They both rob people of their values. One commits theft of people’s image and reputation while the other commits theft of kind, whether money, property or goods. So when they start acting together it is judgement! In the current situation, both the hate-mailer and the fraudulent one have been fellow travellers together for a long time, with a shared antecedent. And they are both having sleepless nights after making big blunders. Continue to watch this space for the bombshell.

A princely presentation from Andrew

Seems Andrew Holness has become a better speechmaker now that he is out of power. His presentation to Parliament yesterday was one of the best deliveries so far. He had the PNP members cringing, including its leader Portia, even though they were trying to trivialise his very telling blows.

Support too previous

They were so supportive of Dr Peter Phillips that they gave him the thumbs up before testing the pulse of the people and then suffered embarrassment because nearly all the sectors are fuming about the tax package. What a prekeh!

Helping out political friends 101

Supporting highflying political friends is usually expensive. It gets even more expensive if the political friend is overseas. That was bound to lead to problems. Now he is pining for the good old days when things were simple and people did not even know his name.

When all is said and done

Say what you will about the Budget, times are hard and will get harder. The Administration missed a godsend opportunity to use tourism as a model industry to go after job creation and foreign exchange earning. I see this every time I read over Wayne Cummings’ article in last Monday’s Observer. The tourism minister, Wykeham McNeill, can learn something valuable from it.

Question of the week

What should happen to the chef who cooks the tourism goose?