LARRY BURCHALL
Clinic was farcical battle — SAGE war is next
Larry Burchall: Why did anyone start and then fight a battle over the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre? The whole episode was badly conceived, lasted too long, allowed political temperatures to get too high, and then fizzled out in a floppy ending.
SAGE report: Data shows Bermuda’s Great Recession is home-grown
Larry Burchall: Right now I feel as though I'm floating in a pea-green boat in our turquoise waters.
If the Governor’s right, the Finance Ministry must be wrong
Larry Burchall: On Friday, reading the Speech from the Throne, the Governor of Bermuda appeared to tell the whole country an untruth
Our private sector must grow, to expand tax base
Larry Burchall lays out the facts on Bermuda private sector worker numbers.
Our falling population helps to sustain the recession
Larry Burchall: Right now, I’m having a series of tragicomic moments. I’ll share them with you. Perhaps, like me, you’ll be sadly amused. Or, perhaps, you’ll just get angry.
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We’ve wandered into Wonderland
Larry Burchall: Something strange is happening. Thousands of people involved in it too. And almost all – certainly the overwhelming majority — are Bermudians.
Taxpayers to pick up tab of underfunded pensions
Larry Burchall: The announcement of the imminent retirement of a very senior civil servant offers a perfect opportunity to explain the gobbledegook stuff that Brian Duperreault’s SAGE Commission is concerned about, and that Bob Stewart has been banging about for fifteen years.
Debt costs could destabilize Bermuda
Larry Burchall: I strongly disagree with the suggestion that today's financial woes cannot be traced back to the previous administration. And here's why.
Simply put — we don’t have enough revenue
Larry Burchall: The pattern of spending – AFTER Debt Service – was $1,100m a year from 2008 to 2013. Now the pattern of spending between 2014 and 2017 has to become $880m a year.
Bermuda’s housing glut
Between 1994 and 2012, Bermuda has undergone radical national change. Bermuda needs a deep and wide strategic re-think about all aspects of residential housing.
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The truth behind Bermuda’s population trend
Larry Burchall on Wednesday said the Ministry of Finance's residential population figures are wrong, and offered evidence suggesting a decline since 2008.
How we got into such an awful mess
Larry Burchall: In September 2013, it is clear that Bermuda's economy has marched at least seven years, and as many as twenty-nine years, to the rear. But there is a solution.
It’ll hurt, but we must cut deeper
Larry Burchall: Without consistent massive and rapid increases in overall tax revenue from an upward surging GDP, Bermuda’s nasty national money mess will require far more cutbacks.
Why do we rely on ‘Messiahs’ to fix our problems?
Larry Burchall: With over 120 churches and a Census reported minimum of 22 main religious denominations, Bermudians are strong believers in Messiahs and Prophets.
Dr King’s words made this a better world
Larr Burchall: On another August Wednesday, exactly fifty years ago, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech that, in America, now stands alongside President Abraham Lincoln's 1865 Gettysburg Address.
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