Premier Meets With Chris Furbert & Rev Tweed
Premier David Burt welcomed BIU President Chris Furbert and Rev Nicholas Tweed to the Cabinet Office, where he “thanked them for their frank and honest dialogue on issues affecting Bermudians.”
Premier Burt tweeted the photo below, saying: “Yesterday I also welcomed Chris Furbert and Rev Nicholas Tweed to the Cabinet Office. I thanked them for their frank and honest dialogue on issues affecting Bermudians.”
a caption competition would be interesting….
“Chris – I gave an inch and you took this much ??”
“Stay with me Chris…this is how much money we have left”
Didnt all of the issues affecting “real Bermudians” go away the morning of July 19th, 2017 ?
lolol Priceless!
So does getting involved in local political discourse fall under the conditions of a foreign Pastor’s work permit? Or his he somehow treated differently.
I feel a call to the confidential immigration hotline coming on.
What a joke.
What’s a joke… Problems are still here and will continue, the PLP hasn’t found no solutions to them…All they know to do is spend, spend, spend!!
PLP ARE A JOKE!!!
You mean a “PLP Branch meeting”!
I am Bermudian and have no idea why Reverend tweed would be representing any of my concerns, in fact, I don’t think he even has a clue what my concerns are.
I thought he was an ex-pat–why is he representing Bermudians concerns.
Something is fishy about this story..
Does his work permit allwo this activity?
You’re nothing but a coward, hiding behind a name that’s clearly not yours!
LOL@Nikki…the coward.
I’m Snuffalufigus from Sesame Street. I don’t have a last name, what about you?
What a joke of a sack of bones you are.
It strikes me that the Reverend may in this instance be operating beyond the scope of what his work permit allows. Think I might call the Hotline, good citizen that I am.
all you will get will be lip service and nothing will happen.
As far as local photo ops go, this is the lamest yet.
the mutual admiration society thanking each other for being awesome.
Staged picture.
Tell them where to go ,Premier.
Burt taking instructions from some of his bosses.
What a joke this is. If the Premier want to really know how we are doing, why doesn’t he invite those in from all walks of life. Chris Furbert and Rev Tweed are not the kind of representation that knows how I’m feeling. Always about party supporters and the the Bermuda we live in.
It’s the PLP’s version of ‘widespread consultation with all stakeholders’ lol
Didn’t he at one point have some kind of brown bag lunch sessions?
I did not know foreigners can become politicians while on a work permit????
Ok ready camera is on us, act serious.
“So you’re saying Chris that we can’t have a new bus schedule because they don’t want to get up early and they won’t drive buses in the evenings, when people need them. Oh well, we tried didn’t we”
“Yes Premier. Oh, one other thing. It’s about time for a raise, innit? “
“Well if you think so. You’re in charge, Chris”
“Yes, I am””.
I am not at all sure why this article is of any great importance, because while we have these two gentleman on the front line taking on very serious issues, on behalf of the seemingly majority, there is a very silent side of issues that goes un-dealt with year after year, and the premier in his former capacity as the minister of finance, and his role that he still holds as premier, is not dealing with the millions of dollars stolen from citizens whose employers, stole directly from their employees, and why does Government have several hundred of cases on file but nothing ever gets done about it, whit collar crimes are accepted in this country and endorsed by this government also, for they do absolutely nothing to bring prosecution, because these funds i am referring to, is directly to do with pension benefits, that employers do not pay and the government does nothing about it, when the employers are exposed.
Why is a non Bermudian dealing with Politics? He should be deported or fined for working outside his contract
If your a minister as he says he his then why are you participating in politics? Read your bible you may learn something that you are not aware of. Send him back home nothing but an instigator of trouble.
Why do we put up with this nonsense
There is a hotline advertised to shop people from working outside of their remit
Why do we allow Tweed to continue his meddling in our politics?
Why is’nt the peoples campaign marching against his other job
I kinda like it. Just makes tangible what everyone already knows.
This non Bermudian has overstayed his welcome. Send him packin!
As long as the dialogue is about the betterment of Bermuda for Bermudians, then im good with this meeting. The Government, Church and Unions make up the majority of Bermuda. We must stop all this hating on each other and work together to get our Country back on track.
The union is holding this country back, so are the churches with their discrimination and hate towards the LGBTQ community. Im sure you disagree but thats because you are only seeing things from YOUR perspective.
Next we will have a Russian embassy.. you’ll see.
Rev. Tweed is well within his remit as a pastor to speak to and for the concerns of his membership. It is part of every AME pastor’s JD.
Church people need to stay out of Politics. Majority of every wars are caused by religion. We need to separate church and state immediately.
Status soon?
Did he thank them for their frankness and honesty and then thank them for not being so frank and honest now that the PLP was in power?
Interesting how quite they have been about the tax and immigration concessions given to fintech and now companies of “substance”.
How frank and honest would they have been if the OBA was still in power?