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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

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28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I think she would appreciate what I am going to say. Mr. Speaker, some seven years ago you sent me on a CPA course, and that course spoke abou t the need for more women in political leadership. Earlier to-day we heard statistics that there were eight women in the Lower House and seven women in the Upper …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Anything for Mr. Scott . POINT OF INFORMATION
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Well, the first party that had an elected female leader was the PLP.
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, to the west of us is a country that is called United States of America, and the present leader is, well, you know the name. [Inaudible interjections ]
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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That leader is Donal d Trump. Trump 1.0 made a statement, and I will not say some words because I know the Sergeant -at-Arms will take me out .
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Well, e scort me out, I mean. He said he did not want people from certain blank -blank -blank countries. He did not want people from Central and South America. And he did not want people from Africa. He wanted people from Norway. So, you can read into that what he wanted. Trump 2.0 has (I do not know ) …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Right. What is the relevance, Mr. Speaker? We have someone . . . I am not going to call any names, but you all can figure it out. We have someone who has for years been advocating in this country that we have population increase. Now some of their argument has merit. We have a growing greying population. We have …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I would —
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you very much for your ruling. And I will say again, if the fish did not open their mouth, they would not get caught. [Laughter]
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, my point being, one cannot advocate for population increase, rightfully or wrongfully, and then always take an opportunity to slyly disparage people from a certain region. It is Trump- like. Trump wants people out of his country, but he wants to bring in c ertain people. It is Trump- like, Mr. Speaker. But let me move on before …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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So, I say this, Mr. Speaker : leadership. Yes, it is nice in here to come in and crack jokes between each other, you know, trade little barbs here and there—barb, b- a-r-b-s. But true leadership, Mr. Speaker, is telling people what they need to hear. And we are at a point in this country where no matter which government …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Morning, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to associate first ly with the remarks for Loyal Hill , Devonshire. We always stick together. Madam Deputy Speaker , unfortunately, over the last two weeks, we have lost two young Bermudians through . . . one through an industrial accident and one through something else. I want to firstly give condolences to the …
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. With your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to read something from The Royal Gazette.
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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And I quote, Madam Deputy Speaker. “Here is the short version —you can’t grow the economy with a shrinking population; you can’t reduce the cost of living with a shrinking population; and you can’t properly fund healthcare and pensions with a shrinking, [ageing] population.” Honoura-ble Doug DeCouto. [Crosstalk]
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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All right. Madam Deputy Speaker, Dr. DeCouto seems to be echoing a lot what others in his party and other entities are saying repeatedly, We have to increase the population. [Inaudible interjections ]
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Can I finish?
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, please. That is not the argument right now, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce recently had their AGM where the talk about population was brought up. Recently this week the Bermuda Economic Development Cor-poration in collaboration with the Urban Development Authority held the first Bermuda Infrastructure and Development Summit where again population came up. …
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Point of order.
16 May 2025 House of Assembly
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There is no discrimination. If you’ve got the money, you can rent it.