I agree. But I have never heard it from any politician of any political persuasion.

It’s like no one, PLP nor OBA have any ideas.

It is amazing how these politicians spin things to make it sound like they did it. Unimpressed Jahmal.

2. I don’t think we should be praising ourselves on COVID yet, I think shutting the island was the ONLY cause of action because we didn’t have enough tests, we didn’t have enough respirators and we were not prepared to handle the pandemic. The UK bailed us out by shipping thousand of tests. Private donors and Companies on the island bought respirators. If we did not have the private support and the support of the UK, there would have been many more deaths. How about. a thank you, but not from the PLP. PLP should have pulblicly thanked all those people, companies and donors and heaped praise for the help, but no, here Instead PLP are looking to take 100% credit. They quickly forgot about all the health workers now the election is happening.

Got bored, as soon as you said maths, Burt maths sprang into my mind, oh well. The PLP conveniently forget to mention that it was after their many years in power that we were in financial distress. We were falling and fast. To turn around a Situation, you don’t just throw a switch. It takes hard work and effort. What caused the number of jobs to not be reached by the OBA was international business. In particular, the reinsurance industry, where a soft market and low interest rates mean’t companies needed to cut costs to survive. One way of doing the is bay practically halving the workforce through merger. Lots of mergers and acquisitions resulted and with that came large numbers of redundancies. Each and every person knows of someone who fell victim to the industry cull. You can go back through redundancy announcements and add them up. Thousands.

Sorry that was a bit long winded, a bit like Jahmals arrogant and misleading claims.

I’m a swing voter and literally can’t be bothered to waste my time voting for any of you until you actually show up with real plans and a real agenda.

Get your acts together

#partypoliticshasnoplaceinbermuda

https://www.gov.bm/sites/default/files/Government-of-Bermuda-31-March-2017-Financial-Statements.pdf

https://www.gov.bm/sites/default/files/Government%20of%20Bermuda%2031%20March%202013%20Financial%20Statements.pdf

Now compare that number to the the inherited PLP $400mn+ annual deficit you left behind in 2013. Context is very important when throwing around these figures.

Also, OBA didn’t double the debt. For the financial year-end of 2013 (PLP budget) the debt was $2,013,979,647 with an annual deficit of $407,990,925. For the 2017 year-end (OBA budget, but with PLP voted in 3 months into the fiscal year) the debt stood at $2,984,884,481. By my math that is nowhere near ‘doubling the debt’ as you and your supporters like to go on about it is actually less than 50%. Not bad for Party that inherited a $400mn+ annual deficit from your PLP. Links to the audited financials are above for confirmation.

https://www.gov.bm/sites/default/files/2019%20LFS%20May%20Report.pdf

In terms of employment what Mr. Simmons forgot to mention is that the underemployed and unemployed increased by approximately 400 and 300 respectively from 2018 to 2019 with the actual working population growing by 310 people. In the same report above Table 6 shows that Bermudian unemployed persons increased by around 350 people between November 2018 and May 2019. Of that increase almost 200 were black Bermudians. Over that time period unemployment grew from 4.5% to 5.2% (Table 1). In 2012 the PLP oversaw the loss of 2,000 jobs in one year and thus it can be argued that the OBA slowed this down.

Now lets see your comments on the GDP reports for the latter half of 2019 in which the economy contracted in Q3 and grew by a platry 0.3% in Q4. And those dismal figures were prior to Covid-19 and when the USA economy was growing at 3%+.

What a sad and pathetic display. Bermuda used to be the pearl in the Atlantic, now it is the cess pit.