Well YG, if Eddie hopes to lead the JLP to victory, telling people on the most listened to talk show in Jamaica that you are willing to let thousands of civil servants go and raise taxes if you are elected probably isnt the way. I just don' know if that will play a second time around. As a matter of fact, if massive public sector layoffs and punishing tax increases were to be brought in through the back door by a new JLP administration, social upheaval would almost certainly follow and the scenario that we all at home and abroad fear the most will happen. What Eddie is suggesting reminds me of these corporations that are in trouble and hire consultants to look into their way of doing business. In the end they all recommend the same thing raise prices and fire employees.

I maybe nave, but I still feel that debt forgiveness, or at the least, debt relief , from the World Bank and IMF must be presented as part of a comprehensive package of assistance from the developed countries. The country just cannot move forward with the kind of debt repayments (external debt now stands at US$ 5.3 billion) that we make now, there is nothing left once they are made. Then after that, maybe we can finally get serious about the two foreign exchange earners that can turn this thing around if managed properly tourism (2002 earnings US$1.18 billion from 2 million visitors, versus, for example, US$ 3.5 billion from 4 million visitors to the Bahamas in the same period) and getting Jamaicans overseas to invest in their country (2002 remittances US$ 1.15 billion) These are the number one and two top foreign exchange earners in the country today. Nothing else in the economy comes close.

You are right about Miss Spears. Serves me right for talking about things which I know not.

Did anyone see that Lou Rawls got married to a 33 year old girlfriend ? Lou is 70. Viagra is wonderful thing mi a tell yuh. Speaking if which, clearing out my mail box of spam the other day, I noticed that there has been a reduction in offers for Viagra and a noticeable upswing in products that supposedly enlarge various body parts. My theory about this is as follows: our aging male population, have been soaking themselves in Viagra, and now have nothing show for it.

So these two sisters both claim to have won the Big Game lottery. One have the ticket., the other one seh she shi lose it and planning to sue. I smell a Samfie. Question, if an enterprising journalist were to find that one of these ladies had Caribbean roots which one would it be ?

No prize for the correct answer.