By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:35:31 +0000

Continued misinformation and re-writing of history is becoming a daily occurrence . Keep ‘em angry and divided .
Two Bermudas !

By: Hartley W

Hartley W — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:51:28 +0000

With the greatest respect to all those at the lighting ceremony and Bermuda at large you all will hopefully be relieved to know that you all have misinformed by the claim that Somers brought any slaves to bermuda or anywhere else ….and therefore surely to urge …based on this misinformation… that the name of the day that commemorates his arrival here in 1609 should be changed would be as wrong as the misinformation on which it is based.
Somers founded Bermuda in 1609 with the wreck of the Sea Venture ….after she was kept afloat by enormous collective feats of seamanship by all on board during a hurricane.
They then built two new ships in Bermuda and sailed onto Birginia with supplies for the Jamestown settlement…and Somers died of a heart attack in 1610 when he returned to Betmuda for to get some more supplies for Jamestown.
So the claim that the name of somers day should be changed is based on an entirely false or misinformed claim because Somers had no involvement in slavery in Betmuda as was mistakenly stated by an otherwise eloquent and well informed senior member of the Somerset community at the bridge lighting ceremony on saturday evening.
. This gentleman has been clearly been misinformed about Sir George Somers. Interestingly, the actual day that Somers and the Sea Venture arrived here in 1609 was right around this time of year.
As a matter of historical record it was on July 28th in the early afternoon , thereby initiating ..all the way up to this year…some 409 years of unbroken human presence on these much blessed islands where we became the only place in the world today where the whole country knocks off so that laws of cricket to be observed and played under as one group of the best players in the land try and relocate a cup from one end of the island to the other….well worth going for , but currently a most difficult task indeed ….
due to another group of the best players in the land who think the current location of the cup is just fine.
It is the most exciting time of the year with a long and most distinguished heritage. I am sure we we are all looking forward to a very good game.
Respect and very best wishes from up the country to all concerned.

By: Retired # 27

Retired # 27 — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:18:38 +0000

I agree with you Gary, RED & BLUE all the way.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:27:31 +0000

What’s so terrible or historically inaccurate that it shouldn’t be Somer’s Day ?

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:47:28 +0000

Shame about the ugly blue and blue colours

By: Stinky D.

Stinky D. — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:42:47 +0000

Excellent
I agree lets change the name of the second day to something other then Somers Day

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