Comments on: OBA: ‘The Loan Agreement Was Not So Savvy’

By: Hey

Hey — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:25:16 +0000

That too was as a result of overspending by the PLP.

Wish people would do a little research and know the truth.

The airport deal was a good deal for Bermuda and still is. The PLP could have purchase pandemic Insurance coverage In the last 3 years, but they didn’t. So that argument is moot.

A similar process was used by the PLP to build hospital and now for the arbitration centre in town. Why aren’t people kicking up a fuss over them? It’s because those people have been suckered by the PLP emotional misinformation and division.

By: Bermudian

Bermudian — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:01:37 +0000

Its very concerning but unfortunately Bermuda has reached a point where politics trumps the betterment of a country. People could end up on the street begging for food and they will still support the PLP. Boggles the mind!

By: Hey

Hey — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:30:14 +0000

We need to know whether Burt was scammed on that building as well as Savvy. Also why were fast ferries And tugboats advertised for sale And then government said they should not have been advertised for sale in the public domain. The smell is getting bad very bad.

Who profits from all this testing, Is the government getting the upside or is it private individuals, also how much , must be millions.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:55:07 +0000

Because Bermuda is broke.

By: Hope Berg

Hope Berg — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:52:39 +0000

Yes please. What are the facts?

By: Come Correct

Come Correct — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:15:18 +0000

When you follow the obaUBP you’re bound to step in poop. Yes I still love him. But l’m not blinded by love comes to terms with Pamplin and her sheep dedication to these morons.

By: Silence Do Good

Silence Do Good — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:02:59 +0000

I am surprised no one has coined:

Studiogate
Musicgate
Burtgate
Savvygate

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:40:42 +0000

@saud, I know right? He loves to bloviate at length and go no place.

By: Hey

Hey — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:16:40 +0000

The PLP could have bought appropriate pandemic insurance coverage in the last 3 years. They didn’t. These dollars are their fault. End of.

By: Want the best for Bermuda

Want the best for Bermuda — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:25:56 +0000

The PLP can do no wrong. It’s only when OBA do things it’s wrong. PLP no matter what. You’ll be living homeless begging for food and still be chanting PLP all the way. Enjoy.

By: Want the best for Bermuda

Want the best for Bermuda — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:24:21 +0000

At least the airport is for all of Bermuda to enjoy and to better the views of our island. The old airport was a hazard, falling apart and in dire need of being replaced. HOW DOES THE TOTALLY NON TRANSPARENT GIVING AWAY ALMOST 1 MILLION TO ONE NON BERMUDIAN PERSON WITH NO GUARANTEES MAKE YOU FEEL OK?????? BUT, oh yay, its PLP so it’s totally ok. SMFH

By: wing nut

wing nut — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:20:46 +0000

Dockyard
TCD
Hospital WING
Dockyard
Berkely
Court Building
unaccounted for 800k
Port Royal
Add up those OVERRUNS

By: Sandgrownan

Sandgrownan — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:10:24 +0000

The numbers suggest that the airport is increasingly a good deal.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:52:26 +0000

Everyone PLEASE stop acting surprised. The Dame Lois Browne-Evans Building contract had a guarantee and the PLP Government would not enforce it.

Why do you think this is different?

The PLP Government will do as it pleases, so sit down and shut up!

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:21:06 +0000

The airport deal was vetted by many outside entities, and Governments, and the contracts made public. The payments being made are because the airport was shut down, meaning no revenues but continuing expenses. What can be worse than this. Try the $1 billion being paid by taxpayers over 30 years for a hospital wing, not a hospital, contracted by the PLP but all financial details held in secrecy. Makes the airport deal look great.

By: Deep Bay Who

Deep Bay Who — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:05:21 +0000

Mr. Santucci, really? You really want to point fingers!
First of all when the PLP took over from the UBP what did we owe? Do you remember, little to nothing. It was the PLP and their great deals that created our debt. Have you forgotten that the Berkley ProActive deal was $60 million over. Have you forgotten that your party forgave the BIU security and made a deal not to strike. How long did that last, how gullible was that? You forget about the $20+ million over for Port Royal.
Keep in mind there was no new construction, All they did was move dirt around and they went $20+ million over budget! Maybe you forgotten the Grand Atlantic disaster and the tens of millions spent on that project that almost a decade later sold one unit and remains empty. How about the DLME Building? Forget about that one. Perhaps you want to talk about the brilliance of an Emissions Centre created at TCD that is yet to set a standard for an Emissions test meaning nobody fails? Hmmm who was awarded that contract again and how much did they profit over the years? Why don’t you take a drive to Sandys 360 and look at that great project. How many millions on what is now abandoned. What about Arbitrade and the billion dollars in gold that was being shipped here? Is it in the vault at Victoria Hall? LOL. Where is the tech hub at Southside that was coming! How many millions have been wasted on trips to endless conferences and tradeshows chasing your economy saving Fintech?

How great of an idea was the Beyonce Concert that cost us $4 million that was going to have tourists flock here? Nice concert but how many tourists did you see there? Twenty, maybe thirty? Remember who got paid to do work at Dockyard that had to be gone over again the next year? No money wasted there!

Remember the mold at TN Tatem that the PLP did not take care of while in government the first time. They then chastised the OBA because of the problem they inherited but could not fix themselves! So how did they fix it? They simply closed the school! However, this building that is unsafe is still being used and rented? How does that work?

