Comments on: Rabain On Delay With Planning Appointments

By: reader

reader — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:02:48 +0000

He is co-owner.

By: Union Member

Union Member — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:10:10 +0000

Not the calendar folks, 6 weeks since the Cabinet has been sworn. Let’s understand the details before throwing stones. What’s even more interesting to me is how this 100 days of office will pan out because the part time ministers have yet to meet with all of their departments!

By: Single Mom

Single Mom — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:08:21 +0000

I voted OBA too and part of the late gazzetting of the boards is because the Minister of this portfolio is working part time. His first 3 weeks after been sworn in he was on vacation and tying up loose ends at his highly paid insurance job. Not to thrilled with these part time ministers OBA!

By: Second

Second — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:05:30 +0000

Move on Mr Rabain or get out of the way. please!!

By: Bermudican

Bermudican — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:13:16 +0000

Boot the Bureaucrats along with the old MP’s that’s the quickest way to get things done. find out the foot draggers and send them home on the bus.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:22:46 +0000

Poor guy cannot even understand a calender.

By: Responsible dog owner

Responsible dog owner — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:48:49 +0000

“A full 6 weeks into the 2013″ – According to my calendar, we are only in the fifth week of 2013. Is Mr. Rabain using his own special version?

By: Waiting and watching

Waiting and watching — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:45:06 +0000

The top man def needs to go! He is an expat hired 6 years ago by a PLP govt! He is absolutely useless and only stays there because he is a puppet. Pls ensure he goes this year OBA! The Dept of Planning staff WILL be watching closely………..

By: Truth is killin' me...

Truth is killin' me... — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:41:21 +0000

Don’t he work for that company Compu-CAD? Must be waiting on checks to come in and the planning process is hurting his bottom line. All about me me meeeee!!!

By: Free Thinker

Free Thinker — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:36:00 +0000

Some of us voted OBA to effect change, but that’s clearly not the concern of others who voted for them. Some would have voted for a broom, as long as it’s not the PLP.

By: M3ke

M3ke — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:10:26 +0000

Planning is the worst department in government. They take an average 8-12 months to approve plans even for small developments like 1 bedroom apartments.

Somebody at the top of that department should have been fired a long time ago.

By: Verbal Kint

Verbal Kint — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:04:55 +0000

I am not saying this to down anybody, but just to foster debate, and help Government be more effective. The PLP is in danger of becoming the little boy who cried wolf. They are condemning every decision made by a Government which hasn’t even given a throne speech yet. They need to pick their battles, or they run the risk of ruining whatever remaining credibility they have as the opposition.

By: here's a thought

here's a thought — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:23:54 +0000

exactly.

By: sanityisback

sanityisback — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:20:53 +0000

Well put.

By: Verbal Kint

Verbal Kint — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:45:40 +0000

I totally agree.

By: reader

reader — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:44:16 +0000

“Another week an architectural agent doesn’t have approval for a submittal and cannot collect any professional fees.”

Like Compu-CAD?

By: sonoso

sonoso — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:43:44 +0000

id make a sure bet that he has no idea, and is probably just talking to hear himself talk?

By: Cookie

Cookie — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:23:36 +0000

Though I agree that they need to get on with their job, and stop delaying meetings, the PLP needs to go back to sleep. It seems their awake now. I guess it took them loosing an election to wake up. The most I can hope is that Bermudians do not allow the new government to ever fall into bad habits the way we did with the PLP. I believe in questioning and pressuring the government but it should be the people questioning, not the opposition party hoping for them to fail.

By: Verbal Kint

Verbal Kint — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:18:34 +0000

While we are on the subject of planning, etc.; Who owns Spice Hill Farm and why did Mr. Bean grant that planning appeal?

By: Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:34:32 +0000

Seems he also forgot how the PLP purged the civil service heads and installed their own crony’s who were more supportive of their wishes . Anyone remember how Mr Dane was released from TCD?

The PLP are behaving like a petulant child who refuses to behave, they seem to complain about every single thing that the OBA raises. Case and point the tourism minister Sean Crockwell’s trip to Bahamas; they didn’t say that the trip had been planned before the OBA came to power.

