July 14, 2011Dear Sir,Every week I read “tempers flared after visitors left stranded”. It appears that former Minister of Tourism and Premier Dr Ewart Brown did Bermuda a grave disservice by rushing to build a second dock at Dockyard to accommodate two huge cruise ships at the same time in order, in my opinion, to get his tourist figures up.It seems that no thought was given as to how the Island could comfortably accommodate so many visitors’ transportation needs and still service locals.All the taxpayers’ money spent on advertising beautiful beaches, historic sights and golf courses is useless if all the “irate people” can’t enjoy them and return home to complain about Bermuda.Fortunately the Island has some helpful citizens like Mr Anderson in St George’s and, many others, who practise the helpful hospitality that Bermuda was famous for in the past. But that is not enough to cure the fundamental problems and the bad publicity.Today I read that the new dock (53 percent over the original contract) that added $60 million to our national debt is faulty and wiggles “like a loose tooth”.Actually these two major problems will probably take care of themselves. Cruise ships are having so many complaints from passengers about transportation and too few facilities for the crowds that they may bypass Bermuda in the future. And cruise liners will no doubt refuse to dock at the new dock for safety reasons.It may be best to just let the $60 million dock fall into the sea. And ask our Government MPs to try not to make any more mistakes with our hard earned money.NANCY VALENTINEWarwick