“The Talk Of The Town”

The Suss is, the Supporters of the Administration have grown so sick and tired of the Cockiness of the Frontline Ministers, Its leader, And his wife, they are willing to sit the next election out, to take them down a peg or two. Some say they have grown high on their own Supply (PR) that they have lost all touch with not only reality, but their own base…and the disenchantment is real, as some have taken to calling the ‘First-Lady’ the “Deputy Prime Minister”, And say the day her husband leaves, she too will have to pack her bags and go because she has become insufferable…

And word is the PM knew from as early as December of last year that he was losing his sheen and so sought to create the semblance of change by promoting a Cabinet Reshuffle, Problem is People are so fed-up with the Administration, they Insist that a mere Reshuffle, will not be good enough. But the word is some Cabinet Ministers are so invested in their positions, that when one Cabinet Member Was Advised That A Cabinet Re-Shuffle was in the offing And That Her Place In The Cabinet Was No Longer tenable, She Did Not Take The News So Well And Suffered Such A horrendous Breakdown, She Was Hospitalised For Most Of The Holiday Season…. And The Story Did not stop there as to Date the Reshuffle has not yet materialized and Those in the know say that is in part largely Due to the fact that One name that was floated as New Minister Of National Security, was Met with a Hell-No By “Overseas-Partners’ who said that that personality came with too much international baggage and would not pass the Visa test…

And The Story Continues, When The “First Lady” was proposed as A Replacement For A Current Sitting Minister, Whom Party-insiders say should be retired in the Public interests, To save him from himself, Riot practically broke out within the ranks of the Governing party, causing widespread fear of A Major Implosion…So Stay tuned.,

Now unto Usain’s Missing Millions, This has really opened up a can of worms in the Financial Sector And Showing Up The Thieves And Scammers. Concern Is Growing However That Many Investors Will Not Be Able To recoup Their losses As Word on Main Street is that at least one of the principals concerned, Has been liquidating personal assets such as paintings and real estate holdings for quite some time now, in a move that has some observers saying he was getting ready to Flee…And There’s Word that another of the Players in the scam has been struck with a sudden and mysterious illness that has incapacitated him and with no visible assets to pay his medical bills and or make restitution if it comes to that…

There’s talk that The Minister Whose Fee was one Apartment for Granting approvals for some of these questionable High-rise buildings popping up all over the city is getting greedy and Developers are beginning to complain… Dubbed “Cawna-Lot’ Word is he is attempting to up his asking fee from One apartment/Townhouse on a Cawna Lot to two, and the developers are not having it, as the forecast for the industry is predicting a slowdown in the taking up of new properties by new purchasers or investors as the current SSL fiasco has put a damper on funding…

Meanwhile, back on the political front, the word was circulating from November last year, NOT to expect Local Government Election Anytime soon, as things on the Ground were not looking favourable For the Government so the plan is to roll the Local Government Elections And The Referendum on cutting Ties with the Crown, into one election, on the basis that it will be saving the Country Billions, in electoral costs…

And if it still does not look good for the Government anytime soon, then expect Local Government Elections, Referendum, And General Elections To be all rolled into one…

With many reports swirling that quite a number of sitting politicians benefited from unsecured ‘Loans’, from SSL to embark on many a business projects, many are skeptical that the investigations will get to the bottom of the Country’s largest Scam, as Local investigators will not Finger the Guilty parties, and there’s major resistance from Government connected people, who oppose the FBI being brought in to assist as that might expose them to criminal Tax liabilities in the USA, so the investigation will produce nothing of substance, except a placebo effect that will lead to many more declaring (Without Any evidence) That their Hands Are clean…Whilst their asset, and portfolios, say otherwise…

Some are concerned that the SSL Fraud saga has taken on a racial and Class twist, that does not augur well for continued cohesiveness. Coupled that, with reports suggesting that SSL was Operated as the agency to the Backra-Massa Crowd, and doubled as a Laundromat for the JLP, with many an unsecured loan made available to High-ranking Members of that party, has only served to muddy the already dirty waters

And word doing the circles is that another member of the Government has lost his US Visa, because of suspected ties to the Huge cocaine Bust at the Boscobel “international’ airport,, keep watching this space, for developments…

The unofficial estimates for the Police raking in off the book Bucks, since the introduction of the new Road Traffic Act is tens of millions of dollars that did not go into the Government’s Coffers,…hence the Traffic Department of the JCF is now the most coveted Department, outpacing the once prized post of Detective…