Comments on: Storm: PLP Extend Best Wishes To Dominica https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: Varied https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3008224 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:10:52 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3008224 Guess so. 30 dead, relief efforts under way. This story has been allowed to disappear to the back pages, sadly. Ho hum.

]]> By: impressive. https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3006565 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3006565 11 years ago,, 2004? That was in the height of the economic boom, which bursted in 2008/2009. So your company left because of policies of the PLp, okay,, fair enough. smdh.. My entire department left Bermuda in 2009 as they outsourced the service. This had nothing to do with politics, the company was cutting on expenses.. nothing more nothing less.

]]> By: bwoybackakillme https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005942 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 23:43:24 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005942 Bottom Line : PLP Trying to take headlines . Desperation smells like sweat .

]]> By: radical https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005788 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:10:45 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005788 The only cash we have is borrowed.
So do we use it to aid another country after a tropical storm, or do we use it to pay civil servants to “work” half a year?

]]> By: Look Within https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005785 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:06:10 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005785 @Hurricane, the company I left for moved and I can assure you they left because of the policies and practices of the PLP. They moved! They didn’t outsource, close, they moved.

My position has changed and I am employed after I lost everything.

@We the People and @Self. Not that it is your business but I actually have family in Portsmouth Dominica so I am very sympathetic and worried about what has happened there and I am grateful for what I have. They are safe, I know that. Also I was at one time a supporter of the old PLP. The Party changed after the Dr. Brown years and I do not like the direction they are taking. Let me be clear. I am not a supporter of ANY party however based on what happened to ALL of Bermuda in those 14 years; the Economy, National Debt, Missing Public Money, our Education System, Closing of Hotels, departure of International Business it will be a longtime before I can forget.

]]> By: Ringmaster https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005760 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:44:33 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005760 Cash? Pre 2006, when the PLP was still financially successful under the guidance and steady hand of Eugene Cox, there would have been cash. However we all know what happened since then. If only his successor had been as financially astute, and firm with the Premier, Ministers and Civil Service, as Mr. Cox had been, Bermuda’s finances post 2006 would I’m sure have been in a much better state.

]]> By: Varied https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005729 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:54:21 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005729 What nonsense is this. Sucking up? Lives are lost!

]]> By: Rick Olson https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005696 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:13:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005696 How about some CASH or is best wishes the best we can offer?

]]> By: Hurricane https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005693 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:08:49 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005693 Excuse you……..absolutely not. So easy to believe that the company you worked for under the PLP left because of their policies. I have news for you though, I lost my job because a locally company that I was working for outsourced it to a company in the USA. And guess what, this was under the OBA. Do I get on here a b**** about every the OBA does though……NO. I have moved on the best way I know how. Time to move on and if your position hasn’t changed after 11 years, time to LOOK WITHIN

]]> By: We the People (1st!!) https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005674 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:32:52 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005674 What a load of rubbish! Good try.

How about this. The storm has killed at least 20 people and left another 31 missing. All of those people would rather be in your ‘situation,’ if it really happened.

Lives lost and people find the time to PLAY politics. SMH you bunch of selfish and self-centred OBA supporters!

]]> By: Tolerate https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005624 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:18:27 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005624 Not gonna get into the whole conversation of who said it first and why. I will pause however and wait for demands, by many on the OBA catching up; and they will have hell to pay and be accused of every thing under the sun if they don’t. That’s the depths that our politics has come to in Bermuda.
This is not what I’m on here for. This is the type of times that Bermuda should come together and show a unilateral response. A simple “The people of Bermuda under the OBA and opposition PLP (if they both EVEN NEED to be noted by name), would like to send our best wishes to the people of Dominica during their difficult time”. There ALL done; no politics needed; but like every-thing, the parties and their supports will use this as who said what first, and how much Bermuda should be donating.
Remember a similar disaster in a certain Island that a certain minster played out like a political football.
SMH

]]> By: Wow https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005608 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:01:43 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005608 What about the folks to their west? Oh, yeah, they haven’t mattered for some time now. My bad.

