Comments on: OT Register Amendment Withdrawn In UK

By: Silke

Silke — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:46:33 +0000

Without the name calling (we all know what that is)- the Sovereign US$ debt of Bermuda is over a billion higher than when this Government started – it took the last guys fourteen years to get the amount that Bob has racked up in under four years. Interest is lower because rates have dropped, no other reason and they are now on the rise. Now how do you propose we go about repaying the principle?

Apart from not delivering the 2000 promised new jobs, the OBA are in fact stifling Bermudian owned business with Bob’s additional taxes whilst giving the place away to any foreign outfit that pretends to make jobs… Jobs that Bermudian firms (say D & J or McAlpine)would gladly and competently take on. Oh and by the way, read the fine print about the new airport – anything under 600,000 passengers a year and we pay them, a real possibility as it happens.

By: aceboy

aceboy — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:03:53 +0000

You are so ignorant. Best to keep quiet and stop showing it. Most of the new debt was used to retire the old debt that had unfavourable interest rates attached to them. The OBA restructured the debt so we pay less interest by taking the loans you claim have added to the debt. It hasn’t at all.

We have completely RUN DOWN the airport for seventy years and after the new one is built it remains ours.

Jobs are coming, particularly in relation to that project.

By: jt

jt — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:44:15 +0000

Debt up and deficit down. Now tell us how that happened and why.

By: Vote for Me

Vote for Me — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:20:36 +0000

Brilliant result for Bermuda.

By: Silke

Silke — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:55:33 +0000

Double the debt as this present Finance Minister has done in three and a bit years, no 2000 new jobs to produce the economic growth to sustain this debt let alone pay for it, give away an airport we have competently run for seventy plus years – well pretty soon there will not be many worthwhile companies on the register to have to worry about this… And by the way, if you think they are arrogant now, you ain’t seen nothing compared to how they will be if they win one more.

By: Aware

Aware — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:18:41 +0000

Might be worth people noting that the Earl of Kinnoull lived and worked in Bermuda for 3 years (on a work permit) before inheriting his title. He is paying us back handsomely today for his experience on our island.

A lesson to consider when we criticize our guest workers.

By: Aqua Cadit Resurge

Aqua Cadit Resurge — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:14:55 +0000

Why?

By: aceboy

aceboy — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:22:04 +0000

Well done Minister Richards.

You PLP fanbois and girls probably have no clue how significant this is, basically it means the Trust and private client industry will survive in Bermuda.

Without that there would be significant job and confidence loss in Bermuda.

Be grateful it was Bob Richards dealing with this and not the likes of Wayne (Can I sing you a song) Furbert.