Last year I wrote an article in which I expressed my support for a process of truth and reconciliation to help heal Bermuda's racial divisions. Recently I've been wondering whether I might be able to use this blog to contribute...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Striker - "Welcome, children, to your first term at the new Berkley. We have a slightly revised curriculum for this first term: at 9am it will be 'Basic...
Tom Vesey has a first-rate summary of why work permit term limits are bad for Bermuda in Friday's Bermuda Sun. "Beginning over the next year, there will be a mass exodus of perfectly qualified non-Bermudians who have been here six...
This week's caption competition is going down the rabbit hole. 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 I’m late, I’m late. Pardon...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs have just released their latest memo on Bermuda's independence debate. In summary: While the Council on Hemispheric Affairs historically has supported every independence campaign in its purview where a majority of the people have called...
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been running a survey asking how satisfied you are with the way the members of the Cabinet are handling their jobs. The results are shown in the graph and table below. The scores...
When I heard that Deputy Premier Dr. Ewart Brown will no longer answer questions from the press that he considers to be "plantation questions", I wondered what on earth he meant. So did the Royal Gazette. So I emailed him...
First Muslims were offended by a Danish newspaper. Now Hindus have been offended by a French film and Christians by an American TV show (again). These religious folk really need to lighten up a bit. Mind you, I haven't heard...
The wife and I are planning a trip to Las Vegas at the beginning of April, to celebrate her 30th birthday. Having never been before, I'd appreciate any recommendations on where to stay, where to eat, and what to see....
As the violence over the Dutch cartoons continues, in Austria British historian David Irving has been jailed for three years for denying the Holocaust. Holocaust-deniers are ignorant, foolish, and quite possibly anti-Semitic. Their views are distasteful and offensive. As such,...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is preparing to release another memorandum on Bermuda's independence debate. Having seen a draft, I think it's safe to say that the Government isn't going to like it any more than the last one.
When former St. George’s mayor E. Michael Jones called a snap election last month, some people wondered why he’d do such a thing almost a year before the end of his term. Mr. Jones said it was to avoid a...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. Picture courtesy of BermyNet The winners were: First: SmokingGun - "When I said pay to play I wasn't talking about recorders." Second: Full Fullish - Mr. Brown hashes out the final plans...
With only four traffic cops in Bermuda, speed cameras are essential to get drivers to slow down. Unfortunately, the Government no longer seems to have any intention of introducing them. In March last year, Minister of Public Safety Randy Horton...
The allegations made by former Berkeley project engineer Gabriel Martel in Friday’s Mid Ocean News will do little to restore public faith in the competence and honesty of some of those involved in the beleaguered project. Mr. Martel alleges that...
This week's caption competition is asking some questions of Transport and Tourism Minister Dr. Ewart Brown. Picture courtesy of BermyNet Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the...
The South Pacific islands of Tokelau have become the latest colony to reject independence in a referendum. Sixty per cent of the islands' 600 voters supported an end to rule by New Zealand, but this fell short of the two-thirds...
Slashdot discusses BELCO's plan to harness ocean currents to generate electricity. It's not particularly informative, but you might get a laugh from those worrying that the presence of the generator could lower temperatures in Europe, reduce the effectiveness of the...
"Children aged 11 sexually active" screamed the front page of today's Royal Gazette. The statistics aren't quite as sensational: A total of 83 11-year-old girls were asked whether they were sexually active, with three percent answering yes. Three percent of...
Tiger Bay writes: "The Police's failure to control Bermuda's roads has many knock on effects beyond the stress caused to commuters by ill-disciplined drivers and excess speed. The economic impact is frequently overlooked, as the lack of policing leads to...
It’s Valentine’s Day again. Bah, humbug. When I was single, I loathed Valentine’s Day. Every year I’d let myself get excited at the prospect of receiving a card from an anonymous admirer, and every year I’d be miserable when I...
Some people seem to have been upset by a video showing several young women exposing themselves while dancing in a local nightclub. The most shocking close-up scenes – lasting no more than five minutes – include a woman in crotchless...
I'm opposed to mandatory drug testing in the workplace, for reasons that I've stated before. I don't support testing for MPs for the same reasons. However for Minister of National Drug Control, Wayne Perinchief, to keep calling for the former...
Slowhand asks: "Why do we not utilise what seems to be perfectly good land and buildings that have been vacant and left in the control of the Government, if not directly for housing, at least for purposes that would free...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Jeff Ryall - Sluggo demonstrates excellent form playing in his new position: Slips. Second: Yet Another Limey - KFC announce profits up $11 million this year. Third: Rose...
This week's caption competition is out on the field with Bermuda's premier spin bowler, Dwayne (Sluggo) Leverock. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam....
Kieth Flaherty is perplexed by the lack of a Bermuda camera club. As a result, he's started a blog "to discuss photography in general with a heavy bias on Bermuda and meet all those hidden hobbyists here on The Rock"....
Linda says: "We have just had the conclusion of another case where a step-grandfather was found guilty of sexual misconduct (such a tidy phrase) against two little girls. He was sentenced to 16 months. He'll probably do about eight. These...
Why would the Royal Gazette run a story about a online petition to clear the name of Dennis Robinson, one of the murderers of the Cooper twins, then not give the website's address? I hope it wasn't a deliberate omission....
I'm not sure why today's Royal Gazette chose to classify PLP Senator Walter Roban's announcement of an independence education campaign as "news". The PLP has already mentioned its desire to hold such meetings to highlight the findings of the Bermuda...
Dr. Joseph Froncioni may have recently stepped down as chairman of the Road Safety Council, but that only seems to have made him more vocal. Last week he was on VSB news talking about the need for better motorcycle instruction....
I was interested to see a half-page feature on Bob Marley in yesterday's Royal Gazette, as part of Black History month. As a reader pointed out to me: "Bob was no more black than white. He was fathered by a...
Last Tuesday, 3,200 gay cruisers landed on Grand Cayman. To greet the visitors in a variety of ways were hundreds of residents who lined the city of George Town streets. They were vocal in one of three ways – “welcome”,...
Two strangers who won a “blind wedding” in a competition organised by a UK radio station are coming to Bermuda on their honeymoon. “The newlyweds held hands, kissed and revealed that they were looking forward to getting to know each...
Njegos writes about the Danish cartoon furore: "By now, everyone has heard of the infamous cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed that appeared on the editorial page of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The crisis escalated recently when France-Soir ran the cartoons...
As a young Bermudian, I've grown very tired of watching the issue of racism take centre stage in dictating my future. It's an issue that is clearly tied to a past in which I had no part. It is truly...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Martin - Young: "Governor...you are hereby charged that in 1609, your predecessors illegally entered these Isles..." Second: Yet Another Limey - As the auditions for Bermuda Idol start,...
This week's caption competition is doing it by the book. 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 - zuillio
Yesterday's Royal Gazette had the results of another of their bi-monthly opinion polls of the Premier. While these surveys are interesting, the Government is more than one individual. It's not much good having an outstanding Premier if most of the...
In the last few weeks, the Royal Gazette have been running a very odd series of polls on their website. The first asked what operating system readers were using. The second, what screen resolution they had. Now they're asking what...
Bill Cook is concerned about the impact of house prices on emigration: "A young couple or a single person taking up a loan of say $750,000, amortised over a period of 30 years, could end up paying $4,500 per month!...
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