OPINION
This isn’t a ‘back on the plantation’ Budget
Bryant Trew: So what then does the 2014 Budget offer? I believe the OBA have presented a reality check for Bermuda. They are also attempting to position us upon the long-term road back to success.
Bermuda Blue: Kids should play in the street
Jeremy Deacon: Wouldn't it be nice to see large numbers of children playing cricket in the summer evenings, using any old thing as stumps placed in the middle of the (safe) road?
BDA BUDGET 2014 / COMMENT
The road to recovery is long, but we’re making progress
Sen. Lynne Woolridge: From Day One, the Government had a strong sense of what lay ahead and it has been busy making decisions to move Bermuda away from a situation that, without change, threatens us all with disaster.
BDA BUDGET 2014 / COMMENT
Have Crockwell’s travels cost as much as a referendum ?
Christopher Famous: To date, MP Crockwell alone has had 17 trips at the expense of the taxpayer. Well, not including his JetGate trip last year.
Our Budget time bomb is ticking
Larry Burchall: This 2014/15 Budget Statement conceals a time bomb. Budget analysis uncovers the bomb. The Budget starts the bomb’s fuse.
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Budget reaction: ‘Smash & grab’ is the real agenda of the OBA
Christopher Famous: Budget 2014-2015 is a clear indication of where the OBA wishes to take Bermuda. The welfare of Bermudians seems almost secondary in their thought process.
Budget analysis: Growing our population is the only way out of this mess
Larry Burchall: In the very near future, Spending must match Revenue. This will happen either by design - through sound planning and careful long-term management; or by default – in an economic implosion as Revenue stalls and Government gets hit with the same problem that slammed into Barbados.
Bermuda Blue: I’m feeling the bumps on my ride to work
Jeremy Deacon: I have finally taken the plunge and got on my pedal bike to cycle to work. It felt good. What did not feel good was riding on our roads - boy, what a mess.
Bigotry underscores woeful standard of parliamentary debate
Jonathan Starling: Mental health is nothing to joke about, or bandy around as an insult, nor something to be used for scoring political points.
We need a plan for all Bermudians
Marc Bean: It is now crystal clear to all and sundry that at this point in Bermuda's history, many in our midst who publicly call for "Unity", privately glory in not upholding the root issue of "Trust".
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Budget could draw line between haves and have-nots
Christopher Famous: We have no illusions that the OBA will attempt to sell out Bermuda and Bermudians in order to appease the rich.
The financial ‘bullet’ is coming
Larry Burchall: On Friday, Minister ‘Bob’ will use a couple of thousand words to tell us that he will cut spending and Bob may introduce a “three-year Budget”.
CASINOGATE / THE LAST WORD
‘Mr Bean, you are dragging your country into the mud’
Michael Dunkley: [Marc Bean] has come up with this extraordinary campaign of the dirtiest kind of politics, to throw us into disarray and to damage our support among Bermudians.
CASINOGATE / COMMENT
The trust deficit in the OBA is too great
Jonathan Starling: The Premier may be right that we're seeing the 'politics of division and personal destruction', however, he's wrong to blame the PLP completely.
CASINOGATE / COMMENT
What’s the real reason for Bean’s corruption allegations?
Bryant Trew: The Opposition has now brought its credibility into question by failing to disclose the full nature of the September meetings, and that the focus was matters of a highly-controversial nature.
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