Online feedback

Below are excerpts from comments posted by online readers reacting to yesterday's lead story about Karl Samuda being robbed.

a touch of reality

The chickens are coming home to roost. The politicians and the elite will have a touch of reality. The masses have been languishing in poverty while the elite have been living in their fortresses, thinking they were safe in the confines of their castles.

- Links 61

No security?

A government minister with no security at home? Not even a network of surveillance cameras monitored by a single bodyguard, who could have quickly called the police and a private security response team to tackle the crooks? So the gunmen had a picnic on your property for two hours, minister?

- Foolish

shrewd politics

Let's look at this from a politics-crime perspective:

Samuda is one shrewd politician who is trying desperately to burnish the image of a politician totally opposed to criminality, with possible party leadership aspirations.

Coincidences like these bring many questions to the fore.

- John Smith

Who's gonna win?

World Cup 2010 fever has definitely not subsided and this was evident when The Gleaner caught up with rabid and enthusiastic World Cup fans at the Sportsmax Zone on Trafalgar Road recently. The football enthusiasts were more than willing to share their views on who would go on to win the World Cup. See if you agree with their predictions on www.jamaica-gleaner.com/videos.

Interviews: Shian Blackwood. Media and Production: Sean Bennett.