Comments on: Live Video/Photo Blog: BPSU March On Cabinet

By: Tired of nonsense

Tired of nonsense — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:53:12 +0000

People have been saying that there was something wrong for years…

And these individuals were duly called racists, white supremacists, house ni**ers etc.

Where was the BPSU then?

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:45:15 +0000

Has the BIU President and his top 10 staff taken a pay cut. Off course not and never will. and nobody questions that or the Governor’s salary or the salary of a PS who makes much more than a Minister.

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:44:04 +0000

This is an internal family quarrel. If an election was called tomorrow they will support the family from outsiders and vote PLP and Queen Paula knows it.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:42:38 +0000

THe Health Minister’s staff wrote it.

By: Power to the people

Power to the people — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:22:04 +0000

For those of you who continue to ask (or even criticize) why the BPSU members decided to march citing that ‘demands’ were unreasonable, please think about this – if the persons who work closely with your tax dollars are telling (through a public march) that something is wrong, the rest of Bermuda should be concerned. As civil servants we are not allowed to take sides or voice our opinions, if the BPSU members decided to march there must be a legitimate reason so people read between the lines!

By: BPSU MEMBER

BPSU MEMBER — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:01:58 +0000

Yet you still fail to adress what I stated. Stop assuming because people are member of a union they automatically vote PLP. That’s all I was eluding too. Because I no first hand that not all do. They view these blogs too and see the comments. I have heard people talking and when they see 20 plus comments saying the vote PLP because they are union members don’t help.

By: LOL (original)

LOL (original) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:33:44 +0000

Also its been pointed out the independent board is recommended by the Premier.

LOL

By: Whoyafoolin

Whoyafoolin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:35:55 +0000

Preto Plato, the RG reported that the Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox’s salary is $224,092; the Deputy Premier Burgess’salary is $181,514; Attorney General Scott’s salary is $193,786; the remaining full-time Ministers and MPs, Dame Jennifer Smith, Terry Lister, Zane DeSilva, Neletha Butterfield, Walter Roban, Glenn Blakeney and Michael Weeks each receive $168,069; Full-time Minister and Senator Kim Wilson gets $142,413 and part-time Minister Patrice Minors receives $112,046. Are these not the facts?

By: Hudson

Hudson — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:19:19 +0000

No, it’s comments like yours that make people shake their head as it shows a complete lack of understanding of what is going on around you. Don’t you get it? PLP relies on people just like you voting on emotion and not the facts!! This worked particularly well the last election, and fear among many in Bermuda is that it will work just as well this one. And what in any of these threads suggests that “their vote is not welcomed anywhere else”? I don’t follow your train of thought here?

The fact is that Bermudian’s want CHANGE! They want their lot to improve, they want the Island to unify, they want social stability, and they can’t see it happening if people blindly support the PLP despite their getting us into this mess in the first place.

By: Hudson

Hudson — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:12:28 +0000

Yup, that’s about what i thought. Keep marching then. Nothing will change, but i guarantee you this – the rich will get richer, and the poor will get poorer under this model. Look forward to chatting with you in about 5 years Preto when you wish you had voted on the basis of platform and policy and not blind support like some sheep. Good luck in the future.

BTW, your comments about global economies, govt budgets and price freezes show your ignorance of basic economics and your lack of understanding of global news and politics.

By: Hudson

Hudson — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:07:06 +0000

I agree. But marching alone won’t make enough of a difference. We elected this government, and until members of the community chose to elect a different government, then there will be no real change.

By: Watching!

Watching! — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:51:38 +0000

Yup, real hard. Too many mouths to feed. My responsibility. I do not rely on Govt for anything. That’s why I get angry when I see protests that make no sense. People should be glad they have a job and work hard for their employer. Bermuda is facing difficult times and we must not panic. If we work together, we can pull out of this recession faster. I am pretty sure the employer will reward you accordingly. Oh well!

By: Watching!

Watching! — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:45:23 +0000

Idiot! That is the reason you would vote PLP? Because of comments! I think it is statements like that, that prove who the real idiots are. Sometimes you get what you wish for so enjoy it. What a clown! Well you keep on voting based on comments and keep up the marching…your doing a good job!

