Comments on: Uighurs Have Been Granted BOTC Citizenship

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:45:11 +0000

What did Doc Brown do in his term as Premier for Bermuda ?all I can think of is the”love fest” Beyonce,his on call body guards,lord he wil go down as the best leader of our Island.

By: Little girl

Little girl — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:25:23 +0000

* not good enough to have status

By: Little girl

Little girl — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:24:25 +0000

Children that were born and raised here and know no other home do not have a place to go to either .Their parents have contributed ,lived and worked amongst us.They have called us friends and raised their families with us.They are then told they are good enough to have status,all the while seeing people that have come after them ( in what ever circumstances)enjoy the right to live and abide here without restrictions. What an absolute farce all this is !

By: FU

FU — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:31:11 +0000

Would you have minded if they wanted to give everybody else status?

By: FU

FU — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:23:15 +0000

Talking about dogs,why are you being such a bi××÷÷ch?

By: Mumbojumbo

Mumbojumbo — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:21:56 +0000

Compassionately.

By: Y-Gurl

Y-Gurl — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:52:45 +0000

Given that these 4 were held as terrorist suspects at GITMO pre Browns deal to get them to Bermuda does that mean the UK Government are aware that these guys will be landing in the UK and what there terro status is, why do we continue to berate the UK and yet want them to accept our problems

By: Retro

Retro — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:37:59 +0000

The xenophobia I see is that you are implying foreigners have some sort of agenda.Im sorry,but when you write “found some way to still be here” and more recently “with their hands out for status” it most definitely comes across as a biased opinion.

As for the y’all thing fine,that was a little stupid . I just found it a little curious. For the record my definition of Bermudian is someone who holds status .would I like status to be awarded more fairly ? Absolutely!

By: mixitup

mixitup — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:18:59 +0000

Where in my statement did you pull Xenophobia? If I see thousands of Bermudians departing theses shores and hundreds coming in with their hands out for status, I will ask questions, call it what you like. I’d like to know that Bermudians have decent/fair opportunity in their homeland, as it looks, they don’t.

“never in my life have I heard a Bermudian say y’all” Is this your standard for being Bermudian? Bermudians are people who have other Bermudians best interest at heart, and will stop at nothing to ensure this, are you that person?

By: Bermudian

Bermudian — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:03:51 +0000

Wait a sec….hundreds marched opposing the grant of Bermudian status to people who have worked and contributed to this island who have been here for decades and these lot who were snuck in at night and have only been here a few years and have hardly contributed to this island have it handed to them?! Why isn’t anyone marching now? Aren’t these lot going to take jobs away? Aren’t their kids going to take Bermudian land away from ‘real Bermudians’? That was the argument right?SMH

By: eve

eve — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:46:04 +0000

Brown and Burch bring Uighurs to Bermuda as a gift to Obama and Holder and US pays $100,000 “relocation allowance” per man. The US had been paying other countries large sums of money to take in Gitmo detainees but Bermuda allegedly only got $400,000. And who is picking up Horseman’s legal fees for his long term work?

By: Concerned Bermudian

Concerned Bermudian — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:43:55 +0000

I second that!

By: Concerned Bermudian

Concerned Bermudian — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:42:20 +0000

while the Parliamentary Registrar is working as they are… and the PLP jet setting around the world yet the public schools don’t even have principals in place!!! oh and don’t forget ALL taxes and regulation fee now added to belco all raised!! Bermudians PAY out far more and get what in return???

By: Question

Question — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:34:15 +0000

Ah ok. Interesting. If Bermuda is taking on its international obligation to open its doors to refugees, there are millions of them around the world.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:16:15 +0000

Don’t forget get it was Fahy and the rest of your crew that wanted to give every Tom, Bill and Jill status. The same crew who will never win an election. Now go wake the oba/UBP leader up she’s busy sleeping in de house.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:41:05 +0000

I agree.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:38:31 +0000

They have jobs, and they contribute to society every time they buy food and other things. Those that you claim were kicked off the island (denied status) have another country to go back to and they can travel freely. They have been in a state of limbo since 2009.

By: Mark Perry

Mark Perry — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:50:09 +0000

I’m glad to see that these men are finally on their way to putting this nightmare behind them. A nightmare that was not of their own making but was the created by a long line of decisions by politicians and other government officials that cared nothing about their individual rights and freedoms
(including our own Dr. Ewart Brown and Mr. David Burch), but who were more concerned with satisfying their overgrown egos and building reputations for themselves within their respective political and social circles.

I wish them and their families the very best in their future endeavors.

