I have no problem with BEC paying employees a Christmas bonus simply due to the fact that
that it is typical of the PLP ,who have no vision, not realising that this issue would come up around this time of year . It should have been taken cared of around August to give the employees enough time to prepare for it, but since it is so close to Christmas ,it should be given to them.Waiting to see what the government will do next year, their usual capitulation,i guess.

Leslie says that he will stop it, Shane says that you can't stop it,Brave says that he will negotiate to stop it . Wow !! I wonder what Perry says ! Probably all 3 of the above.

One thing i have to say about Perry Christie, he is still sooo "puffed up " about being the prime minister ,that too many times when he can simply say " i ", he says " the prime minister ". He probably reminds Bernardette each night that they sleep together with whom she is sleeping and as for the trip to the Vatican,i think Fred Mitchell sent him there because they are getting the wrong impression from some of the Pope's public utterances.

We must also remember that very few people spend somebodyelse's money the way that they spend their own,especially when they can arrogantly brush off any and all requests for accountability.

Concerning Obie's lips, a man nearing 60,who has never felt the desire to have a wife beside him,says it all . I might add that the only company he has, also nearing 60 years of age , is the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

You have to wonder about this , when a young man says that he keeps a $45,000 dollar medal with him all the time. I know sometimes athletes have a stubborn trait that helps them to achieve their goals ,but did this same trait cause him to "lose his gold" , because i am certain that somebody , a friend, family member, or fellow athlete had to have told him that there were better options available for securing such valuables,but the advice went unheeded.

I have seen the name Brent Stubbs for years as a writer and i am a bit dismayed that he would use the phrase "revert back". The word revert means to go back, so in using that incorrect phrase is like saying "going forward frontwards"

I must congratulate the jury on this verdict because it is very easy for them to be swayed by the lies of the defence,who can say anything , no matter how outrageous to try and get their clients off.Having been a juror myself i know how easy it is to be intimidated by the process and no matter what the judge says about him being the one who makes the decision, many jurors ,no matter how strong the evidence presented against the defendant is, fear " sending people to jail ". This sentiment was even expressed to me by 90% of the jurors who were empanelled with me.
Because of this i have become a proponent of no jury trials for many serious offences in the Supreme Court and i have also come to believe that many offenders are walking the streets because of the jury system and i sympathise with the judges who know this ,but must remain silent.

Nobody is surprised by Bradley Roberts' responce ,because we all know what he purportedly had done to a former lady friend when he had problems letting go when she no longer wanted him.So it would not have been any problem to hit a woman ,even when he was the instigator.As for demeanor in the House of Assembly,we all remember Algernon Allen pleading with the Speaker to calm Bradley Roberts down as he was "frightening the little darlings" .I must also add that if Dr. Rollins had acted in such a condescending manner with either Mr. ingraham or the late Sir Lynden Pindling,he would have gotten the same responce,in the least.

Some years ago,when Keith Bell was was a police officer and going to evening classes ,studying law, a lecturer wrote that he was a very good candidate to become an attorney and that he should pursue law seriously.
He did so , graduating at the top of his class at UWI.He was one of the speakers chosen at my child's COB orientaton some years ago and i could not believe tha this was the same person and as he has entered politics , i am still of the same view.,which leads me to believe that you do not have to be the brightest to become a lawyer.
My main point about his comment about the billboards that the PLP placed about the murders in tourist frequented areas ,concerns the inadequate job that our journalists are doing,because if they were on the ball when he made that comment,surely one of them could have asked if he would have a problem with the billboards NOW.

Reading the above article i would like to know, if Justice Blackman was quoted correctly when he said "I am of the opinion that the decision of the magistrate was unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence", because if the quote was correct , then he believes that the officer should have been convicted, but that they would not change his decision, even though it was not the correct one, considering the evidence presented.Also the other two Justices said that the magistrate does not HAVE to convict the officer, in effect saying tht he has the option of letting him go free, which he did exercise. The three Justices did not say that they believed he was innocent. they just said that they would not change or overule his decision, which he was free to make.