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Ben Smith, MP

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5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. QUESTIONS: OVERSEAS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please provide this Honourable House with the number of public school students in each of the past three academic years who have been re-ferred for educational, behavioural, psychologi-cal, or therapeutic services that are not available locally; and please outline the full process for identifying these students and determining when overseas services are required?
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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In circumstances where students are required to receive services overseas, will the Honourable Minister please confirm for this Honourable House what government funding or financial assistance is available to families, in-cluding the specific types of costs covered (e.g., travel, accommodation, service fees), the amount typically provided per case, and what the total annual budget allocation is for this category of …
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am solely going to speak to the opportunity part to this, because normally it is the doom and gloom part that you guys think that I am going to talk about. But for me, I am looking at the opportunities. Potentially, there is a significant amount of money that is available. And with that, it is important …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please provide this Honourable House with details on the implementation strategy for the new ban on student use of personal electronic devices including cell phones and smartwatches during school hours, including how schools are expected to monitor and enforce the policy?
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please confirm whether additional personnel such as school safety officers, hall monitors, or security staff will be required to enforce the ban, and if so, how many positions are being allocated and funded across the school s ystem?
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please confirm what will be the consequences for students or teachers who violate the electronic device ban, and will there be a standardized enforcement protocol across all public schools to ensure consistency and fairness?
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Supplemental off of that first question.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Would the Honourable Minister be able to point out what initiatives came out from the public that were different from what is being implemented currently , so that we can see what those changes would be?
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, so is the Minister saying that the mentorship programmes are not happening currently? Hon. Michael A. Weeks: Mentorship programmes are happening currently. What we heard in the meetings was not [about] the current mentorship programmes. They were talking about mentorship programmes, per-haps in the prisons. That was just another idea that was given by our public. But, you …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Minister be able to provide for us what the performance indicators are that are being measured? Hon. Michael A. Weeks: Well, a lot of the money, Mr. Speaker . . . I am sorry.
7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please provide a list of all public preschool, primary, middle, and senior schools along with the number of full -time guidance counsellors, occupational therapist and behavioural support staff cur-rently assigned to each school ?
7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please provide this Honourable House with the number of teachers, school leaders, and support staff who have received formal training in restorative practices and trauma- informed care as required under the 2025 Code of Conduct , including the type of training provided, the date(s) it was conducted, and the number of hours involved?
7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please provide this Honourable House with the current student -to-guidance counsellor, student to occupational therapist and student -to-behavioural support staff ratios for each school in the Bermuda Public School System?
7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam [Deputy Speaker] .
26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning. Firstly, I'd like to give condolences to the family of Petrea Simons , from Cross Bay, Southampton. I would like to associate MP Robinson. She was one of my mom's best friends. She was one of the oldest people in Southampton at her passing. Specific condolences to her son, Wendell, and …
26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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—and he was also happy to remind everybody that when she passed, Somerset continued to hold the Cup. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.