The cost for Bermuda to sponsor the NY Mets: $500,000. The ego trip for Dr. Brown to throw out the first pitch: priceless. It’s all about him. Remember that.
Entries from May 13th, 2008
Deep Thoughts
May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
What is to be feared is not so much the immorality of the great as the fact that immorality may lead to greatness. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
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Shutting out the Voters
May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Accountability, Bermuda Politics, Transparency
So, our Parliamentarians are making their rare appearance at work today. Here’s the RG’s stunning summary of the day’s events: A bill amending penalties for traffic offences is also expected to be tabled along with several other bits of legislation. My experience of Bermuda is that a lot of important stuff happens in those “other [...]
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$22.5 Million Windfall
May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Bermuda just won Powerball to the tune of over $20 million dollars, which have been confiscated from a controversial Bermuda company. I reiterate my earlier proposal: this unexpected money should not go into the general Bermuda Government coffers. It should go into an independently administered scholarship fund for Bermudians to pursue higher education overseas. Or [...]
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Ebbtide
May 7th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Yesterday Minister Burch gave the leader of the local Chamber of Commerce a tongue lashing for publicly disagreeing with his trial balloon about imposing higher graduated fees for executive work permits. You may recall that Minister Cox recently gave a similar paranoid rebuke to the CEO of ACE over his gentle reminders that Bermuda’s regulatory [...]
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Punishing the Media
May 6th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Media
The Association of Caribbean Media Workers has published its annual “overview of major developments affecting the practice of journalism and freedom of expression in the Caribbean.” Different countries, different circumstances, but almost everywhere concern that factors internal to the workings of the media and various external elements including, but not exclusively the state, pose threats [...]
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Island Games
May 6th, 2008 · Comments Off · Tourism
The Sun reports that Bermuda has been pitching to host the Island Games in 2013, and our competitor Prince Edward Island has pulled out. If this means we have it, Bermuda’s finally going to complete National Stadium, including the pool that’s been promised for a generation. It would be the biggest sporting event the island [...]
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Playing Fields
May 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
With the urbanisation of Bermuda, we need more public spaces for children to play and people to exercise and build community. These rejuvenated playing fields are very welcomed. I’d like to see Government expand the land that is dedicated to public use, either through acquisitions to the Park system, improvement of existing Government land, or [...]
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Bad Management
May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Accountability, Bermuda Politics
21 Square points out the hollowness of Senator Grouchy’s complaints that the Department of Immigration is wickedly understaffed, as the current wave of applications was caused by PLP policy that was set in 2001. They had time to ramp up the department, but did not. The wounds are self-inflicted. This is typical of the PLP [...]
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World Press Freedom Day
May 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Media
Today is the UN’s World Press Freedom Day. The Royal Gazette has published its Code of Practice, which is based on British Press Complaints Council rules. I propose that other local news media work together to develop this into a common code. The initiative should come from the media, not from Government which must avoid [...]
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