By: Watching too (that means also)

Watching too (that means also) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:13:22 +0000

You work hard to keep your job – unlike these idiots calling in sick. So thats good!

By: BPSU MEMBER

BPSU MEMBER — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:26:31 +0000

WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS….YOU SEE ITS COMENTS LIKE THESE ( STILL VOTE FOR PLP) ETC THAT WOULD MAKE UNION MEMBERS NOT VOTE FOR UBP ETC. WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THAT THESE PEOPLE VOTED FOR THE CURRENT GOVT(PLP) ETC. SECRET BALLOT LAST I CHECKED. TAKE YA HEADS OUT YA A$$ AND STOP TRYING TO DOWN AND BELITTLE PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOU ASSUME. IF YA GOING TO ATTACK (ATTACK THE MESSAGE) NOT THE UNION MEMBERS AND WHOM OU ASSUME THEY VOTE FOR. BECAUSE ITS YOU THAT WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO VOTE PLP AS YOURE SHOWING THEIR VOTE IS NOT WELCOMED ANYWHERE ELSE. SMDH

By: Watching!

Watching! — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:22:07 +0000

Stop complaining….nothing will be done! Does that make sense to you now?

By: Head Scratcher

Head Scratcher — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:16:30 +0000

United you stand for divided you fall.. good job turning out but know this.. your leader thumbed her nose at you to attend the Master’s son’s wedding instead of listening to your concerns.. your voices.. the voices of her people. PLP is no more.

By: Watching too (that means also)

Watching too (that means also) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:10:37 +0000

And your rather unintelligent point is what?

By: WELL SAID

WELL SAID — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:07:39 +0000

WELL SAID!!!!! EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ YOUR COMMENTS BECAUSE SO MANY HAVE NO CLUE….I GUESS THAT IS WHY PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON’T HAVE A CLUE!!!

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:48:25 +0000

Take a look at the Budget book and see what minister’s salaries are. A Full Time Minister’s salary is 112K, a part time is 56K. Sorry, facts are facts.

And you do know that minister’s pick neither their position or their pay. The fact that this is an issue is more amusing as the premier doens’t set the salaries of Minister’s nor any other member of the legisltature, it is set an independent panel.

Get YOUR facts correct next time.

For the record, I beleive that ALL members of the public sector from Ministers on down to the custodian should take a paycut. That is real solidarity and sacrifice, but you heard the BIU President last night say, no way.

By: Whoyafoolin

Whoyafoolin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:41:00 +0000

Hmmmmm, there are many more high ranking supervisors who write worse than that in the civil service. If these people were to be weeded out or paid according to their writing ability, a BIG savings would be made in that area alone. Some don’t know the difference between to and too, then and than, there and their, roll and role and the list goes on. What’s irritating is that they receive high salaries regardless and have to assess people who are smarter than them, and even have the nerve to give them low ratings. I recommend a complete overhaul of the civil service and the introduction of performance based pay minus favoritism.

By: Watching!

Watching! — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:19:48 +0000

Ha when we have the chance to make a real change, which is at the next election, we will give them another 5 years! Deal with it! You got what you wished for! And no I am not white and yes i have a job BECAUSE I work hard to keep it!!

By: Bad English

Bad English — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:53:05 +0000

Hmmmmmmm…..preach it…so true and so sad. I thought it was just me so disgusted with the poor english, poor grammar and just bad expression that Bernews allows to be posted in the name of “free speech.” But you are absolutely right. The sad thing is that the writers or supporters see nothing wrong with their poor written and oral representations…P5 english as you say qualifies them to be employed over us.

I work in the Bank and the Bank had to introduce approved “form letters” because they did not want the client facing staff “writing” to clients with such poor English skills. Absolutely pathetic. I was even disgusted in the preface letter written by the Health Minister in his introductory letter at the front of the National Health Plan – Doesn’t he have people to look and correct this stuff?

By: Nemesis Alton Towers

Nemesis Alton Towers — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:46:38 +0000

Lazy effing Government workers. They want a guarantee that nobody will be let go, and for this they’ll accept 1.25%??? WHAT F*****NG planet are they living on??? Obviously not earth and in this economy.

