Getting on with it

Posted: July 9, 2008 in Bermuda, bermuda politics, media
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Stop moaning and move on!

Larry Burchall’s column in today’s Sun is well worth reading. He hits back at a recent white letter writer criticising him for daring to suggest that blacks “move on” when it comes to racism and refreshingly as always, Larry’s not afraid to tell it like he sees it. Here’s just an excerpt:

“Does it matter – to me – what white Bermudians think and feel about the past? No! Does it matter – to me – that white Bermudians haven’t apologized about the past? No! Do I need to see white Bermudians walking around in sack-clothes and ashes, wailing and gnashing their teeth about their past behaviour? No!
“In 2008, Bermuda is bedeviled by a national problem of under-educated, under-prepared, and under-skilled black males. This looks like a racial problem. It isn’t. It’s an individual and fixable national problem whose 2008 solution is NOT limited by what happened before 1960.”

Memo to self: must get around to buying Larry’s book, “FINE AS WINE: From coloured boy to Bermudian Man“, in time for my vacation reading next week!

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Uncle Elvis in stage nudity shock

Posted: July 7, 2008 in Uncategorized
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You have been warned – Uncle Elvis has won the lead for the Gilbert & Sullivan production of The Full Monty! That would explain why he has been spotted cruising half-naked around Hamilton at night lately to the beat of Hot Stuff. You Sexy Thing, Mike – good luck! Can’t wait to see how this whole thing, er, comes off ….

Report raps Government over voting rights, discrimination, secrecy

Posted: July 7, 2008 in Bermuda, bermuda politics
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The UK Foreign Affairs Committee has finally published its 171-page report on Britain’s Oversea Territories. Among its recommendations for Bermuda are an end to conscription, a review of voting rights for long-term residents like Mr and Mrs Breezeblog and no discrimination based on sexual orientation. It also urges the Government to strengthen its transparency measures by establishing an independent Electoral Commission; allow committees of the House of Assembly to meet in public; and in its response to the report, set out the steps it has taken “to ensure that allegations of corruption at the Bermuda Housing Corporation, in the issuing of contracts, and of electoral fraud in Bermuda are properly investigated.

You can download the whole report from here.

Footnote: On the voting rights for permanent residents, a well-placed source tells me that Government will likely deal with that issue by granting status to all PRCs at the end of 2009 when all those eligible under the 20-year residency, “1989 rule” are accounted for.

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