Party vehicles

1. Some candidates do not have enough funds to secure the campaign vehicles that are allowed, so they are offering to sell the facility to friends in the private sector for a profit. Is this legal?

Where's the school?

2.One recent photograph in this newspaper's historical flashback series is said to have set off one very heated debate in some quarters, as the personality involved was the man in charge of a ministry at the time that reportedly 'built' a secondary school in St. Catherine, that despite everyone's best effort, still cannot be located, some 40-odd years after it was supposedly built!

Golding's bellyaching

3.So after nearly two years of campaigning, Bruce Golding finds another seven weeks to be too much for the Jamaican people! The consensus is that he should have simply welcomed the announcement, and used the press conference to rally his troops instead of bellyaching about the date! Many are saying the response sounded like a concession speech!

Where were the friends?

4.The absence of some from the party on the north coast over the weekend is causing quite a few chuckles in some circles. Many of those absent have long since been touting themselves as friends of the one fêted. The fact that they were not invited has now laid bare that claim to privileged and protected status based on the supposed friendship within the organisation.

Here comes the girls!

5.It seems that the wives of the uptown men who were breathing a little easier due to the fact that the exotic dancers from Europe were no longer plying their trade and ensnaring many a married man in the process, are in for more trouble. The girlsare back in business!

Dirty tricks ... again

6.The campaign dirty tricks have started. The ruse being used is scare tactics as the phone calls doing the rounds are accusing some of being pro-union and anti-business, so businesses will fail under the new pressure! Another set of callers are asserting that the new minister of tourism will be unfriendly to tourism concerns.

Oh for a new minister

7.The one-time high-riding banker is said to be funnelling loads and loads of money to a party. He wants to see a new finance minister to keep a case out of court.

Who's the dad?

8.Tired of being chided by friends that the child bears no physical likeness to him, the high-profile person has turned to DNA to settle the matter of paternity. To avoid the scandal here, however, the tests are to be done in Miami.

A wedding ... commitment

9.When is a wedding not a wedding? When it is called a commitment ceremony, because no one is actually quite sure if the groom-to-be, is officially divorced!

Off American guest list

10.Several persons once found on almost every guest list across the city are learning that for them to remain invited to functions hosted by the U.S. Embassy means they cannot publicly criticise Americans' policy. They are now off the Americans guest list. The lesson to be learnt here: your freedom of speech in your sovereign country does not include the right to criticise the U.S.!