of the dispute between the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and the United States of America by the World Trade Organisation has been well-documented elsewhere.

What beggars belief is that the World Trade Organisation, sitting in far-off, sanitised and cushioned Switzerland, is taken in by claims of propriety and regulated governance made by this rogue State, especially given its deplorable history of links to international crime, money laundering, arms and narcotic trafficking and providing fugitives from justice with a safe haven.

Moreover, it is astounding that an international custodial organisation would advocate international piracy though copyright and intellectual property theft as a fit and proper remedy to an alleged trade dispute.