Comments on: MP Walton Brown: “The Time For Direct Action”

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:56:59 +0000

That’s all you’ve got?

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:55:37 +0000

LMBWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:54:25 +0000

Wow, look at that! There’s that racist attudie of the PLP, right there in your comment. It’s funny how many of our black brothers and sisters are so against your party beliefs, but go ahead, keep blaming the white folks!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:50:57 +0000

You should try doing the math! You’re an insult to those with the slightest bit of intelligence!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:48:45 +0000

If she has a Masters Degree in business, and she’s qualified for the job, then why doesn’t she have if? Has she fought for what you and her believe is hers?! Stop all the lip smacking, get up off your high horses and do something about it….or, are you expecting someone else to do your work for you?

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:18:32 +0000

Yet another DUMB comment! It’s astonishing how much people like you, lack the basic knowledge of ANYTHING!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:16:45 +0000

It appears you need to learn the basics!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:14:32 +0000

YOUR Bermuda??? There’s that ENTITLEMENT word! No brain, no pain, I guess!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:10:16 +0000

Please get your facts straight. Have you heard Dunkley use profanity while sitting in Parliament or on his Facebook page, or anywhere else for that matter?

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:08:01 +0000

Didn’t you take a screenshot? If not, are you able to enlighten us?

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:06:40 +0000

Do you honestly think it would make a difference? Come on, now!

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:04:57 +0000

Walton, nor any of his so called colleagues, don’t have any suggestions! That’s the problem with their Party! Sadly, he’s preaching to the gullible who don’t understand even the slightest thing about economics. If only they’d LISTEN for a change, we might just get somewhere as a unified island.

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:00:24 +0000

Like you said, the lack of foresight is worrying – 8 dislikes is enough. Those who don’t WANT to understand or CAN’T understand due to a lack of basic knowledge, will be the ones crying even more if there’s another downturn. Just watch.

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:57:01 +0000

While you’re on a roll, please remind those people like you and who liked your comment, about that all those PLP people who are married to and /or engaged to foreigners and who, with a snap of their fingers, have more rights than a person who has resided here for 20+ years! You all have one track minds and can’t, for whatever reason, think for yourselves. You truly deserve the brainwashing you get!

By: rich

rich — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:42:35 +0000

OK. Nearly all countries have a pathway. Turks and caicos and north Korea appear to be the only ones without.

Less vague enough for you?

By: Person who knows a little

Person who knows a little — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:32:20 +0000

What exactly do you propose we export?

I would be surprised if you can find one, let alone something that can sustain the island.

By: Here.vanessa

Here.vanessa — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:42:30 +0000

I bet they pay you good money to sit there and pretend to comment as a regular person, watch out I might apply for your job and with my connection I will get it hehe

By: rich

rich — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 02:36:39 +0000

No one has put forward any compelling reason why size matters one iota to immigration policy. Hong Kong is the same size as Bermuda and has millions. It was largely closed off from PRC for many years, had no natural resources or industry and still thrived. Bermuda is a modern, sophisticated service-based economy reliant on human capital rather than natural resources and industry. The academic literature has consistently shown immigration to be a net plus to an economy, especially in such service-based economies. I’m not aware of any reason why size makes a difference.

In any event, the numbers are still quite high, so you have in effect a policy which does make such allowance for smallness.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:14:22 +0000

Why would I join any party, my vote is earned and I will hold any party accountable with that vote… right now I am hold the PLP to account for the destruction their policies had on our economy and government finances, a destruction that has left thousands un- or under-employed, particularly in the black community. Not to mention the inaction on addressing the failing public education that the working-class rely on. How is that a party for the working-class that is predominantly black. The PLP have been the worst thing for the community of this country in the last 20 – 25 years

