In addition to the question-and-answer session with Premier Ewart Brown, tonight’s town hall meeting in St. George’s included a presentation on the results of the cruise ship ports study and upcoming public transport improvements. On cruise ships: Computer simulations have...
The Government has received 14 expressions of interest from organisations interested in redeveloping the Club Med property, at least six of which are from “significant brands”. The announcement was made by Premier Ewart Brown at a town hall meeting in...
jake writes: Having read the recent article "Brown on Brown" by Christian Dunleavey on his Politics.bm site about Walton Brown I was forced to consider if we were talking about the same man. The explicit comment was on disclosure, but...
I’m disappointed with, and slightly puzzled by, the UBP’s stance on work permit term limits. In Friday’s Bermuda Sun, Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert said that the policy was not in Bermuda’s best interest and created unnecessary uncertainty in the international...
As an adjunct to the Overseas Territories Consultative Council meet, the Premier of Bermuda, The Hon. Dr. Ewart Brown, was generous enough to host the fourth annual Premier’s Dinner for Bermudian students studying in the UK. The event was held...
My apologies for the absence of the caption competition in the last few weeks. I've run out of suitable photographs. Unless things pick up, the competition is likely to become an occasional event rather than a regular Friday occurrence. As...
So let me get this straight. Former Premier Alex Scott is concerned that Premier Ewart Brown’s upcoming fundraiser for the PLP may create a perception of corruption, since it will allow people to “literally buy into Government”. Yet Mr. Scott...
In case you missed last week’s open house at 21 Tee Street – the former home of convicted BHC fraudster Terrence Smith - you can see what he spent your tax money on here.
The UK has just announced that students from UK Overseas Territories, including Bermuda, will pay the same university tuition fees as UK students. Fees for overseas students at British universities are considerably higher than those for locals, so this move...
The California Supreme Court has ruled that bloggers are not liable for defamatory comments left by third parties. From BBC News: Overturning a decision by the San Francisco appeal court, the court ruled that people claiming they were defamed online...
Another Club Med developer falls by the wayside and a poll finds that just 16% of people think that Bermuda’s taxi service has improved since GPS was introduced. Meanwhile, despite an improvement in the visitor arrival figures, Transport and Tourism...
I’d like to thank Premier Ewart Brown for finally revealing how much has been paid to airlines in minimum revenue guarantees in order to increase airlift to the island. The answer, provided by airport General Manager Jim Howes in a...
The future of debate in Bermuda looks bright if the young people I saw at the 17th Annual Senior and Middle School Debate Tournament at Bermuda College on Saturday afternoon are anything to go by. The tournament, hosted by the...
For the last couple of weeks I've been running a poll asking who you think would win the next election if it was held tomorrow. The results were as follows: Election Talk If a General Election was held tomorrow, who...
I almost choked when I saw the headline in today’s Royal Gazette: “PLP seeking a black governor”. Reading the article, however, it’s unclear whether the PLP are asking for Baroness Amos or Baroness Scotland because they’re black, or whether they...
I wasn’t one of the two dozen people rattling around inside the 350-seater Warbaby Fox – the first fast ferry serving the East End of the island – on its first trip this morning. Nor did I catch it for...
There was a characteristic whiff of arrogance about Premier Ewart Brown’s suggestion that the location of his weekly meetings with the Governor should alternate between Government House and the Cabinet Office. The Governor is the representative of the Queen in...
When I first heard the claim that the mould problem at Cedarbridge Academy might be serious enough to require the demolition of the school, I was sceptical. After reading the article in today’s Royal Gazette, I became even more so....
There’s less than meets the eye to today’s announcement by BTC that it is upgrading its DSL customers to a faster connection at no extra cost. Customers who currently pay $89 per month for a 256 kbps upload rate and...
There’s nothing new about the news that Bermuda has a staggering number of outstanding arrest warrants. In July this year, the Mid Ocean News reported that there were 5,000 outstanding warrants, although at the time police spokesman Dwayne Caines admitted...
With all the votes in, it's time to declare the winners of this week's caption competition. Photo courtesy of The Royal Gazette The winners were: First: SmokingGun - "Well Randy, I'd say you've got a small Cox problem." Second: Git...
For the last twenty-four hours, I have been trying without success to log on to the Bank of Bermuda’s internet banking site. Yesterday, I was invited to enter the first, second, last and last (sic) characters of my password in...
The 2006 Throne Speech is now available on the Government portal here. I'll comment more when I've had chance to digest it.
This week's caption competition is at the PLP delegates' conference. Photo courtesy of The Royal Gazette Photoshop entries are also welcomed and should be emailed to me. Winners will be announced on Sunday.
Tony Brannon sent the following letter to the editor of the Royal Gazette and copied it to me. Dear Mr. Editor I believe we still have a crisis in Tourism. I went to all the South Shore hotels this week...
There was an air of bravado about Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert in today’s Royal Gazette. Despite his claim to be eager for an electoral showdown with the PLP, Mr. Furbert seemed to be protesting too much. The UBP may have...
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