Comments on: Videos: Minister Furbert Sings In UK

By: MinorMatters

MinorMatters — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:47:34 +0000

what an ignorant uninformed comment…needing to spell correctly is quintessential in the IB company where I work. For you to think you can spell any way you wish in the IB world is just plain …stoopid!

By: B, a Lady

B, a Lady — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:30:37 +0000

Why bother correct anything. Like the rest of the populace, you are comfortable with mediocrity and are just too arrogant to accept constructive criticism. Do not worry about whether I’ve interviewed lately. I have a job, and it pays well. You, on the other hand?

By: L. Simmons

L. Simmons — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:04:53 +0000

Oops…see a few mistakes. Feel free to correct.

By: L. Simmons

L. Simmons — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:01:53 +0000

@ B, a lady says: It has be quite sometime since being able to spell has been a criteria for getting a job in IB or anywhere else for that matter. Being able to use your computer software is. for crying out loud! Bloggers are NOT interested in spelling or grammer. The only one being laughed out of the building on this one is you. …um just saying.

Been on a job interview lately?

By: george

george — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:48:33 +0000

wayne has a passion for polotics & in this case being well paid for it, go ahead kid

By: Watching!

Watching! — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:52:45 +0000

I applaud his efforts. It is not easy to promote Bermuda. I believe that in the past 5 years however a lot of traveling and freebies were provided to Travel Agents, Tour Operators etc….time to put pressure on them to deliver, enough of the freebies. We can only do so much and some, not all, take advantage of free trips and functions with no pressure to deliver.

By: B, a Lady

B, a Lady — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:26:55 +0000

For crying out loud! How can ADULTS keep making such a silly mistake? It makes me cringe.

Here we go:

You’re (you are) a paid PLP blogger.

You’re (you are) using the race card.

You’re (you are) a blind follower

And all of you think you should work in IB. You would be laughed right out of the building with your P1 spelling.

By: Swing Voter

Swing Voter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:14:21 +0000

Well done the Minister Furbert, keep pushing to promote Bermuda. You are working hard to push Tourism in Bermuda. It is not an easy task, but I am so glad that you have the energy and motivation, drive, and enthusiasm, to move mountains anyway. Some people do nothing but “talk”, but you are about ‘action’.

By: PEPPER

PEPPER — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:24:04 +0000

I think Wayne Furbert,will do a fine job as our tourism minister… I think if he could get E.Michael Jones to travel with him these two love Bermuda…and E. Michael has a great personality ….I listen to Gina and Michael every day.I love the way these two joke with each other. thank you Z.B.M.

By: Larry marshall

Larry marshall — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:50:24 +0000

I guess this signals the end of light moments in Bermuda. Just an energetic Tourism Minister doing an imprompto version of “Bermuda is Another World” which was well received by the audience. That’s all. Very good effort Wayne.

By: Mad Dawg

Mad Dawg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:11:26 +0000

Well, on the subject of Ewart Brown’s promises that came to absolutely nothing, how about the speech when he claimed that there was a total of $3Billion in investment in hotels in the pipeline?

Of course, by bringing up broken plp promises I must be “spreading hate”…

By: navin johnson

navin johnson — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:18:47 +0000

Mad Dawg….Brown mentioned in his December 2007 yes 2007 speeches before the election that work would commence on the Park Hyatt before year end….in other words he said in Mid December a week before the election that work would start shortly after the election in 2007…he lied…..in fact right up to his departure work was going to start any day….The PLP think that just by saying something that is the same as actually DOING something….reversing this law….PATI…..Park Hyatt….eliminating descrimination…..and yet they do NOTHING…they say it but dont DO IT…..time and time again…..all we have here is politicking which is about the only thing they do well….see I paid them a complement….you are good at making promises that you never intend to keep…..

By: I'm Amazed

I'm Amazed — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:17:45 +0000

A man sings a song that draws the applause of its listeners, promotes our country, is not offensive, nor is it filled with hatred or violence, yet it still brings about such negative remarks from the very people of its homeland. Good grief people – do you look for, dig for, assume the negative in everything????

By: Mad Dawg

Mad Dawg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:12:08 +0000

Bringing back College Weeks? Never gonna happen. Is that a promise like the one we had about “work starting on the Park Hyatt in November 2011″?

