Speeches by Christopher Famous, JP, MP

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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One happens to be the Minister responsible for legislation. And one happens to actually know what is going on. [Laughter and crosstalk ]

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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So that cousin is going to declare his interest as someone — [Laughter]

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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—who has worked inside the plant for 32 years. Mr. Speaker, I have worked at BELCO for 32 years, and I have never heard the number of complaints about BELCO . . . not necessarily the prices, but the other stuff, as I have heard in the last four years.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Legitimate complaints. All right? People have soot on their roof or whatever else. Those are legitimate complaints and BELCO has done a very good job, a very expensive job, in keep-ing people’s roofs white. Mr. Speaker, sometimes it is important to know what goes on on the inside, not just the outside.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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So, you see, Mr. Speaker, we have certain procedures that we see in the plant that I am sure if the president tells me, Don’t say it , I ain’t going to say it.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Okay.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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So, may I have some leeway, Mr. Speaker ?

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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No, no, no, no, no. Nothing like that. Technical. It is all technical. So, you see, Mr. Speaker, there is this thing we do to maintain the turbines. We call it water washing. We call it nut shelling. Where we keep the soot off the turbines. And ever since these legitimate complaints have been coming out, we got orders from …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Opacity means like how clear are the emissions. If it is a certain, if it goes . . . not just your eyesight, but if by scientific values it says this has gone above a certain opacity we shut the engine down.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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If the wind is blowing to the north, we don’t start the engine. We don’t start that particular engine. Because if we start it, just like when your car starts you get this puff of smoke come out, you get that puff of smoke and it is going to be over the Mount Hil and, you know, the next day …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, right? So that means irrespective of those 200 persons in Mount Hill, the other 35,800 people still want their electricity. So, we have to provide that. We cannot say look we are rationing electricity because, you know, the wind is blowing to the north. So, I say the reality is that we have to educate the people of Bermuda …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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This has to come from fossil fuels. So, I am going to round it off here to say, the one cousin that knows what is happening is telling people we are doing our part. We have changed our operation procedures to mitigate the particulate that goes out in the air. Thank you, Mr. Speaker .

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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I won’t need the 20 minutes, Mr. Speaker .

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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I want to take a moment and tell my parliamentary wife— [Laughter]

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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You ain’t going anywhere yet. Chill out. Chill out. Chill out. [Laughter] SUPPORTING CONSTITUENTS IN THEIR DARKEST HOURS

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Don’t get all sentimental. Mr. Speaker, every week that we are in here we give condolences —which is what we should do. Earlier this evening, I went to a viewing of a neigh-bour, a relative and someone who happened to be a constituent as well. And at that viewing, you know, the family came in, the immediate family, the standard …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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While they can still hear our voices. Maybe their spirit can hear us. I do not know. But it is very important because this year has been a year that we have all lost many, many people in this country. I do not know what the statistics are, but I just think there were a lot of people lost this …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, my substantive part will not take long and ties again into some-thing that MP Simmons -Wade said. It is about leadership. Mr. Speaker, leaders are people who raise the Bermuda House of Assembly standards by which they judge themselves and by which they are willing to be judged. I will tell you who said that later on. Since …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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The point I am saying, Mr. Speaker, anyone can get elected. Anyone. Some people are just dumb and lucky and get elected. But they are not leaders. Leaders must also be prepared to face the fire. If you are a batsman, you have to be able to take the bowlers, the bowlers that is coming with spin or googly or …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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What’s going to happen when we win? [Laughter]