Comments on: PLP Urge Govt To ‘Urgently Reconsider’ Permit

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:34:32 +0000

in the words of Ray Charles …. hit the road jack

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:01:16 +0000

The OBA did not deny the renewal. An impartial Immigration Board denied the renewal and gave the reasons. The OBA Minister upheld the denial. If you don’t understand that difference, you clearly don’t see what’s coming to impact Bermuda and jobs, and it has nothing to do with Bermuda.

By the way, if you think AC gets what it wants it doesn’t and that’s another black mark on Bermuda.

By: Rightok

Rightok — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:11:19 +0000

I thought the OBA was a pro foreigner party? It’s only because Rev Tweed was active with the People’s Campaign that they decided not to approve the work permit.

This is sad for the OBA. They are going against their own ideals.

By: Y-Gurl

Y-Gurl — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:53:04 +0000

Why? Because he’s someone’s friend? Sounds like a typical and often heard PLP threat

By: Rumsoak

Rumsoak — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:28:31 +0000

Bye Bye birdie, don”t let the broken door at the airport hit you on the way out .

By: Jus' Wonderin'

Jus' Wonderin' — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:46:13 +0000

Send the foreigner packing…who cares! That’s what we all want anyways. A BORN BERMUDIAN can do that job better and some!

By: Sickofantz

Sickofantz — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:27:26 +0000

Dear Writing.

You seem to have information about malpractice in submitting work permits. It is your duty as a Bermudian to report it to the anonymous Immigration line.

If you don’t one can only assume that you have been making this all up.

By: Sickofantz

Sickofantz — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:23:32 +0000

I sincerely hope you can stay. Ultimately a united fully integrated Bermuda will triumph. We NEED people like you.

By: Sickofantz

Sickofantz — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:20:00 +0000

Onion Juice is in America. You rarely read a tweet from him that doesn’t feature America.

By: BRIER

BRIER — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:35:01 +0000

BIU DO NOT RUN THIS COUNTRY AND NEITHER DOES TWEED…

ALL THIS FUSS WITH BIU AND STRIKES WE REALLY NEED TO PRIVATIZE SOME OF OUR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMETNS BECAUSE THERE ARE PLENTY OF BERMUDIANA WHO WANT TO WORK AND NOT STRIKE…THEY KNOW WHERE THERRE BREAD IS BUTTERED…

STOP BEING A FOLLOWER AND BE A LEADER

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:20:23 +0000

Why not just advertise the position? Maybe there is a Bermudian out there that would be great at the position and if not give Mr. Tweed the position.
I am sure there more to this story that the Church should make public.
Please inform us before this gets out of hand or do the powers that be want that to happen? I think not

By: steve

steve — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:58:05 +0000

I am Glad we got Americas cup cause it gives us a foreign entity to blame as well as an event to Hijack.

By: thief

thief — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:36:36 +0000

it does not seem right that a foreigner should be so involved in our politics.

By: Enough

Enough — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:31:32 +0000

Walton Brown – November 26, 2014
The Shadow Minister added that in the hospitality field, there is concern that “one major chain turns its back on Bermudian talent,” saying they have a “hiring policy that has seen eminently qualified Bermudians not even make it to the interview process. This is deeply disturbing and needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

“Recently, this has meant two very qualified and experienced Bermudians were denied even the opportunity for an interview for a prominent position…”

By: Bermudian voter

Bermudian voter — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:08:07 +0000

How soon we forget. PLP immigration policies when they were in power
forced international companies to relocate and many locals lost jobs, families were split up and family members had to relocate. And now all of a sudden a church minister is indispensable. Once again the PLP is attempting to cause discord in an attempt to get elected. I voted for you once. NEVER AGAIN

By: EXPAT

EXPAT — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:52:10 +0000

OK, so serious question: my permit is up for renewal in a few months. Will there be a march or protest when it gets denied? I can start making signs now. I just want to know who I need to thank when they protest and demand the OBA renew my permit even though there is a Bermudian who can do my job.

Thank you in advance for helping me, an obnoxious Expat, stay in your country…cuz that’s what Bermuda does now, right????

