Alex Scott's suggestion that disillusioned PLP supporters should still vote for the party because changes could be made after the election is topsy-turvy. "After the election, events are difficult to predict," said Mr. Scott. "I say to people: 'Don't abandon...
So, it seems the PLP's blog will link to me, after all, as long as I'm saying something they want to hear. Three weeks ago, I contacted PLP chairman David Burt to ask if he would include this blog in...
Many voters still do not know who leaked the BHC dossier, despite former PLP supporter Harold Darrell's admission that it was him. A recent survey by Research.bm found that 47% of registered voters who were certain, likely or possibly going...
In the wake of the UBP's embarrassingly bad fish cartoon, Denis Pitcher offers a hilarious script for the ad that they should have produced instead. It's funny, on-target, and cool. Well done, Denis.
What the hell is this? It's not funny, or clever. It's mindless. And it's only episode 1? God help us. If this is the UBP's idea of humour we should all be grateful that the "outrageously funny" video satire of...
The PLP's claims to be competent managers of Bermuda's economy are looking mighty thin in the wake of the Bermuda Cement Company (BCC) fiasco. It's hard to imagine a better example of ineptitude than the Government's need to resort to...
Nothing typifies the arrogance of the Premier like this picture of his car parked in a handicapped spot outside the Harbourfront restaurant. This isn't the first time that Dr. Brown's car has been caught parked illegally. A couple of years...
We're now over half way through the election campaign, with just two weeks until advance polling starts. Yet so far neither party has produced a manifesto. The UBP has produced their "Agenda for Change", which does outline some of the...
Writing on Progressive Minds, 30strong argues that cost of CITV, the Government's new TV station, is justified because its programming is cultural, not partisan. His comments echo those of Premier Ewart Brown at the channel's launch, who said, "On this...
While you're trying to decide whether former Premier Sir John Swan's recent warnings about international business are genuine or just scaremongering, keep in mind these comments made by a senior Bermudian reinsurance executive earlier this year: "The threat of departure...
In November 2003, then-Premier Alex Scott pledged that the PLP government would introduce freedom of information legislation. In July 2004, Mr. Scott said that Public Access To Information legislation would likely be tabled early in the next Parliament. That didn't...
The nasty smell of xenophobia hanging around some of the members of the Government continues to worsen. First, Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess suggests that non-Bermudians should stay out of local politics. Then the same Minister drives through legislation restricting the...
When the BHC report was released in 2004, DPP consultant Kulandra Ratneser said that more cases would have made it to court if the law (specifically, the Criminal Code Amendment Act) had been modernised. In response, then-Premier Alex Scott promised...
The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment Act 2007 is the most offensive piece of legislation that the PLP have passed in their time in office. The Act is supposed to crack down on “fronting”, the practice where a Bermudian buys...
A recurrent theme of the PLP’s campaign is that the media has a pro-UBP bias. Is there any truth to this claim? Or is the PLP misrepresenting opinion as bias (whether deliberately or accidentally)? A thought-provoking discussion of the difference...
Last October, the Bank of Bermuda rolled out a new internet banking system. While the new system offered some improvements over the old, transaction downloads to Microsoft Money were essentially broken. In the .ofx file, the payee field no longer...
Please can someone explain why, when I want to withdraw a non-standard amount of cash from a Bank of Bermuda ATM machine, I need to enter the amount in dollars and cents? Since the machine only dispenses bills, why make...
Premier Ewart Brown likes to portray himself as a man who gets things done. As a man who can cut through opposition and make things happen. Unfortunately, reality does not always accord with this rosy image. This will be the...
After reading the opinions of some motorists on the Corporation of Hamilton’s new clamping policy, I can understand why the Corporation is having to spend $300,000 to secure the city’s car parks with automatic barriers too. If you object to...
It’s difficult to believe that anyone could object to the UBP's plea to keep the election clean and focused on the issues. But object is precisely what the PLP and some of its supporters are doing. The argument seems to...
The PLP is trying to take credit for bringing the allegations of racism at the hospital to light: “The PLP government established the Office of the Ombudsman which investigated the allegations at King Edward and brought them to light. Under...
The PLP blog is complaining about the Royal Gazette again, this time for describing the Premier’s speech on Friday evening as an “insult-strewn tirade”. The Gazette ought to be more careful about editorialising in its news stories, particularly given its...
The Premier's speech at the PLP banquet on Saturday evening used the word "stolen" in relation to the BHC dossier 13 times. The last I heard, however, it had still not been established whether the dossier was actually stolen or...
In his speech at the PLP banquet on Friday evening, Premier Ewart Brown spoke candidly about his refusal to answer any of the allegations in the leaked BHC dossier. He said that to do so would have set a “dangerous...
The UBP have been critical of the Government’s recent legislation that purports to crack down on fronting, but actually discriminates against Bermudians married to non-Bermudians (I’ll talk more about this in a future post). But I hadn’t heard the UBP...
They say that a week is a long time in politics, so perhaps it's unsurprising that the nine months that I’ve been on hiatus feel like an eternity. In that time, the Government has pushed forward a number of controversial...
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