I’ve never used the ‘ slavery or race card’ before, EVER!!!

I actually don’t play with cards

Your drum beat is that the Gvt are not fulfilling its promise of jobs. You say regularly in the media that our current economic stagnation is causing many families hardship. This is true and the causes are quite evident even if it’s an inconvenient truth for many.

Surely getting Bermudians back to work is more important than your political agenda isn’t it?

I am not certain how you all can look at yourselves in the mirror each morning knowing you are putting your party and it’s somewhat outdated doctrine ahead of the very people you say you serve.

Let’s build this airport and get deserving Bermudians back to work. If you don’t have anything positive to contribute, please just step aide and let this country begin to recover.

We have bigger problems on our horizon then the never ending petty squabble of self interest.

Thank you

- I think the OBA are genuinely trying to improve Bermuda for all not just for some small group of elites
- If there’s any way to oppose an OBA policy, the PLP will do it without regard for whether it truly helps or hinders Bermuda
- the only thing i know for sure about the PLP is that they are 100% motivated by political gain and way down the line in 2nd place is a desire to improve the lives of their base. They make that painfully transparent
- Because of the unknown facts surrounding the airport deal and OBA woeful incompetence with respect to any communication strategy, this was a perfect opportunity for the PLP to attack again for political gain first and foremost
- i wish the opposition was able to engage in sensible debate but they have proven themselves unwilling (potentially incapable???)
- we deserve better politicians: OBA get your heads out of your @$$es and start communicating with all of Bermuda not just your base and communication is about finding the right ways, language, styles and methods of reaching your audience rather than just spouting out messages and hoping they are received (e.g. North Hamilton probably doesn’t care at all about your ‘Blue Ribbon Panel’ because said panel hasn’t engaged with them). PLP – where do i begin? Start by showing some genuine concern for Bermuda and show that your desire for political gain is secondary and the votes will follow. You need to expand your base to include potentially the black middle class that wants financial security for their families and isn’t motivated to vote PLP solely as a result of your racial rhetoric. Please please please start presenting yourselves as a VIABLE alternative (this may require a wholesale change in personnel!). For example isn’t of saying “OBAubp is bad and OBAubp are the devil and they only care about their kind and blah blah blah”. Try saying while we agree with ABC that the OBA’s policy is trying to address we believe a better way to address it is by doing XYZ and here are the pros of our alternative and here are the cons and we believe the pros outweigh the cons.

Wishful thinking on my part but it is what Bermuda needs and deserves.

Imagine~
•Financing the build Yourself.
•Building it Yourself.
•All the Monies made from it is Yours.

The fastest way to get a Return On Investment.

The only difference between the airport project and building a house is that the renter is paying for construction in lue of the rent.

This NDA, however, has zero parallels to slavery, they aren’t even remotely comparable to use as an example. You’ve gone beyond comparing apples to oranges, to apples to rocks or rocks to octopuses…

Do We truly need such a large and expensive airport?
- This is not that large, and is designed to meet current capacity, plus an extra plane or 2 depending on schedule. This would allow the safe handling of an emergency, even during peak periods. Also given that we need to be able to accommodate both pre-cleared US flights and other international flights at the same time, in separated areas, with arrivals, immigration and customs, baggage handling…

We Could Build it Ourselves!!!
- No we can’t. There is no one on island with anywhere the experience to build, project manage and integrate the complexities of an airport construction. We also have no where near the financial buffering to be able to pay for this.

Borrowing money for something that generates money is Positive Debt.
- Positive debt is a oxymoron, it doesn’t exist, especially not with the PLP’s patch and repair plan. Even for us to borrow and build new, we would be liable for the huge and inevitable cost overruns that would still mean that all future revenues of the airport would still be going to pay a lender back with interest.

OBA could have used this opportunity to prove they could command a project with no cost over runs, themselves.
- No they couldn’t, they know this, they aren’t ego driven to try and prove themselves, they are smart enough to know our limitations. There is no one in government that could successfully project manage a construction like this, where as AECON has decades of experience. The OBA knows that if government tries to do it, there will be overruns, and with something so complex, those overruns would be huge.

This is Not any old Business deal, this is taxpayer dollars and the future of Bermudians at stake here.
- no this is not any old business deal, this is something completely new. It has even been described by overseas experts as innovative to the very real problem we face. And out of any option presented to date, it offers the greatest protection to our future, both infrastructure and financial.

Please do not down play the NDA.
- Where have I played down the NDA, an NDA is a critical piece to any and all commercial contracts. It protects all parties’ committed investment to date. No commercial entity would enter into any such partnership agreement and construction contract without one to protect what their investment in finance and expertise, no matter who is negotiating with whom.

If We are Paying the Band, We should be able to Know/Pick what they Play
- We are, that is what the construction contract is for. It sets out exactly what is to be delivered, when and for how much. And we elect governments to make those collective decisions, because the sort of micromanagement of ‘know/pick what they play’ simply renders any institution, government or commercial, unviable.

- There is already more than enough information available to the general public to lay low all the oppositions misinformation and misrepresentations, so at this point all they are left with is politricks games.

He used his position to play petty political games…the other day he sang good governance from the roof tops, today he turned his back on it. SMDH

YOU CANNOT TRUST BURT….many PLP have left because of him , some high profile have publicly slammed him.

Were you not paying attention to what happened !!!SMDH

However, if I’m the OBA, a signed NDA from the PLP is not worth the paper it is written on. If they think an NDA would prevent the PLP from leaking the terms, they are dumber than I thought.

Is slavery is so troubling to you (and it should be) what are you doing to combat it TODAY! Nothing, because sadly, and in a strange way you benefit from it. While slavery is illegal everythere it exists everywhere especially in Africa.

Lots of taxin goin on…………

You can’t trust him.

Do We truly need such a large and expensive airport?

We Could Build it Ourselves!!!

Borrowing money for something that generates money is Positive Debt.

OBA could have used this opportunity to prove they could command a project with no cost over runs, themselves.

This is Not any old Business deal, this is taxpayer dollars and the future of Bermudians at stake here.

Please do not down play the NDA.

If We are Paying the Band, We should be able to Know/Pick what they Play