Dear Sir,

How dare the unions jeopardise our very existence by walking out on the busiest weekend of the year when we all want to showcase Bermuda as a serious place to invest. What are they thinking?

Hamilton is full of sailors and people who have come here for the America’s Cup World Series event and yet Marine & Ports has cancelled all the Paget-Warwick ferries for the rest of the day (October 14)? They should all be fired. Do they want us to fail in this endeavour? Do they want all the folks who have just moved here, bought and rented houses, put their children into schools, bought cars, bought bikes, etc (ie, for the really stupid among us, putting money into this economy, or stimulating it in economic terms) to move away again?

Are they so keen for the One Bermuda Alliance to be seen to fail that they will ensure failure, not just for the OBA but all of us ordinary Bermudians who desperately want recovery so we all can benefit? If that is the way they feel, they clearly don’t have Bermuda’s best interest at heart. So why don’t they move away and go live somewhere else to be a drag on another society?

They can leave us to try to energise our economy without illegal strikes (I gather they are calling them “mechanical problems” now), naysayers and folks who would rather march than work.

As for you, Mr Editor, is it too much to ask you to do your bit, too? Were today’s large headlines about increased drug use in bold type, followed by threats of industrial action really necessary on a day when we are on the world’s stage? Honestly.

Can we not all pull together to make this work and restore Bermuda to once again being the envy of the developed world?

Sincerely,

ELSPETH A. BREWIN

Warwick