Cheerful at the airport

April 24, 2009

Dear Sir,

On Wednesday, April 18, I checked in for the early American Airlines flight to New York. Usually one doesn't expect to see too many happy smiling faces at that hour of the day but I saw one, she had a great attitude, was smiling, cheerful, courteous and more than helpful.

This young lady was Chalyce Zuill who was on the hand luggage inspection section that morning. I asked her for her name as I said I would be writing to Airport Operations and also to the Editor (I don't think she believed me so hopefully you will print this). This young lady should give lessons!

CAROL CARVALHO

Southampton

Checking children's eyes

April 28, 2009

Dear Sir,

I welcome Dr. Jamie Burgess to the Bermuda Optometrists group. It is certainly nice to see some younger people practising in Bermuda.

I wish to take issue with your reporter Cathy Stovell and set the record straight, when she states: "Examining the eyes of children is a speciality that sets optometrist Jamie Burgess apart from her Bermuda peers."

I have been in practice for 55 years and during that time have seen many children. I have sorted out their convergence insufficiencies and other problems, and continue to do so. I am sure that my colleagues have been examining children and I was not on my own for the past 48 years in Bermuda.

ANTONY SIESE FBCO

Optometrist

City of Hamilton

Earlier incompetence

April 30, 2009

Dear Sir,

Regarding you and your papers' talk about the PLP's alleged corruption and incompetence and that tired old excuse that the Mid Ocean News is a completely different entity. Give me a break. You are both owned by the same parent company and printed in the same building. That is like two brothers in the same house and one is making cocaine and the other is making heroin. When the Police make a bust, they try and strike a deal implicating the other one. Both activities are illegal and you are both going to jail.

Stop all this nonsense about so called corruption. Either you or somebody produce the evidence or shut up already. I hope that the person or persons responsible for those forged Government cheques are found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I don't hear you or anyone of the other PLP bashers asking for the same thing. I will readily admit that I am a staunch PLP supporter. But that doesn't mean that I agree with every thing that they do. There are some great things that they have done over the last 11 years. And there have been some not so great things that they have done. That doesn't equal corruption.

Let's talk about some of the incompetent and downright corrupt things that occurred prior to November 9, 1998.

One of your ongoing front page stories has been about the new Police and Court building. Who knocked down the old Hamilton police station close to 30 years ago and never got around to building a new one? Who had the Police in that old St George's Police Station for close to 100 years and didn't keep it up? The United Bermuda Procrastinators. I know you or someone else is going to say that they haven't been around for that long. Please! The Coopers, Triminghams, Zuills, Coxs etc., have been in Bermuda for centuries.

Who let the old rest homes from Somerset to St. George's get so run down that they had to be closed and in some instances be demolished? The United Bermuda Plague. And where was Mrs. Jackson's concern for the seniors prior to her throwing her hat into the political arena? Nowhere to be seen. The PLP government provided the land for the 100 seniors residences at Rockaway. They also built the seniors' village at Southside. More seniors' homes than had been provided for in the last 40 years or more. But there is still some in Bermuda that would have you to believe that the PLP has done nothing for our seniors.

Who was it that used not one of the housing units on the four US, Canadian and British bases in 1995 when they closed to house Bermudians? The United Bermuda Pretenders. These units numbered in the hundreds. That was the answer to Bermuda's housing problem then and now. That would have stabilised or depressed the real estate market in Bermuda. And we couldn't have that, could we? There was not one residential unit planned for Southside. So all of you that now reside there should be glad that the United Bermuda Parodies didn't win in 1998. And now the PLP Government has to now rebuild houses by the new Urgent Care Centre at Southside to replace the ones that they caused to be demolished. People were living in them right up to 1995. And they where better than any car, tent or cave.

Talk about incompetent and corrupt. That is outright criminal. And should be reported to the United Nations as crimes against humanity.

LESLIE JAMES SMITH

Sandys