Five Jobs Lost At Bermuda Motors
Bermuda Motors has confirmed there will be 5 redundancies within the areas of Spare Parts and Sales.
A statement released by the Company said, “The decision comes as part of the continued review of the Bermuda Motors business model, changes in the current economic environment and overall trends and best practices in the global automotive industry.
“Car sales in Bermuda have gradually declined over the past few years from approximately 2,000 annually to 1,600 hundred, with some projections showing as little as 1,000 cars sold in 2011.
“Bermuda Motors like many other international and local businesses are being forced to make some difficult decisions in order to sustain a healthy business in Bermuda.
“Bermuda Motors continues to employ 50 employees and invests in its people in order to give them the training and resources needed to effectively sell and repair its fleet of brands including Ford, KIA, BMW, MINI and Toyota.:
Michael Butler, General Manager for Bermuda Motors said, “Making these kinds of decisions is always difficult. Our philosophy has always been to be open and transparent with our employees. We have been in dialogue with the team for quite some time about the business, the economic environment and the potential for restructuring.”
Mr. Butler continued by saying, “Bermuda Motors is committed to being in business in Bermuda. We still see great hope for the continued evolution of our company by offering consumers the right products, at the right price with the best service.”
Another five jobs gone, sometimes relief comes to late…
Bermuda is dying from a slow growing cancer. Not sure if the cancer can be treated before things get Terminal. If Bermuda dies, no one from overseas will cry. Cayman will shake their head and laugh. I am very disappointed in the PLP in that they refuse to reverse their policies and save our island. PLP just want to tinker with a broken engine.
The trend continues and we should expect more of these announcements in the near future.
PLP know more bad news in coming. That’s why they will call an election before XMas. They hope to take advantage of the XMas good cheer. Once PLP get back in power, the death spiral will continue. Have fun counting your pennies suckaas!!
MORE HARD DAYS ARE COMING GOOD LUCK TO THEM!!!!!!
This is very scary. I feel for all the people who have lost jobs recently. I have never seen redundancies of this magnitude ever in Bermuda. Unfortunately I agree we will begin to see more and more of these announcements on a regular. Very sad.
Yes this is the New New Bermuda they must have been talking about!
I feel for the four who lost their jobs. Nowadays we are lucky if we have a job – hang onto it. Hard times ahead I reckon.
With this latest news, perhaps Bermuda Motors prices will decrease on their auto parts and labour costs for car repairs.
The family that owns this company just wouldn’t take one for the team would they . And now with the same breath they want to ask for your undivided attention and vote for the son . Greedy priviledged people is all they ever are and ever will be .
It’s a shame that most of the blue GP’s came from that rotten company .
Mmmm….The company that carries the family name has also cut back on staff and handing out early retirements!! Kind scary!!
@ Face – wats de point of keepin ppl on when it don’t make sense to keep dem. Take one for de team….as much AS THEY WOULD like too it don’t work like dat. I Wouldn’t wanna be in bu$ine$$ wit u EVA!! GTFOH n get a life! Jealousy is de root of all evil.
Chances are, Face the Nation, that you have a fair number of relatives employed, otherwise, by that ‘rotten company’.
to add to Face the Nation, Yes the good old Gibbons boy….for all those that do not know what legacy wealth looks like here you go.
They own half the island…and by extension the UBP/OBA
Look who is putting Bermuda First.
You decide.
at the end of the day it’s all about the almighty dollar …..money trumps all what’s a social conscience. pure and simple capitalism at it’s best. We might expect this from Citi Group where’s the local loyalty…
Freemasons………………..
I sit here and ponder why oh why.
Some people would like to blame the PLP for Bermuda’s woes
Some people would blame the greed for the almighty $$$
Some people would blame the cheap imported labor that eventually replaced the average blue collar Bermudian
Some people would blame the education system
Some people would blame the social ills; single parents, violence
Some people would even go as far as too blame God
Who is really to blame? Does anyone know the answer?
Recently i read a comment comparing the PLP policies to the likes of the policies introduced by President Obama.
Whats funny is that, the people who do the most complaining are the ones with the $$$$$$. They only seem to care about themselves and protecting their $$$$$
I thought we had finally rid Bermuda of the 40 thieves, but it seems they have been rebranded into the OBA. Sure there are people who will say, well what about Dr, Browne and the current PLP who have thrown money away the past 13yrs. The funny thing, is that most of ALL the money that has seemed to vanish, went to people that dont look like me.
