And there are plenty of exemptions of the 60/40 rule that took place under the PLP.

Denial is a two way street mate. You just proved that.

We should be advertizing hotel and guest house land for sale or lease, change the land zoning if you have to on prime locations.

Bermuda is not Miami; Boston or New York , high rise prison style accommodation is out.

In the meanwhile Bermudians have many empty houses available, visitors with families should be able to rent them if up to pre- set standards.
I know how to fund that enterprise.

The door is open for a new service catering business people, towels sheets and more. Get BHC involved with the Atlantic sea side place.

This island can be the well oiled machine it once was.

Drop history in schools it’s the past, teach home economics in the hotels.

We need to utilize what we already have.

Ask yourself can you afford to stay in a hotel here ? because I can’t!

Bermuda has to be affordable and cater to every level of accommodation with in reason.
The next time,if there is a next time, you get the chance to have a hotel,or better still a” Holiday Resort” here, do make sure that the electrical and plumbing can be upgraded and or changed out with out demolishing the place.

Do make sure the staff are well trained to compete, and have some multi-lingual and chefs are multi – talent I would just love to see………….
Exotic;
Paradise;
Luxury ;
Romantic;

Hopefully your next 5 star will not look like ten story beehive treating our guests as if they were number on the door will not work. It is all about People skills

Bermuda has the land.
Bermuda has the sandy Beaches.
Bermuda has the Sun.
Bermuda has transportation.
Bermuda has an Airport and much more.

And Best of all, Bermuda is a “Paradise island in the Sun” and only two hours away. Europe is just a little further.

And,before all this can happen, nobody say you have to like one another.
But there are some of you who should put away you childish divisive toys and you had better learn to get along with one another and stop the “Back Biting ” and become part of the team, or …………………………………………..

All we hear are Bermudians having their birthright taken away – what madness! Bermuda is so insular that it’s never going to succeed.

Be honest now. Have you been on the streets lately & had a listen? How about talk radio? A bunch of geniuses there.

Correct?

Rhonda you and Jus’Askin simply have no concept of how the real world works.

Let’s look at a hypothesis for a minute. Too bad the super-rich missed our sovereign bond offering, we could have charged them $10million each and with only 20 individuals we could have raised $200million from the sale of commercial passports. Sorry, we missed that window of opportunity, but it’s unlikely because they, like PRC holders, who strongly resented paying for their 6 figure certificate, why would the super-rich want to pay for a commercial passport anywhere near $1million let alone $10million?

Now Bermuda can grant a commercial passport or can we? As of December 2014 our passports will only be produced in the UK. Theresa May, UK Home minister, has closed the door on commercial passports getting access to UK rights and privileges by virtue of Bermuda granting it, and it will not happen in the dead of the night without their knowledge and consent. Any commercial passport holder will be put through their terrorism laws, tax codes, etc. Can you blame them? They reap no benefits from this commercial deal.

It pays to bear in mind that commercial passport holders bring financial wealth to invest. But what are we offering to them. We know what they bring to the table, wealth. What precisely is on the table from us to hold their interest and make them commit, Senator Fahy – precisely what?

Now Bermuda has held a public meeting with foreign consulting experts, there is an online esurvey, there will be a green paper and then a white paper on the subject, placed on the government website, then drafted legislation and the final laws. Senator Fahy, do not play us for fools, you are straddling the appearance of a democratic process by ensuring that you meet the minimum benchmark in order not to raise the suspicion of the UK Government on this issue. If the Maltese Government can sell EU citizenship at €1.5million and Bermuda sells it rights and privileges at a fire sale price, you bet they will be very interested in what is on the table also.

The OBA claims that we need foreign investment, but if that investment flowing into the public purse is nothing more than $25,000 per person, again I raise the question, what are we offering them, Senator Fahy -precisely what? I always have the problem with your lack of transparency because as your policy comes into focus, the only hand that is not visible on the table is the Government’s – Senator Fahy.

By the way, how many Bermudians has Job Markers legislation put to work since its enactment, Senator Fahy?

London, England

now that I’ve vented, how the hell can you be opposed to this idea without at least talking about it first? All I know is that I have nothing to fear because the Bloomburgs and Perrots certainly don’t wanna come here to take my job!!

SMDH at the small minds that cry fire at every opportunity….jeeeeeez

If the price is something like 250k per person, that money can go towards hotel investment or charities.

Commercial Immigration can be a good thing you lot.

Wow how elitist of you…

Maybe you should use another young Bermudian to do your bidding…maye an intern or someone along those lines…

Folks just gotta be open minded.

Black racism will eventually sink this piece of rock…

And yes your ignorant statement above along with the numerous threats of racial violence demonstrates that black people can be hate filled racist idiots as well.

What expense would you like to cut first?

Without a clear plan for immigration, we CAN’T rationally discuss selling status.

We FIRST must establish what our vision is for Bda and then implement strategies to fulfill that vision.

We MUST look at this from a sustainability perspective that includes our economic, social, cultural, environmental, political concerns

We MUST always consider the long-term implications of ALL that we do.

Selling status means that all off-spring also have access to our lands, our job opportunities, our education scholarships and most importantly the right to have a say in the direction of our country. The selling of the right to vote, IMO, is sordid. We are handing off the ability of virtual strangers to have a say in the shaping of our govts n our children’s future.

Step one: Give an positive, yet unsubstantiated definition of ‘the concept’.
Step two: Ask whether Bermuda would benefit from ‘the concept’.

Is there a direct source for this definition of Commercial Immigration? Because the way I see it, Commercial Immigration can be used with an objective to attract foreign capital, such as the EB-5 Immigrant Investors visa category used in the US. It also can be used to securely increase population, as in St. Kitts & Nevis. However, the definition should actually read ‘policies developed by countries to provide the right of residence in exchange for monetary contributions or local investments’.

I concur with most of your expressed views. However, you would do well to be clear about which ethnic group of Bermudians you reference when you speak about Bermudians. Read my right-to-the point, blunt message at the bottom. I am sure that it will evoke much hostility from the white sector. That’s okay because I’ve been on the earth from its beginning to know that white folks cannot handle Black people telling them the truth (truth is always true)and they never feel comfortable with Black progress. Swift and sure progress must be our aim if we earnestly wish to save our village. So-called integration was the worst thing that happened to us. We were once GREAT and we can be GREAT again! In the meantime I am praying the DEVIL back to HELL!

sounds like another fixed question.