Comments on: MP Shawn Crockwell Resigns From The OBA

By: aceboy

aceboy — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 10:41:00 +0000

What is this about his “practice”? What practice does Crockwell have?

You must have switched topics mid post…are you referring to Dr. Brown? Or perhaps you mean the Accountant General….who was arrested for trying to do the right thing? Very confusing.

It appears arrogance is the big issue here. There was no party more arrogant than the PLP when they were in power. Do you recall the phrase “We don’t care what you think”? I do.

All this concern about the sensitivities of black Bermudians at a time when this country is still in serious financial trouble. It is evidence that Crockwell cares about Crockwell and he’ll use the race tensions on this island to prove his point.

By: Brainiac

Brainiac — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:56:07 +0000

LOL I was waiting for it!! Blacks didn’t start this mess!! History points all fingers at whites. Remember segregation? Remember slavery? One human having another human on a chain walking around? Now that racism has turned around to bite them in the a$$, the INVENTORS OF THE RACE CARD, NOW WANT TO ACCUSE BLACKS OF USING IT!!

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:04:48 +0000

……. Canary in the coal mine !

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:16:27 +0000

Why don’t we elect the PLP in again and see if they can help us out and see where all the money went.Remember there was money in the kitty then.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:13:00 +0000

It is a matter of time.Buddy Wayne waiting.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:09:31 +0000

Leave race out for once please..

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:07:31 +0000

Oh my and who defended you when the PLP reaped up your past.
I do feel when anyone is elected in and they want to go Independent or cross over,we should go back to the polls,we didn’t vote for you to be an Independent.

By: We the People (1st!!)

We the People (1st!!) — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:24:32 +0000

How? When he initially stepped down as Tourism minister he stayed on as an OBA MP. His reasons why he stepped down had nothing to do with ‘I want more, but you won’t give it to me….’ etc. He clearly has a problem with the leadership of the OBA. And you know for a fact, that others within the OBA, other MPs, also have a real problem with the leadership of the party.

But this is a typical response when someone stands up for what they believe is the right thing to do. But yet you say nothing about how the AG tried to target this practice which would hurt him financially. Nothing. Do you agree with that? Speak up!

By: Toleratate

Toleratate — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:05:37 +0000

Works BOTH ways…. just reading comments on this blog it has already begun… your own comments right here proves it… or do you FORGET the laugh all the PLP supports had when he was publicly referred to as a “confused *****”…. is he CONFUSED now?????
From some-one who holds NO allegiance to either Party… I wish him the best.

By: Curious

Curious — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:59:25 +0000

Don’t slip on the banana skin on the way over next year!!

By: Toleratate

Toleratate — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:56:39 +0000

Had me up to bathroom incident… was that the slanderous lies that was passed on by two idiots on FB and denied by the very same man…. just checking because if you are correct… that would make him a liar would it not?

By: Please

Please — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:13:18 +0000

I believe we are forgetting one person, the one who is calling all the shuts behind close doors. .let us not take our eyes off the man himself. The one and only Honorable Grant Gibbons..

By: DS

DS — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:12:18 +0000

Teresa, people like you make me laugh. Was only a matter of time before somebody threw up his past. His past was perfectly fine when he was a member of the OBA, but now it’s not? Why is his past suddenly unacceptable to you?

It’s this elitist mentality that turns so many people off from the OBA.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:11:37 +0000

If the majority of Blacks vote for P.L.P and the majority of whites vote for U.B.P. then P.L.P would win everytime, thats why U.B.P. are pushing to get more white P.R.C.’s through.
Blacks have always and will always strayed from their core foundation, unlike the whites.
Its Psychological Damage,we cant help it.

By: BermudaRat

BermudaRat — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:43:49 +0000

Agree Grassy. Never saw him EVER as my MP. Never did anything for Southampton. Disaster as a Tourism Minister. Agree check out moves to copy Singapore gambling model which is totally wrong for Bermuda.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 12:40:28 +0000

OBA a house of cards? Many of us hold the opinion that Bermuda is a house of cards.

By: drunken ursula

drunken ursula — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 12:08:32 +0000

unqualified as you heard or seen Nandi ?

By: Yahoo

Yahoo — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:47:17 +0000

Just a cry for attention. Just like Jahmal, Flip Flop Furbert and Kim Swan. All attention seekers who can only get a day or two of recognition by throwing a temper tantrum and quitting. After a day or two of press, they are all back to being irrelevant.

Shawn was voted in under the OBA banner so maybe he should run as an independent in a by election?

By: aceboy

aceboy — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:35:05 +0000

This screams of “I want more but you won’t give it to me, so I am going to take my ball and go home you big meanies.”

By: Its me again

Its me again — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:04:16 +0000

It was all part of their master plan.

At no point was the BDA not a puppet party of the former UBP. All they did was take the younger UBP memebers and put them in their own separate party and than “disband” the UBP to create the OBA which is now the new UBP.

