Where's my service?

September 3, 2002

Dear Sir,

Now correct me if I am wrong, but if I have paid for a service, such as Television Channel 53, I should be entitled to said service and should not find myself tuning in to a blacked out screen with no explanation or warning? What is happening to our television? How can the consumer be charged for a cable package and then have programmes taken away at whim with no apology. Clearly we have no rights whatsoever. Upon contacting CableVision, I was told that it was Fox Sports World who were blacking out the English Premier Football matches. What a load of nonsense, if that was the case how come they didn't black it out in the Docksider - it was not available on pay per view. Sounds like a good excuse for charging people more money for something they have already paid for and are entitled to. Please, Minister Webb, stop this corruption & infringement of consumer rights, it is just so Third World.

SOCCER WIDOW

Paget

Cellphone traffic

September 4, 2002

Dear Sir,

I would like to take the time to thank the young woman who drove her car on North Shore Road this afternoon, while using a cellphone, on how she showed me how not to drive a car. The part about that scene which is even more shocking is the fact that when she pulled off to go into the bus stop (near to Jason's Barber Shop), she didn't even have her left indicator on. Now surprisingly enough, the law doesn't seem to mind about people who drive this way even though, this sort of thing is an extreme safety hazard. Don't people care what happens on Bermuda's roads anymore?

CONCERNED ABOUT ROAD SAFETY

Pembroke

Why join Caricom?

August 28, 2002

Dear Sir,

No doubt most readers will have noted the Caribbean News of The Royal Gazette of Saturday, August 24 and Monday, August 26. The 13th Jamaican policeman killed this year, Bahamas a Canadian tourist killed, Jamaica two killed on a tour boat and Guyana eighth policeman killed this year. Is this what the PLP wants to aspire to by joining Caricom? By endorsing membership to Caricom, the leadership of the PLP is again demonstrating its divisive policies.

He "WHO" cares

City of Hamilton

Do not confuse us

August 31, 2002

Dear Sir,

Rendol James (R.G. August 31) seems not to like the "the stuff that I write" about "the Party". He should have said the "Party Hierarchy" or "leadership". That is fine, but ironic since he seems to have exactly the same problem with the leadership that I have! Perhaps he feels he has a right to express his views but I do not. In any event I do not know what any of that has to do with Mr. Arthur Hodgson.

We are two very different people. He has given a life time (forty or more years) of dedicated and committed effort to building up the PLP while I have been critical of the PLP from its inception because of its indifference to racism (which in my view continues). I have joined, off and on, sporadically. If Mr. Hodgson and I were the same person, or even if he took my advice, he would never have given up a secure Civil Service job which he greatly enjoyed to run for the PLP under any circumstance. That is to say nothing about what I will never forget, the vindictiveness of their leadership towards Gilbert Darrell and Austin Thomas, whom they persuaded to give up a secure job in Education to run for them.

Fortunately, most of the electorate, unlike Rendol James, has enough intelligence to distinguish between Mr. Hodgson and myself. They are not likely to confuse my concern about the Black Community with his dedication to the PLP. The kind concerns that I express today I expressed decades before November 1998 and it is clearly merely mischievousness which prompts Rendol James to link my opinions with Mr. Hodgson.

Fortunately he can speak for himself and even those with the limitations of Rendol James should do themselves the favour and not put my words in the mouth of Mr. Hodgson nor vice versa. I did not just begin to express my opinion since November 1988 nor certainly not just when Mr. Hodgson was sacked from the Cabinet and I would be pleased if anyone can point out to me where, over the decades, my opinions have done the kind of 180 degree turn which the PLP Leadership did on the matter of Queen's Honours.

EVA A. HODSON

Hamilton Parish

Professionals appreciated

September 3, 2002

Dear Sir,

On Sunday morning, September 1 my fiancee and I were involved in a cycle collision on Middle Road, Paget near Valley Road.

Our injuries were not serious, however I just wanted to extend my sincere gratitude to the emergency services personnel who attended the scene.

Your promptness and professionalism were noted and are very much appreciated.

GREG BROWN

City of Hamilton

US has bigger problems

September 4, 2002

Dear Sir,

I venture to suggest that America's pollution of our world is a greater threat than Iraq.

GEORGE GAIL

Paget

Is GW mentally ill?

September 4, 2002

Dear Sir,

The world must really not be taken in by President Bush. From my layman's experience he is suffering from an extremely difficult to discern mental state. His thinking has always been a one man ideology pointing towards world leadership, i.e. domination, but something tripped in my mind when he said world leaders must fall in with him or their credentials would be on the line. This is, from my experience, evidence of a contorted mind where up is down - down is up. Everyone becomes confused. Is there no medical person who recognises this syndrome? It is very difficult not to be persuaded by this type of personality, but the thinking is largely imaginative vs extremely disruptive.

A VERY CONCERNED ONLOOKER

Warwick