The watchword is lower sppending. Proposed budget cuts will be announced shortly. Until then, everybody in Albany should swear off buckpassing and bite the budget bullet.
The body of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been carried into the parliament after a steady procession of mourners filed past his coffin to pay their respects as he lay in state outside the building.
UN observers have criticised the parliamentary and local elections in Burundi on Monday. They say the environment was not conducive for free, credible and inclusive polls.
In terms of the future, our country has a hung parliament where no party has an overall majority and we have some deep and pressing problems – a huge deficit, deep social problems and a political system in need of reform.