Comments on: Video: Premier Extends Thanks After Hurricane

By: Tough Love

Tough Love — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:45:13 +0000

You say things as if you understand how it works. I know that people, worldwide, were praying for the safety of Bermuda. The earth is self operating, finished when God took His rest on the 7th day. Does God intervene when His people pray? Yes, as we see, He does.

I think we get it confused in our heads that He should do what we think is good and right. He is sovereign, in everything, and he doesn’t ask that we understand but trust Him. So yes some roofs and property were damaged, but no life was lost here, but 4 were in London by the same storm. And it was weaker when it reached London.

So yes, I thank God for His mercy towards us. You can act like you don’t need Him if you like. I will bless the Lord for He has truly been good to this little speck on a map.

By: PANGAEA

PANGAEA — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 23:39:03 +0000

FM 101.1 MUSIC

Playing “Party Music” during Hurricanes on FM 101.1 is not suitable or appropriate.

Many people were under great stress, low tempo music would have gone along way to ease tensions.

By: JUNK YARD DOG

JUNK YARD DOG — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 23:02:55 +0000

CATCH 22

Be Dammed if you do !

Be Dammed if you don’t !

Dam it!…………….. FULL SPEED AHEAD !

CARBORUNDUM ILIGITIMI.
Don’t let the B’s grind you down.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 21:31:41 +0000

‘Tough Love’ provides an interesting point of view about what God does – and maybe does not do. I distintly recall a deeply religous woman on our talk shows blaming the South Asian 2004 tsunami on the fact they “they” are not Christians so it was obvious why God hit ‘em with it!

Now we have God making a last minute decision to reduce the Cat 3/4 about to strike Bermuda to a Cat 2. What a relief! I’ve often wondered how he decides which roof to rip off and which roof to leave alone, presuming it has nothing to do with the skill of the builder! Which tree does he decide to blow down and cause a power blackout or loss of telephone and cable. Does he give special treatment to Christians as opposed to non-Christians. Has anyone ever done a study to see if He picks and chooses the victims of a hurricane, or if He does it at random?

Interesting indeed!

By: Creamy

Creamy — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:54:14 +0000

God took the roofs off most of the AME churches here.

By: foldgers

foldgers — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:55:56 +0000

well said !!!! thanks toodle-oo , so tired of negativity

By: Serious Though

Serious Though — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:00:28 +0000

Humans, sigh

By: jt

jt — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:49:29 +0000

By that logic it should have never been ‘allowed’ to hit us at all..let alone 2 storms in the space of a week.

By: Anbu

Anbu — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:52:15 +0000

God didnt do it either and there is no way anyone cam prove he did. We weathered the storm and WE cleaned up and helped those in need after. God had nothing to do with it.

By: Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:30:43 +0000

Now you know why he’s thanking us…

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:41:06 +0000

I would judge the “the finest Premier that Bermuda ever had” by far more than how the Premier performed during two major storms, but I would give Premier Dunkley full marks for how he handled Fay and “Godzilla”!

Unfortunately, there are far great storms ahead for Bermuda, and it will take a genius to navigate us through these economic storms, but again, Premier Dunkley is making solid progress in steering the ship through difficult waters. But these are early days.

By: mixitup

mixitup — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:44:17 +0000

“He will go down as the finest Premier Bermuda has ever had”

Lmao!! If you are not on drugs, then maybe you need to be..

By: navin johnson

navin johnson — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:47:08 +0000

Michael Dunkley demonstrated that he is a true leader during the storm..reassuring, informative and in charge..he will go down as the finest Premier that Bermuda ever had….

By: Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:46:18 +0000

if that was being blessed …you have me honestly redefining interpretive religion. .

By: Tough Love

Tough Love — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:03:19 +0000

Hmm. I haven’t heard him thank God yet. Hope he doesn’t think Bermudians changed the force of the storm. Remember it was a category 3/4 not to far from us. God be praised that it went down to a Category 2 over us!

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:41:30 +0000

It is quite unbelievable how some people will come up with the most idiotic criticism trying in vain to score cheap political points. Our Premier had a need to thank everyone connected with all those many hundreds, and probably thousands of people who helped us through those two dreadful storms. He has said and done exactly the right thing, just as any PLP Premier would have done in exacly the same circumstances. What these folks are trying to do is to make a storm out of a teacup, and that’s all it is – a storm in a teacup.

Thank you Mr. Premier for saying the right thing at the right time.

By: Tree surgeon

Tree surgeon — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:46:35 +0000

Premier Dunkley,we know you and your party have our backs!

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:45:07 +0000

He thanked everyone except for the hard working staff at the airport. The Team went beyond the call of duties to get the airport up and running within hours of both storms!!

By: more than enough

more than enough — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:03:42 +0000

Better start entering those figures on the gov.travel website…btw why have none of the other ministers entered their travel expenditures for the ny trip yet?

By: Tolerate

Tolerate — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:57:02 +0000

yup, damned if you damned if you….. Oh well, you know what I mean.

By: more than enough

more than enough — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:14:23 +0000

Back from england already?

By: Try It

Try It — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:05:20 +0000

at least he gave a word of thanks to us BERMUDIANS unlike many in the past. Well done all

By: Bermy

Bermy — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:03:44 +0000

And if he had not done this, the sheeple would have accused of being uncaring and detached…….

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:21:30 +0000

But if he remained invisible throughout this and didn’t meet with people assisting with the cleanup , and yes, the media/press does look out for his movements , you’d be saying he didn’t care and was all high and mighty.

You want him to look like a vain failure ? Fine . the rest of us are moving on away from your attitude problems.

By: White Soil

White Soil — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:33:39 +0000

In the words of Micheal Dunkley “What a waste of EFFIN film”

By: Independent Observer

Independent Observer — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:32:59 +0000

This man never ever met a Camera that he didn’t like.

And they said Ewart was vain. Dunkley makes Ewart look like Ghandi.