LARRY BURCHALL
OPINION
We depend on foreign earnings because the Bda dollar is worthless
Larry Burchall: In Bermuda our Bermuda dollar has value only because the Bermuda Monetary Authority maintains a reserve of foreign investments that backs every Bermuda dollar that is in circulation.
OPINION
Government is delivering fairy tales about the Post Office
Larry Burchall: Every now and again, I feel that Lewis Carroll, Dr Seuss, and the Brothers Grimm are still around. What’s more, I think they’re writing Ministerial Statements.
OPINION
In midst of debt crisis, pay hikes were nuts
Larry Burchall: I cannot understand why, in the summer of 2011, in this national economic setting, the Minister of Finance chose to give Government workers a pay increase.
OPINION
Government is playing a no-win game with public funds
Larry Burchall: This kind and level of borrowing and spending is completely and absolutely unsustainable. Financially, Bermuda is going downhill almost as if it is on skis.
We could print more money, but that would only deepen the hole
Larry Burchall: That three hundred year old law doesn’t mean that the connection didn’t exist before then. The connection between action and reaction is absolute and eternal.
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Government ministers have perfected the art of saying something about something....
Larry Burchall: From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, the need for somebody in authority to do or say something about something is a common fact. It's certainly common in Bermuda.
Are we victims or victors?
Larry Burchall: Why do 21st Century Bermudians dash to the victim's corner and then cry that they are powerless and are being suppressed and oppressed by some kind of 'white superiority'.
OPINION
Lack of good financial management is our biggest problem
Larry Burchall: Bermuda's biggest problem is a hidden problem that is delivering serious consequences now and with spinoff problems roiling higher.
A time to celebrate our family bonds
Larry Burchall: Cup Match is a unique Bermuda event. Some see it as a cricket game and get vexed about things like the quality of cricket and how the game should step up and try to achieve 'Test Match' standards.
Secret austerity programme is three years old
Larry Burchall: The Government-of-this-day has a secret unannounced “austerity" programme under way. It has been happening for three years.
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Some will vote on emotion, the rest on the economy
Larry Burchall: Given all the electioneering noise, on D-Day, in the secrecy of the polling booths, all voters in Bermuda will divide into exactly two groups. One group will vote on emotion. The other will vote on the economy.
48 continual months of decline
Larry Burchall: Bob Richards' first job is to deliver us the bitter pills of truth about the true state of Bermuda's national finances.
The segregated Bermuda I grew up in has changed
Larry Burchall: Throughout Bermuda, visible yet invisible, there is a large group of black unblack Bermudians. Bermudians who, when they look in their mirrors, see a person whose epidermis may range from ebony to imperceptible tan.
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