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Sly alligator

Some are saying the old proverb "Fire dey a mus-mus tail, an' him think a cool breeze' is what best describes the current situation now being played out regionally. They say they are confounded by the obvious generosity of the accused and wonder if the "alligator" thinks that anyone believe the face-saving story being bandied and peddled around weekly.

One's corruption, another's business

Story is that one of the high-profile accused just started a new consultancy and the charges supposedly fall squarely in the remit of the expressed memorandum of associations. They say what is another man's corruption is someone else's business.

Party crashers

Some social observers are convinced that there is an official organisation of party crashers. They say this is the only way to explain the many instances of the so-called or self-styled well-heeled showing up at places to which they have not been invited. Others say they read the social pages and then take their cues from the reports and then dress the part and show up.

Dumping the demented

Some mid-island towners are crying foul as they say they have noticed an upsurge of the mentally challenged and ill on their streets in recent times, and they are wondering if some neighbouring towns and communities have resorted to rounding up the mentally ill off their own streets and dumping them in their town.

They must go!

Some are calling for resignations or firing of some in the police force for the recent high-profile and much-publicised arrest of the Montego Bay politicians. They say the way the arrests were effected were designed to do political damage and not to cauterise crime, as to date the charges made in the high-profile press conference are yet to be preferred, and such high-profile foul-ups should not be allowed to go unpunished.

Natural disasters on the rise

Storms clouds are said to be gathering on the horizon, as many are expressing their disquiet about how one minister is going about the island's business.