Acceptable behaviour

November 4, 2005

Dear Sir,

I would like to share with your readers an experience I had whilst travelling via bus to St George?s.

At the Tennis Stadium Stop, a group of students wearing Berkeley Institute?s uniform, boarded and made their way to seats at the rear. On their way, they greeted fellow passengers with ?good afternoon?. En route, three passengers who appeared to be visitors boarded and were without seats. Two male students offered their seats and the remaining seated female was encouraged by her peers to give her seat to the standing adult.

Bermuda, Berkeley Institute, their parents and peers should feel honoured by the behaviour of those unsupervised students who, on November 3, 2005 proved that their generation is not lost.

I hope more of us can witness other demonstrations of acceptable-behaviour and notice how they stand out amongst a crowd.

Dr. Brown?s powers

November 1, 2005

Dear Sir,

I am truly amazed at the power wielded by the Minister of Transport. You may recall a few years ago, when there was a strong lobby by the car dealers here, to have the size limits on vehicles raised. The argument seemed to be that the major manufacturers were not making any cars small enough for the Bermuda market.

Then the Minister in all his wisdom, changes the regulations to allow larger cars, and lo and behold the Island is flooded with smaller cars! The major auto producers had no choice but to submit to Bermuda?s demands and to retool their lines.

Many secret meetings took place with all of the major players sending their design teams to meet in Easter Island to work out the details for these small cars. Now when you can control companies whose collective worth is measured in trillions of dollars, that in my book is real power!

Seven-storey monster

November 3, 2005

Dear Sir,

So finally we have it ? a seven-story monster where the venerable Triminghams stands. A monster to be built by a monster ? is this where ?sustainable growth? is leading us? Onward and upward ? going forward?

Perhaps as a quid pro quo, the Monster might consider becoming a ?good corporate citizen? and will raze its current Head Office monstrosity to the ground, replacing it with a small park/garden for the benefit of us all.

Amongst other things, this would both get rid of the wind tunnel effect when the wind reaches 20 mph and ensure that the owners are not saddled with the two ugliest buildings in Town.

Chicken deterrent

October 22, 2005

Dear Sir,

Please allow me to comment on the letter from the lady walking her dog at Spittal Pond when she was attacked by the ?Hen from Hell!?

May I suggest that when walking her dog in the future she dresses as ?Colonel Sanders? of Kentucky ?

Fight domestic violence

November 3, 2005

Dear Sir,

While I endorse a sensible look at how Bermuda deals with and legislates around the topic of narcotics (Perinchief to Lead War on Drugs, November 2), I would like to ask why we see no headlines announcing that a Government Minister is launching a war on domestic violence and crimes against women.

From the information I see in , from the Women?s Resource Centre and the campaign that was launched on BermudaSucks.com, it seems clear that this epidemic is not comprehensively addressed by the government. Sentencing, when cases even make it to court (less than ten percent according to a recent article) appears to be erratic at best.

It seems that some of our magistrates do not take domestic violence crimes seriously, and violent perpetrators are being let off the hook. This, Bermuda, does indeed suck!

Change for the worse

October 27, 2005

Dear Sir,

I?m writing you in reference to the #2 Radio Station Hott 107.5, I read in that two of the morning host have been let go, Brother Richie and Bootsie. The reason for this was apparently the lack of advertisement and company changes.

Frankly, sir, I don?t believe this and a lot of others don?t believe it either.

This station has called itself the #1 Station for over a year and it seemed to be growing in popularity every day, so someone tell us what?s really going on.

I felt the change right away. Not to demean the other host taking over, but the morning does not have the same flavour it did before.

It felt good to have a good laugh before getting out to work in the morning.

Racism not limited

October 21, 2005

Dear Sir,

In response to Gatha?s Son on the subject of racism: The definition of racism reads as follows:

?Racism: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief?.

Now Gatha?s Son ? where in there does it read that racism is only limited to black people?

Gibbons the right man

October 26, 2005

Dear Sir,

I must add my thoughts to those sent by Cicero in his/her letter to you of October 25.

There is no doubt in my mind that Dr. Grant Gibbons is the best person to run this country. Perhaps he doesn?t have enough charisma ? who cares! Do we want a charismatic leader or do we want an honest, sincere brilliant leader, which is how I would categorise Dr. Grant Gibbons?

The PLP Government has let us down badly, with their lies, secrecy, mismanagement and their determination to totally ignore 60 to 70 percent of the electorate who do not want Independence for Bermuda. If Alex Scott cared about the majority of the people in Bermuda, he would stop forcing the Independence issue down our throats.

Bermuda is at a crossroads. Who better to steer us back on track than Dr. Gibbons? He has the respect of the offshore companies, as well as most Bermudians ? black and white. What a shame if Bermuda cannot benefit from the qualities of Dr. Gibbons.

I believe the only reason there are murmurings to replace Dr. Gibbons is the colour of his skin. Judging a person by the colour of their skin was wrong years ago and is equally wrong today.

It?s not broken

October 18, 2005

Dear Sir,

Talk about ignorance, there is nothing more ignorant than to even consider Independence, we are independent. Again, why fix something that?s not broken? Ever since we have had a change of Government, all we have done is breakdown, that?s the only success that I can see ... And that?s not a myth.