But the ridiculous of it all is he steps down from some 350,000.00 accusation then turns around and is given one of the largest budgets and Ministries.

Now that was DEEP! So yah 350,000.00 wasn’t enuf, now we’ll give him direct access to the PUBLIC PURSE! That aint got a damn thing to do with any opposition, that had to do with simply showing one’s colours.

Hey but you’ve gotta give the kid some credit. After licking his wounds in solitude for a few months, he got the bright idea enough to realize ‘hey wait a minute I was the Premier…..I know where ALL the bones are buried. So he brush of his knees and took his marbles back in the ring, Told Michael he’ll walk or talk. Now THAT’S what you call growing b’s overnite….well over a few months.

Either way, if he walked along with Sylvan the government would have collapsed, and if he talked well…do the math. Perfect landscape for the scorned.

Essentially he came to the conclusion if Mike was going to get his premiership it wasn’t gonna be for FREE.

So now he’s messing up fixing walls and roads.

But guess what? At least those who decide to pull over and get gas won’t wastes their time. Now days you can actually go there and not have to hear some lousy excuse that their waiting for the gas truck. No. Esso was waiting for them to pay their bills.

Well, for a situation that was near belly up. Craigate got bank now lolol. Fooled errybody.

By the way there are no term limits . . . remember!!!!

Jetgate, (Yes the PLP had their own) Dr. Brown and Globalhue CEO- the difference? that one cost the country millions, but nobody wanted to talk about it.
T-Street Scandal
Bermuda Housing Corporation
Cedar Beams
Closing of St Georges Golf Course
Promise of St Georges Hotel that never happened
TCD contract
Port Royal Golf Course Contract
Dockyard Pier
Berkeley / Proactive deal $60 million over to a company with no experience.
Bermuda Cement Company
Tuckers Point SDO
Vesey Street SDO
Grand Atlantic
$800 million unaccounted for.
$2 billion in debt.

Sorry my fingers are getting tired.

Hope some of the posters here have passports at the ready!!!!!

This unfortunately is the mindset of the people on the wrong side of the debate.

Bermuda bats way above it’s average in the international business world. We are a population of less than 70,000 people. That’s the equivalent of Gosport, Shrewesbury, Grays, Cannock and several others. Have you ever heard of those places? They are all in England.

The point being, we are extremely lucky to have high profile companies with high profile individuals that call Bermuda home. These companies, and more importantly, these individuals provide HUGE opportunities for all of us. Whether its for Bermudians gaining access to great paying jobs, or the individuals that benefit from the money that is spent in our economy- we are all impacted.

What you don’t seem to understand, if we close our doors to immigrants, those jobs go away. Bermuda does not have the resources to support these industries on our own . That money get’s spent somewhere else and in the end we all suffer.

So we are going to allow more foreigners to come and take up more jobs because they are going to need to make an income. Tell me how allowing more to come is going to help us generate more money? I’m puzzled….

So they take jobs for a lesser pay….. than how are Bermudians that are without jobs and looking to get jobs are suppose to get them.

Yes, every country has foreigners living in it, I’m not disputing that but we are only 22 sq. miles….how many do we want to allow to come?…. how many jobs do they think are available out there?

Bermudians need to come first……that is the message…. or …

Are we waiting to we become like one of these third world countries….were we have tons of people starving and homeless …we have it going on now…..or don’t they care!!!

Don’t make it out to be something different as it wasn’t.
no legislation was brought into being.

**Please note the above is sarcasm

On another note. Where do they use the bathroom though? I hate camping!

Where is it? Has some people forgotten their heritage? Where they were born? Forgotten how to stand together with their own people?

What this party OBA is doing is not right and it doesn’t matter who started this mess, we cannot just sit back and let it continue. The decisions that they are making will affect your children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren….

Oh! I just realized you can’t think that far…..sorry!

At least she is willing to do something, while the rest of you with all these stupid comments are doing what?……Nothing!!

Oh! that’s right you’re standing in the complaining and do nothing line…. I get it now…

God Bless you Ms. Matthie, you hang in for as long as you can.

Try again my friend.

Fact – In 10 years over 65% of Bermudian workforce will be over 65 ( retirement age)

so unless you believe in child labor…you won’t have enough young adults to fill up the jobs….

Not to mention all the young adults that have moved to England, and all the unqualified ones here….

Who’s going to be left to work? These people hate foreigners but….Your TWO MAIN sources of income are directly sourced from “foreigners”….re insurance….and Tourism. And how do tourist get here….planes, boats all which are owned by foreigners. Your tv is American, clothes, foods are from ” foreigners”…Even goslings has part of its black rum done in the US….Gas is from foreigners, your education system was made by foregners…Jamaicans are foreigners right? Well you use their language, listen to reggae and dancehall….most Bermuda musicians are reggae artists…even Trinidad has its OWN music style and is actually in the Carribean .look at Collie Budz? Why does he sing in a Jamaican voice? But do you see Jamaica outraged? No. Because Bermuda is PART OF THE WORLD. There’s no factories or production and like I said your main export (goslings) is partly finished in the US. Could Bermuda survive without foreigners. Lol the irony is, you have a Governer….who is also a foreigner. On you money is the Queen….I mean this outrage at foreigners is a joke. Someone posted stats that when all the expats left, you economy dropped. Sigh. I guess ignorance is bliss.

All of this talk of struggle, oppression and poverty; when was the last time someone starved to death in Bermuda or was beaten by authorities? Seriously people need to get a reality check as to what constitutes real oppression and struggle in the modern world. Go to Zimbabwe, 95% unemployment and a worthless currency all because they wanted to chase the foreigner out. Zimbabwe had the highest standard of living in Africa before Mugabe. Jamaica had one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean before independence. Now look at both of their poverty situations.

No one wants to plant the corn in Bermuda, everyone wants to raid the barn. They don’t want the Government to invest in opportunity to generate more economic activity for the people, they want the government to continue to spend on the people by borrowing 85% of our tax $$. This basic lack of economic understanding really highlights how poor the education level is amongst people who think a fake hunger strike is some sort of titanic protest against the evil OBA regime.

This woman in her original interview stated that she just wanted everyone to live comfortably and for the Government to invest more in education and seniors. The PLP failed to audit the pension system for 6 years, they ignored it, in addition there is no correlation between spending on schools and academic performance. What is being done is the consolidation of schools that are half full so that their operating expenses per school can be reduced. That means that kids will have to be dropped off at a different school further away from home in certain circumstances, BIG DEAL! Deal with it, the government has to get get it’s non revenue generating expenditure under control before our children have the same economic future as Zimabwe. IF it were upto the PLP though, we would spend our way into the IMFs back pocket, the Bigga’s at the BIU and Alaska hall by that time would have taken their money and ran, the Island and it’s people left with nothing. We were firmly on that road, and will be if we continue to listen to the PLP and their destructive means of politics.