Video: Newly Elected “Team Hamilton” Officials
The newly elected City of Hamilton officials held a press conference this morning [May 11], following their victories in the municipal elections held last night, the first under new laws which see one vote per resident.
Graeme Outerbridge is the new Mayor of Hamilton, defeating incumbent Charles Gosling with 55.33% of the vote [109 - 88]. All of Mr Outerbridge’s fellow candidates in “Team Hamilton” were voted in, with the entire existing Corporation of Hamilton team ousted from power.
The new Aldermen are former UBP chairwoman Gwyneth Rawlins, businessman Donal Smith and Youth on the Move President Carlton Simmons; and the new Common Councillors are lawyer Larry Scott, former PLP MP George Scott, Roseann Edwards, Troy Symonds, and Anthony Davis.
Speaking this morning, Mr Outerbridge thanked the outgoing team for the job they have done, and he and others went on to speak on a number of topics including differences in the upkeep of North East Hamilton as compared to other parts of the City, financial matters and more.
Newly elected Alderman Carlton Simmons said, “Obviously it all comes down to money, we will be looking for ways to balance budgets but to also get certain things done, so that people can feel and notice a difference.”
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Congratulations Donal Smith!
Just like the Emissions Control Center was grossly overbudget I just wonder how much the St. Regis Park will be mishandled?
The two women are the only ones who will get things done. Watch and see and they will be the first to resign.
Let’s have an attendance record and a report card on what they have done. Don’t get the Mayor angry….he will have a temper tantrum.
Ok now they are in the “hot” seat let’s see if they can do any better?? Have any of the above run a successful business? Doubt it!!
I bet someone will be missing from the above picture in a short while??
I bet property taxes will be going up to support the new salaries for the New Team – BTW the same one’s that cannot vote in any COH election?? WTF!!!
Exactly. They want to be paid.
They won’t make any progress because the mayor is a nut and each one has a story to tell….not much success there.
Ask Carlton why he always parks his car on a yellow line outside of his house like it is his right. People see this and they know he is not for them.
They won;t last a year.
@OMG & Truth is killin’ me… says:
You and people like you are so racist. That’s why blacks in Bermuda feel this way when you asked for them to vote OBA. Because it people like you 2 the rest of the negative comments posted below which drives us apart as a people.
I hope the PLP party kicks yous a$$ the next election.
Want to know why people like me are not supportive of the PLP. How about my wife is out of a job because of economy and I may be next! My kids go to public school ( the same one I attended as a child) and I’m pretty sure my 11year old and most in his class are smarter than his teacher. It a well known fact but this teacher is being pushed through the system.
I know one of these men personally and out of respect for his family i won’t say who. Its fair to say he has been in business as long as ive known him but would i say he is successful, ahhh no! More like nepotism. Oh will maybe he found his true calling.
@ “You Racist” – I read the comments to which you refer and I have absolutely no idea how you derive that “OMG” and “Truth is killin’ me” are racists. I guess it takes one to know one. Is that all you have to contribute?
I heard rumors on how this election was won and that concerns me, when an election isn’t won ethically (but it hopefully is just a rumor). I would have the greatest doubt for their future success if the winning party did not win ethically. This team sure will have some time to prove to us what they are made off. And I agree with other commentaries that you have to have thorough business knowledge to run a company successfully which applies to any position that deals with money.
I hope for a better Bermuda !!! It sure needs help no matter from whom.
Well I read both and maybe your right about OMG, but on the other hand Truth is killin has wrote.
“One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others”
So Casi what in the photo is different from the others? Stop being a fool 7 black Bermudians and 1 white one. That is clearly racist.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn’t belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you’re absolutely…right!
it really dont matter..what matters is that the voters have voted and this is the results….like it or not..
This is what’s wrong with Bermudians and whomever is writing negative feedback you all are so strong voicing your opinions online let’s see you all stand up for what you believe in the right way because anyone can sit at a computer and type but it takes a real strong person to stand up for the country so stop the negative comments they are getting you no further ahead all your doing is “MAKING NOISE” your voice can be heard properly but you gotta take the initiative…. !!!!!!
Wow, that was all in one sentence. And who says only 32% of Bermuda’s students are competent at English?
32%? I didn’t think it was that high. I think you are being generous.
And breathe Devil’s Isle. Breathe.
20% of students in Bermuda are in private schools. I believe that that stat is about right.