]]> By: Self https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005599 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:52:56 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005599 At least you have your life and with that, hope. This article is about the folks in Dominica that have NOTHING. I’m sure you’re not sleeping on the street, and none of your family members have been washed away.

]]> By: Look Within https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005528 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:45:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005528 Forgive me if I am miserable and unhappy. I lost my job of 11 years when the company I worked for left Bermuda because of the policies and practices put in place by the then government, the PLP. Fourteen months later I sold my car so that I could make payments on my mortgage. Two months after that my tenants informed me that they would be leaving Bermuda because their company was moving to Ireland. A few months later I lost my house. Sorry if I seem a little bitter. I hope you understand. I wasn’t on the Friends and Family list. I wish I was.

]]> By: Hurricane https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005523 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:36:48 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005523 More like “blowhotair”

]]> By: blowmyfish https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005463 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:36:23 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005463 Why is PLP sucking up to the PM and Government of Dominica? They’re not special, they exist only because the people of Dominica put them there!

]]> By: Hurricane https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005448 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:10:52 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005448 @ Sony, you have to understand, these are obviously miserable, unhappy people, all they can do is b!%@h. In this case it really is pointless, but something they have to do.

]]> By: San George https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005444 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:53:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005444 Demonstrates how polarized Bermuda is and for good reasons.
Good luck turning around the country’s fortunes under these conditions.

Quo Fata Ferunt

]]> By: Self https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005236 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:03:02 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005236 Exactly!!! This really goes to show you how low the OBA supporters are. People have lost their lives and homes, and all OBAers care about is the PLP making a statement. How about showing some dignity and respect…especially since some people here have roots in Dominica. People you really have sunk to an all time low.

]]> By: jt https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005095 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:21:41 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005095 Benevolence thou art easy prey.

]]> By: Varied https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3005036 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:12:31 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3005036 Once again, a political party actually does something decent and lo and behold, cheerleaders from the ‘other side’ come on with the sole purpose of bashing them. Good lord.

This is about Dominica, offering sympathies and hopefully pointing people to where aid can go. Not political one-up-manship. Give it a break for once, cheerleaders.

]]> By: We the People (1st!!) https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004999 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 03:07:02 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004999 It really is sad. Some people just cannot humble themselves and also simply extend well wishes to the people of Dominica.

You really have to worry about the agenda of some people’s comments above like ‘Weird Folk’ and ‘Rico.’
Humble yourself!

]]> By: Sony https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004814 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:07:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004814 Are you people for real stop this political nonsense their giving a country their best wishes & hoping they make it threw this hurricane who cares which party says what

]]> By: Rico https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004629 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:35:23 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004629 PLP, you’re not the government, we don’t care what you think, how many times will you put out a statement saying this or that, this is for the Government of Bermuda to address. You don’t see the republicans upstaging Obama.. Chill out..

]]> By: Ringmaster https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004567 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:03:07 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004567 Who is the real Shadow Minister? Above it states Walter Roban and in another medium the almost identical press release it by Walton Brown. Close enough I suppose.
So how does the PLP know the Government hasn’t already, without their generous help, contacted Dominica and offered assistance? Bermuda and the world does operate without the PLP interfering all the time.

]]> By: john doe https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004522 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:45:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004522 That seems like the best thing PLP can do n that’s giving other countries best wishes. Always trying to beat the oba to do it.

]]> By: Weird Folk https://bernews.com/2015/08/dominica/#comment-3004448 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:20:44 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=439581#comment-3004448 Can’t the PLP just wait until Bermuda issues a formal statement of condolence? Why would a political party seek to ride a humanitarian wave? Can I assume you all feel deeply grieved about the humanitarian crisis’in Syria and Ukraine? Or will you be issuing a statement?

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