By: Duane P Santucci

Duane P Santucci — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:33:31 +0000

Thank You Mr. Richard Horseman for not giving up on these men’s plight and to the rest of the un-grates that don’t understand the importance of this well deserve victory, get over it, and to all those who feel that there are others who well deserved the same or similar, they can take their appeals or case’s to Mr. Horseman and I am sure he will do a great job in representing you.

Let’s not waste time trying to nit pick and why some are granted and some are not, my opinion there are some who are paper Bermudians right now and have been for quite a long time, and they treat the Born Bermudian like trash and less then a human being, so let’s be real, these joker’s who most are now business owners in this country, should have their Status revoked and sent packing.

Well Done Mr. Horseman, you have wide shoulders, take a drink and let the nay sayers cry wolf, by the end of the week something else on Island will happen and they will forget all about this, sad but true, the majority in this country are so predictable.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:46:10 +0000

These men were accepted wrongly by the Bermuda Government…against the will of the Bermudian people, and against the will of the British Government who now is forced to provide them with British Citizenship.

I blame the British Government for having waited so long. They should have acted swiftly and put these men on a plane bound for the most outer islands of the USA and have strapped parachutes on their backs and dropped them off, care of the Bermudian people and the British Government. What is America’s mess should not have become our mess, nor the mess of the British Government. Shame on everyone involved, especially Burch and Brown!

By: Vortex

Vortex — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:31:10 +0000

Its a very good point, Bermuda needs to change its attitudes.

The undertones of those xenophobic comments are not acceptable in 2018, least of all from the Government.

By: Question

Question — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:28:22 +0000

And there you have it. Pure fascist naked racism.

By: Agreed

Agreed — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:54:55 +0000

In order to be a “Double Standard”, there must first be a standard set in the first place.

I really love the part that said, “It should be noted that this citizenship is not to be equated with Bermudian status. There is currently no legislation that would give them Bermudian status,” the Ministry added.

The reality is, there was no legal means for them to even arrive on the island in the first place, but with dark back alley deals, secret midnight transport planes, and conspiring politicians, you’ll see the law is not a issue.

The Uighurs and the case of Revered Tweed proves that it’s up to the oligarchy to define or redefine what being Bermudian is.

By: facts of the rock

facts of the rock — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:12:50 +0000

British Overseas Territory Citizens,

oh really???…..WHICH OVERSEAS TERRITORY should be the question!

By: Retro

Retro — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:59:30 +0000

When has status ever been handed out like candy and how is that possible when statistics clearly show that our population is decreasing. Also , the humanitarian gesture argument is a bit weak as the two people responsible for bringing these four people here haven’t exactly put their necks out to ensure that they get status of some sort and your implication that certain people care more for dogs than they do for humans is dreadful. I find it strange that for such a xenophobic post that you would use the word y’all.never in my life have I heard a Bermudian say y’all . Where are you from?

By: mixitup

mixitup — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:30:02 +0000

Well giving status out like candy to residents that have ‘found’ some way to still be here doesn’t exactly equate to a humanitarian gesture offered to humans who had little hope…..Hell I’ve seen ya’ll more excited about the rescue of a dog…..makes you think.

By: what about those legal residents....

what about those legal residents.... — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:37:38 +0000

and all the people who were kicked off the island (denied status) even though they held jobs and were contributing to our society…
I wonder if the marches on parliament hill will start tomorrow? Oh yeah- the “right” government is in place now so it is okay…
Typical populist double standard…

By: My My My

My My My — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:34:11 +0000

Now they can get a British passport and live in the UK.

By: My My My

My My My — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:31:27 +0000

Now they can apply for a British passport and be able to travel or live in the UK.

By: jt

jt — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:09:47 +0000

The Doc’s mess finally cleaned up. And who got what? Never to be known.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:40:48 +0000

Of course this is all great and wonderful to you , after all , it was your crew who orchestrated the entire mess.
Now, had it been them other guys who did this there wouldn’t be enough room in cyberspace for you to endlessly vent your anger.

By: nice

nice — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:03:58 +0000

About time they got something.

By: mixitup

mixitup — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:02:23 +0000

Were you held captive? Are you escaping turmoil? Are you stateless? or did you get the privilidge of repeated work permit extentions? Help us understand why you are still waiting.

By: Retro

Retro — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:59:13 +0000

“ it should be noted that this citizenship is not to be equated with Bermudian status” why should it be noted? The comfort people have with being xenophobic here is cringe worthy ! Having said that I am very happy for these four individuals .

By: James

James — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:19:14 +0000

Wow, they got it before me and I have been here 37 years!