40% in private shool, 75% of those are Bermudian.
Where the hecks Gosling when you need him ? I could just drink a black rum milkshake right now in celebration .
Congrats “TEAM HAMILTON”…this is a Historical Day indeed. Well done…change has been a long time coming…finally it has happen….best wishes for the future.
Alright, maybe 32% is being generous.
Thanks Betty – for being shorter than on RG.
First thing on the agenda: COH Payroll. Second thing – BIU Representation to ensure that they can have 80 vacation days 120 sick days and 165 Mental Health Days.
CONGRATS TO YOU ALL ! DO US ALL PROUD !
$44,000 debt this year after gov’t cut back their revenue sources. Let’s see how the new team make out providing equal services. It will also be interesting to see if gov’t gives CoH some of their revenue sources back now.
Everybody promises ‘change’ and everybody delivers.
Trouble is that ‘change’ has rarely been for the better and in the most cases disastrous.
I cannot legitimately back any team that believes it is democratic to give the vote in the City
only to those who own houses but not to those who own the very buildings that make it a City!
If all that existed were homes and no office buildings, malls, shops etc. then it would be a village.
ok a village with a church.
The owners of those hundreds of buildings pour hundreds of millions into the City and create jobs.
They probably spend half their waking hours involved in them.
So how can it be democratic that they have to pay not only Land Tax but also Corporation Tax?
Taxation for the benefit of all but no say?
Sure extend the vote to all in the City limits,but to cut off the vote held previously smacks of socialist vengeance and resentment against achievement.
We know how that has worked out already under the PLP.
There is no other municipality in the world (except the City of London–and that’s the small, historic business center with an unusual structure, not the larger London) that allows owners of property to vote unless that property is also their official place of residence. You are tying the vote to property ownership, which was outlawed in Bermuda decades ago. People vote, not businesses. Businesses within the city limits also pay taxes to the Bermuda government, and they don’t get a vote because of it. Their influence is felt through lobbying and interest groups. Unfortunately, the City of Hamilton doesn’t have enough of a broadly stratified residential base to make this seem fair–and based on this election, the registered voters don’t seem interested in exercising their newly legislated right. We’ll see what time will bring.
What I still don’t understand here is that it’s OK to give a vote to people who own homes but not people who own buildings.
If it is nothing to do with ownership of a home in the City limits then is it based on simply ‘living ‘ in the City?
If so then anybody can claim to ‘live’ in the City by virtue of where they sleep!
The vagrants get to vote?
So when you say ‘people’ vote not businesses you mean city homeowners or city sleepers?
Insanity……
How is that democracy at work…..of course the owners of buildings should be allowed to vote and of course its vengeance gone mad…
Not fair
Surely when Graham puts his head on the pillow at night, he knows its not demorcratic..
Come on guys get real
So if thirty buildings in Hamilton are owned by one person , how many votes is that one person worth ? @Gritty Kid
The Reform Act of 2010 has many advantages! The fact that all those persons listed on the Parliamentary Register can now vote is a plus all around! Why is it that before 1998, no-one thought to pursue OR even change the old policy of business owner, land owner, restricted tenant. It amazes me the negativity that appears to surround such a positive democratic change to the old status quo. Embrace the change!
Taxation without representation is bad government… anyone but an idiot knows that! Maybe city businessmen should hold back City taxes until they get the vote back. Now THAT would be interesting to watch! Do it!!
Insanity. Yes, it would be interesting if all those Corporation tax paying property owners, who do not get a vote on how their taxes are spent, witheld those taxes, putting them in an escrow account until some sort of sanity returned to the Corporations.
Looking at the new crew, is there a succesful business person among the whole lot of them? Give them a year. Hamilton finances will be in a shambles. Who is going to clear up the mess?
The 53% of voters who put this lot in will regret the folly of their ways very soon.
At the end of the day businesses are closing, buildings on Front St. are shuttered and I.B. companies have left or cut back staff. You, We, I and Us Lot have got a serious problem and for those with eyes to see and ears to hear it’s gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Some Bermudians have displayed an almost militant and arrogant disregard for the tourists, International Business families and local business owners verging on racism, xenophobia and anti capitalist resentment.
The result is staring us in the face today.
If you keep hoisting the unqualified into leadership roles there will never be a change in our country’s fortunes.
Personally and without hyperbole I give us till 2015.