Dear Sir,

Michael Fahy’s opinion piece in The Royal Gazette on September 30 — “Lid Lifted on Morgan’s Point” — should be required reading in every secondary school classroom in Bermuda and at every Progressive Labour Party caucus meeting.

Every PLP MP should be asked about it by their constituents. Party politics aside, there are important lessons to be learnt, but so too the PLP has to come clean about its role in the whole sorry mess — somehow, its collective memory seems to start with 2017.

I hope that the “pertinent details leading up to the creditors activating the government guarantee” do come out. Equally, I hope it does not reveal more bailouts for the PLP “friends and family” club.

One question that has always puzzled me: why was there never an enormous hue and cry about the United States Navy leaving us to clean up all its pollution?

There is so much emphasis put on Bermuda’s relationship with the US and the British-American “special relationship”, but clearly in this instance, poor Bermuda got left holding the responsibility for the mess left behind by the Americans.

Anyone who reads the report on the Bassett’s Cave situation would be appalled, and it is even harder to believe that they continued pumping raw sewage and industrial pollutants into a cave without any form of treatment or remediation until they left — in our lifetimes and long after the long-term effects of such acts were well known. This was not something that happened before anyone knew any better.

Too bad that Ewart Brown was so keen to embarrass Britain and endear himself to the Obama Administration that he did not put Bermuda’s interests first and make our acceptance of the Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay dependent on the US cleaning up Morgan’s Point first.

How about an increased departure tax levy on all US citizens to go towards cleaning up Morgan’s Point?

Until this situation is resolved, it will remain a white elephant and Bassett’s Cave is one bad hurricane away from emptying its contents into the Great Sound.

ELSPETH WEISBERG

Warwick