Comments on: OBA: ‘We Completely Reject The Premise’

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:31:55 +0000

Jim Crow and Apartheid was law !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:27:46 +0000

Like the College and University graduates that come back and cant find jobs?
Mmmmmm

By: James Rego

James Rego — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:24:40 +0000

Good to see you back Raymond.

By: James Rego

James Rego — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:19:34 +0000

@Coffee
When are we going to have our Black Mayors conference or get our $250,000 back?

By: Truth Teller

Truth Teller — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:27:33 +0000

Because Juicy Onion what is going on in Africa today was set in motion by the same Europeans that Onion Juice is referencing. European Imperialism over the last two hundred years has left a dark and destructive legacy world wide and not just in Africa.

Juicy Onion wants to take ownership of the good parts of this historical legacy of course; and just conveniently ignore the rest.

Moreover, he and others of his ilk while eager to celebrate the good parts of that history as indicated will quickly do a 180 degree turn and tell the rest of us that we should not delve on the past.

Go figure.

By: Ponty

Ponty — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:26:28 +0000

What are you qualified for?

By: Nanny Pat

Nanny Pat — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:22:32 +0000

Or educated.

By: Juicy Onion

Juicy Onion — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:07:47 +0000

@Onion Juice … I find it strange how you always focus on Europeans and what happened yesterday. Why are you not so vocal about what is going on in Africa TODAY. Why do you not condemn the theft of land, the thousands killed, young women stolen, gang raped, made slaves of the killed?

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:55:06 +0000

Good point James

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:53:12 +0000

Don’t let anyone hold their breath…Sad yes but true

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:51:48 +0000

Unfortunately many behave / are sooooo asinine in thinking Bermuda is the world and yes, theirs. Not so! As mentioned above, (Bermuda is not a country, it is a British overseas territory. Once Bermudians come to terms with this reality they will realize how they cannot claim what is not theirs.)Furthermore, how would the many Bermudians living overseas feel if they were told they have x amount of days to go back home?

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:43:08 +0000

‘clique’

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:39:21 +0000

@ Boo Hoo, do you have that same sentiment toward the Europeans who invaded countries and islands that were inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years.
Mmmmm

By: Nabba Jabba Ding Dong Baby Daddy

Nabba Jabba Ding Dong Baby Daddy — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:13:45 +0000

Little reality as it actually pertains to law.please..

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 11:47:07 +0000

More lies. Starting in 2006 the PLP raised spending way above revenue. Despite the global recession so beloved as an excuse by the PLP revenue only dropped by around 10% so that was not the problem. Expenses continued to rise driven largely by the wage bill for the public sector. Borrowing could be stopped but the public sector has been protected from the job losses in the private sector. Soon that will end even if the PLP get elected in 2017.

By: James Rego

James Rego — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:13:07 +0000

@Onion Juice
No, like the Black Mayors conference! How’s that coming along?

By: Wake up Bermudians

Wake up Bermudians — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:27:27 +0000

Brigadooner, how the hell do yo know that unemployed Bermudian is not vigorously looking for a job? Bermudians are too nice. No other country in the world has so many of its citizens out of work while foreign workers are gainfully employed. Bermudians should take to the streets to change the policies imposed on the citizens of this country. I worked in the Exempt Company industry and it was obvious to me that they had an adverse opinion of Bermudians. Many of the white employees only had their positions because they were white. They didn’t know their ass from their elbow. Bermudians better wake up and speak up before they become outsiders in their own country.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:25:25 +0000

No Bermudians need to step up their game and stop being like lil p#$$!@$

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:12:55 +0000

Tell that to the 3000 unemployed, we know its a click out there and you have to be in the KNOW.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:06:46 +0000

“It is not explained in a way that the common man can understand”
Maybe the one who is trying to explain it don’t have a F!@#ing clue himself, like trying to make sense out of nonsense.
LMFAO

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:56:57 +0000

You mean like Jet Gate.
LMFAO

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:55:54 +0000

So that means you cant bring up 14 years.
LMFAO

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:54:40 +0000

PRC’S are legal refugees.
LMFAO

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:51:59 +0000

Your correction is right but you can’t refute the statement.
Mmmmm

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:49:00 +0000

The white collar is a gimme, now blue collar workers is pathetic.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:46:34 +0000

That’s what happens when you are in the circle.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:32:08 +0000

Don’t forget the $1 million the Trust Fund.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:30:51 +0000

SpoongeBob has borrowed just as much in 3 years that P.L.P has in 14 years.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:28:42 +0000

So where are your figures to REFUTE, otherwise you don’t have a case. DREAMERS
LMFAO

By: Food

Food — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:18:55 +0000

Expats are here because they do the jobs which Bermudians are not qualified to do OR REFUSE TO DO. Either get yourself qualified, or accept something less. Your call.

