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The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

366
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1 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I woul d like congratulations sent to the school, Creative Touch. I attended their gradu ation, the first time I have attended a graduation of a nursery school. But it was actually phenomenal. The actual school was actually phenomenal, not just the graduation. But they brought back previous students to speak. And I was …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would the Honourable Minister please advise this Honourable House what is to become of the space on the top floor of the Government Administration Building, which used t o house the go vernment cafeteria?
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Can the Honourable Minister tell us what type of office will be installed there?
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. Can the Minister confirm that an application to the Department of Planning was made and approved to renovate these of fices in the name of the Minister responsible for Tourism?
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Second question. Would the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House of the total cost of these renovations? Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It would be preliminary and not advisable for me to give that cost at this time, because the work will be tendered out. And we do not want to prejudice that tender.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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For any work to be done for the Ministry of Works and Engineering, a cost code and cost centre must be assigned to it. Plus, there are planning fees that are assigned. Work was done to develop drawings submitted by the Department of Works —
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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What was the cost, so far, to develop the plans needed? Some Hon. Member s: “So far.” You never said “so far.”
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Questi on 3.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Third question. Would the Honourable Minister please explain to this Honourable House what was the original intended use of this space when the cafeteria was closed?
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Joining with my colleagues for Fiqre Crockwell and William “Willy” Weldon. They were stalwarts. It is like a bookend, in my capacity, with the Eastern County Associ ation. One played for Flats; one played for St. David’s. One was in the prime; one was a r etiree. But we all are feeling the tremendous loss of …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, three weeks ago I spoke to a report on the results to some questions that the Mini ster of Home Affairs had given to us about work per-mits for particular categories, those categories being categories that requi red certification. Mr. Speaker, at that time I accused the Government of issuing permits that are essentially …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Last time we spoke on this, Mr. Speaker, I had the c hairman of the National Trai ning Board get up and give examples of people he had personally hired who did not fit the bill and ended up 1 Official Hansard Report , 3 June 2016, page 1991 2260 24 June 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda H ouse of …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am reading from the Wor kforce Development Perf ormance Measures in the Budget Book of this year.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am reading— [Inaudible interjections]
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am reading from page—
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am reading from page B - 322, I am reading from performance measures of the Department of Workforce Development.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay? And it is saying, the number of persons sponsored for training (and these are the performance measures from 2013) . . . there were 220. E stimated for the year coming up is 100. The average sponsorship per person from 2013 was $11,500. Estimated for the year coming up is $1,000. Number of c ertifications i ssued in 2013 …