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Jack out of the Box

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Austin 'Jack' Warner It is instructive to assimilate every plot twist and red herring in the current imbroglio involving several senior officials of the FIFA. Reason being something that I have always said... love him or loathe him, Jack Warner has had decades worth of experience in politics on an international stage... therefore the hypothetical banana republic politics will rarely pose any major challenge. The current fiasco is one that will test the man, the mentality and the motivation of Warner, who after years of being dogged by unsubstantiated allegations of poor conduct, has now become the virtual messiah of peoples of Chaguanas West to CARICOM. To take the position of Devil's Advocate, one would say that Warner may be correctly convicted of the wrong crime. In today's society, where the media keeps watch over the potentially grubbish fingers of public officials, it's hard to think that a man who is rumoured to have spent nearly 70 million TT do