There is something called economic violence/oppression and this has been taking place since slavery. It is designed to keep people of colour economically oppressed. Majority of our historical buildings that are still standing today were built by individuals who did not have a degree, and who did not finish high school. Today you have “architects” who are foreigners coming to the Island to design buildings and houses. This is by design to to keep us from thriving as a people. The same thing is taking place in America and the Caribbean.

One does not need “papers” for most of the jobs today. There was a time you were trained on a job, but they saw that we were prospering/thriving and they were not having it. There is a wicked spirit behind it.

The reason they require “papers” today, because they know that there is a system in place to keep us economically oppressed, therefore most of us can not afford to send our children overseas. And the ones that do have their “papers” are the ones being denied jobs also. Please do not give me this other myth there are not qualified, because you have foreigners doing jobs they are not qualified to do or being trained by a Bermudian.

Another wicked thing that is taking place how can you make a Bermudian redundant and still have a foreigner employed. In some cases their spouses are making over $200,000.00 a year or more and they are employed and you have a single mother who is a Bermudian ends up being made redundant. Their lives and the lives of their children will become socially and economically oppressive. It shows the people who are making these decisions have no souls.

The whole system is guilty as hell.

Bingo!!!

Exactly!!!

His continued selectivity and mischievous cherry picking is disingenuous at best.

The ongoing campaign of PLP disinformation purely for personal political gain is disgusting. He should be ashamed of these exploitative and one sided remarks.

Fail, BIG fail. Try again Chris.

@Portia, thank you for clarifying what I thought was an easy read (save for a few grammatical/syntax errors)

@smh, methinks you read to reply rather than to understand……

@ Justin, and if you are referring to my comment as being of socialist foundation, you are sadly mistaken. far from the truth

@True Lies, your name says it all – if you were referring to my comment, I don’t want what you describe below

and I don’t agree with Famous either. his stoy/data is jaded and old

In Bermuda, there is no minimum wage, but we have a general idea of what certain positions earn. However, “what the market can pay” is very subjective, because employers can and do find ways to save on labour costs – by outsourcing IT jobs to India and Canada or bringing in foreign unskilled labour to do jobs for less than what a local would be paid.

Of course, if Bermudians WERE occupying these jobs, for the lower wages, you would very likely see these same Bermudians needing financial help simply because their pay is not enough to cover expenses for themselves and their families. They are not living in the manner that wondering described above, therefore, we would likely be creating a situation like what is happening in the U.S. – where tons of workers at McDonald’s and other fast food/ retailers are on food stamps and other Government benefits simply to make ends meet, because of what the market dictates that “they” want to pay. This creates a situation of corporate welfare, where multi-billion dollar enterprises are being subsidized by the Government. That is truly a case of backwards economics.

Chris has is own special way of twisting the facts, exaggerating and misquoting to suit himself.. “Chrisisims”

Absolutely… So why don’t they go and get trained? Or are you expecting someone to pay for their training?

And all the professions that he cherry picked were also majority staffed by non-Bermudians.

But yet we never heard about foreign loving and anti-Bermudian the PLP is/was. No blaming on the PLP’s policies or their non-action regarding ‘re-tooling’ the unemployed of the island.

Instead in 2012 he campaigned relentlessly for the PLP to be reelected.

On top of that of course non-Bermudians will be unemployed in much smaller numbers as they have to leave the island once they are no longer employed!

Lastly, I don’t know why Famous and others rely so heavily on Government to ensure that an individual is workforce ready. That is the responsibility of the person themselves as well as the individuals who raise them. Even Marc Bean preaches of the need to stop sucking of the Government for all your needs. Make your own way like the majority have in the past, present and in the future.

I didn’t fully appreciate how much Chris Famous has absolutely no understanding of the situation he is attempting to discuss.

He highlights the jobs where Bermudians have the minimal share of jobs that historically they are unwilling to do, someone has to do these jobs at the rate they pay? Also, to suggest that the change in workforce has favoured non-Bermudians in recent times is so way off. He does not highlight that over 4,000 non-Bermudians have left the island, so in fact Bermudians have lost less jobs than this group. It also should highlight the fact that these people were not in fact ‘taking’ jobs but actually creating more jobs for Bermudians, otherwise would we not have Bermudians employed in these jobs that were ‘vacated’?

I’m not even sure where to start with his projection of 9,000 that he has pulled out of thin air.

He’s carving out a wonderful name for himself as a Fiction Writer.

And rightly so given the context of this missive!