Newsflash: Nobody can EVER guarantee there’ll be no redundancies. If they can – they are lying. Second – you are lucky to have a job AND be getting a raise at all!!!!!!

You are nothing more than frickin spoiled children who have inflated opinions of themselves.

Best of luck in the future – you’ll need it!!!

By: Bubba

Bubba — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:38:09 +0000

We don’t want foreign experts. So what do we do, beat up on Bermudians.

Tragic.
We need everybody at work and not marching getting a sun tan.

So what did the March achieve. THey din’t even get to see the eyes of the Premier. Whoop de do!!! A few hours off with pay. How lucky. Maybe it is part of the new exercise plan.

Let’s get busy and get back to work.

By: stop the BS

stop the BS — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:58:44 +0000

Preto Plato you are corect that the PLP is not responible for thr Global downturn but what they are responseble for is their careless , spending and failing to pull in their belt 4 years ago when it was obvious we were headed for trouble, now we are drowning in a sea of debt, Remember Bob Richards saying there are dark clouds forming on the horizon.Instead of shortening sails the PLP put up bigger sails and now we have capsised!

By: 2 jobs

2 jobs — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:44:31 +0000

Well.. you could argue that she does know what it is like to work a second job as she was part time until she took office of the premier. (she was working as legal council at ACE while also being in charge of our finances)

By: Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:21:35 +0000

I am so glad that you posted this. This is exactly the issue. Performance. That letter symbolizes exactly what is wrong with them and us. Mediocre is acceptable and when corrected one is labelled as bullying or being unreasonable.They marched today to protect mediocrity and to ensure that at no stage are they required to “up their game”. Stuck in neutral.Proof of why its so easy to employ expats here. They don’t need to be rocket scientists, they just need to write “then” and “than” in context (i.e. P5 english) and they’re employed over us. Sad.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:19:22 +0000

Classic comment der Plato. With referance to “Milk” you are refering to Mike Dunkley.

Buy a freeking cow. You can afford it but you just want to carress not suck them………

Glad all my other family members moved to Paget Island….yes eye…..free lan, fishin, eeleegal pots, make day own rope, …detz rite……..nax veek vah taykin owa Pahort Eyelan….dets rite…ann vant dem graves wiff dee yalla feevar ann get rid of “IB”…..detz rite…. “IB”..sand dem dahn dee rowed…..’Ignorant Bermudians’……………………….greed……..

By: Micheal Smith

Micheal Smith — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:16:21 +0000

Thank You LOL but the message is the same

By: Get real

Get real — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:46:28 +0000

Only 2 or 3 Ministers are remotely capable of managing a 100M budget.

The Deputy is clearly not – and it looks like the Premier agrees (she took all the major departments from him)

By: Whoyafoolin

Whoyafoolin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:39:26 +0000

Preto Plato, where do you get your 112K figure from? There is only one part-time Minister and that is the Minister of Tourism. She already has a full-time job in the private sector. The remaining Ministers’ full-time salaries are 168K +; get your facts straight before you comment! We are speaking of representatives of the public who are supposedly not in it for the $$$$$$. They are, supposedly, concerned about the well being of this Island, therefore, a reduction in pay should not be an issue. They didn’t apply for these positions if you want to compare to the private sector. They were merely elected to represent the interests of the people. The problem is, many of them are there for personal gratification and have gone way off course.

By: Get real

Get real — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:37:49 +0000

Michael – its delegates. Not deligates.

By: Not Suprised

Not Suprised — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:31:23 +0000

@ critical, are you being sarcastic? Actually quite a few have taken pay cuts. Days have been cut therefore reduction in salary. And this has happened all over the private sector. Are people really serious in thinking the private sector has not been affected? They are one of the biggest affected. Unemployment is all over the private sector! Layoffs and redundancies…. are you living in the same country? That does not require a response.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:26:36 +0000

Is that you Cole Simmons?

By: OMG

OMG — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:12:12 +0000

Walk in the shoes of someone who hasn’t worked in the last 14 months and I can tell you what TRYING to survive is!

I did some temp work at a Govt. dept for a couple of weeks and it was shameful the state of the work that was not being done, and no reprimand was given to those dept workers….

