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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

2498
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266,425
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13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly
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10 words
Come on, Scott. Give us one for the holidays, Scott.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, this is not a matter of transparency, lack of transparency, or a lack Bermuda House of Assembly of fairness, as some would try to have the public believe. This is about whether or not what we are doing is reasonable and rational.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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We have speakers who have talked about the PATI legislation, or the access to information there being a charge [for] that information. What we should be discussing about is whether that is rational and reasonable. What is the response when we ask How do we reduce frivolous and vexatious PATI requests that cripple an officer’s ability to execute their primary …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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What is the response to that?
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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We still have where there is no charge for requests that are under 16 hours, two full working days. So we are happy for a public officer to take their time. And there will be multiple public officers because there are multiple requests that may be into the government at one period of time, taking full days to allocate their …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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When I go to the Registrar’s office and I want a copy of my own information, which is my birth certificate, I pay for it. That’s one document, and it’s mine.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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And so we ask ourselves, Is it reasonable? Yes, because it is an administrative process to file that information, to store that infor-mation, to maintain the records and to also retrieve it and provide it to me in an efficient manner. So, this is what we are discussing. Whether or not it is reasonable and rational for us to implement …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—underhanded, rational approach to it? Why is it deemed now [that] we are cutting access to information? The same information that will be provided before this law, will be the same information people have access to after this law is passed. The access to the information does not change. The information that will be provided and the information people will …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I did not hear that come from the submission that was provided. But what I did hear was a number of additional questions that the Minister will happily provide answers to. But the same problem that was in place and existed when that Member was a Minister, is the same problem that we are trying to find a solution to …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I am going to just tie in a little bit to MP Jache Adams. Mr. Speaker, you know the history of the PLP voting records over the years. Mr. Speaker, I could not even be an MP if it were not for White people voting for me. Many, quite a few —we have got 30 seats. (We had 30 seats.) …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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We had 30 seats because White Bermudians realise the rhetoric of some folks was false. They realised they were told, Oh, if the PLP gets in, they are going to take your land. They are going to take your business. They are going to do this and the country is going to go downhill. Right? People have seen through that. …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I know. I know. Bermuda House of Assembly [Laughter]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The irony is —right? In my first election, I had 55 per cent of the vote. In my second election it was 67 per cent. And my seat is half -White and half -Black. So what does that tell us? Mr. Speaker, let me move on to my substantive speech here. Let me not be befuddled here anymore — [Inaudible …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Anymore. [Laughter] CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF BACK O’ TOWN?
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, everything is called a contingency plan, just in case. So just in case in the next election I do not make it, I am going to prac-tice to be an AME pastor. And today is my first sermon. [Inaudible interjections and laughter]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, John 1:46 — write it down.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Write it down, Brother King! “Nathanael said to him, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’” Let me repeat. “‘Can anything good come out of Naza-reth?’” [Inaudible interjection]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I will get to who came out of Nazareth in the end. So, Mr. Speaker, I ask today, Can anything good come out of Back o’ Town ? Because when you say Back o’ Town, nobody has positive connotations. Everybody has got all sorts of negative connotations. I won’t even go to that. So again I say, Can anything good …