Please bid me tinfoil license.....I have been finding increasing info. regarding Bermuda and Cuba. Bermuda is located approx. 586 miles from the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (this close location to the East Coast is particularly troubling).
The following articles indicate links between Bermuda and Cuba....Bermuda looking for Independence from Britian...and Alex Scott who won the election in Bermuda in 1998, which is the same year that Louis Farrakhan visited both Cuba and Bermuda in Feburary 1998.
There seems to be an emerging Bermuda...Cuba link. Our United States Consul General Denis Coleman last week (03/12/04) gave warning to Bermuda with regard to their ties to Cuba with regard to trade and flights.
US Consul hits out at Cuba links (Links between Cuba and Bermuda) March 12, 2004
By Ayo Johnson
United States Consul General Denis Coleman yesterday accused Government of fostering economic relations with Cuba and warned it could lead to a deterioration of relations between Bermuda and his country.
Mr. Coleman accused Government in a television interview of breaking a promise last year that its relations with Cuba would only cultural when it agreed to allow a regular charter flight to the Communist Caribbean island.
But Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler maintained last night that Government's dealings with Cuba were strictly cultural and there was nothing Government could do - short of an outright ban - that would stop individual citizens engaging in business with the Caribbean nation.
And Transport Minister and Deputy Premier Ewart Brown said Mr. Coleman should talk to the Governor.
In an interview with VSB TV last night, Mr. Coleman said relations between Bermuda and the US were “not as good as they used to be”.
He said the US was “strongly against” Government's commercial relationship with Cuba.
Government was going against its promise that links would only be cultural, but “now it is fostering economic relationships”, he said.
“We do feel it is like sticking a finger in our eye.”......
http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040312/NEWS/103120070
Island Pushes for Independence from Britain (Bermuda)
March 3, 2004
Bermuda's Premier has called for a national debate on independence from Britain, saying the wealthy island can fully develop only if it breaks centuries-old colonial ties.
Alex Scott's centre-left Progressive Labour Party supports independence but has not put the issue on the agenda since winning power in 1998.
"It is for the people of Bermuda to decide whether or not they wish to become independent," Mr Scott told supporters.
"But we consider it our duty to declare our conclusion that only with independence can national unity be forged and pride in being Bermudan fully develop. We call on the people of Bermuda to act boldly in fashioning their future."
The ruling party supports putting independence to the test at a general election, but the centre-right opposition United Bermuda Party favours a referendum followed by a constitutional conference. The next general election must be held by 2008.
About three in four Bermudans voted against independence when it was last put to a referendum in 1995, but the poll was boycotted by the Progressive Labour Party.
Bermuda, an Atlantic island of 62,000 people, about 1000 kilometres east of North Carolina, would be the third-richest country in the world based on a gross domestic product per capita of nearly $US60,000 ($78,000).
The self-governing colony, which has been under British control since 1684, has one of the world's biggest reinsurance markets and is the nominal home of 13,500 international companies.
Business groups welcomed the call for a debate on independence.
"The subject is going to come up and it is good that he [Scott] is looking for an open discussion," the president of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, Charles Gosling, said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/02/1078191329899.html
Min. Farrakhan visits Cuba, Bermuda (February 1998)
Excerpted...
Later that evening, when the chartered airplane carrying Min. Farrakhan and his delegation from Cuba touched down in a rainstorm in the capital of Bermuda, a "self-governing British dependency" Feb. 18, a crowd had already gathered at the National Sports Stadium.
Despite the driving wind and rain, the crowd grew to 5,000 as the Muslim leader's motorcade hastened along the dark, slick, winding, hillside roads, then erupted in cheers when the vehicles entered the muddy field, and the Minister sprung onto the stage. "As-Salaam-Alaikum (Peace be unto you)," Min. Farrakhan said.
"Wa-Alaikum-Salaam (And unto you be peace)," the crowd roared in response.
At that moment, the clouds seemed to open up again, and a downpour deluged the crowd. Not one person left his seat. Not one of the thousands of umbrellas sheltering the eager audience even budged.
It was a moving "homecoming" sight because Bermuda, 580 miles from the coast of North Carolina, is special to the Minister. Sister Sumayah Farrakhan (May Allah be Pleased with her), the Minister's mother, was born on Bermuda. On May 11, 1936 Min. Farrakhan celebrated his third birthday on Bermuda, and he still has vivid memories of that joyous day, in that place, in his childhood.
And despite the fact that his father was killed by a construction crane on that island-a crane that is still standing-for many, many years there was a travel ban against the Muslim leader visiting Bermuda.
"I want you to know," Min. Farrakhan told the Bermuda audience, after thanking them for waiting for him and then listening to him in a downpour, "I am not a hater of white people. I am not an anti-Semite."
The Nation of Islam leader also expressed profound appreciation to Byron Muhammad, a Nation of Islam minister and follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, for his tireless efforts in having the travel ban lifted, and for organizing the "homecoming" rally in Bermuda.
http://worldfriendshiptour.noi.org/cuba.html Bump. I wish this was a tinfoil exercise. Unfortunately, I don't believe it is, at all. Remember how Cuba enters into the equation. Sean had most of the information. I wish he'd post a bit more here.
There's a HUGE amount of American wealth in Bermuda. Mansions galore. Perfect set-up for revolt with the islanders as minions for the wealthy. Bermuda is also a key off-shore investment banking / tax haven location.</p>