By: 32n64w

32n64w — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:01:11 +0000

… and don’t mistake blind loyalty for critical thought.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:57:26 +0000

There is irony in your comments 32n64w……….

The ties that bind in so many ways and current lie 18-15′N -77-30′W

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:50:16 +0000

Ahh yes, and Ewart and Paula are responsible for the budget cuts in the US, Canada, UK, Carribean, and Europe aswell right. All the PLPs fault guiding the world financial markets to near collapse in 2008. I’ll drink you Kool Aid! #sarcasm

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:47:43 +0000

Tired of hearing this crap. Yes i’m a PLP supporter, but do you really think that union memebers are going to vote for a party that said the government should balance the budget by making govt workers redundant. Incompetent, you wish. When given the choices that governments have had to face over the past 4 years, i’d say we’ve gotten it right about 80% of the time. Don’t mistake not agreeing for incompetence.

Financially worse off than 10 years ago? What planet are you living on. Though the recession is tough, you won’t find many to take you on that one. Get with the facts, world economy is screwed, govt bugets around the world are out of balance everyone is needed to move the wheels to recovery.

In all of this, its so interesting to note the absolute silence of the opposition on this issue of “price freezes”. No one is talking abut the increase in the price of milk, they are coming after the government. Lets be clear, while you are hurting, the supermarket owner isn’t.

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:37:54 +0000

OK, so 112K a year for a full time job, with no overtime, and a workweek often 7 days is bloated. Oh yeah and on top of that they have to be a MP aswell. C’mon man, lets not get it twisted. Some ministers run 100 Million dollar ministries. You think anyone in the private sector has that much of a buget or that much or that many staff under them and get paid 112 thousand for it. lets get real.

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:34:25 +0000

Corrections, All ministers and MPs have not had a pay increase since 2009. Get your facts right. BPSU are calling for them to be cut, but don’t think their salaries should be cut, even when a decent number of BPSU memebers make more than miinisters at 112K per year. Good for goose, not for Gander..

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:32:00 +0000

Amen, preach on. Since when did we become so dependent on government. Why is it that the lady working in the fast food joint has the lastest blackberry that i can afford but don’t buy? Why is it people on financial assistance have flatscreen TVs and cables. Since when were these necessities?

Oh thats right, we need to keep up appearances.

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:26:49 +0000

Well said!

By: Preto Plato

Preto Plato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:25:39 +0000

I may stand to be corrected, but I’m sure food isn’t taxed at those rates. However basic items are the ones subject to price control. Moving on however, you suggest we reduce the fuel tax? OK, cool, and

1) Borrow the money to pay for the loss in revenue?
2) Fire civil servants to make sure you don’t borrow anymore?

Which option?

By: What do you expect?

What do you expect? — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:00:13 +0000

Aren’t the grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in the letter to the Premier quite embarrassing, but quite telling?
Are these the people who should be representing the interests of the Bermudian working population?
Isn’t the very least we can hope for is for the working men and women in the 21st Century can be represented by someone who can use the spellchecker on Microsoft Word?
Or maybe even admit that there may be some structural problems in Bermuda that cannot be addressed by shouting like a spoilt teenager?

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Hmnnnnnnnnnn and det lutt are just dee BIAW rabbitts…gotta be everyhare……

There’s an empty Doctors Office for rent…..Vineyard not included.

By: Just Curious

Just Curious — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:47:15 +0000

Well,
Give a scenario!
I would weekly pay lets say $700
filter in the deductions! and lets the people be the judge

By: Hudson

Hudson — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:46:54 +0000

I’d like to conduct a poll of the workers that marched today:

“How many of you will tick the PLP box during the next election?”

My guess is greater than 70% despite being frustrated, angry, ignored, and financially worse off than you were 10 years ago. Keep banging your head against the wall and thinking one day it will all get better. Here’s a newsflash – this government is incompetent. Only once the voters realise this and get them out, will they be able to see the change that they want. But sadly, even when the next government comes to power, there is so much damage and mismanagement to undue, we won’t feel the benefits for years to come. Our children would be happy though…

Food for thought…

By: Just Curious

Just Curious — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:45:17 +0000

Well, Then since you have a Good education join the Private sector! what is there to Loose!