By: Jevon Ray

Jevon Ray — Wed, 05 May 2021 11:25:59 +0000

The final nail in the coffin was actually International Business in the late 80′s early 90′s.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Tue, 04 May 2021 23:02:58 +0000

You’ll never get them to admit that.

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Tue, 04 May 2021 20:56:46 +0000

Forgive me if my recall is inaccurate, but isn’t this the strike that put the final nail in the coffin for Bermuda’s tourism industry? The hospital workers were on a legal strike, but then Ottiwell called out the rest of the workers illegally. Despite being full of tourists, the hotels had to close down, and 1,000′s of visitors had to leave the island, running the gauntlet of striking workers along the causeway. I was a teenager at the time and could not understand the attitude of the workers toward the tourists, many of whom carried their own bags to the airport and never come back. The author of this article speaks in glowing terms of the historic firsts brought about by the strike of 1981, but let’s not forget it was also the beginning the end of Bermuda’s tourism market. I agree that everyone deserves a fair day’s pay, but destroying the economy to get there still seems a decision to regret, not one to celebrate.

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