Comments on: Report: EU Considering Blacklisting Bermuda

By: PBanks

PBanks — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:37:50 +0000

To be fair Haiti was mercilessly and metaphorically raped by France and others post Independence and the scars are still burning to this day.

By: Eda Dick

Eda Dick — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:18:15 +0000

Considering what has occurred due to immigrants in EU I would view this as irrational entitlement or in laymans terms…you need to look inward and make a few ratification s before imposing negative conotation outward…it seems your judgement to your own peoples and economic ifastructures are under scrutiny by your own .
Acting out from that to others is not the answer…I understand why but will not allow…slander , malign , or denigrative
Intonation go unchallenged.

By: 18 Year Old

18 Year Old — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:22:57 +0000

Has the EU ever thought of implementing similar tax regimes

By: lav

lav — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:29:35 +0000

” nothing has changed except that the government and their buddies have done very well with their personal bank accounts but not the Islands deficit.”

The problem with your posts is: You’re describing the current PLP government, not the OBA. It’s blatant lies like this that harm Bermuda…not the falsely perceived slights by ‘certain people’.

By: lav

lav — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:26:11 +0000

“Learn history you fool.”

Please do…instead of revealing your ignorance, hatred and racist agenda.

By: lav

lav — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:22:47 +0000

“Shows blatant racism and this is absolutely ridiculous.”

Yes, you are a racist and you’re absolutely ridiculous!

By: gustav

gustav — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:53:59 +0000

@Hmmm
I am really surprise what you know .
you know that I am an idiot , you know that I departed already , you know that I am a racist , you know that I am an OBA follower and their drone .
respect
but , people like you just prove that my decision to leave was the right decision.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:48:31 +0000

‘Citing the “existence of tax regimes that facilitate offshore structures which attract profits without real economic activity,” …’

As I keep saying, one man in Brussels says he wants to tax Bermuda companies.

Why isn’t the PLP Government railing against this? This potentially affects our economy, unlike the talk of one committee in London charged with protecting the welfare of Britons abroad.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:28:28 +0000

Good riddance

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:49:44 +0000

Agree 100%. It is my understanding the UK is still a member of the EU. Why don’t they flog their own. After all, we are just a banana republic! USA needs a good flogging while they are at it… Biggest tax havens in the world Delaware and Nevada!!!

By: 100%truth

100%truth — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:07:01 +0000

Good bye

By: question

question — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:05:16 +0000

You sound like a Brexiteer.

By: Marge

Marge — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:32:35 +0000

Renee, knows how to get what she wants.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:09:21 +0000

You said you shut down your office. Idiot you never had a office another oba drone tired of the 25 to 11 flugging you received via cat of nine tails. So you departed Bermuda but you still remain here to visited a Bernews/Bermuda blog site get the fox tail out of here. One of OBA MP’s “Baron” sister appeared to be a racist with her vile post that election year. Not one of you in the OBA challenged her when it was in the media . Her blog help the election even more. You need to realize what helps the OBA and what does not help them when you blog

By: Y-Gurl

Y-Gurl — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:50 +0000

Beginning of the end

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:36:45 +0000

Maybe Bermudians need to do what I did to see just how awful the economy of Bermuda is or will get. I was stunned at the limited local retain. But what scared me most was the empty properties built for what Bermudians thought would be a growing industry of the International Business Sector.

We can not rely on these people. Yes, we appreciate them being here. But they don’t care about Bermudians or Bermuda…they care about their bottom line. Bermuda is going to face one hell of a crisis and this is why you need to diversify your economies.

Bermuda PLP is a government who can easily win every election because of their voter base being 99% black. The former UBP and now the OBA can only win when Bermudians don’t show up to vote when they see nothing has changed except that the government and their buddies have done very well with their personal bank accounts but not the Islands deficit.

By: Merrick

Merrick — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:50 +0000

Ms. Webb with her enormous experience and ability will stop this becoming a crisis. Thank goodness she is not somebody who thrives on the attention that a crisis would bring. In her, we most certainly have the steadfast public servant that we deserve.

By: question

question — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:05:05 +0000

So why would they pick on IB, if it’s to do with perpetuating some kind of racial thing? Seems effin stupid doesn’t it? Or are you just talking out of your a$$?

By: Merrick

Merrick — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:40:53 +0000

You need to stop buying into all the BS we get fed, J Austen has a point.

