What? You didn't expect the outgoing Premier to hold his own celebration of himself? A 5 day farewell party.
I suspect this won't be the only 'farewell' Ewart Brown party in Bermuda over the next several months.
The PLP should really (and probably are already intending to) capitalise on some sponsorship opportunities here. The most obvious of course is securing a title sponsor.
How's about the "Ewart Brown Farewell Gala brought to you by The Good Riddance Girl"?
PS It's not every day that there's a pronouncement that we're in the "Platinum Period" but also the early stages of turning around tourism in the same sentence, and without a hint of irony.
He ushered in a Platinum Period for Tourism, and, after the global economic crisis ravaged our tourism sector, he was the primary architect of a tourism turnaround that is just beginning.
Of course the Platinum Period was so successful that Government just waved the white flag and has resorted to selling tourism units to corporations as housing for their employees and is funding a 3 star hotel with sales of low cost housing in the same piece of land.
Pure Platinum.
Roll on October. Bermuda needs to emerge from this lost 4 years sooner rather than later.
