The media is reporting that the 2009 Bermuda Music Festival cost Government about $2 million to stage, and raised about $1 million in revenue. Government claims the event attracted 383 tourists. I think that’s being exceptionally generous. It also sounds like all the costs are not in; the radio news is reporting that the Promoter [...]
Entries from December 9th, 2009
Hot Air in Copenhagen
December 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bermuda Politics
Dr. Brown is in Copenhagen this week, forcefully pushing his agenda to make sure that Dr. Brown gets maximum international media coverage. Seriously, he’s blinking away on the news complaining that global warming will mess up our beaches and hurt tourism (understatement of the year). And he hopes the big countries will deal with it [...]
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PATI Retroactivity
December 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Accountability, Transparency
The Premier has taken an about-face on the issue of PATI retroactivity, commenting: “I wish to advise this honourable House that when I invite Cabinet’s further consideration of the bill it will contain a recommendation that it consider the issue of retroactivity. Personally, I wish it to be clearly understood that I am in favour [...]
Post Office
December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Accountability
The Bermuda Post Office has been going through an exercise to get householders to properly install mailboxes and use correct addresses. This, in itself, is entirely logical and needed to be done. However, the project has ended up being controversial as the Post Office has “returned to sender” large volumes of mail with minor inaccuracies [...]
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Deliberate Distortion of Reality
December 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Accountability, Transparency
Senator Walton Brown is all over the news and talk radio decrying the public complaints about weaknesses in the draft PATI law as a “deliberate distortion of reality”. He went on to describe how the section to allow the Minister to amend the PATI law by regulation was only intended to simplify updates to the [...]