Same membership same politicians different name

By: john

john — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:03:26 +0000

obviously no. Can u tell why randy will not step down as d speaker, hence oba will have to use a candidate as the speaker giving a better government for bermuda with Shaun voting as a independent. RANDY IT IS TIME TO DO WHAT WE VOTED U IN TO DO REPRESENT THE PLP N UP TO NOW U HAVE NOT DID IT>IT IS ABOUT TIME U STARTED. BE BLESSED

By: Its me again

Its me again — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:01:37 +0000

Honestly he probably doesnt need your vote anyway…

By: swing voter

swing voter — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 10:45:58 +0000

after reading some of the comments above I came to the conclusion that some people will never understand that the island has changed, people are not intimidated into submission, and we will vote for the PLP if the OBA do not change their ways

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 10:38:16 +0000

It’s not ‘black Bermudians’ who decide (determine) who won every election . It’s the small number of swing voters , and there are white swing voters too .

I think it’s you who has just arrived here.

By: Um got to much brains

Um got to much brains — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 10:22:31 +0000

Coffee will be relegated to the anals of history.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 09:53:59 +0000

Assuming the bathroom incident actually happened, and that Immigration was NOT justified in what they did lol

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 07:13:09 +0000

Save us the boring grammar lesson Scotty – his point was clearly made and your silly attempt to deflect, well, is just silly…

By: frank

frank — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 05:33:40 +0000

They are not going. To do. Nothing

By: Moojun

Moojun — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 04:29:38 +0000

I believe they are referring to the Auditor General’s 2006 Annual Report, which stated “$800 million of public funds were unaccounted for, Mr. Dennis said: “One recommendation (in Appendix Two) requires special mention this year. In my 2003, 2004 and 2005 annual reports I expressed concern at the number of frauds and misappropriations that were detected in recent years in Government entities.”

That money. Gone. And still accruing interest at ‘our’ (the average Bermudians’) expense. Clear?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:40:31 +0000

Just a matter of time and he will join Wayne.Dont want to throw up your past but… Lest us not forget those that supported you.
Like school children.Back & Forth.

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:39:02 +0000

Lol!

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:36:38 +0000

Wow , after listening to Shawn , I will hereafter and forever more refer to that very nefarious party as the UBP/BDA/OBA/UBP !

RAID the mans castle and interfere with his lively hood !

Shame , Shame , Shame !

By: We the People (1st!!)

We the People (1st!!) — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:32:42 +0000

What money missing from 1998-2012?

By: Please

Please — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:18:52 +0000

Samson did not need hair…He needed and relied on a righteous man.

By: Grassy one

Grassy one — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:04:25 +0000

A legend in his own mind. Never heard from him as my MP. Never. Lots of fancy words but that’s all. More to that story about gaming and that letter from the Government…..

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:04:18 +0000

All a bunch of liars never vote PLP
Never Never Never

By: We the People (1st!!)

We the People (1st!!) — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:01:53 +0000

It is not a matter of getting what you want, silly boy. It’s about standing up for something, especially when you fundamentally disagree with the leadership. He is not the only one to have serious issues and who has questioned the leadership of the OBA. However, he is the only one to have the backbone to step down.

By: Grassy one

Grassy one — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:00:58 +0000

Yeah, he’s a real man of the people. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE. Pure narcissistic theater here.

By: Just the Tip

Just the Tip — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:58:52 +0000

As some one said before

ignorance is bliss

By: Just the Tip

Just the Tip — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:56:17 +0000

she still had her job for quite a while as i recall.

By: Just the Tip

Just the Tip — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:55:16 +0000

while i get what your saying i still don’t see the sense when this is party politics, most people are voting for the party not the person. It be nice if it was the person but that is not the case

By: tfarting troll

tfarting troll — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:53:16 +0000

he lost cause he wanted independence.

By: Point boy

Point boy — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:23:12 +0000

I wear (Crocks)
on my feet all day. There comfortable (But!! A little slippery) I better go back to my Flip-Flop. Hmmmm. You can’t always get what you want.

That’s life!!

By: Wake up

Wake up — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:22:41 +0000

Last checked black Bermudians decided who won every election.

You must have just moved to Bermuda!

Ask the oba why de scouts are out trying to attract more for the 2017 election photo.

By: Tp

Tp — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:21:03 +0000

There is no way that any Bermudian with even an ounce of respect for himself or herself would stay in that situation if they experienced a bathroom incident or immigration harassment like that.

By: R u serious?

R u serious? — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:13:44 +0000

So you think that Paula Cox is unqualified in her chosen field in the private sector?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:11:47 +0000

Either way it looks like the UBP

By: Baygrapes

Baygrapes — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:07:49 +0000

And the turkeys continue to vote for Christmas. God help us all.

Sir John Swan, can you please come back and help get Bermuda back on track!

By: Brainiac

Brainiac — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:21:54 +0000

I see you are stalking me…You don’t want any part of me! You couldn’t pick up on a little sarcasm in my above post! Stay in your league!

By: Brainiac

Brainiac — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:15:59 +0000

LMAO @Point boy, UMMM I know what he said! Read and COMPREHEND before you write!