LARRY BURCHALL
OPINION
Storm devastation is good news for job seekers
Having lived through several hurricanes, I recognize their serial inevitability.
Who's to blame for MV Bermudian's hurricane plight?
Part of Hurricane Igor’s legacy will be a double lesson in high-level Government accountability and responsibility.
OPINION
'Big El' has a heavy task ahead mending education
Minister ‘El’ James is a big man with an even bigger job that he has to do while lugging a gigantic anchor. I have often written about the shortcomings of Bermuda’s public education system.
REMEMBRANCE DAY: BERMUDA'S HEROES
Simmons: Only Black Bermudian soldier buried in England
Hayford Douglas Simmons left Bermuda on May 29, 1916. Three years later, on May 22, 1919, when his fellow Bermudians left war-ravaged Europe to return to their warm, sunny home, Hayford Simmons stayed behind.
OPINION
Behold, our burgeoning underclass
Eighteen years ago, in July 1992, in the now defunct Bermuda Times I wrote a column “The Hidden Army”. Since then, I had that same column re-printed twice — unchanged. Ominously and sadly, and more recently, I have been excoriated for saying that Bermuda has an ‘underclass’.
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Voters can send a strong message that they want change
In the ping-pong process of political maturing, Bermuda’s general electorate may be on the way to developing more political maturity. In this upcoming by-election there will be a chance to show a new level of political maturity.
OPINION
Projected growth was pie in the sky
The Minister’s projection of one per cent growth was pie in the sky. It was a forlorn hope in a world where, in the past three years, every financial giant and every country, has had its backside whipped and its wings clipped.
OPINION
Tourism board must tackle 35% decline in income
For about 40 years, tourism was a constant and growing industry. It is now an inconstant, almost incontinent, industry. However, eternally, hope springs. Once again, as has happened so many times since 1990, Bermuda kicks off in the game of tourism.
OPINION
Newstead setback reminds us where power now resides
Once upon a time, Bermuda was said to be run by an oligarchy. Most people called them The Forty Thieves. Those times were not good. Racial segregation was rigidly enforced. Discrimination by race and by gender was common.
OPINION
We don't have a housing crisis - we have too many empty houses
Housing crisis or grand boondoggle? It depends on whether you are looking and examining or rushing and shouting. In 2000, stepping down as chairman of the BHC, I left the late Housing Minister Nelson Bascome an analysis of Bermuda’s housing problem.
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OPINION / PART 2 OF 2
Promises on Government spending do not match the reality
I do not believe that this Minister for Finance can exercise the quality of financial control that Bermuda and good financial management requires.
OPINION / BUDGET 2011
Call to accountants: Help root out the devil in the Budget's detail
Larry Burchall believes financial sins are still catching up with us and gets a whiff of skullduggery. He asks Bermuda's accountants to make themselves heard.
OPINION
Barbara Ball was shunned by whites for helping blacks
Sometimes national heroes and national game changers come in outsize packets. Others sneak in, almost unnoticed. Dr. Barbara Ball was a national game changer who sneaked on to our national stage, made changes and then, just as quietly, went off.
OPINION
The fractional unit model simply does not work here
Tucker's Point Club needs to go the way of all failed business projects. Let it fail. Let it drop back into the financial market where another risk-taker will step forward and snap it up.
OPINION: TUCKER'S POINT SDO DEBATE
A black government dancing to a white man's tune
Right up to that dramatic moment when the Government caved in and withdrew, the whole SDO imbroglio was an extremely interesting and utterly fascinating exercise.
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