By: Up D Hill

Up D Hill — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:45:57 +0000

@shameful, you should be shameful after writing that trash!!!

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:45:51 +0000

PRIVATIZE NOW!!!!

By: Up D Hill

Up D Hill — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:38:30 +0000

PROVE IT MOUTH PIECE, OR STOP YOUR NOICE@ WRITING ON DE WALL!!

By: BRIER

BRIER — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:37:06 +0000

TWEED NEEDS TO GO NO CONSIDERATION AT ALL – THERE ARE MANY BERMUDIANAS TO FILL HIS SHOES EASILY ITS NOT A DIFFICULT JOB..

HE IS NO DIFFERENT FROM ANYOTHER FOREIGH WORKING AND LIVING IN BERMUDA YOUR TIME IS UP MATE LIKE I SAY GET CRACKING..

A BERMUDIAN CAN NOW HAVE HIS JOB… YAYY

By: Up D Hill

Up D Hill — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:35:08 +0000

How many work permits were revoked in the last 3 months? I don`t hear Chris Furberts BIU making any noise to help them, I don`t hear the PLP making any noise to help or support them who will have the end of this month and the end of next month to leave, I don`t hear the PC , I don`t hear the AME Church, WHO SHOULD BE SILENT ANYWAY ,Your a church,,MIND YOUR BUSINESS!!

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:23:51 +0000

Bingo.

By: Wondermutt

Wondermutt — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:14:11 +0000

Stand strong OBA. You should never give in to a petulant child having a temper tantrum.

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:14:00 +0000

crickets.

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:12:24 +0000

Maybe if he had been a good expat and kept his mouth quiet and done his job without getting messed up in the BS he wouldn’t have this problem.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:12:18 +0000

This shows that the PLP have no regard to the laws and rules to protect Bermudians. How many others slipped into our country under the PLP ignoring the rules and disadvantaging us Bermudians.

Those suffering today need to vent their anger at the PLP for disenfranchising Bermudians.

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:09:18 +0000

i know, right?? you can’t make this chit up!!!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:05:15 +0000

The OBA is only using Rev. Tweed in hopes of destabilizing the PLP and the Peoples Campaign. They dont want anyone getting in their way or speaking against The Americas cup holding Bermuda hostage for the next 2 years.

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:03:26 +0000

Exactly! I’m so confused – didn’t we all just march against immigration? Don’t we want all of these nasty foreigners to get the heck out of our country? I can’t keep up! Why did I make all of those fabulous signs?

By: Jahstice

Jahstice — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:01:40 +0000

Send the non Bermudian home. Bermudians want jobs, including his!

By: Reese

Reese — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:00:09 +0000

Is the separation of Church and State not a thing anymore?

By: Just wondering

Just wondering — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:58:36 +0000

how can you possibly equate this to a slavery issue – this is about an employer who has repeatedly refused to properly submit a work permit application and given no resin for failing/refusing to do so – the rest of us all have to comply with the law – why not him? why is he so special? Why does the BIU/PLP think there is one rule for them and their friends and another for everyone else?

By: Facts

Facts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:57:33 +0000

Yea, the only thing he has brought here is HATE and unrest! Any other expat would have been told to get cracking’ LONG AGO!

By: Ya serious

Ya serious — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:46:58 +0000

I got a rule bend. Next rule should be if they block the house, than the meeting of the government should be held anywhere approved by the governor ASAP.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:46:54 +0000

And all those permits issued for AC people are very very temporary. By the end of July next year all of those people will be long gone.

By: Seriously

Seriously — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:30:52 +0000

Why should he stay? Who is he that it’s important for him to remain on this island with his controversial ways?? What good does he bring here? I am curious? He breeds a lot of hate for a preacher. Maybe he’s a quack preacher.

By: aceboy

aceboy — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:20:49 +0000

Here’s hoping there are many more of you. Thank goodness you can see this for what it really is.

By: aceboy

aceboy — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:18:01 +0000

Please list the rules being bent for the America’s Cup?

Or are you just repeating a myth you heard somewhere?

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:15:02 +0000

No need to. After numerous opportunities the applicants did not abide by the requirements for renewal of the work permit.

