Comments on: Column: Richards, JetGate, Lessons To Learn

By: Wake up

Wake up — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:01:00 +0000

So why didn’t John run and be in the center if it and get to the truth? Oh no. Chickengate…he did not run. look at the first report they did concluding,pick a black leader to gain the trust of the black people….Let’s face it Bartitt,you stepped aside for that black leader who was absolutely list. Then they stepped all over you. As simple as that. Can’t you see what you were a part of?

By: No Longer A Member

No Longer A Member — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:20:40 +0000

What was the point of this Mr Barrett? What are the suggestions to help? All I know we have a huge debt that needs to be paid and many of our people are clueless to the fact. This election was won by a very good social media campaign of mixed truths. Time will tell the future as the debt has to be paid and the cost of living has to go up and new taxes will be created. The plus side is that there are jobs that OBA has helped create in the Morgan’s Point development, St Regis Hotel and The Airport that will keep things going for a few years. Only time will tell the truth as to Bermuda’s future. Pileoftricks is short lived.

By: Spectator

Spectator — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:17:06 +0000

Thank you for asking the questions that should be asked about Mr. Barritt’s own credibility. Maybe not the saint after all? He was instrumental in creating the OBA and his bitterness at not being made leader in the Senate has never left him. And why does Mr. Barritt think that Bob Richards’s comments were enlightening? They were an opinion and a pretty opaque one at that.

By: nerema

nerema — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:01:18 +0000

You conveniently forget your government quintupled the debt in five years, threw 5,000 Bermudians out of work, and mortgaged our grandchildren to foreign bankers.

By: Jonathan Land Evans

Jonathan Land Evans — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:23:51 +0000

A good op-ed piece, though I am slightly uncomfortable that Mr. Barritt refers to “the OBA” as if it were some entity with which he had nothing to do, whereas of course he had been an OBA MP and (for all I know) may still be a member of that party. Some sort of brief background note, or at least the candor of a passing mention by the author himself, would be a good thing in such a case as this, to enable the reader (especially an uninitiated one) to better judge the situation and weigh the author’s comments appropriately.

By: Double S

Double S — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:28:51 +0000

Not only are you a twit, but you’re a disingenuous liar.

The perfect mix for sheep supporters.

Hilarious but sad:(

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:27:46 +0000

U.B.P/O.B.A and B.D.A associates will not see political favour for a long time.
Remember Bermuda’s David Duke said about P.L.P., it will be a long time before they become Government.
LMFAO

By: Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:08:18 +0000

“Unlike Mr. Richards, there are those who were at the centre of what occurred who remain in the front lines for the OBA.”

Those who were “…at the centre of what occurred…” resigned from the OBA; perhaps trying to distance themselves from their own actions?

By: ON a Sunny Afternoon

ON a Sunny Afternoon — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:37:11 +0000

Tell me what so you know? What has changed since PLP victory. In 100 days they were going to do it all. Tbey had all the answers. Have they fixed crime? Will they guarantee that as long as they are in power mold wont return to schools. Do they have a better option than AC35 to get Tourist to come from as far away as New Zealand? Whats the plan. 100 days are 1/3 gone.

By: ON a Sunny Afternoon

ON a Sunny Afternoon — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:31:35 +0000

Mr Barritt, explain the difference between Mr Cannoiers ride on a Jet versus Dr. Browns ride on a private Jet.

By: Ezy ryda

Ezy ryda — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:36:41 +0000

U all are a bunch of twits. Bias twits at that. U all conviently forget your govt doubled the debt, doubled the unemployment amongst blacks and the lower and middle class, totally neglected black ppl of Bermuda, crapped on education for our children and left the seniors with no help but some how some way you will deflect, deny, and straight up deceive ppl into thinking it’s all the PLPs fault lol so much hypocrisy. Your tears are soooo sweet

By: HALF HOT

HALF HOT — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:33:43 +0000

*that

By: HALF HOT

HALF HOT — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:33:08 +0000

I wonder! I think he was a fall guy for someone not even a oba member, probably someone the left the island QUICKLY!

