I have also observed that more OBA supporters post here and read than PLP. SO it looks like nonsense comes from your side of the political divide the most.

BETTTY has a voice just as you do. Agree or not agree.

Since the premier made his comments in media (a public forum) why should I send him an email to get answer on public commentary/policies? Why would he respond? Why, having dealt with him, would I waste time and energy sending him an email? I have no political illusions.

Triangle Drifter, the questions are not trick questions, just that there is very little to go on here. Such as, will we hear about the details of these new initiatives only after they have become public policy? Will draft legislation end up in the House to be debated that the public only has a bare outline of? In other words, will there be consultation with the stakeholders, then position papers before they take form as Bills to be laid before the House only to eventually and automatically become law?

It’s perfectly fine to state what the Government is doing and/or attempting to do, however, even as this sounds good, it’s opaque at best, so the details are a very important part of Government transparency, accountability and responsibility.

London, England

Try honesty. Try reading.

Please.

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Is that what you’re saying, “Bettty”?

We get that you’re mad your party lost, but election time is over. Give all this electioneering a rest until the next one, please!

At the end of it all mate, politics will be politics regardless of who is in power! Until we as a people are adamant and passionate about changing the “status quo” of how our country is run, then this nonsense will continue to go on up on that hill we call the House of Assembly.

What did you think; that on the morning after the election the rules would change and the PLP wouldn’t be the Opposition you were? Well, earth to idiots! This playbook of scandal-a-week is right out of the OBA/UBP manual of how to get elected again.

So, if you feel that whatever good your Government is doing is being lost in the noise created by the Opposition, welcome to the party. at least there are 16 in this Opposition; before the election your 9 MPs sounded like 90 thanks to their favourable media profiles and coverage.

And for completeness, “This” started in 1999 when you people claimed the change in funeral home limo regulations was corrupt. It wended it’s way through allegations of yachts as kickbacks for ferries and cedar beams. It culminated in the “it’s in their DNA” comment in the House from one of your kingpins and ended with the word of a convicted felon being dressed up as credible.None of which has ever been proved no matter how many times you say it in your prayers at night.

Am I serious? You better believe I am.

I love you too…..

Cannoniers whole speech would not even be a preamble to her.

As usual pure fluff!

Too long; didn’t read.

The OBA are good at policy, bad at communications. They have done things quietly and without fanfare while the PLP would have had press conferences to announce that they planned to do something in the future (and then never do it).

Put the important stuff at the top of the damn opinion piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But where is all the new and/or amended legislation that has just been passed? This article does not tell us what pieces of legislation have been passed that will open up economic activity in Bermuda. As a follow through I have some real questions taken directly from your speech, such as:

“And a tax initiative to encourage the sale of high-end real estate was continued with a view to encouraging sales that lead to jobs for construction workers and the businesses that hire them.”

i) What does this mean? ii) Is this a tax concession OR tax initiative; and iii) what distinguishes the two;

iv) And is high end residential real estate inclusive in this initiative? If yes; v) What are the benefits to the foreign purchasers?

It’s a good speech, we just need clarification on details.

On political infighting, after awhile I tend to tone out, it should never derail us (the public) from the details of Government business.

London, England