Comments on: Simmons-Wade: ‘Airport Contract Is A Bad Deal’

By: saud

saud — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:51:54 +0000

“If we needed a new airport…”

We did!…so the rest of your spew is moot.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:43:18 +0000

You sound like an expert in airport design and construction. Why didn’t you submit a proposal?

Oh right, you know the square root of f*** all about airports.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:00:35 +0000

I notice that all these name callers have no concern about the fact that we have paid such high fees already. Yes I agree that we needed a new airport but obviously no one read the fine print and the opposition supporters are ok with this. How much do you think that we will end up paying in the next 30 years? Maybe it doesn’t matter because it was their political party that made the bad decision. I don’t mind that there is a new airport, we needed a new one, but the truth is it is a bad deal, no matter who made it, especially as we will pay exorbitant fees every time there is a closure for whatever reason.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:39:39 +0000

Try a $30 dollar burger the obaubp is like a wart.

By: up D Hill

up D Hill — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:25:33 +0000

Let me word it another way, the virus is out of control in the community . So even with the new restrictions imop its not enough to stop the increase in new cases. The PLP are doing a good job but as you say Government cannot control everything and everyone.

The Public at large must be more responsible with what they are doing.

We really cannot afford to shut down again so we must do better as an Island.

I pray that we do…

By: Wing nut

Wing nut — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:24:08 +0000

Expensive hospital only has 90 beds, what happen there plp..
Guess the extra toilets make up for it.

By: sage

sage — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:46:01 +0000

You can always buy one of the $25 burgers at the food concession instead.

By: Warm Air

Warm Air — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 01:45:28 +0000

A relative of mine from Delaware who visits often remarked that he will miss that first blast of warm air that hits when you come off the plane. I told him not to get too bothered about it as I’m pretty sure those jetways will not be working inside of a year or at most two. My point being that it’s all a cheap slapped together cookie cutter project done on the cheap for a high price. This airport is a poorly conceived vanity project, poorly thought out with no unique signature whatsoever. Somebody undoubtedly got wined and dined for this to have gotten through.

By: wahoo

wahoo — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:54:36 +0000

Bermuda International Airport sounds good and non political.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:38:34 +0000

“The PLP had better shut down this Island and right now. They have lost control of covid …”

Politicians do not (and cannot) control a virus. If you look at the ages of most of the 100 odd people who have recently contracted COVID-19, you will see that they are in their 20s and 30s. Roughly the ages of my children.

The problem is not the PLP Government (at least, not on this issue). The problem is people who will not take care of their own safety.

No one can legislate for or enforce intelligence or common sense.

By: OBA what happened????

OBA what happened???? — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:35:21 +0000

400 million dollar airport and 1 toilet for men LOL when you arrive lololol. The old airport had 3.

By: Sad

Sad — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:28:33 +0000

They had1 toilet when I arrived yesterday OMG! 5 of us lined up it was really sad for the amount of money invested. 1 flight with probably less than 40 people. Now imagine when British arrives with their 250 people. I ask the health staff at the airport if there was another her reply was a big NO!

By: PBanks

PBanks — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:03:48 +0000

Because politicians like to pat themselves and others in their circle on the back a lot?

To be fair, politicians get things named after themselves a fair bit. The US has airports named after Kennedy and Reagan. Caribbean countries have airports named after politicians (although it’s usually Prime Ministers as opposed to party leaders). I don’t think it’s something to wail and rend one’s garments over though.

By: PBanks

PBanks — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:55:20 +0000

Political, perhaps. But there’s no turning back. Can’t be going on renaming facilities like this less than 20 years after it was named in the first place.

And definitely no political tit-for-tat in renaming it for *another* politician.

By: bluenose

bluenose — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:17:38 +0000

Her comments are shameful, inaccurate, hypocritical and a few other adjectives I can think of!

By: Navin Johnson

Navin Johnson — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:02:26 +0000

Bad deal? Compared to the Hospital $35,000,000 a year adjusted for inflation for 30 years…now that’s a bad deal…

By: sage

sage — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:17:46 +0000

Spilt milk? We are hemorrhaging milk. We have to also pay the electricity bill, do you realize how many tons of AC are needed to cool those 40ft ceilings in that massive atrium/greenhouse? Government could install a solar system on that expansive, empty, flat roof that should pay itself off in 10 years, but that should have been included in the deal.

