Vexed Bermoothes

Sayeth the Veseyman:
Bermuda in general, and its politics in particular, are already overloaded with suspicion. A long history of power and prejudice based on race, on class and on nationality - not to mention a long tradition of secrecy - made this inevitable.
It has left our current generation of leaders with the difficult […]

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The Premier’s announcement that the island will assemble a SWAT team in response to the escalation of violent crime has left me cold.
Typically, a SWAT team is a paramilitary police force designed to provide superior assault firepower in confrontations, such as bank robberies or hostage situations.
To put it bluntly, a SWAT team would not be […]

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Politics got around to reading the newspaper before me.  No doubt with a heavy dose of irony, today’s Royal Gazette has an ad recruiting a manager for “Bermuda’s newest daily newspaper” run by VistaMar Ltd.
This will be interesting given Dr. Brown’s pre-election hints about a pro-PLP newspaper.
In other news, PLP Newswire has announced it will […]

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Not The Royal Gazette.

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The Commonwealth Foundation has begun a four year project with the British Overseas Territories that seeks to increase their commitment to international standards in regard to labour rights, the rights of children and women, and other human rights issues.  Other goals of the project include promoting dialogue between government and non-governmental organizations, and working with […]

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So the UBP is complaining that the PLP didn’t give them enough time to prepare for a recent House debate.  I’ve pointed out for some time that Bermuda’s Parliament is run like a shoddy and secretive club. I’m glad that the UBP is starting to admit they’ve been end run again.  That’s the first step […]

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Wake up, Cup Match is over!

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn […]

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In the old days, Kremlin watchers would scrutinize who was allowed to view mayday from atop Lenin’s Tomb to see who held sway in the Politburo.  In Bermuda, you can tell what news is coming by who is announcing it:

If it is good news, the Premier Dr. the Hon. Ewart F. Brown will hold press […]

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There’s plenty of blame to go around for the demise of Bermuda’s retail district. 
There’s the Government that would not listen to the warnings on the need to reform tourism approaches, tax structures, hiring laws, etc.  There’s the Corporation of Hamilton that is just … incompetent.  There’s the economic incentive for landlords to convert their retail […]

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The BPSU has won a stay against the Government’s outsourcing of the New York tourism jobs because Government failed to live up to its obligations under the Collective Bargaining Agreement to consult with the union before undertaking any outsourcing or privatisation.
This is the classic problem with the Bermuda Government these days.  It follows a pattern:

A […]

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