Ignore Bermuda, Igor

September 15, 2010

Dear Sir,

As a Bermudian vacationing at present in Vermont, I wanted to let all my fellow Islanders know that I am praying for Hurricane Igor to IgNorE Bermuda totally.

H. MEDEIROS

Vermont

Try pitching here

September 15, 2010

Dear Sir,

Delighted to read that "Boy with perfect pitch will help raise thousands", but shouldn't we be signing him up for the cricket team?

They seem to need all the help they can get.

Yours from the pavilion end,

ANDREW R. DOBLE

Hamilton Parish

It's out of date

September 10, 2010

Dear Sir,

When are the people going to recognise that it's not August any more, it's September, and we need a whole new pledge against dangerous driving commercial done up?

It's stupid to continuously see a pledge for something that ended on August 30 still broadcast on Bermuda TV like we're stuck in some prehistoric era or something. If this is the 21st Century shouldn't things be more up to par?

Also, considering I still see people cell phone driving and not get caught what the hell are the cops doing about that? Taxi drivers should get speakerphone or some gadget to avoid using a cell phone while driving as well.

ANONYMOUS

Devonshire

Mail service woes

September 15, 2010

Dear Sir,

Once again, I am appalled and ashamed of the blatant incompetence of the Bermuda postal service.

There seems to be a certain malicious satisfaction in the refusal to deliver mail that may have one letter wrong in the postal code, when in this tiny island the mailman knows perfectly well where the letter should go.

This means that the Post Office has to work twice as hard returning the letter to the sender, often all the way back overseas, and the British Post Office must be fed up to the teeth with the gross incompetence of Bermuda returning letters that are adequately addressed, and giving their postmen extra unnecessary work.

There are more workers at the Post Office now than ever before, and far fewer letters owing to computer technology. Mailmen and women are not as dumb as the Post Office makes them out to be, and they should be allowed to use their intelligence to deliver clearly addressed mail, when they know full well where the letter should go, regardless of small mistakes in the new post codes.

The town I lived in in Denmark had a population the size of Bermuda, but we had only one post code, 4880. One could mail a letter to the other side of the country and be sure it would arrive the next morning, and if the post code was incorrect, the post office was bright enough to follow the address on the envelope; delivering the mail was a matter of pride, and there were very few dead letters.

The deterioration of our postal system is just another example of the general couldn't-care-less attitude in Bermuda today.

E. RABEN

Paget

Bermudians so helpful!

September 14, 2010

Dear Sir,

We are frequent visitors to your beautiful island and have enjoyed our many walks along the Railway Trail. Last week, we started on Southcote Road and proceeded west until we got to Longford Road. We then headed east on Harbour Road and found ourselves hot and tired at the Belmont Hills Golf Club.

"Where can we get a cab", we asked one of the employees at the club. "Where are you staying?" he asked. We responded that we were at the Coral Beach Club and he insisted that he drive us over there since he was heading back to Newstead in that "general direction" and he did so very promptly.

The next day, we took the bus to Port Royal, picking up the Railway Trail to Somerset Village and the Cavello Bay Ferry. It started raining, then came the thunder and lightning as we arrived at the ferry. "Too bad, you just missed the ferry", said Bill who was with his daughter Danielle (from Sandys). "Where are you going?" We told them we were going to catch the ferry to Hamilton and asked where we could get a bus or cab. Naturally, Bob insisted that he drive us all the way to the Dockyard which runs frequent ferries to Hamilton. The warm and caring nature of the people of Bermuda can be seen in every day encounters such as this. It's one of the reasons we always come back to Bermuda. Thank you Bill, Danielle and Eric!

ALAN & PEGGY BLUME

Natick, Massachusetts

Gala was a disgrace

September 14, 2010

Dear Sir,

Oh what a night!

Oh what a disgrace!

A Monty Python without the humour!

A $500 plate dinner at his farewell bash, when there is no money to renovate The Salvation Army premises!

A wife who is so proud of her husband because he made himself so accessible to the public, one wonders what planet she has been living on!

A proclamation that this man was loved abroad, check the facts!

A man that coerced and persuaded the little minions that paid homage to him, to forego and forget their principles and to close their eyes and shut their mouths for the crumbs he would throw them. Their silence can never assuage their guilt, and to all the others who know who they are, your silence will haunt you, for you have damaged this lovely little island, but it will repair itself despite your lack of integrity, as goodness and decency in the end, always prevails, it might take time, but prevail it will.

Oh what a time. To you Mr. Premier, farewell. History will tell its tale.

DIANA WILLIAMS

Pembroke

P.s. Hopefully, my pen can now turn to happier times ahead.