Comments on: 2015 Cruise Schedule: 366,000 Projected Visitors

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:21:37 +0000

Grand Atlantic failed as an affordable housing development and required major cliff remediation work to keep from falling into the ocean.

So let’s be real.

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:17:32 +0000

The PLP was ridiculed not for building the dock but for building it tens of millions over budget.

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:16:59 +0000

They were criticised for trumpeting top-line numbers of guests while dollars fell and for claiming that it was a “Platinum Period” made of fool’s gold (to say nothing of the 100 day turnaround that turned out to be a 14 year fall.

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:31:39 +0000

Without making this a “pissin’ contest” they have been brought up; they just haven’t been answered…

By: serengeti

serengeti — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:57:17 +0000

Of course. Anything good that happens now, the ‘foundation was laid’ by the PLP.

But the Sh1t economy and the massive debt? The thousands of Bermudians unemployed? Grand Atlantic standing empty? Nothing at all to do with the PLP.

By: Just a matter of time

Just a matter of time — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:25:08 +0000

If there are so many unanswered questions, why haven’t they been brought to light by this current Govt? It will be nearly 2 years since they were elected. Inquiring minds, including mine, want to know truth rather than the endless hearsay. Regarding mismanagement of the industry, I wouldn’t come to the island either with the constant doomsday scenarios the then Opposition gave to the world about the PLP Govt. Seems like the Grand Atlantic is doing just fine now and has a major investor and it weathered 2 storms!

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:24:36 +0000

Irregardless of who had the initiative to bring the larger ships into Dockyard, (and all credit goes out to the P.L.P. for doing this) but there are many unanswered question in reference to monies spent while bringing this to fruition
Furthermore, it has been the One Bermuda Alliance that has “picked up the ball” and encouraged more cruise ship to come here along with them that stopped coming due to the former Govt.(P.L.P.) mismanagement of the industry.I give the One Bermuda Alliance Tourist Minister Shawn Crockwell, along with the Bermuda Tourism Authority much credit.

By: Just a matter of time

Just a matter of time — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:24:00 +0000

Spot on flikel. Preparation under the PLP years included the foresight to build and prepare the ports big enough to accommodate the mega ships that existed then and were to come and now this recent surge is attempted to be credited to the OBA. The foundation was already laid. Yes the ships are here and bigger ones are coming which are currently the number one tourist passenger industry right being enjoyed right now. Yes, during the PLP years this foresight was ridiculed by the then UBP (now OBA).

By: flikel

flikel — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:40:41 +0000

“Sixteen thousand additional cruse visitors is far better than the previous, “umpteen years”. We thank The Ministry of Tourism Development and Transport along with the Bermuda Tourism Authority”

During the PLP years, the number of cruise passengers and cruise calls increased steadily and this trend is continuing during the OBA’s tenure. Bermuda’s attractiveness as a cruise destination did not start under the OBA.

What is strange is the PLP were often criticized allowing more and more cheap, non-spending cruise passengers into Bermuda. Now you seemingly are praising the OBA for doing the same, and trying to give the OBA and BTA credit for something they did not have to initiate, but rather they inherited.

By: Shnarbingle Raffiki Al-Shabbaz

Shnarbingle Raffiki Al-Shabbaz — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:10:58 +0000

if they are being projected here why do they need the cruise boat?

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:07:56 +0000

Sixteen thousand additional cruse visitors is far better than the previous, “umpteen years”. We thank The Ministry of Tourism Development and Transport along with the Bermuda Tourism Authority for bringing hope back into the Island stores, shops, restaurants and various modes of transportation etc.