The PLP press office have been drinking the Kool Aid again: While the media may prefer to focus on manufactured “controversies,” the PLP Government will continue to focus like a laser beam on combating the crime crisis. Seriously, at what speed of spin does your head actually fall off? On the crime issue, the PLP [...]
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Goes Both Ways
January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Accountability, Bermuda Politics
Well that didn’t take long. Just days into 2010 and we already have a road fatality and an execution style murder. Not much word from Dr. Brown on Bermuda’s sudden violence, furthering his reputation of only stepping in front of the cameras when there’s good news to spin. However, Col Burch is finally saying the [...]
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Balanced Guidance for the Police
December 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Islands
It seems the fight over so-called operational control of the Police has calmed down as the PLP realises that – as the bullets are flying – now may not be the time to seek that responsibility. The truth is that the Governor and the Bermuda Government do hold frequent meetings with the Commissioner of Police [...]
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Squeeze
December 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The new Commissioner of Police is mourning the fact that, although they believe they know who the cuplrits are in the recent shootings, they cannot arrest them as the public is not willing to provide evidence. “We can’t lock the country down and protect every house on every street.” True, but if you know who [...]
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Operational Control
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Bermuda Politics
As many other Bermuda voices have pointed out, Dr. Brown’s clamour to gain “operational control” over the Bermuda Police is a red herring. The real reasons behind this political tactic are likely: to avoid being blamed for the catastrophic growth in crime during the PLP tenure to fuel resentment against the UK as a proxy [...]
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Accountability Brown
October 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Accountability
The Premier’s new press secretary has a finely tuned sense of NewSpeak. He says Dr. Brown won’t attend meetings with the Governor and Police Commissioner because he must have direct operational control so “we have complete responsibility for policing and Bermudians can hold us accountable for how we spend their hard-earned dollars.” Further, he says [...]
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Where are the Police?
April 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Transport
There was another death on the roads last night. This time it was the driver of a car, killed in a fiery head-on collision, rather than a bike rider. WTF? It is the beginning of April and we already have had 5 deaths on the roads. It looks like we will hit last year’s gory [...]
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