Comments on: Column: MP Crystal Caesar On Inflation

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:35:13 +0000

Just fodder for the sheeple.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:39:57 +0000

The UBP did not change its name to OBA, but feel free to keep telling that lie to the voters.

By: Double S

Double S — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:32:42 +0000

So you’re stating BDA’s downfall is result of the UBP’s demise and the rise of the PLP to power?

Seems about right…

By: Double S

Double S — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:06:36 +0000

The airport coupled with Morgan’s point still doesn’t equal the PLP’s ANNUAL $400mn deficits. You guys are the main cause of our financial predicament. Take some responsibility for once for the massive damage you have done to this island.

By: saud

saud — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:56:02 +0000

The OBA contains more black members than white…and you say it’s racist.
Good of you to admit that racists come in all colours.

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:52:49 +0000

@Wake up Bie. You’re hilarious. I’ll remind you who the leader of the UBP was between 2006-7 Wayne Furbert, and between 2007-2011 Kim Swan. Both clearly racists according to you, but are now PLP MPs. Also the UBP has not been the Government since 1998. Hardly fits your version of events, but then that’s PLP fantasy history 101.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:46:59 +0000

Let’s start at the beginning.

The Bermuda dollar is NOT “pegged 1:1 with [the U.S.] Dollar”. The Bermuda dollar is fixed at par with the U.S. dollar by the Bermudian Dollar Parity Order 1981.

It is true to say that the PLP Government has fixed foreign currency purchase tax at 1.25% for each Bermuda dollar spent in acquiring foreign currency, but that is a different issue.

So, if you are trying to explain in a nutshell the cost of purchasing goods in U.S. dollars, the better way is to say that it costs BD$101.25 for every US$100 worth of goods purchased

By: Question

Question — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:56:39 +0000

What the heck is this? It’s childish drivel.

By: Question

Question — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:55:14 +0000

That’s the PLP economic plan, is it?

By: Sandgrownan

Sandgrownan — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:52:49 +0000

Lol, obviously. This obviously isn’t the result of 21 years of PLP incompetence. It was those 4 years in the middle. Right.

I love how the MP from Southampton west central managed to hit all the key talking points and still managed to get in some xenophobia for good measure.

She’ll get a pat on the head for that.

By: Robert Keill

Robert Keill — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:03:18 +0000

Your comment is an insult to all 12 year old’s!

By: Wake up Bie

Wake up Bie — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:01:16 +0000

The down fall began when the UBP changed it’s name to OBA to run away from it’s racist past. This is clearly why we have so much division today UBPERR!

By: puzzled

puzzled — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:00:01 +0000

I agree with most above/aforementioned.

It’s Crystal clear….move to higher ground.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:56:28 +0000

That reads like it was written by a 12 year old.

By: wondering

wondering — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:48:15 +0000

The writer cannot be serious. This is nothing more than a propaganda speech supporting the Premier. The quote from the Premier is empty, vague and only inspires those who think he is a Messiah type.

We need innovation not rhetoric!

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:29:01 +0000

Bermuda really is in for hard times if this is the best an MP can offer. It reads like a story for 3 year olds. The downfall began back in the mid 2000′s when the PLP Government enjoyed bigger revenues than expected, but instead of saving the surplus, they wasted that surplus and started to borrow large amounts. To try and stay the damage, they stopped paying into the Government Pension Fund and pretended they had a balanced budget. When the events of 2008 came, Bermuda had no savings to act as a cushion, and had to borrow more, and so it continues.

By: ben young

ben young — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:27:28 +0000

Inflation is due to rise in the US by between 5.5 and 6.5 percent – this is bound to have a very negative impact on Bda. In the meantime, all we hear is plans to send out RFPs, nice feel good phrases about people being interested in XYZ but nothing actually happens.

None of the 31 ideas mapped out by the PLP will come to fruition any time soon – if at all – but we need help now!