Seems obvious that the AME board wanted him outta here found a way to have somebody else do the dirty work for them. Notice that the AME church is not protesting the denial of the permit.

By: trump supporter

trump supporter — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:14:17 +0000

Urgently reconsider, what you going to do STRIKE, AWE not getting your way.
What you should do is read some of the discussions in the AMOUNT of PLP supporters you have mad e disgruntled.

Going take my trash to the dump, might not get picked up.

By: Betty Boop

Betty Boop — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:04:06 +0000

No they did not, and that;s is a basic rule when applying for a work permit. He knows that, so does the BIU/PLP, so no permit, too bad, so sad, go home.

By: bdaboy

bdaboy — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:00:39 +0000

” Whites will vote solid as always for team UBP. ”

….and blacks will solidly vote for the PLP, as they always have, regardless. Your point?

By: Betty Boop

Betty Boop — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:57:48 +0000

The OBA is the Government and they rule the roost, not the BIU or PLP or People’s Campaign either, so get that right! An outrage is one who is trying to stop a Bermudian from working. This man is not a Bermudian, neither is he married to one, what gives him the right to just work here without going through THE PROPER CHANNELS? Like everyone else. The BIU/PLP always state Bermuda for Bermudians first and all of a sudden that doesn’t apply to this man? HYPOCRITES all of you!

By: bdaboy

bdaboy — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:53:36 +0000

Warwick Lizard. I wish more people were like you. Much respect.

By: Warwick Lizard

Warwick Lizard — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:48:42 +0000

I have been loyal to the PLP as a supporter all my life as has my family. No more though. This was a big topic of discussion over Christmas and what we concluded is best for BDA at this time. Former BC Lecturer Walton Brown, the BIU and the PLP should be ashamed of how 1) they encouraged the blocking of parliament (protests are fine just don’t block the people’s business from being done in the house) 2) how they are twisting Rev Tweed’s declined permit in the hope for their own political gain. The OBA is not perfect but they are turning Bermuda’s economy/tourism around and have my family’s vote in the next election. God and the voters will have the last say.

By: WRITING ON DE WALL

WRITING ON DE WALL — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:48:21 +0000

So if that’s the reason then say so!

By: LostinFlatts

LostinFlatts — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:46:42 +0000

People are missing the truly terrifying part of this: the PLP/BIU know how utterly hypocritical and ridicululous their position on Tweed is, and they don’t care. They believe they can say anything and still win, that is how little credit they give their supporters.

But, we now live in a world where a racist liar said he could shoot someone in the face and still win an election – and he was right.

The PLPs best chance of getting elected is to reduce politics back to a single issue. That’s all this is: feeding their narrative regardless of reality: real Bermudians vote PLP regardless of what they do, what their policies are, their adherence to law, their lies and self-serving because, well, because.

2/3rds of those who voted Trump believe that the US had higher unemployment today than when Obama took office, despite that not being remotely true. Why? False narrative. If we truly want the best for our island’s future, we have to take the time to call all politicians in their lies, but sadly nothing today suggests the majority of voters will do that.

By: WRITING ON DE WALL

WRITING ON DE WALL — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:45:51 +0000

All you people sound really stupid, do you really think his permit hasn’t been bent all this time before he became vocal on the political scene. I beg to differ!
I bet their application was made no different from their previous applications since he has been here working BUT now they are following the rules because he has expressed publicly his dislike of the current governments policies and practices. SMDH
It’s so obvious people!!!!

BET THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF RULES BENT FOR AMERICAS CUP, which we’ve been told by previous host that it is a complete fail unless it’s held here more than once.

WAKE UP BERMUDA!!!!!!

By: Jahstice

Jahstice — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:41:42 +0000

Will mob rule continue or democracy prevail?

By: hmmm

hmmm — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:29:43 +0000

1)There are inaccuracies in the application.
2)the application wasn’t submitted in time
3)the position wasn’t advertised.
4) there is a Bermudian who wants the position and it qualified and able.

The only politics here are being played by the PLP in an attempt to leverage emotional votes just like Donald Trump.