Because of this nonsense, which does not uphold the CBA we are going to end up shooting ourselves in the foot again. The passengers on this ship are on a worldwide cruise. Pretty sure we’re not going to get any good reviews from them.

Time the unions abide by their CBA’s or we privatize.

On another note – today – 15th March at 8:30am I watched the trash truck come to my neighborhood – as they were literally FLINGING the trash bags into the back (from maybe 6 to 7 feet away) one of the bags busted open. I’ll give you one guess as to what happened after that………absolutely nothing. LOL LOL LOL. WooHoo PLP. Proud of you.

Sorry, the technology is great, but its absolutely NOT something Bermuda should be trying to get involved in, its future is one of technology, not of money.

I hear that the Bermuda government is seeking qualified airconditioning maintainance personnel , as the current local guys are not cool enough to handle the job .

I hear that there is a serious destabelising element working in and amongst the established and non compliant paternal mechanical leadership .

I hear that the REAL reason behind this stoppage is more personal than it is work related …and that the faux outrage is but a childish smoke screen in some juvenile power struggle against mentally stronger MEN .

I hear all this while I quietly eat lunch at the golf course next door .

Every other month I seem to have some silly survey from government to fill out and nothing is ever done with that information. Just another way to create jobs for people. It costs us millions to compile information that is rarely made public, not always factual. and costs us millions (to run the department) for information that we do NOTHING with.

You want to open some eyes and start a REAL F’N conversationabout where we waste money in this country. Have the PTB and government offices release information on the average amount of “sick days” each worker takes. Compare that to the private sector. I’m not even convinced that this info is even accurately captured by HR.

A few years ago when it was made public that Bus Operators can accumulate up to something like 100 sick days a year I was on a #7 bus when one of our seniors was on a bus talking to another passenger about this same topic. The driver overheard, got annoyed and decided it was a good idea to raise his voice and announce that she didn’t understand what it was like to work with the public on a bus where germs were everywhere making it more likely to get sick. The passenger smiled and told him that she worked as a nurse at KEMH for something like 30 years (I don’t remember exactly) and then at a doctors office for another 10+ years before retiring. and knew a little about working around germs. She said fortunately for us our doctors and nurses (that are surrounded by sick people), and she mentioned our teachers as well don’t use the same excuses and take advantage of the system like bus drivers do. Lets just say there were a few claps from a few passengers and the driver remained quiet.

Maybe you missed the past four years where not a thing was done to support the DPT (not to mention Trash Collection) nor the people that use it… The PTB was being primed for Privitisation, Starve it of finances and watch it implode, now Privitise and control it.. That’s if they had won..

That department has been starved of leadership and proper finances for long enough. I don’t blame the drivers, but I do have faith that this Gov’t will sort it out.

The DPT needs to be abolished and Transport for Bermuda as a PRIVATE business.