Comments on: BTA Welcome Superyacht Tourism Plan

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:12:11 +0000

Like I asked OJ a long time ago (and he’s never responded) I’ll ask you the same thing seeing as you made the same accusation.
Please provide video evidence of anyone , OBA or otherwise , of handing these billionaires any money .
There’s a word for people like you. It’s ‘brainwashed’ .

By: puzzled

puzzled — Mon, 25 May 2020 20:27:53 +0000

And then came Corona.

Life as you all knew it; good and bad has changed forever.

No cedar trees to build ships to escape but then again where the hell you gonna go.

Irony.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:59:03 +0000

Now PLP and their followers will think this is a great idea!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:00:02 +0000

The public didn’t have a problem with the super yachts UBP supporter. It was the 75 mill plus we had to pay to a bunch of billionaires to race their toy boats. I would be more concerned about the 185 mill plus Morgans Point hotel the oba/UBP slapped a guarantee for on we tax payers.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 25 May 2020 13:27:49 +0000

Correction, locals left de industry because there was a shift in wages and inflation of cost.
We lost out on Collage Week because some idiot decided to fine collage student vacationers $1000 for a joint and other petty things, remember in de 70′s and 80′s those guys in de hotel were making dollars.
Stay safe

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 25 May 2020 11:09:51 +0000

This “servitude” mentality is what has killed us. Take a look back & see who is responsible for promoting this servitude mentality. Some of them sit in the HOA today.

You beat up on the people who bring in the USD’s that pay your wages then wonder why those people don’t wan to return. How smart is that?

Regarding the yachts, you missed your chance to capitalise on that. The OBA had the foundation for it all laid out. All that had to be done was take prompt action right after the AC. Nope. Didn’t happen. Worse, the PLP & its followers insulted the very people who could have provided them with jobs.

Smart…really smart.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sun, 24 May 2020 21:23:52 +0000

So how do you define servitude ? Does it come in increments or is it just servitude when someone else with boatloads of money asks you to assist or serve them ?
Do you consider it servitude when your barber cuts your hair , or when the cashier rings up your groceries ?
It’s that ‘servitude mentality’ that is one of the main reasons why so many Bermudians got brainwashed into leaving the tourism industry and why we now have so many work permit people doing that work.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Sun, 24 May 2020 16:57:18 +0000

Interesting. The same plan that was floated, no pun intended, post The Americas Cup but which garnered no PLP support because everything AC related was dismissed. Rehash, add in some quarantine measures and rebrand.

This could have already been in place Zane.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 24 May 2020 16:10:39 +0000

Hopefully the owners of these super yachts are not too insulted by the unwelcoming manner in which the PLP have treated them in the past !
I can assure them that the majority of the people of Bermuda appreciate them, and very much enjoy having them visit us ……………..

By: Really?

Really? — Sun, 24 May 2020 15:46:51 +0000

They rarely came during the good times so this is a big dream and fantasy because there is nothing else in the bag. And don’t expect to see tourists no matter how many say they want to come. Usa has 36 million unemployed and their hotels and many many destinations and resorts will be cutting their prices to levels we cannot afford.

By: Castro

Castro — Sun, 24 May 2020 15:05:12 +0000

Welcome to the New World of Servitude like you have never seen it before..This is all by Design. The Digressive Rationale behind this is astounding #staywoke