No one is laughing

1. Imagine having to suffer the very public spectacle of your daughter being very pregnant and unmarried, and visibly so. Then, as if to add insult to injury, the parents were hearing whispers that their very pregnant daughter ran off and got married to her expected babyfather, two weeks ago in the 'country', only to have this confirmed via email, along with an accompanying picture of the wedding? Well, that is the story now making the rounds, and no one is amused!

Money can't buy you class

2.Some say you have to understand their anger, as they have now found out that money cannot buy class, and it certainly does not buy social acceptance. It does, however, get them in the door and make them tolerable, but not to those whose company they seek! Pity though, because they really try so hard - all that PR and dirty tricks to no avail.

Take a different path, my boy

3.Word out of the west is that the estranged son of the power and publicity-hungry megalomaniac wants to enter representational politics. People are hoping that his approach will be considerably different from the path his father trod.

Looks like it's over!

4.Their close friends say the relationship between the don and his queen is over. She, however, is not budging from the one-time love nest. Apart from the fact that it is a multimillion-dollar condo, her friends say it was given to her as a present, when everything was honky-dory. It seems that until this one is settled in or out of the courts, they will continue living together, but apart.

Too hungry for power

5.Word is filtering through that Miss Piggy went to lengths the other day to make sure those qualified were prevented from having an input in the official visit. They say she is so hungry for power and recognition that she blocked every and anyone who might have contributed to the smooth flow of the visit, and her intervention may have contributed to the hiccups.

Cover charge turns them off

6.The organisers have just found out that there is indeed a difference when you charge an access fee to a party and when you don't. In the past, the annual popular out-of-town party was by invitation only and, consequently, free of cost and was usually oversubscribed to the tune of thousands. For this year's instalment there was a cover charge and, needless to say, hundreds were in attendance, not the usual thousands!

Not giving up on fame and fortune

7.The wife of long-standing seems to have grown tired of the secret sex life of her husband and is now prepared to move on. Her friend, however, caught in a similar situation, is not prepared to walk away from the fame and fortune.

Tired of the high-handed behaviour

8.The indebted ones are not prepared to stand quietly by while they lose their businesses and homes any longer. Word is they have hired a PR team to help them with their case as they are now tired of the high-handed attitude with which they are dealt.

Where should it have been spent?

9.Would the money have been better spent on advertising or some PR rather than the top-heavy delegation?

Get on with it!

10. Most people have accepted that corruption was rife during the PNP administration. They do not, however, want the new administration to spend its time in office telling the country just how corrupt the PNP administration was. They would much prefer for the laws and natural justice to take their course, and for the Bruce Golding administration to outline its own agenda to move the country forward.