The recent debate on 'Birthright' suggests that it might be useful for me to spell out the manner in which I administer comments posted on this site. First, I dislike censorship. As soon as I start deleting comments I open...
Bermuda's been getting a lot of unusual publicity of late. A couple of weeks ago the Island got an unexpected plug in the season opener of HBO's The Sopranos, then last week it was mentioned in the pages of adult...
Cablevision, currently Bermuda's sole cable TV provider, has just announced that it will be offering personal video recorder (PVR) functionality in its digital set top boxes within the next three months. Since arriving in Bermuda ten months ago, my wife...
As Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser announces that a decision on who should be charged in connection with the long-running BHC inquiry is finally imminent, I'm reminded of another inquiry about which little has been heard recently. At...
Speaking in the Senate on Friday, Opposition Senator Leonard Santucci urged the Government to start a national debate on the issue of same-sex marriage in Bermuda. "Government should not attempt to bring the legislation forward with any degree of haste,...
Writing in yesterday’s Bermuda Sun, Stuart Hayward argues that only born Bermudians should be able to vote on the issue of Independence. Those who have acquired Bermudian status by other means, or other long term residents, should have no say....
Bermuda has just got its first public wireless internet hotspot. Although the service is still being tested, patrons of Hamilton's Rock Island Coffee Cafe equipped with a wireless-capable laptop or PDA can now surf the net at a blazing 512k...
You have to pity PLP MPs for St. George's, Dean Foggo and Jennifer Smith. Caught between their party and angry St. George's parents, they're struggling to say whose side they're really on. Under the ridiculously heroic headline 'MPs vow to...
Shadow Education Minister Neville Darrell continues to demonstrate his lack of understanding of the St. George's Prep (SGP) issue. Speaking on VSB radio news this morning, interviewer Brian Darby asked him about Education Minister Terry Lister's assertion that admitting a...
I got quite excited earlier today when I heard that Education Minister Terry Lister was to give a press conference on the subject of St. George's Prep (SGP). Having only spoken on the issue on Friday, I wondered what new...
I now understand why so many members of Bermuda's delinquent youth pass their time sitting on walls. It's come to my attention that the punishment meted out to students who earn themselves a lunchtime detention at one of the Island's...
I've just spent a very interesting hour or so looking around the 'On The Waterfront' exhibition currently on display in Number Six Shed in Hamilton. The exhibition is the result of a competition launched by the Bermuda Sun and local...
A woman whose car was stolen last Sunday was surprised to see her vehicle stopped in a line of traffic the next day, two cars ahead of the bus she was travelling on. She immediately got off the bus and...
I've just watched Education Minister Terry Lister's pathetic justification for the cancellation of one of the P1 classes at St. George's Prep on VSB TV news. Anyone unfamiliar with the situation at the school should be careful not to take...
Education Minister Terry Lister has spoken. St. George's Prep will be stripped of its second P1 class in September. Since making the original announcement a couple of weeks ago, the Minister has come under enormous pressure from parents, the Royal...
Premier Alex Scott has been defending the Government's odd policy on work permit term limits again. The 2001 policy restricts expats to a maximum stay of six years, or nine years for "key staff". The effect of this policy will...
One tourist attraction today's cruise ship visitors won't have been looking round was the replica of the ship Deliverance in St. George's. It was damaged by a fire last night, suspected to be the work of arsonists. Most of the...
Like the return of the longtails, the return of the cruise ships to Bermuda is a sure sign that spring is in the air. The first ship of the year docked in St. George's less than half an hour ago....
Can someone please tell me why, after the 6pm news on FM 89, the station invariably plays Counting Crows' Big Yellow Taxi? They did it last night, they did it last Thursday (I think) and they must have done it...
My wife just observed that our cat Stormy has a funny-shaped back. It's got a big bump in it. Does that make him the Hunch Cat of Notre Maison?
A group of Bermudians are in the process of setting up a new organisation to consider solutions to contemporary issues. The Foundation for Bermuda Studies, whose motto is "Enlightening Bermuda Today For Tomorrow's World", is intended to be an independent,...
Today I'm going to take a break from politics to gripe about something far more important: the availability of computer games. I've been keeping an eye out for two games recently: Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic, and Price...
It must have been a slow news week over at the Mid Ocean News as this week's paper chose to lead on an old story: the sky-high cost of internet access here. I’ve griped about this before, but for those...
I note with puzzlement Alex Scott's comments in today's Royal Gazette. He added that some people had misunderstood his Founders Day Speech in which he called for a discussion on Independence and "have immediately moved to campaign for or against...
The US Consul, Denis Coleman, has been speaking out against Bermuda's ties with Cuba again. Citing them as one of the reasons why relations between Bermuda and the US were "not as good as they used to be", he observed...
Premier Alex Scott was back on the radio news again this morning, trying to put further distance between himself and PLP backbencher Derrick Burgess who earlier this week said Government contracts should be given to black-owned companies. Mr. Burgess' comments...
Not content with securing new flights to Florida, Chicago and Baltimore, driving down the cost of travel between Bermuda and the US, Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown announced on Monday that budget airline JetBlue will also start flying to Bermuda...
I've just spent the evening at an emergency PTA meeting down at St. George’s Prep School, called to discuss the Minister of Education’s belated decision to eliminate one of the Primary One classes there next year. The hall was three-quarters...
So much news coverage, so little discussion of the benefits of independence. Although I belive the general election vs. referendum debate is of critical importance in the ongoing discussion about independence, a number of people have remarked that no-one has...
Tell me it isn't true. According to a UBP release, in the House of Assembly on Friday PLP MP and president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, Derrick Burgess, said that the PLP Government had a mandate to ensure that Government...
One week after Premier Alex Scott re-ignited the independence debate, much of the discussion thus far has been about the method to be used to decide the issue. Although both political parties are in favour of independence, the governing PLP...
One of the things I’ve noticed since moving to Bermuda is how reluctant many people here are to express their opinions. Comments on this site and on other Bermudian blogs or message boards are often anonymous, as are many of...
The Sandys North by-election was finally held yesterday, a consequence of the death of Finance Minister Eugene Cox in January. In the end PLP candidate Michael Scott trounced UBP member Corin Smith by 414 votes to 220 - a greater...
Education Minister Terry Lister was back on VSB news this evening, trying to justify the axing of one of the Primary One classes at St. George's Prep. After listening to his arguments I think he needs to go back to...
Parents in St. George's are up in arms after the Ministry of Education's decision to reduce the numbers of streams of students at St. George's Preparatory School from two to one. To add insult to injury, the decision was announced...
Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent was musing about possible solutions to the housing crisis on VSB radio news this evening. Apparently now he's considering building on arable and forest land. I firmly believe that in addition to measures it might take...
The independence debate has barely begun and already columnist Alvin Williams has shown why getting a measured, rational discussion is going to be so hard. Like almost ever other discussion in Bermuda, it's in grave danger of being hijacked by...
The PLP may not have much to show for its five years in Government, but just recently Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown seems to have been working overtime to tackle one of the biggest problems facing Bermuda's ailing tourism industry:...
Question: You're the head of a small British colony, prosperous in many ways, but labouring under the pressure of a severe housing crisis, a rising tide of crime and a collapse in revenue from foreign tourists. Your government was returned...
Our DSL connection has gone on the blink. As we can't connect to either our Northrock or Logic account it seems safe to conclude the problem is with the line, so I called BTC at 7pm this evening, just on...
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