I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Chris Broadhurst, who becomes the first guest blogger on A Limey In Bermuda. Chris will need no introduction to most of you. One of Bermuda's best-known entertainers, he's been playing venues throughout...
It's official. The PLP is a racist organisation. We all thought so when Renee made her comment about 'people who look like me' but, let's face it, there was no proof. Today however, is a day which will go down...
I'm still deciding what to think about Premier Alex Scott's careless admission that he is "getting tired of listening to, and taking crap from people who look and sound like [white local activist Tony] Brannon." To put the Premier's comments...
This week's caption competition is making a Splash on the dance floor. Picture courtesy of BermyNet Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam. Photoshop...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 29 September 2005 Earlier this year, Dame Lois Browne Evans made a rather odd comment. During a meeting of the Bermuda Independence Commission, she suggested that independence could pave the way for the reintroduction of capital...
Over the last few weeks I've been running a poll seeking current opinions on capital punishment. The results were as follows. Capital Punishment Should Bermuda bring back hanging (or any other form of capital punishment)? [834 votes total] Yes (316)...
I'm beginning to wonder if iPods aren't just a little bit overrated. About two years ago my wife bought one. It lasted just over a year and then it died. It was probably a battery failure but the screen had...
Today is my second wedding anniversary. Only eight more years until I can vote...
The Royal Gazette has been revealing the results of numerous Research Innovations polls over the last few days. Since wading through the stories to pick out the key figures is tedious (I wish they'd tabulate the data to make it...
Several weeks ago there was an interesting article in the Bermuda Sun about why some Bermudians choose to emigrate. The article looked at the undergraduate thesis of Alaina Cubbon, a Bermudian student at Oxford University, who surveyed 92 Bermudian emigrants...
Slightly delayed due to the failure of my DSL last night, this week's caption competition has now closed. The winners were: First: Red Riding Hood(.)(.) - "Everything in this report is honest and truthful and is in the best interests...
In a determined effort to shovel his way to the planet's core, Premier Alex Scott is continuing to offer more amusingly implausible suggestions about what happened to the UBP's submission to the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC). "[The UBP's submission] was...
This week's caption competition brings a week of BIC-themed posts to a close. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam. Photoshop Entries "And without...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 22 September 2005 Amid the bias and the editorialising that suffused the final report of the much-maligned Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) there was one recommendation that, of itself, justified that body’s existence. The report explicitly acknowledged...
Local businessman Sir John Swan caused a stir at a meeting of Hamilton Rotarians today, with a stinging condemnation of the PLP government. In an incendiary speech, the former Premier suggested that Bermuda is on the road to becoming a...
The UBP have given me a copy of their submission to the Bermuda Independence Commission. You can download it here. It's 42 pages long and its title suggests it was submitted to the BIC on 8 June. Which rather gives...
I was looking forward to hearing what Premier Alex Scott would say to the representatives of Bermudians for Referendum (BFR) when they finally presented their petition to him today. The document, which contains 14,008 signatures, calls on the Government to...
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic for debate. As usual, if you ask a question, please provide your own thoughts on the subject too, even if it's in a subsequent comment....
Another thing that I realised while playing tourist last week is that Bermuda doesn't have many places to go for a fancy meal after a day of sightseeing in shorts and T-shirt. On my cousin's last night in Bermuda, we...
More random thoughts after spending a couple of days last week showing my cousin around the Island. Why doesn't Bermuda have more beachfront bars? Specifically, why don't we have more beachfront bars where you can hang out in in the...
The final bell has rung on this week's caption competition. The winners were: First: Slowhand - "I have one left over.... which of you did NOT get your Ritalin today?" Second: Yet Another Limey - New research shows 6 out...
This year marked the 10th anniversary of Bermuda's annual Sandcastle Competition, which was held at Horseshoe Bay beach yesterday. When I arrived at the beach at 3pm, three-quarters of the way through the alloted construction time, I was disappointed by...
The Department of Tourism has done a good job this year in increasing the number of things for our visitors to do on an evening. However, one of the things that struck me while showing some members of my family...
Following a visit to the Bermuda Aquarium last week, I've put together a new photo album of some of the pictures I took there. I've also added some of the other photos of Bermuda's marine life that I've snapped to...
This week's caption competition is going back to school. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam. Photoshop Entries "Look whose autograph I got!" -...
It's rumoured that Bermuda is being considered for location shooting for the next James Bond film, Casino Royale. If this works out it could be a bigger boost to our tourist industry than a thousand Pop and Sizzle flags. [via...
I'm often amazed at the amount of trash you find in the bushes alongside Bermuda's roads. But until this morning I'd never actually seen anyone throw anything there. So shame on the rider and passenger of motorcycle BF 672, who...
