1. The new CEO is not prepared to carry on with business as usual with his dad's pals. The talk is that many of the dad's friends have been spent forces for some time, but because of years of friendship, they have kept their high-end jobs and perks.

2. There is talk that there is fear within one political camp that things might not go as well for the party on election day, as with the imprisonment of a key person, the low-profile of another, and the seemingly a-political stance of a mid-island boss, the political machinery is severely compromised.

3. Did the Americans learn here, or did those here copy it from there? In the run-up to the last U.S. presidential elections, some journalists were secretly placed on the Republican Party's payroll to churn out favourable stories. Now the term 'imbedded journalist' - one planted to put a particular spin to unpleasant events or news - is coming into play here.

4. There was a reported sighting of the businessman who went missing some years ago, in an effort to avoid being carted off to jail. Some are saying that he was definitely spotted in Kingston, looking as fit as a fiddle. However, his presence is supposed to be one big secret!

5. And if we were to believe all the talk, then you would believe that the Government does not make one move without consulting him. Those on the inside, however, see him as little more than one with a great sense of his own importance. There are stories doing the rounds about him barging into a meeting at the big house, only to be dressed down and ushered out!

6. The current get-out-the-vote outreach seems to have hit a big-time snag out west. Some are saying that former high-profile party man is still peeved. He did not get the cushy job. Now that he's being asked to once again step up for the party, he is demanding an ironclad agreement.

7. She might just have to return to the facility, depending on the outcome of current negotiations; there are still a number of outstanding cases.

8. He is being lauded by some for being a successful businessman. However, others are saying his greatest area of success is his ability to assume the powers of attorney over the properties of the aged, with promises of supervised care in residential homes. The aged being grateful, sign over everything to his care; and upon their deaths, their properties become his.

9. The question now being asked is: Are they really a couple - the beauty and the diplomat?

10. With the main prognosticators having some kind of blemish, the call is for Don Anderson to step in and say his piece, as the last time out he was the best performer.