Commentary

It was Edward Seaga who famously said: "Elections don't set up like rain", referring to the propensity of opportunistic prime ministers in the Westminster system to call snap elections when the opposition might least expect it.

Behold, it is September 2012 and, at the ninth hour, darkness overshadowed the land in diverse places and, the Lord, in his mercy, opened the clouds and the rains came on the just and the unjust, and the sons of the House of Gordon rested contentedly from their pathological spinning.

On Friday, I watched Basil Dawkins' play, Divorce Papers, which was far more than the issuing of divorce papers, but delved into issues related to divorce such as causes, life after divorce, relationships with ex, and children. Dawkins has chosen a current issue for the imagination of his pen.

Add a few more items to the catalogue of woes affecting the Supreme Court of Jamaica. This time we learn about broken-down photocopiers, out-of-service elevators and ice-making machine, as reported by this newspaper.

The members of the engineering fraternity believe that it's now time for them to join with the other professional groups and voice their concerns about the National Housing Trust's (NHT) recent purchase of the land which housed the Outameni attraction in Trelawny.