How is the airport deal ANY different than the hospital deal? Your own party is responsible for several disasters of its own. How many more SAVVY deals that are being hidden is still unknown.

By: Black Soil

Black Soil — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:23:12 +0000

The PLP blew up a hotel in St. George’s and did nothing after that. The OBA got a brand new one built. The PLP presided over a very expensive delapidated airport, the OBA got a new one built. The OBA won the America’s Cup (and it paid for itself!), the PLP watched in indignation knowing they could never have accomplished that goal. The PLP have wasted the better part of a hundred million on Grand Atlantic, and the taxpayer has seen nothing in return for that money pit. There’s the difference between both parties. If you pick PLP you deserve every bad deal you get…so don’t cry after the PLP increase the the FCPT to the point where it is a joke that one Bermuda dollar is the same as one USD. And when the PLP start canibalizing the economy and start attacking people instead of working with others to bring in investment into Bermuda, don’t act like the victim…the PLP voter is voting against their own interests.

By: saud

saud — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:18:59 +0000

Gullible?

LOL

Arbitrade
The Hospital
missing $800M
$800K and $1.2M give-aways

Sit down and be quiet, you’ve had your turn.

By: Duane P Santucci

Duane P Santucci — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 02:53:26 +0000

How Can the O.B.A be so gullible to make such a deal with our Airport, that they didn’t even include a legal protection clause, that would protect the tax payers from paying the exuberant amounts of money that we are forced to pay now, because of the negligence of a government that was more interested in their own private agenda, then the protection of the public purse.

So please Ms. Pamplin, before picking on the Premier for $800,000.00, please let your O.B.A party deal with the one sided agreement that only the Canadian company is benefitting from, but we are being defrauded as a Country, all because of your political party, to the tunes of “MILLIONS OF DOLLARS” for over 30 plus years, What can be worse then this.

By: I can't vote OBA this time

I can't vote OBA this time — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:45:41 +0000

Ms. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin I have a great deal of respect for you please don’t embarrass yourself or be used this way. As you say your people see the truth in the party you represent and I voted for once. Although the OBA needs your help as an opposition know when to play the right cards.

This money you speak of is a far cry from the $20,000,000 million we have to pay for the airport and the $185,000,000 hotel at Morgans Point we have to slave for now. All which the OBA you represent signed in Bermuda blood.

As a black Bermudian I did support you when you won the 2012 election I believe that Americas Cup was good for Bermuda despite what the PLP stated, but please madam know when to fight and know when to keep quite. Premier Burt tried to place a music studio in Bermuda for the young men and women that like recording. He got screwed and apologize to Bermuda.

Mr. Cannonier has said nothing and frankly Bermudians white and black don’t trust him. I’m 100% sure you already know and should be honest with him. Yes Bermuda needs a Opposition but Mr. Cannonier needs to go. Good luck on Thursday to both PLP and OBA.

By: Pure Madness!!!!

Pure Madness!!!! — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:31:49 +0000

Why did the previous government, GIVE AWAY our airport… The Morgan’s Point deal was no better either… Just Saying, because you all are quick to downgrade this government but when the now Opposition was in power, did you have anything to say (eyes rolling)

By: HAha

HAha — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:15:57 +0000

Say no more LOLOLOL. She came back to help the ONE BROKEN ALLIANCE!

By: WHAT?

WHAT? — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:13:49 +0000

But this woman has nothing to say about the $185 million Morgans Point hotel her oba =UBPERSS signed off on. Now we tax payers have to pay it back. Go off and retire and take JETGATE Craig with you Oct 2nd.

By: The Green Door

The Green Door — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:58:35 +0000

Any time a company is awarded a tender over $50,000.00 it has to be approved by Cabinet. Why does this not apply here?

By: Sandgrownan

Sandgrownan — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:54:36 +0000

The airport deal actually looks really good right now if you could be bothered to understand the numbers.

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:07:06 +0000

I mean, why is the Bermuda Government giving out loans? When did it become a bank? This really is cause for concern.

By: Charlly X

Charlly X — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:06:28 +0000

Well …… The two Honerable members need to come clean . One word comes to mind !!!! ACCOUNTABILITY ? EVEN if Corona didn’t exist it’s still a steep hill of repayment…. . Just loan or gimme 10% of that …..
I’d pay off my debt n start up a business and pay my taxes !!! I’ll then be a success story they can talk about …. Giving a hand up to a son of the soil…

By: paul

paul — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:55:55 +0000

All I can say is this Premier should resign….

By: PissAnt

PissAnt — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:38:48 +0000

this smells like rat poo but then again so does 90% of any business dealing the the exceptional People Lie Party have dealt with. Business and ethics don’t seem to be in the vocabulary hence the way they operate.

By: Jus' Askin'

Jus' Askin' — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:21:30 +0000

AIRPORT DEAL!!!

By: Karayasatahala

Karayasatahala — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:58:10 +0000

As public funds were utilized and squandered in this Savvy Deal; Common Law dictates full disclosure as to the name(s) of the illedged Bermudians involved.
It is an inditment against the Government officials involved to not do so.

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:35:47 +0000

Maybe a loan to allow Arbitrade to buy Victoria Hall using “gold assets” as collateral? Will someone press this point and find out the facts behind Victoria Hall?