Webcast Replay: PLP Town Hall Meeting
The PLP is hosting a Town Hall Meeting — ”Standing Strong for Hamilton Parish” — this evening [Dec 12] at the Francis Patton Primary School. The Town Hall is being hosted by Tareek Somner, and the panelists are Leroy Bean [C#4 St. George’s South,] Derrick Burgess [C#5 Hamilton East,] Wayne Furbert [C#6 Hamilton West,] and Diallo Rabain [C#7 Hamilton South.]
The Town Hall is over, the 1 hr 45 min webcast replay is below. Drag the bottom bar to fast forward:
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Bean, why havent you given the money back to us from the BLDC?
UBP took money too! Ask the older folks about the pension money they took? OBA is the old UBP the same ppl! If u r not rich they can’t help u! All that garbage they r feeding u all! Where r they going to create 2000 jobs if none is out there? I asked that question n I am still waiting for them to give me an answer! They can’t fool me!
STAND STRONG VOTE PLP!!!
…You’re being fooled…they even told you this…do I think the oba will be better? Economically yes. Ethically no. I think all politicians are corrupt, who does anything these days that isn’t for themselves? Not many people. Certainly no one making over 100g a year “working FOR the people”.
i may not maky over 100000 a year but i do damn close and i can promise you as a govermenr work all i do is have the welfare of bermuda in my heard. i love mu countryand want to see ways of making it better which is why i am a government worker. and there are a lot of us that put Bermuda first because it is our home. and the most beautiful place on eart. i never get tired of a sunrise or a storm on south sure or th smell after a good rain. so dont think because we have worked hard to achieve what er hve achieved that we do not over Bermuda and her people and put you first.
So the UBP did this, but they paid it back with interest apparently.
I don’t know why the PLP are so desperate to cling onto power. If you vote OBA, you know that if they don’t do a good job they will be out in 5 years and the PLP will be back in. PLP voters you have nothing to lose. The OBA have to work like crazy for us or they will be gone, whereas the PLP feel they have the vote and don’t have to do much to stay in power (lazy and complacent). If you hate some of the OBA folks, then vote them in, MAKE THEM WORK FOR YOU! They know if they don’t , they will be done. I’ll be the first one giving the OBA a hard time if they don’t deliver.
I hope you don’t work in the department of education.
And don’t forget Ewart Brown…so much for standing strong and being so ethical! Don’t be fooled, vote OBA’, this is a new party and Bermuda needs change!
Did you get an answer when you asked the PLP where the “unaccounted for” hundreds of millions of dollars are? Since the PLP can’t find it and had the Auditor General arrested when he asked then maybe the OBA can find it and get it back. With those hundreds of millions of dollars they can create many jobs.
Tracy – I await YOUR response or a reesponse from anyone within the PLP. Who knows- maybe if I get a good answer – I might vote PLP again!
Tracy, maybe you should check your facts… UBP did borrow money from the pension fund for the 1st stage of the national stadium… But, that money was paid back with interest within a couple of years. This is what happens when you know how to manage money, and have a business mind…. Government is a business and WE are the shareholders… We should be getting return on our investment NOT owing the big bucks with nothing to show for it…
You’re just repeating the same nonsense the PLP are brainwashing people with…Go get the OBA platfrom documents , read them from cover to cover, go get the PLP platform, read it from cover to cover, then choose the path you think is the best. For the PLP you have a track record to consider…promises never delivered on, overspends, saying that expenses are investments and a whole bunch of bad things to balance from them too. If you still want to bote PLP, go for it, but don’t vote for PLP without readi g the platforms properly, you owe this to yourself.
So you are admitting that Bean took money when he shouldn’t. You know whose money that was? It was yours and all Bermudians. You think its alright to take money from the public purse, qnd borrow to fuel the taking don’t you. What an idiot!
What utter stupidity!” The UBP did it too “is one of the all time dumbest comments made by brainwashed black people who follow the PLP with a cult like mentality.
So what if the UBP stole money. It is the people who suffer as a consequence of government corruption and in the present case government incompetence.
Most of the unemployed are black. Did the UBP also put so many blacks out of work?
