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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

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15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Page 5, you can look it up. Look it up. Yet they are stacking the very few OBA safe seats with non- White candidates. Yes, think about it. Yet they are putting the few White candidates that they have in unwinnable seats. [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
116 words
So if they wanted more White people in politics, would they not put them in the safe seats? [Inaudible interjections] Mr. Christopher Famous: Oh, it is clear as day, mate. Mr. Speaker, page 6, “How is it right to frighten Bermudians when the Government needs overseas labour?” Mr. Speaker, take your mind back to last No-vember. It was the FDM …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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So who was scaremongering about foreign workers? [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Who was scaremongering, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Speaker, PLP family, time to do what we do best.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, on page 9 they say the PLP is “enriching construction company bosses .” Hmm. Their words. Mr. Speaker, as the Chair of the BHC [Bermuda Housing Corporation] I take ex-ception to that because every contract is put out to ten-der and Bermudian contractors apply. The thing is vet-ted by project managers, not by politicians. And guess what, Mr. …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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[Minister] Diallo, please. Hold it. Mr. Speaker, they talk about Grand Atlantic on the same page. In 2012, multiple OBA candidates bad - mouthed Grand Atlantic. Sylvan Richards, L ipstick on a pig. Nalton Brangman, It is going to fall into the sea. Ironically, in 2016, the same OBA put America’s Cup people up in that same place that did …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Who was that? PLP family, time to do what we do best. Mr. Speaker, I see that the OBA candidate for St. David’s has left. How fortuitous. In 2011, they talked about dumping medical waste in St. David’s as if peo-ple just take syringes and throw it all on the ground and take off gloves and all sorts of amputat …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Oh! Okay! [Inaudible interjection]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Did you sign off on it? Yes. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker — [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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No, no, no. That is in public. That’s in public. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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That’s in public. We had three . . . Mr. Speaker, we had three public meetings. The Boundaries Commission had three public meetings.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, there were three public meetings [where it was] stated that the voting population has increased.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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No, it hasn’t.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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It’s public.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I will repeat. There were three public meetings in which the Boundary Commission chair said that there is an increase in the voting population.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
3 words
Yes, that’s correct.