This week's caption competition sees the Premier and Hamilton mayor Lawson Mapp doing some shopping on the Logos. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Because of the Bank Holiday, winners will be announced on Monday....
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic for debate. If you ask a question, please give your own thoughts on the subject too, even if it's in a subsequent comment. And if...
Santa's gone for another year, and so has the annual LiB Christmas caption competition. The winners were: First: Philip Barnett - Santa admonishes paparazzi photographer for snapping an unauthorized picture of his wife's white muff. Second: Stevie C - The...
Anyone reading yesterday's copies of the Bermuda Sun or Mid Ocean News could be forgiven for thinking that I've either died or gone back to the UK. In their reviews of the year, Larry Burchall noted that, "In Bermuda we’ve...
It seems that there's a much more serious problem with the Logos II than those articulated by the Chamber of Commerce. From today's Bermuda Sun: "Logos II is docked by the Number 1 shed. There is an Open Day on...
Local bookstores and the Chamber of Commerce have been making a fuss about the arrival of the floating bookshop Logos II, which dropped its gangplank on Front Street yesterday. I think its arrival is a good thing. The local retailers...
This week's caption competition has a festive theme. Enter your best captions for the picture below. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Tuesday 27 December. Part of the OTB Caption...
One of the reasons that I'm concerned about the bans on smoking in public places, such as the one passed into law in Bermuda yesterday, is that they are fostering a culture of intolerance. It's become socially acceptable to harass...
When I first learned about the new weekly flight from Bermuda to Munich that will begin next year, I was excited. In addition to its potential for bringing vacationing Europeans to Bermuda, it sounded like something that ought to make...
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic for debate. If you ask a question, please say what you think about the subject too, even if it's in a subsequent comment. And if...
Just a reminder that the LiB Christmas drinks will be held at Robin Hood this evening (Tuesday) from 5.30pm onwards. Ask for us at the bar. Look forward to seeing you there.
This week's caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: thisgrassman - The New Confident Black Man Second: Bundy & Coke - "House niggers is, of course, a term of endearment favoured by Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde." Third: Yet...
Last week, two people told me that they will no longer be participating in the discussions on this site because they had been subjected to personal attacks by other commenters. Unfortunately, they were not the first people to make such...
What's wrong with this picture? "Ten-year jail terms have been handed down to three men convicted of trying to murder a man when violence erupted at Wellington Oval... [The defendants] waved to friends and relatives who packed the public gallery,...
I'd just like to apologise for the problems which resulted in A Limey In Bermuda being stuck in a time warp for most of today. The odd behaviour was caused by a failure in the primary disk system of TypePad,...
This week's caption competition features PLP Senator Lt. Col. David Burch. UBP house niggers should feel free to enter as many captions as they please. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Due to Friday's TypePad...
About half-way into this evening’s season finale of The Apprentice I thought that the only fair outcome would be for Donald Trump to hire both Rebecca and Randal. So when Mr. Trump told Randal that he was hired, then interrupted...
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has come in for some criticism in recent weeks. First, Tony Brannon was unhappy with their refusal to investigate his complaint against Premier Alex Scott in the now infamous Blackberry saga. Then yesterday UBP Senator...
If I had called Lt. Col. David Burch a stupid nigger in one of the columns I used to write for the Royal Gazette, I think that pretty much everyone in Bermuda would have excoriated me for my comment. However,...
I understand that Renee Webb's private member's bill to add sexual orientation to the Human Rights Act will probably be heard in parliament tomorrow. If this is a subject you feel strongly about, you may like to write to your...
It's time we held our own referendum. In watching our own political spectrum evolve over the last few years I've begun to wonder where Bermudians really stand when it comes to our present government. It is quite baffling to me...
Sean Gleeson alerts us to some serious safety issues on the plane that diverted to Bermuda last Mondayi
The Bermuda Regiment was criticised in the British parliament yesterday, during a debate on the Armed Forces Bill. Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay pointed to Bermuda’s compulsory national service for men as indicating the existence of gender discrimination. In addition, he...
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. First comment sets the topic for debate. If you ask a question, please provide your own answer too, even if it's in a subsequent comment. And if you've been lucky...
In 1972/3, Bermuda was rocked by the murders of five people: Police Commissioner George Duckett, Governor Sir Richard Sharples, Captain Hugh Sayers (the Governor’s aide-de-camp), Hamilton supermarket owner Victor Rego and his bookkeeper Mark Doe. Now British author Mel Ayton...
One of the great traditions of the festive season in the UK is the Christmas pantomime. At this time of year there’s scarcely a town in the land that doesn’t have one. Men dress as women, women dress as men,...
One of the most surprising things about last night’s finale of Survivor wasn’t so much that Danni won (though I thought that Steph deserved it more), it was the complete absence of local ads during the two-hour show. While it...
This week's caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Combat Banker - "...and when a rich ex-pat lady wants to know why it cost $5,000, you point to this $2 spark plug and say 'Labour'." Second: Tim Taylor...
Here’s a cool idea from the one of the guys who gave us boxoffice.bm: online movie rentals. Nice to see that Bermuda isn’t always stuck in the electronic dark ages when it comes to useful online services. Now if only...
This week's caption competition goes under the hood. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam.
While reviewing your proposed topics for today's open mike, I was struck by the number of suggestions for subjects that have previously been debated here. A Limey In Bermuda has been running for well over 2 years now; as such,...
Another chance to talk about a subject of your choice. Since comment moderation is still turned on, this week it will be the first published comment that will set the subject for debate (not necessarily the first one that's left...
Following the success of the last LIB drinks evening, I'm organising another for the evening of Tuesday 20th December. All are welcome, but let me know if you're planning to come along. I'm open to suggestions for the venue. »...
This site has been flooded with spam comments this afternoon, so I've turned comment moderation on until the attack subsides. This means that any comments that you leave will not appear until I have specifically authorised them. » The spamming...
I don't smoke, inject, inhale or otherwise consume any kind of illegal narcotic. I support random drug testing in sports, where the use of performance-enhancing drugs is tantamount to cheating. I believe that community leaders, including politicians, should set an...
In an interview with the Royal Gazette today, the new Minister of National Drug Control, Wayne Perinchief, outlined a number of things he'd like to see done to tackle Bermuda's drugs problem. But I was struck by how hesitant he...
Can anyone explain why the Government now wants to ban smoking in company cars? Next week: legislation to ban expats from smoking in their employer-supplied homes.
Folks who submitted captions for this week's competition might not have know what they were entering. But they were amusing, nonetheless. The winners were: First: TJL - (ticktickticktick) "Ewart, are you sure we should be accepting packages that look and...
With the news that Bermudians For Referendum are reopening their petition calling for a referendum on independence, it seemed like a fitting time to revisit the moment when the first 14,008 signatures were presented to the Premier earlier this year....
I can understand why the Government compels Bermuda's cable TV companies to include the Island's local channels in their line-ups. What I do not understand, however, is why it now wants to make the cable companies pay for the privilege....
BermudaSucks presents last week's bestselling books and top DVD rentals in Bermuda. Don't look for any of these at the Phoenix or Leisure Time, though.
This weekend there was an interesting discussion here about the difference between news, opinion, bias and propaganda. But paying newspapers to run favourable stories, presented as independent accounts? Now that's propaganda.
Archives By Date
