Des Sullivan

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Uncle Gnarley is hosted by Des Sullivan, of St. John's. He is a businessman engaged over three decades in real estate management and development and retail companies. He is currently a Director of Dorset Investments Limited. During his early career he served as Executive Assistant to Premier's Frank D. Moores (1975-1979) and Brian Peckford (1979-1985). He also served as a Part-Time Board Member on the Canada-Newfoundland Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB). Uncle Gnarley appears on the masthead representing serious and unambiguous positions on NL politics and public policy. Uncle Gnarley is a fiscal conservative possessing distinctly liberal values and a non-partisan persusasion. Those values and opinions underlie this writer's views on NL's politics, economy and society. Uncle Gnarley publishes Monday mornings and more often when events warrant.
Churchill Falls MOU

TWO TORY MHAs NEEDED TO ADDRESS PREMIER WAKEHAM’S INCOMPETENCE AND UNDERMINE HIS SLIM MAJORITY

Des Sullivan -
Incredulity overhangs Premier Wakeham’s Churchill Falls MOU. Few, except Tory partisans, can find evidence that Premier Wakeham appreciably outdid Andrew Furey’s version. The facts confirm...
Churchill Falls MOU

PICTURE OF SHREWD PREMIER WAKEHAM ELUDES ME

Des Sullivan -
Following release of the Report on the Churchill Falls MOU by the Independent Review Panel (IRP), Premier Wakeham made this statement in a public...
NL offshore oil

Reflections on Bay du Nord: Is Premier Wakeham a better negotiator than Premier Ball?

Des Sullivan -
Four years ago, NL was engaged in months of handwringing over whether the Government of Canada would permit Equinor’s Bay du Nord offshore oil...
Churchill Falls MOU

EARLY WARNING: PREMIER WAKEHAM CAN’T FIND HIS SPINE

Des Sullivan -
Initial public policy pronouncements have the potential to define a new government for the duration of its time in Office. Stated (and pursued) policy...
NL Life

ON NEW TURF a Memoir by Michael Boyle is about belonging in two places

Des Sullivan -
On New Turf, a memoir by Michael Boyle is a book about family, Irish culture, Gaelic traditions and a life in which he found...
Churchill Falls MOU

WILL THE MOU MAKE OR BREAK TONY WAKEHAM’S POLITICAL CAREER?

Des Sullivan -
Wakeham’s plan for a ‘real’ independent review of the MOU may cause the self-serving to run for the Alka Zeltzer, but the mess that Premier Furey served up as an historic deal, implausible as the claim was, cannot be conducted in an afternoon nor fixed the day after.
NL politics

TWO SIMPLE THINGS PREMIER-ELECT TONY WAKEHAM CAN DO NOW

Des Sullivan -
It is trite to say that it will be easy for Tony Wakeham to differentiate himself from Danny Williams and Kathy Dunderdale or from Andrew Furey and John Hogan. The fact remains he won’t until he does.
Churchill Falls MOU

POOR JUDGMENT OF THE NL HYDRO CEO

Des Sullivan -
Sensitivity to the importance of an impartial electoral process and her bureaucratic role – in contrast to the job of her Minister – ought to have inspired her to definitively counsel the inappropriateness of such an engagement. If she called the Open Line Show of her own volition, in other words absent prodding from her Minister, nothing more need be be said.
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