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, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'City Hall'
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, [...]
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 [...]
Parliamentary Questions
April 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The following questions were submitted by the Opposition for written answer on Friday, February 19. The rumour is that Government considers this information to be secret (and their secrets have a distressing tendency to end up as investigations by the police or auditor, à la BHC, Stonington, etc.) The names and address of all those firms [...]
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Trying It On For Size
June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Ewartville, capital of the Republic of Bermudistan. Kind of rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? And, they could auction off naming rights for (the colonial vestige previously known as) St. George’s. Cuz that’s probably the only way they will fund the Park Hyatt promised for the East End anytime soon.
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Powerplay
June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Now that he’s been made King, the power plays begin in earnest. The Corporations of Hamilton and St George have been informed that Government intends to try and take them over. “In its Throne Speech of 2008, the Government of Bermuda undertook to reform Bermuda’s municipalities; in considering the best means to do so, Cabinet [...]