Never mind. I guess by asking the PLP to actually do what they say, I am just “spreading hate”…

By: Mad Dawg

Mad Dawg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:07:49 +0000

What about BIU members? With their bus strikes, work to rules, hostility towards passangers, 14 weeks paid sick leave, 8 weeks paid vacation? Aren’t they ‘pricing Bermuda out of the market’ as well?

By: Never OBA

Never OBA — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:02:38 +0000

JIM BEAN IS A PAID OBA BLOGGER

By: Another point

Another point — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:25:18 +0000

Cause they own businesses staffed by BIU workers that only put out 30% in productivity and want 1000% in wages .. Or else they’ll strike and close the island down and spit on tourists while they’re doing it.

By: pebblebeach

pebblebeach — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:42:41 +0000

None of this bickering matters…Bermuda debt $1.05 billion plus and increasing…Soon we will be under the stewardship of those Note Holders when they call the notes and we are unable to pay…we will all be singing for supper then…just a metter of time…Wayne just got a head start…

By: Jim Bean

Jim Bean — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:10:12 +0000

RED FLAG IS A PAID PLP BLOGGER

By: Hello

Hello — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:48:19 +0000

Ditto – They don’t made them like that anymore.

By: Priceless

Priceless — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:31:38 +0000

The man is trying something different and you beat up on him wow. Right now I’m not sure what party I’m going to vote for.

I’ll tell you what if this is the type of hate the OBA has supporting it come next election you can forget my vote.

We all need to work together for the Country and if Wayne is trying something different….. then let him role with it.

By: Nice

Nice — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:27:02 +0000

WOW that was really nice song from him. Great. Have a great day everyone

By: White christ

White christ — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:09:56 +0000

Wow it’s amazing how an extremely short singing clip inspires Bermudians to write so much utter Bu11zhit. I’m glad it wasn’t a full song.
Singing wasn’t bad either

By: Red Flag

Red Flag — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:00:14 +0000

Thank you for proving my point. By the way most of the people pricing Bermuda out of the market are OBA members.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:25:36 +0000

Yup… Got his priorities straight inna!

So sad …

By: Bernews

Bernews — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:55:39 +0000

@Dumbfounded thanks for the link

By: Stop Looking to the Past!

Stop Looking to the Past! — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:40:58 +0000

@Under the miscroscope… you hit the nail on the head… spot on. Bermuda is not Miami Beach…but he won’t get it.. for Bermuda pricing itself out of the market, who are these people who keep touting this myth, probably haven’t run a a darn thing, but think they know who is making obscene profits et al…. spare us.

By: Albert Tatlock

Albert Tatlock — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:40:17 +0000

Gotta give him points for trying. He’d have been better singing, ‘Its my party & I’ll cry if I want to”.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:28:10 +0000

Putting party before country? No sense of irony then eh? Moron.

By: Red Flag

Red Flag — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:47:15 +0000

The point is that you OBA bugs are full of BS and only speak as a means to discredit the PLP and misinform the people. You try and hold on to the ties of the UBP (note OBA Response to Throne Speech were CC clams ownership to ideas put forward by the Premier that we’re suggested by now OBA MP’s under the UBP) but try to distance yourselves from the bad things by saying you are a completely different party.

All you guys ever do is talk negative and, you are putting your party before Bermuda by posting so negative on a story about promoting Bermuda, which is being viewed by many people thinking about traveling here.

You are the divisive ones and when you get backed into a wall you post cop-out responses like:

*Your a paid PLP blogger
*Learn to spell
*I can’t understand your post
*stop drinking PLP kool-aid
*your using the race card
*what about the debt
*your a blind follower
*cogwash
*Ewart Brown…….

You do that because you are unable to come up with a rational response
Now feel free to use one of your cop-outs.

By: Instant Replay

Instant Replay — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:11:45 +0000

ya, Jim went for the upper class tourists!!

By: will

will — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:59:43 +0000

college students would have done just fine…trust a PLP faithful to bring up race

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:36:33 +0000

Don’t confuse hate with anger. A whoole bunch of people are angry & fed up with this corrupt, inept PLP Government starting with near $200,000.00 per day, & growing, interest cost on a near $2B debt which is growing with no viable plans to reduce it.

Personal hate? No. Hate of an entity for its dismal performance? Oh Yes.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:29:27 +0000

And your point is?????????