The issue with consultants is another cry baby moment. The OBA never said they would not use consultants they just don’t need to have excess like we saw with the PLP, particularly when you consider the PLP chose to ignore most of the decisions these highly paid consultants offered and we all know the out come to that dont we!! Truth be told we would have done better to keep the consultants and fire the PLP MPs at least we would have had a saving on their pay!!!

Well I guess you cant expect much from a bunch of sore losers they are back to what they were best at hopefully they will stay there for another thirty years!!

By: Shadow Minister Is Doing His Job

Shadow Minister Is Doing His Job — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:20:30 +0000

I’m an OBA supporter. but the Shadow Minister is doing his job by pointing this out. OBA supporters cant write everything the PLP say as irrelevant or hypocritical. That doesnt matter anymore. We need to move forward collectively if Bermuda is to emerge from the muck of the past. OBA needs to be accountable too.

By: WTF

WTF — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:06:36 +0000

Let’s see, since 2008 the board was appointed and then notified in the gazette respectively Jan 23 (’08) (after the general election but same government), Jan 9 (’09), Jan 20 (’10), Jan 7 (’11), and Jan 6 (’12)

Looks like the PLP had it under control appointing all their boards before February. However, since 2008 the same 7 people have sat on the board out of the 11 or so to be chosen, sometimes 10 sometimes 12. Also, 2 out of the 11 are representatives from the Corporation of Hamilton or St. George’s, so effectively 7 out of the 9 board members haven’t changed in the last 5 years, and the same 8 out of the 9 in the last 4 years. Perhaps it does take a few extra weeks to select members of the board if you are not choosing the same members year after year.

By: Sandgrownan

Sandgrownan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:55:50 +0000

Boo hoo Rabain..don’t care what you think

By: Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Apocalypse — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:54:14 +0000

The only planning items the previous govt cared about were SDO’s and special insider deals for government Ministers, followed by Ministerial resignation and planning reversals.

By: Um Um Like

Um Um Like — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:41:42 +0000

Rabain, put numbers to your statement. How many people are building right now? How many people are waiting for planning to approve their plans? How many people are waiting to build condos, offices, or houses?

By: .am

.am — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:22:49 +0000

If the PLP was so efficient ..why was there anything outstanding when they were voted out?

By: Yes Sa.....

Yes Sa..... — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:09:07 +0000

I fully cuncur with the Senator!! I work in the construction industry AND am a supporter of the OBA, and this wait in appointing a Board is crazy! I fully understand that you need to give the new Government time to make a difference but in the interest of continuity, why don’t they retain the existing Board and do their vetting in the interium. It was nothing wrong with the existing Board………………
This waiting is hurting already suffering businesses and it seems that its for no good reason at all!!
And for those above comments, it has nothing to do with the PLP!! The exisiting Board was very bi-partisan if I may say so myself. So, lets get on with it…….PLEASE!

By: ella

ella — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:04:12 +0000

Thank you George & Triangle Drifter. I could not have put it any better.

By: Winnie Dread

Winnie Dread — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:02:50 +0000

Points well taken Sen.Rabain however the cynical delivery at the end well that’s another story. You are correct that the process needs to be expidited for all the reasons you outlined plus more, but please do your WHOLE job in a professional manner and not just parts of it. You will score more points if you make valid and critical points like you did, however I think Bermuda is a bit tired of the cynicism. Lets move this country forward.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:54:50 +0000

The PLP must think we are full stupid. The Planning Dep has been notorious for being slow to process even the most basic of plans for decades. The PLP had 14 years to fix it. What did they do? Made it worse.

Rabain needs to crawl back under his rock.

By: George

George — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:40:59 +0000

You’re comments are a little hypocritical don’t you think Diallo, considering the PLP when in power used the council/board appointments by their own Ministers to their advantage and made no efforts to change this system! Don’t keep insulting our intelligent as an electorate if you want to try and regain your integrity and our support as a party!

By: Serious though

Serious though — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:31:38 +0000

What’s the PS of this ministry doing?