Let’s do some real research and look at the overseas consultants and the major construction jobs, where this money supposedly went missing. No need to call any names or point any fingers, we ALL know who they are.
I just hope that whomever is elected at the next General Election, really has Bermuda at heart and its people. Because if not, 2012 gonna be a long, long year.
The PLP were spend spend spend and little to nothing on things that will generate future income. They spent so much that we can’t afford to pay it back. Now we have little to nothing to support us in these dark days. The PLP are the reason for this season. FALL
There is a reason why the Gibbons are so weathly and own half of Bermuda. It’s because they understand how business operates and how economics works. Jobs are being lost simply due to economics and well, you’ll soon realize how big of a bubble Bermuda was in for MANY, MANY years.
leavingbermuda you are absolutely right, they where smart enough and powerful enough to manipulate the laws of this country to their benefit, and the demise of another race of people… and that same money and agenda is evident today in the OBA…
PLP I am back…I see the light.
RN – stop dwelling on the past and feeling sorry for yourself. Let me guess, your probably on the side of the individuals whom claim some sort of entitlement because there great, great, great grandfather was a slave?
contrary to your belief my family and I are very successful, but I am still mindful of the pass, and those that are still suffering, I am mindful of the still inequality of our system today, I educated my children to ensure that history does not repeat it’s self.
Let me now guess would you make a similar comment to to a Jewish person stop talking a about the holocaust it’s in the pass. Why is it okay for only one particular race of people to have a right to educate their children about their pass.
@ RN,
Please give that rubbish a rest, You are right that we must teach our children about our (collective past) but it must include warts and all, that is a must. But to continue to shackle them to half truths and lies is not helping them now is it? Better to tell them that life isn’t fair and give them the belief that they can achieve, the advice on how to do so as you obviously have done with your family, as have I.
Sadly encouraging them to blame people/family’s who have probably done nothing to hinder them is enabling them and will not help them to move themselves forward and that is where your logic isn’t helping them.
As for the Jews, well the Holocaust was real, they should and will never forget it. Slavery for us was real as was the system used by a few wealthy whites to disenfranchise blacks locally. It’s one thing to tell our children about it and another to indoctrinate them that everyone white, with money is the cause for them not ‘getting ahead’ and to just blame others for their lot in life.
The comments you made about the Gibbons’s are yours and many other bitter peoples Perception of Reality. If not show us documented proof, the Jews can about the holocaust!
Further to that why hasn’t the PLP Government done more to change this, we all know fixing the education system would go a long way to helping future generations so why are we getting band aid approaches? Why don’t they have a system in place to encourage and help Black entrepreneurs? Or do we continue to prepare our children to be employees only?? They have had 13 years, and Free this and Free that is not the answer is it? Especially when like the Bda College they have now removed the ‘Free’ from that. Simply put poorly thought out election promises may get you votes but are not fixing the problem, nor is it doing anything to help those that are/have been ‘disadvantaged’.
Nor is your constant excusing the PLP Governments short comings, those disadvantaged people you are claiming to look out for deserve better don’t they?
Leavingbermuda I don’t need to go back so far… my father bless his sole would be 80 years old today, he was denied of education and the opportunity to work. Truth be told he was denied the right to vote for these opportunities.
But I am not bitter, you see he was able to send me his daughter to college, however I understand and I have apathy for the ones that are bitter.
@ RN – go read ya history lesson below
@ RN
Back?? You Never Left !! Same boring caller to the peoples show that reminds me that I have an On/Off Switch on my Radio. Oh yeah else for seeing the light, I doubt if you could see a nuclear explosion if you where under it
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Its Probly Karma for the $3000 they just charged me to ‘fix’ my car and done a HORRIBLE Job….
The quality doesn’t add up to the money!!! Won’t be getting my vote!!
To those of you blaming a certain family beginning with the letter G. Remember that nobody is buy new cars – I mean NOBODY!!!! Everybody who needs a car is buy a second hand car from the hundreds of expats leaving the island each month. This is a documented fact!
At any time there are over 100 cars for sale. Why bother with a new one when there is so much choice from people desperate to get out of Bermuda before it becomes a 3rd world country???
Bermuda Motors, like every other place selling vehicles, is having a really hard time.
