THINGS LIKE THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS and so on are taking up much of our attention, but we need to keep focused on several things here.

Among them are the following three:

* How well the West Indies cricketers performed and now feel shows what money can do. I am glad for the lads, but hopefully that situation won't become an example for our youth and others to follow . . . allowing money to be king – no matter what.

* Denis Kellman is right when he says we can't keep on absorbing an unlimited number of immigrants. Is that so hard to understand? And do people not see the point our Prime Minister has made about controlled immigration?

Why can't economists and so on come to some formula that determines which islands can absorb how many immigrants from which other islands and from elsewhere?

* The stories in the DAILY NATION of Monday, November 3, headlined Crisis Not Holding Back Four Seasons and 'No Private Beaches' are stirring items.

One has to contemplate the extent to which we will bend over backwards to those with staggering wealth, who are powerful enough to be immune to the global economic crises.

We need to know what "private" and "safe" will mean for the rest of us. For example, Don't go near? Pass on by quickly and at a "safe" distance (that is, seen but not heard)? Crowds like crowds, but based on selection of similar species.

What does Batts Rock Community to be better mean? These are all frightening, based on the Marie Antoinette psyche and the motives of the rich, powerful, greedy and snooty.

Please have your team provide some sketch of the proposed planned project at Paradise so that we can have some idea of what to expect.

– CYRIL BRADSHAW