Vexed Bermoothes

As part of the Club Med demolition, over the next two months more than 28,000 tonnes of construction debris will be trucked away and dumped in Castle Harbour at the Airport.  That is approximately 3-4000 loads of the big 6 yard trucks going into the inland water.  No environmental review or long term plan.

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In today’s newspaper, Premier Ewart Brown said the Island would face three “thin years” for tourism and would be required to rely on its “creativity to keep numbers up”.
Umm, that creativity with numbers is part of Bermuda’s problem!  You mean we can expect to add creative numbers on top of our funny accounting?

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It is being reported that Bermuda is trying to beef up the slumping tourism numbers by seeking additional cruise arrivals.  After years of saying that Bermuda wants big ships, Government is finally pursuing the smaller vessels that are better suited to our island.
Bermuda is in negotiations with several cruise lines in hopes of garnering new […]

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So, someone finally pulled the tax filings for the Urban Health Institute, the charity at the centre of Dr. E Brown’s Playboy scandal.
It turns out that, of the $200,000 spent by the charity in 2006, only $15,000 went to charitable causes.
By comparison, $80,000 went to paying rent for use of office space in Dr. K […]

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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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Due to the sagging tourism sector, the collective salaries of hospitality employees dropped by almost 40 percent during the first quarter of this year, according to the latest Government statistics.
Meanwhile the collective salaries of international business workers rocketed by 51 percent.
Ouch.  That divide was already big - and it’s getting more divisive.

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The following is a telling slip of the tongue from the developer of the Sonesta/Wyndham site.
Scout Real Estate Capital CEO Alan Worden announced today that work on its new 5-star resort hotel on the site of the old Wyndham Beach Resort in Southampton Parish is progressing on schedule. Scout intends to present its proposed plans […]

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The news today reveals that the Bermuda Department of Tourism is making staff of its New York City office redundant, having outsourced operations to an unnamed company.
We hired a US company to sell to US people … Their agreement is that the more they sell, the more they get paid. The less they sell, the […]

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Explaining the huge sums being spent on Beyoncé and others for the Bermuda Music Festival, thus spinneth the Disco Doc:
This festival like most music festivals in the world are not done to make a profit but they have an effect far beyond the show itself…
He added that anyone focused only on how the […]

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The Department of Tourism has announced that the tourism statistics will now only be released quarterly as part of the Minister’s luncheon.  For the past eight months (wrapped around an election and amidst claims that the tourism numbers were being artificially boosted with business arrivals), they had been handed out monthly.  The schedule and content […]

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