Premier Craig Cannonier: Holiday Message
Merry Christmas Bermuda!
This is my first Christmas message to you as Premier and, on behalf of my wife Antoinette and my family I wish you all the best this holiday season.
This is such a special time of year, a time to come together with the people who mean the most in our lives, to share with them the love that lies in each of us.
It is a time of gift-giving, for sure, but we should never overlook the fact that the greatest gift is the gift of ourselves.
Too often we forget that simple truth.
We get caught up in busy lives – trying to make ends meet, locked in routines, moving about – that we often overlook, or take for granted, the people who are the source of our strength, our identity and our guidance.
Christmas gives us time to appreciate what we have to be thankful for, and to reach out to those who shape our lives, who make us who we are.
So this Christmas, I urge you to reach out to your sister, your son, your father, your mother, your wife, your husband, your friends, your colleagues and your fellow Bermudians.
Use this day to show your appreciation to the people who make your life good:
With love for your family and friends, with the support and sociability you extend to your neighbours, with the courtesies you express each day to others on the street, and in service to those who need your support.
Use this holiday to spread good cheer, giving freely the gift that is you.
Give to others as you would have them give to you.
Use the spirit of Christmas to grow our world into a better place – giving of ourselves, brother to brother, sister to sister; each of us supporting one another, letting the spirit flow forward; taking us to a better place.
Christmas is about us coming together with love in our hearts and in faith that we can be restored and renewed.
It is a time to set aside differences, to celebrate the spirit symbolized by the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ, whom God put on this Earth to reveal a path of unity and love for our fellow man.
Today in Bermuda, we need to show that love. Many are suffering, many are filled with doubt about the future; many are worried they will not be able to pay the rent or put decent food on the table, let alone a gift under the tree.
To those who can help them, I urge you to reach out. I urge you to open your hearts, extend a hand – as Jesus would.
Now is the time to give of yourself.
Now is the time to do good for your fellow man.
Now is the time to be what Christmas stands for in your heart – sharing, giving, supporting, with the love for others that lies within each of us – as Jesus showed.
Let us use this Christmas Day, and the spirit it represents, to move forward together, with love in our hearts, giving to others to make the life of our Island more beautiful than ever.
And as you celebrate, take a moment to say a prayer for our Island home.
Pray that as a community we continue to look out for one another.
Merry Christmas.
God bless you and God bless Bermuda.
- Premier Craig Cannonier
Premier Cannioner, congratulations again on your appointment and what a great ‘holiday greeting.’ Thank you.
Premier Cannonier:
Happy Holidays from my home to yours.
Mr. Premier, you are repeating yourself and it is becoming quite boring. Awaken to REALITY. You could take a page out of the BPLP Leader, Marc Bean’s book.
dthtoo, get a life and if you think you have one, trust and believe, You dont
Such venom, was it really necessary, Happy Holidays to you…
dthoo/….. Have a good Christmas!!!!!!
As I said to Marc, awesome as the future is indeed bright.
Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Congrats my Bro.
Sir, many happy returns to you and your family. On behalf of my entire family, we want to wish you , your family and your cabinet family, all the best in the coming years. we all know your job, going forward, will be challenging, but we take comfort in knowing that there is hope for our future.
Like you, I want to challenge my fellow Bermudians to reach out and help our brothers and sisters who need a hand this Christmas. Let’s put aside race and creed, and think humanity.
I will get off my soap box now. Merry Christmas to all !!!!
Craig, that was a beautiful message. May God bless you, your wife and family throughout the season and a year of abundance for 2013. Abundance in all things.
A very thoughtful and heartfelt message – and not one mention of politics; unlike the opposition leader who referenced the PLP on no less than three occasions.
Mr. Premier, this was and is a lovely message, actually its the best Christmas message ive ever heard from a leader in Bermuda. I loved the last part even more…God bless Bermuda…well said and a Merry Christmas to your family, friends and You. You Mr. Premier of the breath of fresh air Bermuda has longer for and needs…
Merry Christmas Mr. Premier!
And Merry Christmas to you.
Well said Sir, Bermuda actually seems to have what is needed Leaders on both sides, oh yes our future depends on it. Compliments in return to all a hundred fold.
Mr Premier,
If you have in fact asked Ms Alexis Swan to join the Sentate, can you please remind her that she must control herself and refrain from revealing such official decisions on Facebook.
If you have appointed her, there is NO excuse for Ms Alexis Swan to be posting on facebook the following message, which can be viewed by any Facebook user:
“OMG! i just recieved the best news everrrrrrrrr. So happy and over the mooon. I will be smiling for the rest of the year and then some.”
If THIS is the way she announces to Bermuda that she will be appointed to the Senate I’m extremely disappointed in her and must question your judgement.
Senate appointments are a grave responsibilitiy, and Ms Swan must treat them as such.
Er what has this got to do with this story?
Who is Alexis Swan…should we know her or of her in some manner?
Just googled… oh she was a candidate in the recent election…enough said…
that doesn’t say anything about what news she has received.
wow..less than a week after the election and already you are a are disappointed OBA voter??..oh no, let me guess, you never voted OBA and are in fact a disappointed PLP voter. Get a life and oh by the way Merry Christmas
Courtesy of everyone who voted OBA
ps The Grinch was Green
LMAO ITS BECAUSE SHE’S PREGNANT HAHAHAHAHA MORE LIKE DISAPPOINTED PLP VOTER!
@ dthtoo\ You are poisonous and vile towards mankind. Jeremiah 17 vs 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked,who can know it.
Congradulations once again Mr. Premier and regardless of what lies ahead you will go dwn in history of being the first Premier of the O.B.A.party and that no one can take from you.
The bible commands us to pray for those who have leadership over you and this we wil do fervently and will continue to pray that your time in office will not be compromised by those who are not God fearing.
Premier Cannonier with your faith in God we believe you have much to offer during your time in office and we pray much success and being able to deliver most of what you have promised.
May the Wisdom of Almighty God and knowledge with understanding be bestowed upon you for all times that you must stand and give an account of that which you have been given.I also ask that those that work along with you in your cabinet wil be trust wothy and honest to the vocation in which they are called.
Merry Christmas to you Sir and your family
Yes, I do like that he did not mention anything about the party… it was a what a christmas message on behalf of the premier.
Merry Christmas to you and yours from ATL, Mr. Cannonier! Great message!
Been trying to wait to see you in person to express congratulations and sheer joy at the results of the election. Please know that I am praying for you, those elected,the Cabinet,Senate, and all Bermuda in these history-making times.
Merry xmas Premier and bermuda