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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplement ary, Mr. Speaker.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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If the Minister is not saying that, can the Minister please explain why the process and the requirements [as] explained on his very own we bsite—the Minister keeps going back to 2012. H is own department updated the website in 2015, and it lists specific items there. And the Minister keeps going back to 2012, when [in] 2015 there are …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to be associated with the remarks for Mrs. Muriel Richar dson. I had t he privilege of serving with her on the Bermuda Tourism Board, I think, in 2005 was a ppointed to that Board by the former Minister of Tourism, Renee Webb, and I always found her to be extremely capable and, as has …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Pardon me? Yes. Yes. Her long career in tourism is something that sho uld certainly be celebrated. Mr. Speaker, on a sadder note, I would like to ask that the House send condolences to the family of one of my constituents who passed away a couple of weeks ago. Oswald Jerome Lindsay, better known as “Jerry” Lindsay, passed a way …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Sorry, I shall associate the entire House with those remarks of condolence. And, unfortunately , I missed the opportunity to give it last week, but I know that MP Wilson and m yself attended the funeral. I know that his wife, who survived him, is the, I believe, the aunt of MP Wilson, and of course they are my constituents …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will be brief. We pass these hotel concessions in the hope of spurring hotel deve lopment in Bermuda, which is something that is desperately needed. But in the Junior Minister’s brief I could not help but overhear because it seems as though we do not seem to have learned the lessons …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of information, Mr. Speaker, if I may, just to clarify.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honour able Member will know that at Tucker’s Point there are real estate sales, fractional, there is a mix, all the rest. What I am saying is relying on real estate sales to fund a hotel develop-ment is not a model that has proven successful. Bermuda House of Assembly
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Fractional and/or otherwise.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot this evening and we have been here a lot longer than I expected us to be, to be completely honest. I thought we were going to get out earlier than we did last week. But that is clearly not the case. But we heard a little bit …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So what the Honourable Minister just admitted is that he misled the House. Thank you for that point of order, and thank you for making it very clear — spoke from the information he was given! But we know where that information came from, because we all saw the Honourable Premier sitting next to …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I do not yield.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I do not yield, Mr. Speaker.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, we all saw where it came from, so the incorrect information that was provided to this House was not correct. And that much is seen. But we have seen the . . . we know the Honourable Minister makes incorrect statements all the time. We have seen the apologies that have had …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So, there was no intention. There was no intention. But the Leader of the Government, the Leader of the country, makes a recommendation to his own Cabinet and they approve it. But there was no intention. So no public consultation, no— Hon. Patricia J. Gordon -Pamplin: Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Point of order.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Nope.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. So, there was no nomination? The Premier had a conversation with the Mini ster responsible? The story just gets crazier as it goes on. Mr. Speaker, I am not going to spend much more time on that, because I think the people of this country can see a Cabinet in complete disarray, trying to cover up their tracks for …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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First we heard earlier it was a nomination. Yesterday we heard it was a nomination. Today we hear it was a conversation. I mean, what is this? Notwithstanding, Mr. Speaker, we understand that this has caused trouble, and we also understand that in the whole recommendation process, which took place between the Premier and the former Minister, that it was …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will go on. Because when we talk about the issue of political expediency, I think that a good example of political expediency could be what took place last week Friday maybe, or last week Sunday, when the Minister of Finance, in responding to a Moody’s downgrade, gave the following reaction, and I quote from his …