By: islandgal

islandgal — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:07:41 +0000

deflect, deflect deflect

By: islandgal

islandgal — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:06:51 +0000

Deflect, deflect deflect

By: Francis Gross

Francis Gross — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:54:55 +0000

Really Mr Barritt. when will you come clean about your reasons for your OBA bitterness. a party you once led. great politician? you failed in your quest to lead the ubp, you failed to lead the OBA and you failed to run as an independent in the last election. just go away. you are part of the problem

By: Rocky5

Rocky5 — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:51:46 +0000

The fundamental problem with the OBA is that it has no roots and branches & still shows no interesting in building from the bottom cuz all those “big egos” “think” they’ve ALL the answers. If only they “knew how little they know”!!!

By: nerema

nerema — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:59:40 +0000

So you ‘already knew’ all this, and you STILL vote for them?

By: PBanks

PBanks — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:40:56 +0000

I suspect that CC is tainted goods now, and likely wouldn’t be successful if he tried to lead a breakaway movement.

May have to be someone brand new and not carrying a whiff of UBP backing.

By: Double S

Double S — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:34:53 +0000

You already knew about the shenanigans and the fact the PLP won’t punish them and actually allow the alleged perpetrators back into positions of power, and OBAers are twits?

Hahaha…hilarious

By: Black Bermudian

Black Bermudian — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:10:51 +0000

FORMER PREMIER CRAIG CANNONIER DROP THESE oba=UBP FOOLS AND FORM THE BDA PARTY AGAIN. THE CLOWNS IN THIS PARTY SURE KNOW HOW TO USE A MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST, BUT I HOPE YOU’RE THE LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

24 to 12 seats is no laughing matter my whole family voted OBA in 2012 and even if the PLP mess up we would rather not vote then trust the oba=UBP again.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:08:00 +0000

* You know the one’s that actually cost the taxpayer millions of dollars and created the massive deficit and by extension debt.*

Let’s face it , a huge percentage of Bermudians have no idea what this whole debt thing is all about or even that it’s their money that was either wasted or ‘went missing’ that now has to be paid back.

They complained ,though ,that Bermuda was expensive before and now they’re paying even more for everything , totally unable to make the connection or who is really to blame for foisting this meteoric rise in the cost of living on us .
And you know one thing for sure , once things go up here , taxes included , they NEVER go back down !

By: Ezy ryda

Ezy ryda — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:24:46 +0000

More deflection from you OBA twits. You tell us. Your party spent millions of dollars in a commission and law suit to reveal these shenanigans which all they did is tell us things we already know. Just face the fact u was fed Kool aid by the oba and you drank it. Over 60 percent of the island saw that is why oba is doa lol….

By: puzzled

puzzled — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:20:24 +0000

Well that was a complete waste of email/pm/letter or how transmitted by John Barritt.

So Cannonier was a fall guy.
What a waste of what he talks about but still says nothing.

By: runit

runit — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:02:04 +0000

“Unlike Mr. Richards, there are those who were at the centre of what occurred who remain in the front lines for the OBA.” N0 – one has passed. Pettingill went independent and is no longer an MP but is progressing his same aims for gaming with the Government.

By: LongBay Trading Inc.

LongBay Trading Inc. — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:50:16 +0000

Double S I agree yours totally. Everyone getting on the bandwagon bashing the OBA yet everyone forgets the PLP ‘shenanigans uncovered by the AG and COI findings” that still remain UNANSWERED. Selective History is doing us no favours and we need to get to the bottom of the taxpayer millions of dollars that went unaccounted and unanswered for under the PLP…………..ring any bells anyone?

Messrs Barritt and Comeau – (whom I both normally respect and enjoy very much their writings) are both currently & seemingly happily, jointly bashing the OBA and lobbing grenades into the Bermuda political and physic arena while walking off into the sunset with no solutions except to poke unnecessarily. Apart from an avalanche of discussion is anything actually,in real terms, achieved?

By: JohnBoy

JohnBoy — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:26:53 +0000

Old news now Mr Barritt. Lessons should have been learned. Time to move on. PS. You have always been a great politician.

By: Double S

Double S — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:40:24 +0000

I hope Barritt’s next article is how the PLP should come clean about all the shenanigans uncovered by the Auditor General and Commission’s findings. You know the one’s that actually cost the taxpayer millions of dollars and created the massive deficit and by extension debt.