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:08:34 +0000

That is up to them, if they want to return that is there choice, but there are Bermudians who do move overseas and find a life elsewhere… they were doing it even when the economy was good. In the meantime, this won’t take jobs away, those applicable already have jobs here, and it won’t be taking land from anyone, because if a current Bermudian can’t buy a house now when the market is slumped, then they probably won’t be able to if the market rebounds… in the meantime, there are other that will now have a larger market that they will now be able to shop in if they are able to.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:04:00 +0000

Fact check, the Spanish, left he hogs, the English arrived here to find the hogs and the Portuguese came later and the hogs were pretty much extinct by then

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:59:44 +0000

Please name another 60,000 population country with no natural resources to export, that doesn’t rely on foreign investment for its economy…

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:54:27 +0000

It is not for working class individuals. That is a myth perpetuated to pick up a whole bag of votes.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:08:23 +0000

I think he does and that’s the essence of his comment. What happened in the 1960s is nowhere near what is being proposed in this fair, humane policy. And for Walton to equate the racist policies of a bygone era with what is being proposed is highly irresponsible.

By: Means to an End

Means to an End — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:58:12 +0000

Last time I checked when the first Portuguese, Spanish and English landed on these shores the only residents were wild hogs.

By: Means to an End

Means to an End — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:54:45 +0000

Name one that has been consistent for 20 years.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 13:37:52 +0000

Why does the PLP presuppose that this would only involve a certain segment of our very small community when it also will include folk from Africa, Jamaica, St. Kitts, S.America and on and on? As usual the PLP turning this into Race when the SAME law applies to anyone that fits the residency criteria, regardless of Race. Geeze!!! PLP Wake up, pay attention for heavens sake.

By: Its me again

Its me again — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 12:00:49 +0000

Please be less vague you sound like you are making this up.

By: Its me again

Its me again — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 12:00:04 +0000

Not true.

Many economies thrive from export that us controlled by the peoplr with little or no investment from overseas.

OBA supporters dont look at all avenues, they look at what helps their friends and family succeed.

By: So Tired

So Tired — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:43:37 +0000

No chip and never had a handout

By: Education, education, education

Education, education, education — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:11:42 +0000

The people who could gain PRC status will have15 years of pension contributions. The people who could get full status a minimum of twenty years. Why would they choose to retire and keep that money here when the cost of living is so much higher than elsewhere? There is the danger of mass exodus of long term residents which will drive up the cost of living here even further. A pathway to status is a way of avoiding this.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 01:56:20 +0000

Any rage issues Takbir? Take your meds or pass the breathalyzer before posting again, Freindly advice from a born Bermudian.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:27:24 +0000

I guess you have not had a look at the job board to see all of the jobs available. It is not the employers fault if you have not qualified yourself to do any of the skilled work. It is not the employers responsibilty to provide you with a job.

There are many Bermudians out there looking for a job & hoping they never find it. Much too easy to get FA.

By: well done

well done — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:38:44 +0000

Ah well, if you hate international businesses that much then let them leave see how well our island survives after that. Maybe we will start dredging for minerals off the coast LOL or start selling raw materials (oh wait, we don’t have any). Your family came from somewhere other than this rock, as did mine. But I was born and raised here as were many of my family before me. So don’t you ever question my patriotism or my love for my country. I am only speaking the truth. Our island relies so heavily on IB, so be grateful it is here, because if it wasn’t we would have a lot more poverty. fack bie you got me seriously vexed. I dunno about you, but I dont feel like marrying my cousins, this island needs to open up its gene pool every now and then.

By: well done

well done — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:32:09 +0000

I’m very much aware of how many Bermudians are overlooked for jobs, as I have experienced first hand. At the end of the day, international business benefits from having the ability to produce high expectations for employees, and if a person doesn’t fit that expectation, then they will not get the job. It is simple and irritating. But a business has to make profit for shareholders, and to do that it has to hire the BEST employees (I’m sure your daughter would understand that as she has a masters in business right?). International business is very competitive, if you don’t have the qualifications or fit the requirements then you are overlooked. That is how it works, nothing to do with immigration for people who have been here for 20+ years (most of those who take “Bermudians jobs” are here for 4 year integrals only).

