Eyes always light up and the national pulse beats harder when the government deigns to broach the sensitive subject of parastatal reform, and last week's brief from this administration's first Cabinet meeting of the year - unusually titled "Cabinet News" - was clearly no exception.
Don't forget we have a long-standing "jobs for the boys (and girls)" tradition with state corporations (SCs); they are job allocation as job creation machines first, and technically, commercial and financially viable enterprises second.
Think political reward, then economic and financial logic.
It follows that much of the ensuing hullaballoo, especially in the media, was about potential job losses at a time when many are struggling to survive a difficult economy.
