The list of scandals during Dr. Brown’s great destructathon is so long that it’s hard to keep up. They even overlap so that one event is eclipsed by the next, and I fear that the damage wrought on Bermuda’s community and economy will rattle on for years. One of the early controversial events was the [...]
Entries from July 27th, 2010
PATI Vote
July 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Bermuda’s long-awaited Public Access to Information (PATI) Act has been moved onto the Parliamentary schedule for debate today (presumably as a counterweight to the very unpopular municipalities takeover law also being debated). It is assumed that it will be broadly supported. But the beauty is in the details. The PATI law does not dictate an [...]
The Plot
July 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Bermuda’s central Government is unlikely to make public the $800,000 report behind the unpopular municipalities law because, in my opinion, rather than discussing reform, it is all about the tactics of taking over Bermuda’s local governments. You see, it would be difficult for Government simply take them over, both from a public opinion perspective and [...]
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New Forty Thieves
July 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
It’s a major element of the PLP arsenal of discontent: back in the bad ole days if someone made off, the legend goes, the Forty Thieves would have their employer fire them or the bank would pull their mortgage. Then what the hell is ImmiMin David Burch doing having letters written to local employers, quizzing [...]
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Mugging
July 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Over at the PLP blog, they are huffing the paint thinner again: Help Save Bermuda’s City from hundreds of years of cronyism – Say yes to Government’s Municipal reform. Emancipation Day is almost upon us. Help Government erase the final vestiges of pre-emancipation Bermuda. A kind reader has supplied the Municipalities Reform Act 2010 law, [...]
Municipalities Hostile Takeover
July 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The Premier and “Minister of Covering the Premier’s Back” Zane DeSilva like to describe their takeover of Bermuda’s municipalities as a blow against unearned privilege. But most of their underlying arguments … well they just don’t make sense. They are disingenuous to the point that a logical person will look for the ulterior motives. Frankly, [...]
FutureScare
July 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health
The facts are starting to become clearer about FutureCare. It’s likely to cost a hell of a lot of gombey pesos at a time when the Bermuda Government is scratching it’s head wondering where all the money went. I would like to remind you that back in 2008, Government said that a “total income tax” [...]
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Priorities
July 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Accountability, Bermuda Politics
The PLP dropped the municipalities takeover as a bombshell late in Dr. Brown’s term. Many questions were raised about the huge sums allocated to law firms for the reform effort … yet there has been little visible evidence of consultation nor talk of reform. One has to wonder if this is about reform at all. [...]
Another Sneak Attack
July 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Polls show that the Bermudian public is strongly against the attempted takeover by the central Bermuda Government of the currently independent municipal corporations. Whether this is a statement of support for the Corporations, or a vote of no confidence in the PLP Government, is debatable. But the takeover is a fixation of the Premier, and [...]
Common Ground
July 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The ImmiMininator has explained why he ripped up the Mayor of Hamilton’s letter: “It was a speech he gave on March 21, 2010 when he talked a whole bunch of crap and I was offended … I sent it back because I want that man to know and the rest of them to know that [...]
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