Dear Sir,

Now that the Commission of Inquiry has completed what we have been told was an investigation into whatever it was supposed to have been looking into, will anyone really be going to jail?

Another question I would like to ask: why was John Barritt sitting on that commission? Wasn’t he a sitting member of both the United Bermuda Party and the One Bermuda Alliance? Correct me if I’m wrong, but could that be seen as a conflict of interest, legal manipulation, political interference or something like that?

Also, why would the appointed chairman of the commission make statements like “outright fraud” before he had the chance to even cross-examine or interrogate anyone, then have it splashed across the front page of your daily before the commission had even started its investigations? Could someone have seen that as being unethical and out of order?

Another question I would like to ask: why did the cost of the commission become so high — from $400,000 to more than $1 million of the taxpayers’ money in a flash? Do you think anyone would be qualified to answer that question?

And then there are the terms of reference that were so narrow that not even an ant could crawl through them. Was there nothing else that could have been investigated for the amount of money we, the taxpayers, had to pay for it?

Before I go, there’s just one other question I would like to ask: are the results of this commission going to be used only as nothing more than election confetti in the upcoming General Election? You see, Mr Editor, every time I try to calculate the numbers dealing with this so-called commission, they just keep failing to come up right.

Please can someone tell me does 1+2=10? Maybe you or some bright person out there among the public may have the right answers I’m looking for because I’m dumbfounded and absolutely confused.

E. MCNEIL STOVELL

Pembroke