The Director of Public Prosecutions, Vinette Graham-Allen, has concluded her review of the Rebecca Middleton case. Regrettably, she has decided that no new charges can be brought against Kirk Mundy and Justis Smith. Bring on Cherie Booth.
This week's caption competition is getting feisty with one of Bermuda's most famous residents. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. This week, winners will be announced on Saturday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam. Photoshop...
She was reluctant to review the Rebecca Middleton case. The family of Shaundae Jones, whose murderer has also escaped justice, accused her of being "hostile and insensitive" to them, and questioned her decision to assign two "rookies" to their case....
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been running a survey to determine support for a variety of political reforms. The results are shown in the graph and table below. The scores for each proposed reform were computed by awarding...
An anonymous letter to the Editor appears in the 28 March edition of the Royal Gazette (RG). The letter writer, who signs him/herself “For an open and free press” takes to task the Premier and others who complained about the...
Few people will be surprised by the findings of the Charteris report on the Isle of Man's e-commerce strategy, which concluded that Bermuda is no longer a viable contender in the e-commerce market. The report's authors list 12 reasons why...
Seriously, what kind of person names their dog "Cess-pit"?
Tiger Bay writes about the 436 cases of reported child abuse or neglect in Bermuda last year: "That's a terrible statistic for a community the size of Bermuda - that's more than 4% of our school age children! Abuse and...
This week's award is shared between the drivers of the green Peugeot convertible and the silver car tailgating him, who passed me on Kindley Field Road, heading towards St. David's, at around 6.50pm this evening. These two morons must have...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Yet Another Limey - Spotting the fellow trekkie, Wayne did his famous Klingon forehead. Second: Adjustah - "These Siamese Fighting Politicians are hilarious when they see their own...
While packing a bottle of wine in a plastic carrier bag at the grocery store this afternoon, I was reprimanded by the girl on the till. She told me that I had to put it in a brown paper bag...
This week's caption competition is drawing back the curtain. 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 scandal
I've just got back from tonight's UBP shindig at the Southampton Princess, at which Wayne Furbert made one of his first public speeches since becoming leader. Here's what he had to say. Some of the highlights: the UBP would create...
One hidden aspect of the thrust to build higher in Bermuda is the effect more dense development will have on the infrastructure: water supply, solid and liquid wastes disposal, noise, traffic, and so on. Here are my thoughts about one...
I've scanned in a copy of the new plans for the Hamilton waterfront, for the benefit of anyone who may not have been at last night's presentation. Click on the images for the full-size versions. I strongly support redevelopment of...
Poor old Rudolph King is really having a string of bad luck at the moment. There he was, looking forward to hosting a jolly awards ceremony in Bermuda, when suddenly everything started to go pear-shapedi First it turned out that...
Perhaps I spoke too soon. It's beginning to seem as if the UBP's principled opposition to the proposed salary increases wasn't so principled after all. Or indeed, opposition. Writing in Friday's Royal Gazette, Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert said: "We as...
A news item in Sunday's Washington Post by John Pomfret caught my eye. Subtitled, “In San Francisco and Other Big Cities, Costs Drive Out Middle-Class Families”, the article describes housing cost and exodus issues similar to those facing Bermuda. One...
As soon as I saw the little blue cross, I knew that my old life was over. But first, denial. The vertical bar on the pregnancy test was bold and blue, but its horizontal counterpart was pale and striated. “What...
Three cheers for Opposition leader Wayne Furbert, for not supporting the proposed pay hikes for MPs. Transport and Tourism Minister Dr. Ewart Brown, for acting quickly to prevent his Ministry's advertising company bringing in a foreign photographer for a local...
BTC, and their parent company KeyTech, are clearly embarrassed by last week's DSL problems in St. George's. On Friday, Barry Catmur, KeyTech's Director of Business Development emailed Pondblog author Gavin Shorto to personally apologise for the problems. Then today, Gavin...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: TJL - Disaster strikes when Captain Jenkins attempts to avoid the post-Happy Hour breathalyser by sailing home. Second: Tiger Bay - New Bermuda Regiment coastguard takes over pilot...
Martin writes to express his unhappiness with the suggestion of Charles Jeffers, former chairman of the National Liberal Party, that people over 55 should not be allowed to vote on independence: "As I enter what Charles Jeffers calls “my twilight...
Guilden Gilbert writes to express concern about the reports of US government officials being able to get bomb-making materials past checkpoints at 21 US airports. Or specifically, why the media chose to make the information public: "Shouldn't security agencies be...
This week's caption competition is having a smashing time. 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 The Don Bystander - Who in...
SC writes to relate the difficulty of finding an approved child care provider: "I have been looking for a child care provider, since the Family Services Department is making my sons' sitter decrease her number of kids to three. Unfortunately,...
SmokingGun and Tiger Bay pointed out these nuggets in today's Royal Gazette: The House also heard that the memorial for those lost at sea at Great Head Park, St. David’s, had cost Government $250,000 more than was budgeted for. and...
