So, will the elections be this year or next? The final decision on the election date is not a thing to be negotiated or debated by the prime minister.

Alleged PUP corruption has been the main plank of the UDP’s general election campaigns of 1998, 2003 and, now, 2008. For its part, if the Opposition seemed to have been caught without a plan from June 2007 onwards, it’s because it didn’t have one.

Taken together or singly, these three can decimate the population, wreak socio-economic havoc and bring the country to its knees. They do not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, class, ethnicity or anything else.