In fairness, he has done this before, and for a new minister to be landed with the Budget just two weeks before its delivery would be a big ask. There were some hints that Mr Burt would not be finance minister for long perhaps long enough to steer the Budget through the House. That did not fully explain why, if there was so much talent, Mr Burt felt obliged to take on the job himself, in addition to being Premier and tourism minister. ![]() This was the government line for the night. Yes, Mr Dickinson had been a good finance minister and, of course, he remained a member of the PLP team, available to advise and guide, but there was plenty of other talent and he was hardly irreplaceable. Indeed, David Burt, the Premier, has frequently declared Mr Dickinson to be one of the best finance ministers, Bermuda had ever had - if not the best.īut on Friday, government MPs’ praise for Mr Dickinson’s performance was distinctly muted. This was surprising in an Opposition whose job it is, at least in normal times, to criticise the Government.Ī listener might have expected the governing PLP’s MPs to bask in the praise of one of their own. The six One Bermuda Alliance MPs all spoke on the sudden resignation of the Progressive Labour Party’s Curtis Dickinson as finance minister early last week.Īlthough a few admitted that they had not agreed with Mr Dickinson on absolutely everything, they all praised him for his character, probity and efforts to steer Bermuda through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. People listening to the House of Assembly last Friday evening could have been forgiven for thinking they, too, had gone through a looking glass. He said he named it after the sequel to Alice in Wonderland because in the Lewis Carroll novel, Alice enters a strange new world through a looking glass, or mirror, and everything is reversed, just as it is in a reflection. ![]() Julian Hall, the late lawyer and politician, once had a newspaper column called “Through the Looking Glass”. Happier times: Curtis Dickinson, the former finance minister, with David Burt, the Premier and new finance minister (File photograph by Akil Simmons)
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