$1.5 BILLION!!!!!!I guess math isnt your strong point
Not one OBA meeting
Craig Cannonier did not come to the advance polling.
Where was Grant and Dunkley at the advance polling.
What?
Looking and hoping to find more black surrogates.
We black Bermudians will never forget that.
The greatest insult was to say “get over it” and it was 5 years ago
Yet they continue to rave about Berkeley and other projects
so, have you figured out your share of the national debt? Do you think your job will remain recession proof if our tax base continues to erode? do you actually think???? Swing voters do
What do you call Zane DeSilva and Johnatnan Smith? Hmmmmm white surrogates? Come on grow a brain!
Racist
Standing Strong for Hamilton Parish.
How many people in Hamilton Parish have their own private island, rent free for 21 years. Ooops that’s 21 years less a day.
On December 17th tell them NO MORE CORRUPTION.
Lets not forget the sporty deal that the Coco Reef got! wasn’t that a 99 year lease too?!
investments is when you get money back at some point right??
The police are still renting how much is it?
Are they gone-can I open my eyes now
Who is doing a 100% financing on those apartment on south shore?
every election plp talk the same crap, they never deliver, STAND DTRONG AND VOTE THESE MUPPETS OUT!!!!!!!!!!
i am not voteting for the oba/oldubp
So you are voting for the UBP/PLP then. Look who is in the PLP, quite a few old UBP faces.
Frank. Ask yourself the following question:
If the UBP had been in power for the past 14 years and produced the same pathetic results that we have now, would you vote for them to have a 5th term?
Come on now, hand on heart, answer honestly.
wasn’t much people at that rally
It wasn’t a rally, it was a town hall meeting and there were plenty people in attendance.
Like….20!
“Brotha Burgess”
Can we ask about the Police renting a floor of a building next door??
Hey, we will be OK because D Burgess and W Furbert have a formula ! I would bet there is no such thing as usaual !!!
or town hall meeting
Wasn’t much people at that town hall meeting
I hope when Wayne Furbert loses his seat, he will become a Senator and regain his minister of Tourism portfolio again
saturdays rally is sure to attract a few more people though. Saturday is the last hooraaaaah
THank goodness – tired of all the PLP and OBA and UBP and Independant talk. Regardless of what happens I hope we all (including myself) stop with all the negative comments and start working together. It is the only way we can sucmove forward.
@ cross+ Roads lol lol
Wait till next week when the UBP/OBA get in , they’ll be partying out Fairylands but none of their supporters on Bernews will know a damn thing about it .
Idiot
P.L.P ALL THE WAY!
Peace;)
Another intelligent PLP rebuttal…
Man you guys are so smart, it is a wonder why we are in the position we are today.
Why? What tangible plan have they presented to fix the local economy?
Give me one item that will drive demand? Just one. I’ll wait.
PLP all the way to the bottom.
Huh, The OBA are from all over the island! You’re being divisive as per the Markham strategy again. Ya know, that guy in the vid who quoted hitler! You are sinking the PLP one weight at a time.
Page 11 of the Markham document!
@ out of flight speak for yourself not all blacks have taken this document out of context like yourself. Keep this in mind it is not the color a persons skin that matters,but their heart . Are you not aware that the plp supports conscription forcing grown men to Bermuda regiment.Talk about treating people inhumane here is a perfect example Paula cox and her adminisration. The nerve of Lovitta Foggo to stand up on stage at the east end rally and state that it is an abomination for blacks not to vote seeing what our ancestors fought for. That was racist insulting,disrespectful and she clearly is trying to undermind me. She must not think i know who has been at the helm for 14 years and screwed up this island.
I wish Ms. Foggo would highlight an incident where a black Bermudian lost a life or limb while fighting for the right to vote.
Don’t confuse them with acts.
Another PLP rally on Government property – Thought the PLP said this wasn’t allowed when they demanded the OBA remove their posters from the bus stops.
Not for “them”. Ask the P or Renee.
I am black and i support the OBA . To sit here and call the OBA UBP and not call the PLP UBP some of you must be blind. Keep in mind those of you that think across those lines are far and few a very little % lol good luck.