By: Mister Vain

Mister Vain — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:27:35 +0000

Learn to spell.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:25:02 +0000

Better check that history, the factual, not repeated folklore. I didn’t know Swing Bridge needed replacing. Longbird Bridge, including the causeway, now, that is another issue. Ummm, Longbird bridge did not revert to Bermuda’s responsibility till after 1998. Check to see who signed off on the piddly $10M. The US negotiators must have laughed all the way to the bank on that one. PLP handling of former baselands has been a pretty amateurish affair from begining to end. Read the book.

Hurricane Fabian passed this way & severely damaged Longbird in 2003, under a PLP Government I believe, which has been promising to replace it ever since. The Hoover Dam took less time to build than a simple causeway replacement.

Better regrind your lens. It is distorted.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:16:14 +0000

Christ, you really lack rational thought. How anyone can think the last 13 years have been anything but a complete disaster is beyond comprehension.

By: through the lens

through the lens — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:13:18 +0000

I wonder which UBP Civil Servant was responsible for this and if they were asked to resign:
Casemates was locked up — almost for good
Top civil servants have avoided breaking into their own jail — despite losing the keys for three years.
Jailors literally locked Casemates up and threw away the keys when the Westgate Correctional Facility opened in 1994.
The keys to the old Royal Navy prison were hidden away in a Government storage box and have not been found since.

By: Red Flag

Red Flag — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:06:10 +0000

You OBA bugs are really simple. Nothing anybody in the PLP does could ever make sense or be right in your eyes. You take the time out to post the most useless and irrelevant statements just to spread your hate. That’s weak and pathetic politics. But
you still have the nerve to accuse the PLP members/supporters of being nasty and divisive.

I think the reason behind the Minister singing is far more important then how he sounded and I’m sure those in attendance got his message.

And for the record, Collage years was stopped in Bermuda due to the damage cause to
property by the students and the disturbance they caused to others. Not for any of the reasons some of you are putting on it. However some of those issues you listed are relevant to today’s problems and I’m certain the present Minister is aware of that and has it under consideration moving forward in bringing Collage Weeks back, just as he is aware of the problems that caused its end the first time and he will be better able to know how the make it work for us today.

Attempt to hide it all your want with you post of distraction, but the truth is in plan sight and that is that the PLP Government is at work while the OBA is learning how to crawl.

By: through the lens

through the lens — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:53:39 +0000

Do you remember this or you still got selective memory.
Dr Saul ponders Cabinet shuffle. He has to be fair to those ministers who have stuck by him in the tough times and he has to include in his Cabinet enough of “The Five” to heal the rift in his Parliamentary Group.
Of “The Five”, it seems clear that Trevor Moniz will not be considered as suitable for any Cabinet. He is not a team player or, indeed, a UBP player. It is also unlikely that Dr. Saul would consider Ann Cartwright DeCouto for a Cabinet post in the wake of her support to censure him. Yet, he will have to remember just how much the UBP needs her Pembroke West Central seat. That leaves two former ministers, Dr. Clarence Terceira and C.V. Jim Woolridge, and backbencher Dr. David Dyer in Cabinet consideration.
There are some star Cabinet members like Jerome Dill and Pamela Gordon whom Premier Saul has to look after. Mr. Dill should stay as Minister of Education to see through the completion of the new mega-school and through the audit which he ordered of the Ministry of Education. The only way the Premier can possibly move Ms Gordon is up.
He is unlikely to touch the party warhorse, Quinton Edness, who appears settled at Home Affairs, or David Dodwell who is working very hard at Tourism.
Grant Gibbons is another matter. He has been carrying both the Bases transition and Finance, both of which are important, but he would probably like to get rid of one of them. However, there is a problem. His success has been with bases transition. The disaster he created was at Finance when he agreed to Grape Bay Ltd., yet there is no-one else to fill Finance.
Clearly, Wayne Furbert has been struggling with the Transport portfolio, yet he is said to poll high in Hamilton West which is a marginal constituency vital to the UBP. To replace him might cause his election defeat. Clearly Harry Soares will be moved from the Health Ministry and the problems of the prisons. The post could well be filled by dentists Terceira or Dyer but we would not be surprised to see Pamela Gordon promoted there after her success with Environment.
Community and Cultural Affairs Minister Yvette Swan has been both very active and good at her job and if, as it seems, the UBP considers the Senator a potential candidate in Warwick, then she needs the Cabinet exposure. Youth and Sport Minister Tim Smith was demoted once when he should have been dropped from the Cabinet. His House seat is safe but not one of “The Five” is likely to relish the Youth and Sport ministry.
Telecommunications Minister John Barritt, Dr. Saul’s running mate, has indicated a willingness to make room for one of “The Five” and his seat is safe. He will probably go.
All of these decisions and the future of this Cabinet are clouded by ongoing public speculation on the future of Dr. Saul himself. The United Bermuda Party is still unsettled. Many see a bleak future for the UBP if Dr. Saul continues in the leadership until the next election but they are unable to suggest a viable replacement.
Dr. Saul has said that he is going to do a minimum of two years as Premier, but some UBP supporters believe that if he does not go before Parliament reconvenes, it will be too late to establish a new leader and revive the party’s fortunes.

