February 13, 2014

Dear Sir

When I read an article like that in your Sports Section today, where yet another athlete complains about the fees introduced for the use of the National Stadium, I feel the need to respond.

I wouldn’t know Tyrone Smith from any other Smith, but he does seem worldly, and possibly educated, and I have no doubt of either, and I mean him no disrespect.

But this is yet another case of what most Bermudians simply do not understand, believe or accept — there ain’t no money in the bank. This is the chicken coming home to roost, and is Bermuda’s problem in microcosm — 14 years of runaway spending in order to satisfy some unfathomable need of the PLP, all put together with a level of incompetence and mismanagement.

What part do you not get? You can have all the great reasons in the world for why you don’t want to be charged (and you’d be right in most places) but if there ain’t no Charlie to cover the costs of running the place, what do you expect.

Tyrone, passion and reason aside, when there ain’t no money, someone has to pay the piper. Even Chris Furbert won’t be able to print money.

Sincerely

The Roosting Chicken