The more things chage the more they stay the same…look at this way if the current Gov had any ideas or promotions that would A. create jobs B. stimulate tourism C. decrease crime D. improve education etc etc surely they would have implemented them. The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different outcome.
vote change enough is enough
the PLP with FLIP FLOP UBP candidates what a joke and the x UBP leader is their main jokester , moonwalker ,singer and spokesperson and by they way completely nothing to do with the worst in modern history current state of BERMUDA
I’m still wondering what Ewart’s contingency plan is if the OBA by some miracle pull this one off.
…..back to the mansion on the Cape!
That one’s easy – you won’t see him on BDA!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Derek Burgess my MP for piping the free Goverment water all the way from wherever (the quarry I believe) to the Winton Hill condos where I live. The tanks top up automatically now and we never have to buy water, all forty or so units. Much appreciated Sir and Thank You So Much for taking care of your constituents.
Nothing is free in this world. He just wants your vote. 40 units ALL with free water….SURE! Who’s paying for all that? It ain’t coming out of Derek Burgess’ pocket that’s for damn sure!
It’s not free FFS!! The taxpayers (you and me) are footing the bill.
PLP supporters please please please think long and hard before you vote. Remember nobody is in the booth other than you and you have nobody to answer to but yourself. If you in your heart honestly believe that tone PLP will make Bermuda better vote for them. But before you do ask yourself the real question are you happy with the economy, education results, social problems, race relations and the job market. The only thing the average man could say has gotten better recently is rents are lower and that is a direct result of supply/demand and we all know that is a result of poor policies of this government. Do not follow like lambs to the slaughter the PLP who will not improve your life as their interest is not in a successful Bermuda. Try to see this as a golden opportunity to change the PLP to in the future be a serious party that means business and not lies and divisiveness. You have five potential years of the OBA if you vote for them and if they are not up to the task vote them out but you cannot return to power after all of this the PLP it is a disservice to your fellow Bermudian both black and white. I will remind all of you of this there is nothing more nervous than money and the real money in Bermuda will not invest without confidence in the government.
Not convincing. Sounds like your begging, we are not stupid and we are not going backwards. OBA/UBP can’t relate to the common man.
Yes you have a point, nobody ever related to the common man better than Dr. Ewart Brown…That wonderful, kind, caring man who did so much for us all. What a betrayal it would be if we were to let him down now.
How can you comment on self serving and talk about last minute reaction candidates, Furbert should keep quiet he is an idiot with no ideas and just repeats what he hears, these self serving politacal figures should step aside and give someone (anyone) else a change to re build this country that has been destroyed in everyway by this divisive party
@ M.P.Mountbatten JP You are living in dream world i am black and have been to fairy lands several times as youngster and was treated like a king and they treat me with the same respect today.
over 2.5 k
@ Harry free water for 40 units lol were is the money coming from to pay for the water lol
Candidate rIchards openly states if anyone doubts were the money has been spent take a drive from East to West lol loland take a look lol
Actually, I have not dared to try and offer up any payment for the water as I think the other thirty nine or so unit owners would be very upset with me – they all seem to think it is OK and I still have to live there. And if a reputable former trade unionist like Mr. Burgess thinks it is OK too, then it must be.
I think you have made a wise choice – Mr. Bugess’s pork barrelling of services in his constituency enabled him to pull over 80% of the votes last time out – I too would not want to be the one blamed for ending the party.
Another PLP event held on Government property. Did they pay for the use of the facility?
The PLP said they did not want political use of Government property when the OBA paid to display ads in the bus stops. How is this different?
lol
Egar just keep your head in the sand but don’t complain as your party continues to destroy the islands economy and any harmony that is left. I would only gain respect for this joke of a government if they were to produce an independent audit from 1998 to present with no information wit held every blind trust included and every projects records open for all to see. But you know they will not do this as nothing has been misappropriated right? Of course if that were the case then the audit would not be a problem as there nothing to find. Guess what ace boy if hopefully very soon there is a change that missing 800 million unaccounted greenbacks will appear magically as I know for a fact that an audit will be forthcoming, I would be very concerned if I was in the PLP and had knowledge or benefits from the thievery that has gone on! Why is it so difficult for the faithful such as yourself to see that you have been conned face it and change your mindset and if the OBA fail to improve things vote back in your dependable PLP.