Commenting on the BCC fiasco, the Royal Gazette grows a pair:
Dr. Brown became the leader of the PLP and the Premier very much on the basis that he was the man who got things done.
And yet in this case, his Government has created a crisis which now requires an unknown amount of public money to fix. It will buy and then sell a private business which is now being capably run, to an unknown group of investors. The investors will get the business through a process which makes a mockery of normal tendering procedures, and it may not even have to fulfil the terms that were demanded of the previous tenant.
This stinks. Far from “getting things done”, this is an example of the grossest incompetence and ineptitude.
I can personally vouch that the BCC affair has caused genuine unease in the executive suites of Bermuda. I won’t say disbelief, because this type of heavy-handed political interference is becoming all too common in Bermuda.
This is unacceptable.