All our readers of a certain age will remember the tune written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley, In the Ghetto. But not many of you will know it was originally titled The Vicious Circle.

The notion that Fridays are free-for-all days, particularly in the public sector, took on a new twist yesterday when Minister of Information, Edmond Mansoor, summoned the department’s top brass and reporters to respond to a letter in this newspaper about ABS.