You are guaranteed a job if you get off your a– and earn it.

By: Prego

Prego — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:16:54 +0000

Hey Rhonda. You owe the rest of us Bermudians $18MILLION. When can we expect to get that back?

By: Born Bermudian

Born Bermudian — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 22:02:43 +0000

Please, foreign/expat workers who put down Bermuda and Bermudians, quit your overpaid jobs and lifestyles you have been afforded on this 7star island and leave. Take the OBA/PLP Politicians with you

By: mixitup

mixitup — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:06:53 +0000

Where do you people get off with this ‘explain so that the common people will understand?’ It’s clear… The Airport project is not a project of national importance at this time…so why is it being rushed through? Where do you get that giving away a key asset (the airport) is a win for Bermuda boggles my mind…. Now if the OBA tendered out a project to address both bridges in the east, I’d jump on the bandwagon…and yes, we do understand the bridge is not going to generate revenue, but neither is the Airport …well at least not for Gov’t coffers…and if they don’t generate the revenue, we pay on top of pay…

Another note: The company AECON mentioned that the Airport ‘should sustain Bermuda for the next 100 years’ And the current one cannot sustain us for 5 more??

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:12:39 +0000

There you go again . Trying to re-write history .

By: swing voter

swing voter — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:45:43 +0000

Am I better off now? hell yes and so are the majority who wud have faced unemployment after if the 2012 election turned out differently. Lets be real here, the money wud have continued to leave with nothing coming in, no new hotels, no AC35, no nothing!

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:00:53 +0000

What are you qualified for?? Your grammar and sentence structure doesn’t lend towards the professional business level, so if you aren’t in the business field, then you would be in the trades industry. An industry that relies on the foriegn capital and bodies that the business fields bring in, and as the indicators are say that they are only just beginning to turn the corner and come back, you will still have to wait awhile for them to get back up to the level to resurge those industries. And if you are in business… well back to the grammar and sentence structure part of my statement.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:51:39 +0000

Are you referring to the contract that was found to have been given after a highly questionable tendering process, the voiding of which kept more of our land out of the hands of the same developer that can’t say where $18m went and has so far resulted in foreign entities laying claims to acres of local real estate. Thank the for expending energies on that, because if they hadn’t, who knows who would own our waterfront now.

By: smh

smh — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:36:15 +0000

Sounds like you’re the one trying to destabilize Bermuda there bub

By: Andrew Little

Andrew Little — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:29:20 +0000

… de pee el pee, perhaps! Chingas!

By: Andrew Little

Andrew Little — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:27:35 +0000

… eleventeen…maybe!

By: jt

jt — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:20:07 +0000

“Real” Bermudians.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:09:43 +0000

Chris Famous would have promoted it in his column ; for real.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:07:03 +0000

The PLP and a few retired heads of government.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:22:28 +0000

Well all permit renewals will be advertised on the Jobs board…so EVERY JOB available can be seen.

ps What have you done since 2013 to improve yourself, or tailor yourself the the jobs market?

I’m a nuclear scientist by education, yet not a job in sight here for me…guess what, I retooled to stay in my home.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:18:35 +0000

What like that one with the same people where 18m went missing….What could have that number Bean ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

By: archy

archy — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:15:43 +0000

I wonder how many people would have been aware of the Workers’ Voice article until the Govt responded?

By: Anon Ymous

Anon Ymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:08:02 +0000

Get rid of all the expats and foreign companies and all of ‘our jobs’ that they currently hold no longer exist (in Bda at least) – nor do the payroll taxes, support roles of local business and all other spending, such as rents, furnishings, IT equipment, cars, boats, fuel, food, airport departure taxes, etc, etc, etc.

Careful what you wish for.

By: Keepin' it Real!...4Real!

Keepin' it Real!...4Real! — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:04:32 +0000

There is a volume of refugees destabilising Europe…guess who’s destabilising Bermuda…

By: Keepin' it Real!...4Real!

Keepin' it Real!...4Real! — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:59:56 +0000

We do expect…but will they?

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:58:48 +0000

I agree with this statement and I am an OBA supporter, they need to take a stance on at least one issue! As for the comment by qualified and unemployed, don’t think if the PLP did get in again they are going to knock at your door to employ you- maybe like a lot of people you need to settle for something you are over qualified to do!