Because i remember not too long ago, all you UBP/OBA faithfuls were putting the MEGA school squarely on the shoulders of the PLP…
Read n Weep

By: Shaking the Head

Shaking the Head — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:42:49 +0000

The PLP were elected in 1998 and rapidly agreed to the first offer from the US of $10m and promptly spent it on other things. No idea how to negotiate and 8 years after Fabian we still have a temporary bridge because there is no money to build a permanent fixture.

By: through the lens

through the lens — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:34:17 +0000

Here’s another one by your beloved Mr Jim Woolridge. BUT all you UBP/ OBA faithful have been blaming the PL the past yrs.
“Replace Swing Bridge” Works and Engineering Minister C.V. (Jim) Woolridge said the Swing Bridge was well able to cope with existing traffic.
And he added: “I’m sure the issues surrounding Longbird will be dealt with by the Premier.”
Looks like he passed the buck to me.

By: through the lens

through the lens — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:28:49 +0000

For all you UBP/OBA faithful just like this promise by your beloved UBP/OBA MP’s
Minister of Works and Engineering, C.V. (Jim) Woolridge, yesterday unveiled plans for the greening of the Pembroke Dump.
Phase One of the Pembroke Marsh Park plan, scheduled to commence this month,
Minister of Works and Engineering, C.V. (Jim) Woolridge, yesterday unveiled plans for the greening of the Pembroke Dump.
Phase One of the Pembroke Marsh Park plan, scheduled to commence this month, will see about one third of the 25-acre site transformed into a residential playground — complete with linear-lake system, outdoor amphitheatre, soccer and cricket field, basketball courts, and an extensive playground for children.

Still waiting for that one too

Dont panic i’ll find the story with the exact words your beloved UBP/OBA MP’s provided

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:21:15 +0000

Jim did not get rid of College weeks. Money and greed toward IB did. get a life…..

By: Friendly Faces

Friendly Faces — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:05:07 +0000

Speak for yourself mate. good for WF for doing this, but let’s not let it mask the shocking job this Government has done with Tourism, and the lies it continues to tell. Maybe WF can get a cabaret job at one of the new hotels the PLP have promised us, oh hang on…….

By: Onion Soup

Onion Soup — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:46:26 +0000

Hmmm…I checked out the YouTube video provided by Dumbfounded and thought he sounded pretty darned good. Good for Wayne that he can burst out into song about his country rather than carry on like a cantankerous, blustery, pompous a$$ like some people! If prospective travellers to Bermuda were reading the above angry posts, it would be no wonder if they’d decide to go elsewhere.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:38:26 +0000

Better check your own memory. It is very selective. As usual when things go wrong it is seldom for one reason but a combination.

First of all Bermuda priced itself out of the market. Places like Mexico were far cheaper & have better weather. Places like Florida & the other Gulf Coast states are also cheaper & far more welcoming to the party atmosphere. Bermuda properties, even with their high prices did not want to deal with damage done by a few rowdy students, never mind that those students would return again & again as responsible adults. Then there was the self inflicted damage done by Bermudians themselves. You never knew when the BIU would simply walk off the job. There were handbag snatchings from cycle baskets, harrassment towards the girls by local males & the lack of night entertainment.

College Weeks will not come back. Our competitors do a better job for less & they are not going to give that business up.

By: Down 'n' Dirty

Down 'n' Dirty — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:30:52 +0000

Nobody should be allowed to bastardize such a beautiful song.

By: Hamilton Parish Voter

Hamilton Parish Voter — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:21:04 +0000

That is why we vote for Wayne, he loves Bermuda and its people. Keep singing.

By: Dumbfounded

Dumbfounded — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:57:01 +0000

Full performance here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHejdGGpzKY