Thursday talk: Hottest topics onthe cocktail circuit

Published: Thursday | July 9, 2009


Inside jobs

1 More and more stories are emerging about robberies and hold-ups being the subject of 'inside jobs'.

Not happy

2 Some inside the party are more than a little peeved by recent utterances, as they say it in essence robbed the party leader of the element of surprise.

Exit strategy

3 For him, it was a case of love. For her, it was an exit strategy. The fact that he has made no move to file for her or seek a transfer has placed the marriage in a spot of turbulence. The bottom line is: she wants out - out of Jamaica, that is!

Wrong math

4 The numbers are not adding up at the national armoury. What the inventory says and what is actually in stock are two different figures! The question is: how long has this been the case?

Real-estate deals

5 A lot of real estate has been changing hands recently; some have equated it to a case of musical chairs. Some say it's keeping it in the family, others are less generous. They say it's a pre-emptive move just in case the courts get any more involved.

Question time

6 Now there are questions surfacing about certain charities he oversaw.

Definitely not!

7 Friends say the foreign national who succeeded the Jamaican wife made it very clear recently, after calls for her to adjust her high-spending lifestyle, the reasons she wrote her own marital vows was because she was not about the 'for richer, for poorer' bit! Richer yes, poorer, definitely not!

Lotto gain

8 Some say the lotto has become the refuge of many who were displaced when their 'investment clubs' went out of business, with more and more 'uptowners' now joining the queue to purchase tickets.

Safe settlement

9 In the matter of the case of the wife versus the sweetheart on charges of assault, the matter has been amicably settled and will not now go to trial in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.