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:59:51 +0000

According to the people in the SkyPort videos on YouTube, it’s a great airport. It seems to be really popular. #thepeoplemarch

By: up D Hill

up D Hill — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:56:14 +0000

The PLP had better shut down this Island and right now. They have lost control of covid ,what are they waiting for. Our hospital cannot handle an influx of covid patients !!! The AIRPORT is the least of our worries right now!!

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:00:08 +0000

Rename the airport!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:37:11 +0000

Lol is clearly detached from reality and will undoubtedly be first in line at the Koolaid station.

By: Boston Whaler Owner

Boston Whaler Owner — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:02:38 +0000

NOT one airline calls Bermuda International Airport anything else.

as for the Wades
(she is an unknown person outside of Bermuda)

By: Darkstar

Darkstar — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 12:32:07 +0000

Well her speech at the opening was nice, wonder what colleague of hers got to her after her speech for her to do an about face. If she has such vivid memories of the march and the fear people had when locked in arms then maybe she should have declined the invite to the opening. The POLITRICK monster rearing its head again

By: Stormin'

Stormin' — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 12:17:13 +0000

The massive debt means Government are like poker players who wants to play at the top table under their house rules ….but haven’t got any money to play with because they have in the past… and will continue…….. to spend it on themselves.

They then bemoan ” a bad deal for Bermuda”. The pot and kettle.

Why do people believe this garbage? Its hilarious.

The old crumbling “3rd world” airport better reflects reality under the PLP.

And to have one of the freeloading hierarchy give opinion on the matter is truly priceless

By: Comfortably numb

Comfortably numb — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:06:47 +0000

Why use any politician’s name? What’s wrong with Bermuda International Airport?

By: Vortex

Vortex — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:06:44 +0000

Tacky and lacking class from Ms Simmons Wade.

You were invited because of your family legacy and you look to score cheap points.

A disgrace Burt wasn’t there. Surprising since he usually can’t wait to get on a plane.

By: Let"s Keep It Real

Let"s Keep It Real — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:53:37 +0000

Must of got pressure from her fellow PLP colleagues!

Seems like Trumpism is alive and well in Bermy! If you did not support it why turn open for the official opening.

By: Wing nut

Wing nut — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:16:21 +0000

So is the hospital, so was port royal, so was berkely, so was dockyard and the court house. Care to report on those.

By: Stormin'

Stormin' — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:08:26 +0000

This has a certain humour to it. Beggars can’t be chooser’s. And who turned Bermudians into beggars and continues to do so?

The old airport better reflects the economic legacy of the PLP as this economic guru suggests.

Bermuda is another world.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:19:46 +0000

What a numpty. Disgrace how these trump/plp people react to facts and reality. She probably doesnt think that vaccines are good either. Time for you to stop spouting nonsense lady.

By: Charlly X

Charlly X — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:13:36 +0000

Both Deals are probably bad n Questionable. But That’s what politician’s dooo. Spend money on ya children’s Credit Card ! Green team or Red team . Take the personalities Out.. n what do you get ? Cut yuh nose off to spite yuh face … Too Bad we can’t just have National Pride and it’s always us against them us… 2% versus the 98% then Race.,… We Obviously don’t know why they did what they did . But our Grand children We’ll be still paying when we’re dead .,..
We used to brag about being the 3rd Richest GDP to bad we weren’t the 3rd Smartest ……..

By: Hey

Hey — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:23:05 +0000

This lady is clueless. She based it on no facts, she didn’t even read the independent assessment of the airport deal by PWC.

If we had built an airport, it would have cost 500 million to the taxpayer already, all bad times would be picked up 100% by us.

She is out of her depth and severely misinformed. Pleas explain to us I S Wade, exactly what a new airport would have cost, how we would have paid for it, the total interest costs to date and the losses the taxpayer would be picking up.