Also, they always fix my car right and from what I’ve heard, they are very fair to their employees.
Just my two cents.
@ RN and FaceTheNation et al… why dont you read the history of the Gibbons Family, the greatgrandfather, a lowly cobbler who bought hundred of pairs of work boots from dock.. sold them at abotu 6/- pence profit. started a family legacy.. was the first into work and the last to leave… yes over the years they bought real estate… Do you get it the Gibbons had humble beginnings, long before Mr David Gibbons (later Sir David) Just pure avarice while some of our people sold family legacies… P…ed up against the wall… and in more modern times, some shopped until they dropped, cruised like there was no tomorrow… did not save for a rainy day… like so many of our forebears did, who built small homes without the assistance of Bankers… they often built the first room and moved in, and so forth…And msot of all they Gibbons Family built a future for their descendants as it should be… many Bermudians have done that and some chose not to… and that was their right…
@ Get real! history…. truly is his story
Karma is a bytch. Despite the economy problems world wide – life has come full circle. Do you all realise that whent he UBP was in power – they were not for Bermuda as a whole – a lot of deals were made under the table so the tax payers money was not spent – but we were robbed in other ways. Bermuda was not for Bermudians – in particilar ‘Colored” Bermudians – who are the majority. The UBP was somewhat controlled the International Biz sector – and made a lot of deals that caused a lot of Bermudians to leave Bermuda and create the saying Bermuda is not for Bermudians.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Where did you get your information, from the street?
Under the UBP Bermuda was SUPER-SUCCESSFUL and pockets were full!!
Under the PLP Bermuda is BROKE and pockets are empty. Why? Because y’all let a self-serving bully, his friends & family STEAL all OUR money without retribution. But guess what? Karma is real.
A vote for the rebranded Ewart Brown Party (the Party Lovin’ Party) is a vote for financial slavery. Nothin’s changed! Same people, same bull sh*t. Kick them out.
Do Black Bermudians feel their lives are more successful or enriched the past 13 years under the PLP Government? Just because you have a so-called ‘Black’ Government, just because you have some successful individual Blacks doesn’t mean the Black population as a whole is healthy. The various black on black shootings the past few years should be evidence of that. Blacks really aren’t any further ahead than 13 years ago. And I’m not referring to personal success stories, I mean collectively are Blacks ahead? Ask yourselves the question and be honest.
Think about it, economically there is still a gap, we’ve had recent reports attesting to that. Blacks are pretty much 3rd class in Bermuda right now. Look at the Portuguese, they’re WELL ahead as they work hard and maintain a sense of community. The Filipinos will be ahead soon as well, for the same reasons. The Black population hasn’t really benefitted from 13 years of PLP power, had they tackled the failing education system, that would have least been an effort to level the playing field but that’s just been a total flop, producing young Blacks who fall through the cracks, WIND UP IN GANGS, and the system just perpetuates itself over and over. Who’s going to break the cycle?
Spot on Joe Blow! Truth hurts
Sad but true Joe Blow.
@ Get Real
Spot on with that History Lesson, pity it will fall on the usual deaf Ears of the Victim Mentality Types (predominantly Blacks) and the Plain Bitter Losers that make up too many in Bermuda. If your’e poor or lower Middle Class no problems for them, become successful by hard work, intelligent decisions well woe betide you. Leave a legacy for your future generations even worse !! Same mentality that looks up to criminals and ne’er do wells but looks down on persons who study get educated, work hard etc… Truly no hope for that Bitter lot !!
@Get Real – That’s a great example of ‘an inconvenient truth’! Very well put.
@Downsized – *LIKE*
@ RN lmfao wurs YA facts?? u wan some facts.
Gibbons neva owned slaves unlike otha families FACT.
Gibbons first stayed back of town court street FACT
Gibbons was one of de first to give jobs to blacks FACT
Gibbons was piss poor to begin wit and EARNED they wealth FACT
Gibbons is NEW MONEY not like de OLD MONEY families on de island FACT
Gibbons neva manipulated laws to benefit dem FACT
Gibbons still one of de most honest families in bermy FACT
jealousy n envy a bi*%# inna? RN – GTFOH n get a life bra and kno ya FACTS before ya spout sh**!! ova n out
Just like former Premier John Swan
I agree with all your facts … The point, if I did not make it clear is that the G family has benefited financially from discriminatory laws of the pass, as a result they have build up such a surplus that they can take one for Bermuda.
