Online pundits are unfairly accusing the One Bermuda Alliance of “sinister reasons” for its policy on term limits, Shadow Environment Minister Michael Fahy told the Senate.The Opposition has called for term limits to be suspended for two years.“The OBA gets criticised by anonymous people on social media who say that freezing term limits will simply protect non-Bermudians,” Senator Fahy said during a motion to adjourn in the Senate, calling the statements “unjust, dishonest and simply nonsensical”.He accused Government of harming international business with its term limit policy.And he said a recent survey by the Bermuda Employers’ Council backed the OBA’s assertions, adding: “For every five permits lost, one local job ceases to exist.”Sen Fahy said he was “fearful that a lot of people don’t understand how much international business affects every single one of us”.Calling the remarks “disingenuous”, Progressive Labour Party Senator David Burt responded: “The last time Bermuda was in a recession, from 1988 to 1993, we lost 3,000 jobs, and there were no term limits then.”Senators also clashed over a statement by OBA leader and Shadow National Security Minister Craig Cannonier, who commended crime statistics released by police for the first quarter of this year but said: “We take no comfort whatsoever in the downward trend in crime.”Junior National Security Minister Senator Jonathan Smith said Mr Cannonier had ignored statistics showing a five-year drop in crime.“Statistics show that during the worst period of shootings, at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, there were 41 people shot,” he said. “The last four quarters that the Opposition member is talking about, that figure was down to 14.”Asking what the Opposition’s plan for dealing with crime was, Sen Smith added: “How can anybody say, when less people are getting shot and shot at, that they don’t take any comfort whatsoever? It’s the most bizarre statement I’ve heard from a politician in some time.”OBA Senator Michael Dunkley said he couldn’t speak for Mr Cannonier, but added: “The Opposition leader was quite clear that he supports the work police have done.”Sen Dunkley said it was clear to him that “people are more concerned than ever about safety”, and that the situation had declined under the Government’s watch.“It pricks at them, and it rightly should,” he said.Sen Dunkley added that Government had treated the prison service and prison officers like “lost stepchildren, for the lack of attention they get”.Calling Mr Cannonier’s statement “baffling”, Senator Diallo Rabain said the seeds of Bermuda’s crime problem had been sowed under “years and years of social mismanagement” before the Progressive Labour Party took Government.Accusing Government in turn of “looking to abdicate responsibility” for crime, OBA Senator Toni Daniels said: “Government should be prepared to step up to those failings we have highlighted.”Attorney General Senator Kim Wilson said the Opposition hadn’t given a plan for tackling crime, adding that in terms of restoring safety in the community, “we are all singing from the same choir”.She pointed to new anti-crime legislation as “tangible evidence” of Government’s own plan, adding: “This Government is committed to not just locking up and throwing away the key, but is also committed to rehabilitation within the prison system.”The Senate adjourned until tomorrow’s session.