This week, BTC have been running a series of half-page ads in the Royal Gazette, titled "The ABC’s of DSL". "Learn something new every day," they promise. Here’s what I’ve been learning. Yesterday, at around the same time that the...
Last Saturday night’s forum on Political Truths and Reconstruction raised several questions about the suitability of the Westminster system of Parliamentary Democracy for Bermuda. One of the topics arising was fixed-term elections. As I have written more than a few...
Is it just me, or does Patricia Gordon-Pamplin's complaint to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) about Senator David Burch's "house niggers" comments smack of political point-scoring? I'm as disgusted by what Senator Burch said as the next person, but shouldn't...
Dark and Stormy's Bill Davidson has mixed feelings about the Premier's suggestion that the role of the Bermuda Regiment be expanded to include "a little coastguard": "[This is] something I have been an advocate of for many years. Sadly enough,...
On Saturday evening, around 60 people filled St. Paul’s Christian Education Centre to discuss how to make Bermuda’s political system more democratic. At the start of the evening, I was somewhat sceptical about the need for such change. By the...
On Friday afternoon there was a serious four-vehicle pile-up on North Shore Road. According to the Royal Gazette: The accident happened when the driver of a blue open-backed truck, travelling west, stopped to let a postman turn out of Idlewood...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: SmokingGun - "Just don't do anything stupid like buy a new house or flashy BMW" Second: Adjustah - Pay to Play and Pray They Stay Third: Darkside -...
There has been much talk recently about the need to change Bermuda's political system, to dispel the widespread disillusionment with local politics. Now activist Khalid Wasi has organised a forum to discuss ways to make this happen. The forum is...
This week's caption competition is eavsedropping on a conversation between Tourism Minister Ewart Brown and former St. George's mayor E. Michael Jones (now local representative of Club Med developer KJA Development). Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed...
The Bermuda Professional Photographic Association (BPPA) has issued a strongly-worded press release condemning the decision of the Government’s new tourism ad agency, Global Hue, to bring in a foreign photographic team to shoot the new Bermuda tourism ads. The BPPA...
Martin writes: "For many of us, a circus forms a happy part of a childhood memory. Over recent years in particular, however, both groups and individuals that are concerned about animals in captivity have continued to express their concerns about...
Bertrand Sciboz, of the European Centre for Underwater Research and Studies, has created a collection of placemarks for Google Earth showing the location of Bermuda's shipwrecks. Each placemark includes a sometimes lengthy description of the wreck at that site. Apparently...
Tiger Bay is concerned by the confusion about how much of the debt of the civil service pension fund the Government has written off - and the failure of Finance Minister Paula Cox to clear things up: "Last year she...
Last week the Fairmont Southampton Princess announced plans for a major redevelopment. 91 new "golf villas" will be built and made available for fractional purchase and vacation rental, while the existing golf course will lose half of its 18 holes...
I'm glad that Crash won Best Picture at the Oscars last night. It's an outstanding movie, with particular relevance to Bermuda. I wrote a brief review last year. If you haven't already seen it, do yourself a favour and rent...
This week's LiB caption competition is now over. The winners were: First: Darkside - Acting quickly, the Colonel diverts attention away from the "re-distribution of Berkeley materials" effort. Second: Lost in Flatts - "I find your lack of faith disturbing..."...
The Government's policy banning Bermudians from selling their property to non-Bermudians was dealt a humiliating blow in Supreme Court on Friday. Puisne judge Geoffrey Bell found that the policy had breached the "legitimate expectations" of local developers Alan and Vera...
Earlier this week, Shadow Works Minister Jon Brunson warned the House of Assembly about the possibility of severe water shortages in the years ahead, as Bermuda's population continues to grow. Repairing the Government's water catchment facilities and building a new...
Earlier this week a Bermudian mechanic admitted trying to smuggle more than $100,000 worth of cocaine into the UK. Drug smuggling is the kind of activity that requires you to keep a low profile. Which would seem to make it...
Alvin Williams and I don't agree on much. But his column in today's Mid Ocean News was excellent: interesting, measured and pragmatic. "Does the news media contribute to the racial divide and sharpen political antagonisms in Bermuda?" he asks at...
This week's caption competition is out and about with Works & Engineering Minister Lt. Col. David Burch. Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Part of the OTB Caption Jam....
I'm not quite sure what Government backbencher Renee Webb was getting at yesterday when she noted that the Government has the right to shut down a website if its content is offensive (in the public interest, of course). But I...
In his column in today’s Bermuda Sun, Larry Burchall wonders how Bermuda can have anything other than a zero unemployment rate. Since there are 11,000 non-Bermudian work permit holders, and since Bermudians have first dibs on any job, he says:...
High-speed internet access in Bermuda has long been both slow and expensive. It looks like that might be about to change. CableVision has just announced its intent to launch a high-speed internet service next month. It will offer a download...
The good news: the Bermuda Sun has become Bermuda's first newspaper to get an RSS feed. The link isn't visible on the homepage, but it can be found in the 'News' section, suggesting that feeds for other sections of the...
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