RN……….it’s PAST not PASS!!! You’ve now used spelled it wrong several times.
correction appreciated,
@ RN – wrong! They benefited becuz dey built their business from de ground up n know how to run one. Betta read de FACTS again bra!
Absolute drivel @RN. They are where they are due to hard work – and not a lot else! I have worked for this family some 10 years, they have trained me, helped me with funding for evening education, teach me how to respect my elders, my customers and the tourists who visit my beautiful island home. How dare you show such disrespect to a family who came from nothing and now employ Bermudians, black and white – shame on you!
Such a shame for those made redundant to end up sullied by some of the comments in this forum – this is not a race issue, this is business, pure and simple!
Just think if Bermudian’s were to take say 80% of the job’s that ex-pats are here doing now! things would not be so bad! that money would stay in Bermuda, But they
are still bringing in more ex-pats to work here even in these time’s @ KEH they have
now Mexican carpenter’s working on that project. and pepole ask what wrong with Bermuda you all have to be JOKING!
If Bermudians would train for, apply to and show up for these jobs, Bermudians would get them! Fact! Do you think we, as business owners and IB CEOs, WANT to pay extra money for expats? No, do the math, expats cost more. So sad that Bermudians aren’t trained for, educated, or willing to do these jobs. If Bermudians trained and schooled themselves for these jobs as much as these expats have (AND, most importantly, showed up every day clean, sober and ready to work,) these jobs would be yours! Fact! So very sick of this entitlement attitude and the constant “oh whoa is me” song. You want the job? EARN IT!
You’re having a laugh aren’t you!! Let me tell you a true story……
A friend of mine was working at KEH two weeks ago and one of his “bies” didnt show up until 11.00am. The bossman asked him why he was so late and he said “I went for a haircut”, the boss said “you have to do that in your own time” and he said “HELL NO! It grows on your time, so I get it cut on your time”
YAY – go the honest hardworking Bermudians, pah! No wonder people want to employ ex-pats!
If it wasn’t for these ex-pats, half the restaurants, bars and shops on this island would be shut down and boarded up – THEY SPENT THEIR HARD EARNED CASH HERE!!! Or is that too taxing for ya??
Wow, this thread shows me Bermuda will be lucky to ever recover. The view of a small group of PLP (names need not be mentioned) is like communism or gospel to some and these few count and prey on it. They have brainwashed the people and fed them the agenda that they want to push, purely to keep them in power with little intent of helping those same people….
to the above comment:
“went to people that dont look like me.”
While you focus on this sort of divisiveness, the outside world has passed Bermuda by. Bermuda looks like a joke to it’s competitors. It’s as if the avergage Bermudian has no idea whatsoever what makes the economy up, how fragile it is and where Bermuda will be WHEN it colapses under the PLP regime. They also don’t seem to understand the desires of the outside world and that their investment alone gave Bermuda the economy it briefly enjoyed. While the competitors are eager to take our business from Bermuda, here you are (some of you) 13 years later after the PLP took power still focussed only on racially divisive comments. The PLP needs to offer something new to the people but they dont seem capable of that. If they wont change then the people need to change them. Every arguement has it’s time and place, but right now Bermuda need to prioritize its issues – divisive politics are the priority right now.
Wake up people, the economy is failing… If you think its bad now, go ahead and focus on the PLP’s agenda, keep them in power and argue about whats not going to help at all right now… See where Bermuda is a year or two from now. If you think thats a boogey man comment, just read the paper and see how many jobs are already lost and times that by many more.
-Noel
-Noel
@ bermyshottasays well done, and as others have said hearing the truth will not alter the clouded ididotic mindset of wurs yur facts types. Ha Ha Ha.. heshe is still waiting for re-parations Ha Ha Ha. Get a life!!!
oba is not for us they r for who ever wants to get rich with them
BERMUDACEDAR, are you as thick as your name implies? You have a serious chip on your shoulder! Most rational people on the Island want a change. That’s all. And, yes, it’s anything but the PLP again.
@ Bda Cedar,
Sounds just like the PLP to me!! Especially when one looks at their record under The Doc. MUFC your’e sooooo right !!!
