One day I'll be the Minister of Transport for some country, not Bermuda. My first act will be to disallow any visitor or recent immigrant from driving any vehicle in my country if all they have is a Bermuda driver's license. Payback at last! It would be good to see Bermudians forced to take busses or taxis everywhere while on vacation or at school, or maybe I would allow them to rent small "rental bikes" only. It would be good to see them have to take all the driving tests from scratch.

It's ridiculous that my Canadian motorcycle license, which allows me to drive any motorbike up to and over 1300cc with a manual 5-speed shift and clutch, cannot be swapped over for an equivalent Bermuda license. The same goes for my Canadian car license, which is good for any car or truck up to 5 tons.

You might say, but the road rules are different, but that's true for most different countries. In spite of this, many commonwealth countries allow license exchanges. This British colony does not.

The restrictions on licenses fit the pattern of government control that is evident here. There was a time that TCD would not allow custom paint jobs on cars. In fact, they wouldn't even allow two-tone cars. They love to be in the position to say No!