Government has released designs for a new “iconic” airport and ferry terminal which will cost an estimated $300-$400 million to build. I suspect that “iconic” is another word for “costs twice as much”. That’s on top of the projected $315 million for a new hospital and $65 million (seems very low) for a new causeway. [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2010
Short and Sweet
May 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
We are all used to FinMin Paula Cox’s long and sesquipedalian monologues. I like the Bernews summary much better: 2.01 pm: Paula Cox [PLP] says she remembers her father saying he got involved in politics to be part of change for little black children coming along, and that we must return to that kind of [...]
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Pants on Fire
May 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media
In his statement regarding the controversial Media Council Bill on Friday, Dr. Brown claimed: “The media council, as proposed by this Government, achieves that and, as international media organisations have determined, does not even come close to threatening the freedom of the press.” MP John Barritt called him out on that claim gaining the following [...]
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Afterbite
May 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media
After making his statement in Parliament this morning, parking the controversial Media Council draft law, the PLP blog and Dr. Brown’s Facebook added some additional tweaks: “The Media Council as proposed by this Government achieves that goal and as International Media Organizations have determined does not even come close to threatening the freedom of the [...]
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Media Get Their Chance
May 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media
Dr Brown has announced in Parliament this morning that he will “hold” his proposed Media Council Bill 2010 while the media proposes their own self-regulatory option. The draft law remains on the Order Paper (meaning that it can be voted on at any time), but the Premier says he will drop it if and when [...]
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Bermuda Media to set up Self-Regulatory Council
May 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media
The five largest members of Bermuda’s press corps – Bermuda Broadcasting, Bermuda Sun, DeFontes Broadcasting, Inter-Island, and the Royal Gazette – have announced that they will: jointly sign and adopt a Code of Practice by June 8, 2010 form a self-regulated media council by September 14, 2010 They say that other local media and news [...]
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Collapse of the Nuclear Family
May 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Bermuda’s social services are reporting a burgeoning need for foster parents. Given the tiny size of our local community, the numbers are horrifying: Last year 148 children were taken into foster care across the island — an increase of six per cent on the year before. Already this year 116 children have been placed with [...]
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Happy Bermuda Day
May 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
I don’t think many people will complain that it rained on Bermuda Day. Come down harder – need tank rain! Why is that there is no mention of Bermuda Day – our supposed national holiday – on the Bermuda Government websites? Bizarre! How’m I supposed to go miss de Pinoys in de Parade?
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Mincy-ing Words
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The Mincy Report is entitled “A Study of Employment, Earnings and Educational Attainment Gaps Between Young Black and White Men in Bermuda” (pdf). Yet, when Dr. Brown introduces a motion to the House of Assembly to debate the report, it gets repositioned to “the long-standing effects of institutionalised white supremacy on our young black males”. So [...]
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Veiled Threat?
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Media
So much could go wrong with the political interference that is so deeply embedded in the draft Media Council Bill. So, comments like this from the Minister for Loose Cannons hardly leave a warm fuzzy feeling for most Bermudians, as well as our international partners looking for a glimmer of that Gold Standard™ we are [...]
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