And you believe the PLP to be? You’ve got a Premier that refuses to take a paycut but wants us all to ‘rally together’. How much more evidence do you need slapped upside your head that the PLP Ministers aren’t prepared to take from their own well-compensated wallets to ease the burden on the taxpayer? You do realize your taxes pay their salary right, or do you believe the money is dropping from heaven? Most of us are on salaries that barely scrape by, do you think the Ministers miss a meal? Who do you think pays for the gas that powers those fancy GPs that are used outside of working hours? Out of their own pocket? The taxpayer pays for that. How many trips you taken lately? One, maybe two? Yet every week you hear of some delegation going off to Timbuktu, on your taxpayer dollar, for one reason or another. But what ultimately comes from these trips? Do you ever see any reports, or hear of anything that comes out of the trips that actually benefits Bermuda. Why does a LABOR party send MPs Burgess and Horton to a CONSERVATIVE party function in the UK, again, on your dollar, to engage in conversational breakfasts??
The reality is, the only way Bermuda will move ahead is to kill the party politics system. You’ve got too many Bermudians that literally can’t THINK objectively when it comes to supporting their party. And that’s on both sides of the fence. DEATH TO PARTY POLITICS!
@ RN what does benifiting from discriminatory laws have to do with anything. There were many successful families who with a dogged purpose rose abvoe them and had success. Many people have propsered in spite of… but some seem to have fostered a mindset that has caused them not to progress… sigh… thank the good lord my family did not grow up with that doom and gloom mindset… I dont think anybody’s words can help them.. Im out of here…
Get real…. what does success, look like, my family owns multiple properties.
I brought my home at age 27, my daughter brought her home two years ago at age 28, are we successful, who determine ones success, had my family not suffered under discriminatory laws would my life or my children’s life be different.
I am humble that I “so called made it” however as long as my people (black people), continue to go to jail at a disproportionate rate, earn less than their counter parts, I will remain mindful of those that did not or could not make it.
@ Get Real,
Forget trying to reason with RN, there’s no point, I thought I recognized that warped logic. It’s the same lady caller to The peoples show that I need to turn off every time I’m unfortunate enough to hear her calls. Sheesh.
I guess all those black people that go to jail are being sent there by the whites and the ruling UBP … oops can’t use that one. Well at least with our New and Improved Education System we will see an end to the children that are being prepared to fail, yep all those years of second rate education will be a thing of the past …. oops again. Well maybe in thirty or forty years at this rate lol.
So after 13 years of PLP Rule wheres the Black Empowerment ?? Exactly Nowhere !! Besides a bit of feel good emotion they have failed the very people that RN claims she is watching out for and many are definitely in need help. No worries though because we Blacks will soon be able to look up to the wealthy PLP MP’s and Ministers as ‘Whitey’ leaves and they buy their business’s and homes for cents on the dollar, that or they will just take them like the Cement Company and Mr. Butterfield.
So how does it help the average black Bermudian ??? It wont !! It will just be a shift in power to people who make the Forty Thieves look like Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
& Don’t hold your breath waiting for the PLP Government to initiate reforms that really matter either, 13 years have yielded little other than free college educa … er oops, free everything even free bus rides for school kids (90% that have BB’s etc…) You have to laugh !! Nope the people will need to do that for themselves, just like the Gibbons and many other blacks have done including RN.
@ RN ..what does success look like…you and your family boviously listened to the wisdom of your elders, worked hard, save and did what you had to do… unfortunately too many of our people have done none of that… I know it you know it… Back in the eighties a businessman who owns one of the most popular local restaurants in the centre of Hamilton told me the story of a Bdn man who bemoaned the fact he could never own a piece of the rock… had no savings alas no bank account. The businessman challenged him to get a bank a/c, bring the bank book to the businessman to hold. I dont remember what the amount was that he agreed to save, but he did… and when he saw $1,000.00 on his bank book he could not believe it. In fact he began saving more than the original amount… The man went on to purchase his first house and then went on to purchase his second. These stories are out there… and I am sure there are many more like this one.. Kudos to all the hardworking Bermudians who have done this… I have always loved relating this to young people over the years… For as I posted earlier, some of our forebears attain what they needed to attain, without bitterness and left legacies.. Some people preferred to do otherwise… Once Again well do to you and your family…In the end most people are not looking to be wealthy, they are looking to have enough..Only about one percent of the world are truly wealthy…And wealthy people do not throw their wealth around, they say most live on about $150,000.00 a year, though this figure may be out of date. Peace!
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Agreed