Why is there little mention of the Filipinos, South Asians, and Eastern Europeans that will be included in the Pathways to Status?

Exactly what jobs are the white people coming from Canada, the UK and USA, taking away from Bermudians?

Present facts please and not “guestimates”.

Like Malcolm X stated: Slavery ended on paper but not in practice. The Immigration policy is one of the tactics. It is obvious you can not spot a wolf(Fahy) in sheep’s clothing. Also if you are a male of African descent and you speak truth to power and take a stand against an unequal and unjust system those in position of power and those who have been successfully programmed and indoctrinated will tear you down.

Wonder what gives him a conscience now, when he didn’t have one when something could truly be done.

Had the PLP not run the exempt companies out of Bermuda all of your friends would have great jobs. Give the government the opportunity to build a future for you and your children. If you quite now and re-elect the former government your grandchildren won’t have jobs. Your Rick politicians with take their money and move to the UK. Seriously, think about it. Yup I would agree this government does not have a good track record with communicating with the public, but I believe they are working towards fixing that.

I will make the prediction that if the PLP were ever re-Elected this country would be sucked dry. After all, we are 2.5 billion in debt and how did we get here? Give it some serious thought before you stroke that pen next election.

It started with “We will turn tourism around in 100 days.” It also included “We are going to fix the education system.”

Will there still be Koolaide?

Sad days ahead. Participants are crawling out of the woodwork and plaster.

Sowing seeds wrath has just begun.

Shalom.

4% of the white working population is unemployed.
9% of the black working population is unemployed.

no need for further maths, these are the proportions.

Maybe because Blacks make up a greater percentage of the population! lmao…..nice try!

(25% and 65% are CURB numbers from that article) “meanwhile the voting population is approximately 65% Black, 25% white and 10% other”

Lets compare percentage of voting poluation unemployed in each class Black 9/65 = 13.8% of blacks and 4/25 = 16% of whites unemployed.

It appears that white people are have a higher proportion unemployed than black…..

That is interesting, not what the PLP are spouting. unsurprising really…and all this using their numbers.

When the author starts with this statement he loses credibility from the outset. This was and always has been a PLP seat, it continues to be a PLP seat. The irony is that his justification of white voters never swinging politically was in fact the case this time around, but by blacks who did not swing politically and continued to vote for the PLP in this particular location.

the only extraordinary occurrence would have been if it was determined that whites changed their vote and voted PLP this particular time around.

Unfortunately when the Author begins his piece with such a juvenile attempt to sway the reader he exposes himself. It also points to an alarming strategy on the part of the PLP to assume the reader lacks the educations to see logic and reason and as such allows them to be manipulated.

As for Mr. Blakeney, he seemed to always put significant work into his ministry, a bit arrogant and ignoring technical staff but a hard worker. In relation to the pool, the objection, if i remember, was not to the pool but that the technical expertise in the Bermuda swimming association was being ignored, as the pool built was not the pool that was recommended to host international meets, a pool which BTW was costed lower than the one actually installed……

Talk about one great pool and leave out the other pool (Sandy’s 360)…

No mention of the fact that it was a PLP stronghold that was won. At least focus on the number of votes cast vs election.

No specific mention of the people “fleeing to UK” being due to gangs/witness protection. Dressed up as “economic and social pressures.”

No mention of overall unemployment rate being up or down, just what it is for blacks and whites.

As for the pool up there. Wonderful that the Danes came and used it. At least whatever they paid to use it, might have covered the cost of one month’s electricity bill, to heat the thing at $100K per month. We will need teams coming from every country in the entire World to make a dent in the enormous building costs at $24 million, added to the maintenance and debt costs, which that project will be costing us for decades to come. Vision without any plan. At least the OBA are trying to making lemonade out of lemons – yet again.

People started leaving, and telling their children who were overseas being educated not to come home, during the latter years of the PLP government. People saw the writing on the wall, they worried the PLP would win again. I know of some people who were prepared to leave and who stayed when they didn’t win again.

People are still leaving because things are still hard. We’re not sinking near as much as before, might well be leveled out, but some people aren’t able, or willing, to stick around long enough for our revival.

Oh, and some people, they’re leaving because there are better opportunities overseas for their chosen profession. Nothing political about it.

What could be more fair than granting status to those who have been here the longest, irrespective of their skin colour or bank balance?

This just proves that you will make a race issue out of absolutely anything. You and the CURB woman are an embarrassment.

It is not about having a pool, it is about having a pool in a timely manner and at a reasonable price.

Don’t try and confuse people Rolf. PLP trying to manipulate Bermudians is unacceptable. Don’t fall for their nonsense and become their vote muppet. Use you own brain to weigh up all the facts.

Diallio won a safe PLP seat. There is no surprise, so why is Rolf pretending there is? To make you think people are thinking a certain way and that perhaps you should be too….the PLP are very good at manipulation. PLP want power at any cost, if it costs you then they really don’t give a damn.

Personally, I saw Mr. Rabain’s win as the expected outcome of the election. No offence to Mr. Simons intended at all.

A PLP stronghold where the misinformation of the PLP will be taken as truth, along with Mr. Rabain’s charisma?

Yeah, no surprise there.

By the way, it was no confirmation of support of Marc Bean either. Rhetoric and Mr. Rabain. That’s it.

What is the breakdown for white Bermudians v black Bermudians as opposed to all residents of working age? Guest workers are going to skew those figures a bit- once unemployed they have to leave.

I don’t doubt for a second that black unemployment is higher than white unemployment, but it would be good to get a true figure for Bermudians.