A participant at the People's National Party's 69th annual conference at the National Stadium last Sunday holds aloft a copy of The Sunday Gleaner commenting on the cost of the new Jamaica Labour Party Cabinet. -Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

The Editor, Sir:

I was rereading your article headlined 'Costly Cabinet' of Sunday, September 16, 2007, when it occurred to me that the total annual cost of the Bruce Golding-led Cabinet, which was stated to be $65,597,544, was less than the cost of 'Bora' Milutinovic, the technical director of the Reggae Boyz. 'Bora's' remuneration is reputed to be US$1 million per annum which, at today's exchange rate, is equivalent to $69,995,100 per year. Is this a case of one foreigner better than 18 Jamaicans?

After having that lighter moment, I read Robert Buddan's 'The 2007 Election'. Buddan noted Professor Munroe was a victim of a kind of politics that would taint any electoral system. In one garrison community, he won 24 votes to his opponent's 937, a mere two per cent. In two other (middle class) polling divisions interestingly, the voter turnout was suspiciously 100 per cent, and 140 per cent, which went against him. Electoral observers did not pick up these anomalies but the Electoral Commission should know of them.

This is serious stuff as, if unexplained, it would have negative implications for the integrity of the electoral machinery. No other commentator, to my knowledge, has commented on these 'facts'.

I entreat Mr. Buddan (and others) to undertake a more detailed analysis of all unusual statistics arising out of votes cast in each polling division, on both sides of the political fence, and report back to us, your readers.

I am, etc.,

EGERTON CHANG