By: Eye over the World

Eye over the World — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:59:38 +0000

EU has no right to impose global ogligarchy upon other nations, especially when it can cause the financial ruin of an entire nation whom is innocent in its own right. The EU should be called out for such tyrannical practice. Their stupid little decisions can ruin all our lives, and we are innocent people. It is our right to have less taxes here, and overall our costs of insurance etc brings it up to about equal level with other countries’ higher taxes anyways. So to demonize and punish us is simply unjust, beyond unethical. Their own nations should be blamed for having such high taxes and such high waste of public money to start with, which encourages their own companies to go abroad where taxes are less. They first victimize and profit off their own people, and now they are victimizing poor nations like our own. Tyranny.

By: Befree

Befree — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:50:54 +0000

That’s all you all say… Newsflash of course race has to do with it!!! Look at the racial wealth gaps globally you idiot!!! Sick of ppl playing the race card? Take it out of the deck!!! I’m sure you won’t cause you have your generational wealth inna. Learn history you fool.

By: aceboy

aceboy — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:24:01 +0000

Race card thrown early!

By: question

question — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:08:26 +0000

Bob Richards managed this process successfully without all this drama. And without a vanity office in Brussels.

By: Befree

Befree — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:46:37 +0000

Why do we care so much about the EU… Wake up people they just scrambling for money… They won’t even put countries like the USA, England and Canada… All highly corrupted countries. Shows blatant racism and this is absolutely ridiculous.

By: Onion Peels

Onion Peels — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:45:04 +0000

Don’t worry, as soon as you get that “Redemption Chicken Farm” up and running you can kick out all those nasty IB companies. Pass da Beans has some spashul gawd fearing chickens that can lay three eggs a day. you’ll be set.

By: question

question — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:41:18 +0000

We could be more like, say, Haiti. GDP of $1,800 per person per year. 15% inflation. Average income for those lucky enough to find a job, about $130 a month. But they don’t have to worry about those pesky IB people.

By: newperspective

newperspective — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:37:48 +0000

You haven’t left yet?

By: JohnnyB

JohnnyB — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:27:29 +0000

And this is why, thankfully, you have zero input political decisions.

By: Jus' Askin'

Jus' Askin' — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:14:33 +0000

sad You feel IB is a good thing for Bermuda ;-(

By: Jus' Askin'

Jus' Askin' — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:13:27 +0000

IB is the reason for EU wanting us on a the blacklist

By: gustav

gustav — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:03:26 +0000

indeed , without the IB you can enjoy your onions

By: gustav

gustav — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:01:21 +0000

yes , that happens if you always do what you want and not what you have to do .
other tasks have been more important ( F and F )
I am glad that I decided already to shut down my little office here and join another island.
just two more Bermudians without a job , but I am an evil foreigner and are tired about all those “anti foreigner ” campaigns.
enough is enough and if you don’t feel welcome anymore ( despite to donate in taxes and social security )you have to make up your mind.
it is too sad that this beautiful island will go down the drain .
the “real Bermudians” will feel that very soon , but then it is too late .
good luck bermuda

By: question

question — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:50:32 +0000

perfecting her grasp of foreign languages.

By: Double Dos

Double Dos — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:50:16 +0000

Get it Right . Bermudians Destroyed Bermuda. Where have you been ? Where you around when Bermuda was thriving off of IB ?

By: Jus' Askin'

Jus' Askin' — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:34:52 +0000

International Business bringing more trouble our way

IB destroyed Bermuda

By: J Austen

J Austen — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:29:04 +0000

It’s high time we blacked listed them.

By: Onion Peels

Onion Peels — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:13:05 +0000

We are so lucky to have the Brussels office. I know it’s expensive but it keeps us out of trouble with the EU doesn’t it? Just imagine what would happen if we didn’t have that office. We might be lumped in with all the corrupt tax havens in the Caribbean.

By: watching

watching — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:01:23 +0000

this has nothing to do with the PLP or OBA for that matter.
Those comments are unhelpful and just show your ignorance.

By: St.George's Passport and Immigration Control

St.George's Passport and Immigration Control — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:29:50 +0000

you can thank the plp for this.

By: dick francis

dick francis — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:22:54 +0000

And Renee Webb is doing ….?

By: watching

watching — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:22:31 +0000

this is absolutely ridiculous. Every 3 months they create a new hoop for countries to jump through. It is beyond ridiculous.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:19:58 +0000

“Bermuda and the UAE have not complied by the set deadlines, but EU states are assessing whether their delays could be warranted”

JFC. Asleep at the wheel again.