People are saying that there should be a law against a prime minister being forced to give an MP a job, in this case Everald Warmington. Not having anything to do as state minister with responsibility for works, Warmington announced the intended discontinuation of the bus lane on the Washington Boulevard. JUTC is saying that the state minister had no authority to make such a decision as that is the job of the minister of transport, Mike Henry.

Here we go again

The changing of names of programmes by new political administrations continues shamelessly. Now the PNP’s Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) has been renamed HOPE – Housing, Opportunity, Prosperity, Employment – by the JLP Administration. When will these boys grow up?

No smoke without fire

Is it true that lurking behind the Sandals-Antigua dispute is a connection that runs all the way to St Lucia and involves competing hoteliers? You never see smoke without fire.

Portia’s point

Pepperpot’s good, good sources say Portia is resisting departure because nobody pushed out the previous male party leaders Messrs Norman Manley, Michael Manley and P J Patterson. My girls are saying she has a point there.

Question of the week

Isn’t a medical exemption a wonderful thing? Otherwise the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, would not be going to the Rio Olympics because of injury, not to mention sister Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 200m.