Premier/Ministers To Host Town Halls
Premier Paula Cox, joined by various Government Ministers, will host a series of town hall meetings to discuss the upcoming National Budget. Premier Cox released the Pre-Budget Report last month, which highlights a number of policy options currently under consideration.
The Premier said at the time, that she will host a series of town hall meetings to invite public feedback on the document. The Premier will be joined by Cabinet Ministers at each meeting.
The public meetings will be held on the following dates and at the following locations:
January 18 – Dalton E. Tucker Primary School, Southampton
- Kim Wilson, Attorney General and Minister of Justice
- Zane De Silva, Minister of Health
- Glenn Blakeney, Minister of Youth, Families, and Sports
January 25 – Leopard’s Club, City of Hamilton
- Michael Weeks, Minister of Public Works
- Patrice Minors, Minister of Economy Trade and Industry
- Michael Scott, Minister of Government Estates and Information Services
- Wayne Perinchief, Minister of National Security
February 1 – Francis Patton School, Hamilton Parish
- Derrick Burgess, Deputy Premier and Minister of Transport
- Dame Jennifer Smith, Minister of Education
- Wayne Furbert, Minister of Business Development and Tourism
- Marc Bean, Minister of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy
All meetings get underway at 7.30 p.m. In the lead up to the meetings the public is encouraged to review the Pre-Budget Report and share their feedback by emailing openbudget@gov.bm.
What’s to discuss the money is gone?????
Forget these Town Hall meetings – epic waste of time. How about having a few DEBATES like in the States? Why not?? What are our parties afraid of? Instead of bickering via the media and calling each other names, why not start having debates?
C’mon, let’s have Debates!
Film the Town Hall and it can go down in history on how to defend the indepensible.
The purpose of these meetings is to prepare the masses for the massive tax increases made necessary by the looting of the public purse!
Exactly.
It doesn’t matter what these people say. They will be voted out soon!!!! They have failed Bermuda!!!!
Dear Madam Premier,
Kindly ‘roll out’ your successor no more Town Hall meetings where we tell you what we have already done in the last set of meetings and on the blogs that your advisors read daily to give you feedback on public sentiment these same people are setting you up this is a bad idea.
If your advisors cant give you any names weve made suggestions even if these individuals are used on an interim basis until an appropriate leader is recruited from international business
- Kim Wilson
- Terry Lister
- Jennifer Smith
FAIL.
At this point in time save for the dotting of Is & the crossing of Ts the 2012-2013 budget is set, or at least it should be if it has been done in a timely fashion.
Any public meetings now are really a waste of time on the publics part. Watch how much time is used for blah, blah, blah from the polititians.
The Town Hall meetings will almost certainly be used for electioneering, pure and simple. Watch for the planted and stage managed questions, praise for what is being done and the refusal for non partisan questions or points. Heard it all before, and it will I’m sure just confirm that the dial has not been reset.
More Electioneering Cog-wash…just tell me how much you are going to raise my taxes to pay for the mismanagement of the people’s purse which by in large a portion ended up in the bank accounts of a few while under your watch…
the budget is done.cogwash indeed