The final report of the Bermuda Independence Commission has been released and is available here. » I've heard that Dame Lois Browne Evans spent most of the press conference in the front row before the cameras sound asleep. Guess she...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 15 September 2005 When hurricane Nate swept past Bermuda last week, bringing only a little rain and a bit of wind, I have to admit I was disappointed. I’d been egging it on since it was...
Another opportunity to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic. If you ask a question, be sure to provide your own thoughts, even if it's in a subsequent comment. Update: TJL asks: "Is Alex Scott's...
An article in today's Royal Gazette about the website bermudasucks.com stated that a story about this site on A Limey In Bermuda had been removed. This is incorrect. The post can be found here. All comments that were left about...
An undergraduate at Oxford University is conducting a survey of social attitudes in Bermuda. Agatha Fox, a geography student at Oxford’s St. Edmund Hall, is currently working on a thesis titled “To what extent are the black and white populations...
Sign spotted near Fort Hamilton earlier today.
I'm about to try an experiment. Since I redesigned the site last week, you may have noticed that the line "Posted by The Limey" now appears beneath the title of every post. You could be forgiven for thinking this is...
There was an excellent response to this week's caption competition, which invited you to provide an alternative caption for the picture below. The winners were: First: Two Cents - At first it seemed weird when Alex Scott wanted his car...
Singapore has just held the world's first inter-school blogging competition. Jointly organized by the Education Ministry and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the country's biggest player in the telecoms market, the championship attracted more than 50 schools nationwide. Five junior colleges and...
The Bermuda Red Cross is making an urgent appeal for new blood donors. It follows the loss of 35% of donors due to the threat of Mad Cow Disease, which now prevents anyone who has visited or lived in Europe...
Concerned that the recent opinion column by Limey in Bermuda Phillip Wells may have actually galvanised support for independence, last night a desperate Alex Scott instructed Bishop Vernon Lambe, chairman of the Bermuda Independence Commission, to use what he called...
This week's caption competition again features St. George's Town Crier David Frith, this time announcing the arrival of the inaugural USA 3000 flight from Philadelphia last week. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will...
The poll that's been running on the site for the last couple of weeks was unscientifc even by the standards of web polls. In addition to the usual problems of multiple voting, this week's question required a pretty subjective response...
In July 2004, Island Press purchased bermuda.com from Tony Brannon. In April this year they re-launched the site - bizarrely, before they'd finished filling it with content. I've just been back to review bermuda.com while updating the links in my...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 8 September 2005 When it comes to stupid ideas, I used to think that drinking alcohol and then getting into a car was one of the stupidest. To my mind, it was up there with riding...
It's been over a year since A Limey In Bermuda last got a new look. I thought it was high time for a change. My aim was to produce a cleaner, more professional-looking site and showcase some of my photography...
Education Minister Terry Lister should hire Cedarbridge principal Kalmar Richards as his PR advisor. Here's what Mr. Lister said about the awful graduation rates from the Island's public schools in response to a critical opinion column by Christian Dunleavy: "Dunleavy's...
The Bermuda Weather Service is now predicting a direct hit by a slow-moving category one Hurricane Nate on Friday morning. Great. » You can keep up to date with Nate's progress by subscribing to the National Hurricane Center's Nate RSS...
I don't think I fully appreciated the horror that Hurricane Katrina unleashed upon New Orleans until I read this story yesterday, describing conditions at the Superdome and convention centre. "Refugees describe piles of faeces, knee-high, after the toilets overflowed and...
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic for debate. If you raise a question, please provide your own thoughts too, even if it's in a subsequent comment. Update: David says, "Unfortunately [animal...
This week's caption competition is now oar-ver. The winners were: First: royal flush - No you idiots, Ewart said he wanted whores at the fundraiser. Second: cool breeze - Relief effort en-route to shit creek. Third: SmokingGun - After a...
Does Bermuda really suck? This site seems to think so.
The Bermuda Optimist World Championship Team had their best ever showing at the Optimist World Championship last week. Team member Jason Saints said: “We’re extremely proud of our performance. It can be difficult to remain optimistic for a sustained period...
It's worth noting that my column this week wasn't the first time that the Royal Gazette has run a satirical opinion piece that used fabricated quotes. In fact on Tuesday the paper had an opinion column by the Washington Post's...
It's Friday again, so time for this week's caption competition. Enter your best caption for the picture below. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Since it's a holiday weekend, this week winners will be announced...
Here’s what PLP spokesman Scott Simmons said about my column on VSB news this evening. This time I’m not making anything up, I promise. “…there have been calls in the past for the media to be harnessed. There have been...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 1 September 2005 The PLP intends to throw the next election and allow the UBP to return to poweri The astonishing news was revealed to this newspaper in an exclusive interview with a highly placed PLP...
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