By: Micro

Micro — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:11:31 +0000

Their plan cost 500million dollars at least.

By: frustrated

frustrated — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:59:47 +0000

How much did Bro Burgess let his union off the bond they had on Berkeley? $20Million?

PLP have no right to complain about anything. They are killing this country.

By: RastaCutty

RastaCutty — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:30:03 +0000

How disgraceful of her. Such a hypocrite. The airport is named in your late husbands name and you have the audacity to complain. Please change the name of the airport.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:20:44 +0000

Oh really. No problem you don’t have to use the new airport, just use the old one. It might be free to use soon. Bring ya rainsuit when she rains lol

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:12:42 +0000

Wow, what an ingrate! Surely you will now be requesting your late husband’s name be REMOVED from the airport immediately. Anything less and you prove just how much of a hypocrite you truly are. Unbelievable.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:12:41 +0000

Yup that’s exactly what a contract is. Look at it like a mortgage you have to pay your monthly commitments even if you aren’t working/making money to pay for it. The airport was closed due to the pandemic and not making money to cover costs and payments. Even if the government took out a loan to build it they still would have to make monthly payments at whatever payment and interest rate they negotiated. But anyway the deal is done and move forward. Tired of the complaining and looking in the past. Like crying over spilt milk

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:38:40 +0000

No one wanted anyone to get pepper sprayed. That was very wrong. But those protestors were breaking the law and so were those who organised that march. The law clearly states that if you obstruct a member of the Legislature you are breaking the law. And that is not democracy. I’m not saying that was their punishment at all but they were breaking the law.

Furthermore, for all the PLP noise made about how bad this airport deal is, I have YET to see the PLP offer an alternative to the deal that was made.

So Ms. Wade, what deal do you think Bermuda should have made for the airport? We’ll all be waiting.

By: sage

sage — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:24:04 +0000

It certainly is true that we have paid ten percent of the total cost of building the airport in revenue guarantees before the airport even opened and who knows what the next couple of years will be like.

By: onionjuice

onionjuice — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:13:59 +0000

This same lady that could not run Matilda Smith Rest Home smoothly, she has this comment. She should have them remove her late husbands name from the airport if she feels this way. Have no parts of it. And as pointed out she speaks good during the opening , then bad the next day.. ???

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:13:17 +0000

Well Ms. wade, you should have stayed home, and you also need to DEMAND that your late husband’s name be taken off the airport. You are hypocrite. That said, it looked like you had a good time.

By: Lol

Lol — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:57:22 +0000

30 vs 6 STFU lolol. The oba is finished.

By: No Nonsense Sherriff

No Nonsense Sherriff — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:56:22 +0000

Yep! the hypocrisy of the plp is astounding and obviously has no limits it appears! This statement from Ms. Simmons Wade only confirms what I have said from the very beginning.
Change the name of the airport to Bob Richards Int! Surely if they feel the way they say they do, why would you want your name attached to it?

This is all nothing more than the Bermudian entitlement syndrome speaking, we built an airport that was really needed, and now we think we shouldn’t have to pay for it just like every other country on the entire planet has too!

By: Question

Question — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:55:19 +0000

She is a hypocrite. Loves the attention and being treated like she’s important, but wants whine about it at the same time.

By: Oh really

Oh really — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:54:48 +0000

If we needed a new airport your supporters wouldn’t have left you with only 6 seats shut up OBAubperrr blogger . The airport was supposed to be free well guess what we tax payers keep paying like the 185 million Morgan never built hotel thanks OBA again.

By: Question

Question — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:53:27 +0000

Kind of like how three different options were laid out to the people before the hospital contract was awarded? Or before the Grand Atlantic was built and then upgraded after standing empty for 9 years?

By: 2 Faced

2 Faced — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:45:42 +0000

and your qualifications in economics are what

By: Junbo747

Junbo747 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:43:41 +0000

who got her to say this, let me guess the ones that didn’t attend

By: fly boy

fly boy — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:40:36 +0000

then why did you even attend . Who told you to shut off the car*. FFS. With your govtts record of over sending for F of F it would have ballooned to 18 times as much. Don’t like it don’t use it