By: Nai

Nai — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:19:42 +0000

Who the F is saying that Bermuda should adapt the same practices? The only thing @little girl did was show how one sided our policies are.\

I don’t know about you but most people know how important it is to introduce new people to the gene pool. I guess you would prefer to keep it all in the family , huh?!

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:11:46 +0000

The island would shut down within hours. When the BIU goes on strike it is inconvenient but we can get by without their services.

If the foreign labour withdrew their services for a start, who would be left running the hospital? Who would be left running IT services? Who would be left doing any of the high skilled work that feeds work to lower skilled employees?

The only organisation left running would be the Civil Service & even the need for their services would dry up in very short order as foreigners in various capacitys stop sending work for the Civil Service to do.

By: Rick Olson

Rick Olson — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:11:19 +0000

Mr Divine hopefully you will return to Bermuda soon and lunch will be on me for your whole family at Bermuda Bistro all the best.

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:56:45 +0000

Obviously, I meant “eligible”. Surely you can deduce that. No?

By: rich

rich — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:29:43 +0000

Actually these countries all DO have these laws in place.

If Bermudians did work overseas for 15-20 years they WOULD have status, citizenship or whatever analogous concept.

Actually, in many countries, this would occur much sooner than 15 and 20 years. Most are less than 10.

Oh – and Bermudians have British citizenship and EU citizenship, and plenty Bermudians regularly go off to live in USA, UK, Caribbean and Canada so there should be some degree of reciprocity.

By: James Rego

James Rego — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:48:17 +0000

@Rich
This could be why Walton is so incensed, especially after Bean kicked him to the curb.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:29:49 +0000

One sided?? Do you have any common sense whatsoever? You someone believe a country as small as Bermuda should adopt the same immigration practices as the UK. Please….

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:28:07 +0000

And try actually doing your homework for once. When the OBA came into power PRCs had access to the same sample of properties above a certain ARV, comparable to what non-resident foreigners had access to.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:25:28 +0000

Love how you conveniently overlooked the part referencing how PRCs can now compete with BERMUDIANS on any sized purchase…. dont understand how you guys are so perfectly fine with looking daft, ironically enough as you refer to PLP supports as idiots, stupid and every other name in the book.

By: GRIZZ

GRIZZ — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:23:27 +0000

@BermudaJake – correct me if I’m wrong, cause I might just be; but isn’t the Cayman Islands now ‘run’ by people who gained status instead of those Island born? Now, that may be okay for you but it doesn’t really sit well with me. Status has it’s implications as well; I just think some things haven’t been looked at. WE ARE NOT THE CAYMAN ISLANDS!

By: GRIZZ

GRIZZ — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:16:28 +0000

@Bob – I wonder why your comment would get dislikes when you only speak the truth..smh

By: GRIZZ

GRIZZ — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:04:53 +0000

@The Truth – well written and all facts. The BIGGER and much SCARIER issues are being overlooked. Born Bermudians will be pushed aside for jobs that would have been guaranteed to them otherwise. We will all become “Accidental Bermudians”. We are not talking about ANYWHERE; we are talking about Bermuda and I agree 100%; Bermuda is not big enough for a mass immigration plan! There has to be another way! People are suffering now; what’s going to happen if this is passed? I feel sorry for my daughter’s generation because we’re going to be educating our children and the chances of them securing the ‘top jobs’ keeps decreasing. Opportunities keep opening for ‘others’ to secure them. Something is wrong with that picture.
It really isn’t about a political party; it’s about securing a future for OUR children!

By: Come Correct

Come Correct — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:03:45 +0000

Eat a PRC, get status…it’s in the fine print.

By: wake up

wake up — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:06:46 +0000

If you kick out the PRC’s, who’s gonna pay to support those couple of unemployed kids?

By: wake up

wake up — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:04:21 +0000

Without foreign investment and immigration, Bermuda wouldn’t even be Cuba.