THE TRUTH IS THERE IS NOT PLAN BY THE OBA TO GROW OUR ECONOMY. BERMUDA HAS SEEN NO GROWTH. NOW WE MUST GET ON WITH A PLAN.

Where are Burt’s numbers for the growth he says we need to get back to?

What plans does he have? Sea bed mining? Swizzle sales?

The sailboat race is going to bring in a few hundred million. Sadly the best idea the PLP ever supported was the Grand Slam and it ended up losing money.

I am Bermudian and since the OBA won the election I have personally invested a significant amount of my own money in a tourism venture that is doing well, thank you very much. Had the PLP won that money would have been invested elsewhere.

There is ZERO confidence in the PLP’s financial acumen. Ziltch, nada, nothing. Burt has no ability to run this island’s finances and the leader of the party appears to be a raving lunatic.

Copiers, Toner, Paper, Pens, T shirts with company logo, embroidered binders and books, laptops integrated systems the list can go on forever.

Also they import talent, literal boat loads of talent.

By the way we’ve lost 3,000 in three years. Same rate isn’t it… So the OBA surely hasn’t done anything.

Not only is everything he said in this article true (a fine piece of journalism if I do say so myself) but not once does he try to bring down the oba as a group. The PLP has some extremist, but Burt is a realist and in this case he is right. 800 mil that was supposed to last for three years us dried up in a year and a half and our deficit is rising while our economy shrinks and born Bermudians run off to other countries for the opportunity to prosper.

It’s a sad turn of events whene only four years ago each born Bermudian could receive a free preschool to college education… And don’t say wow that’s what put us here in the first place, helping Bermudians to prosper is much more important than some fucking boat race.

Now are we to just welcome anything he says with open arms?

What on Earth is going on in Bermuda? We are doomed.

Best Bernews comment in a while. You took Burt’s laughable comments and responded with something actually funny.

I like the boat analogy. Its like the PLP started with a brand new boat, spent 14 years putting holes into the hull for fun and now have the audacity to complain that Minister Richards and the OBA aren’t bailing quickly enough.

~ Maya Angelou

You can not expect the exempt companies and hotels to pick up the slack. They are here for a reason. Bermuda has a competitive jurisdiction aimed at attracting these companies to our shores. The knock on effect has created jobs for both Bermudians and expats. Jobs which put money back into our economy. Not to mention the huge amounts of charity that these companies have provided over the years.

If we change the tax structure to the detriment of their bottom line, they will be gone before you can say Switzerland.

There is no disputing it – this is not opinion but fact. Think back through the ages…

Exempt companies do not pay duty on imports nor do hotels – two little examples of how some compromise can be made to increase revenues yet they do not mind further debt to fund a sailboat race and a failing tourism authority – to name a few…

Until you put numbers to your words you just appear to be a troll or misinformation hack…

Will you ever acknowledge the precarious position that your party left this country in? What utter hypocrisy. The 14 failed years of PLP rule left this country in this untenable position and you have the audacity to criticize the Finance minister for incorrectly predicting future interest rates?! Predictions which by the way were consistent with Wall Street at the time. The % of workers in our Civil Service is our problem- PLP didnt “predict” that would be a problem did they? Until we find equilibrium between the public and private sector employment we will never get ahead of this debt. But the PLP wont let that happen to their precious voting base will they?

Bunch of clowns.