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The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

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17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary. Again, referring to the Statement last year, the main reason, one of the main reasons for considering school closures was that there was no money and the budget was reduced by 5 per cent. Again, we heard this year there is no money. The budget was reduced by 3 per cent. In the Statement, we talked about infr …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure that the Minister even answered my question. He is referring to being political.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I would like for him to t ry again, Mr. Speaker, and I quote —
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I have a question. And I quote. The Minister stated that, “The Ministry of Education faces a 5% budget reduction equivalent to approximately $5.9 million . . .”
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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This is my second question, Mr. Speaker. It is the Minister who started the conversation of reduced budgets. I want to know if there will be more money added to the budget this year. Will we have an increased budget for the departments for education this year, this fiscal year coming up?
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification. POINT OF CLARIFICATION
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am referring to the next fiscal year.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Since we are talking about fiscal, what was glaringly missing from the school r eport was financial information, because they were unable to collect it from any of the schools. Will the school report be allowed to finish their report that i ncludes the financial information on all of the schools so there can be a clear determination of what …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Third question, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Prior to the Minister’s making his announcement yesterday, and the Statement t oday, what consultation [took place] with the Bermuda Union of Teachers in terms of what should happen with the schools?
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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A supplementary.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, last night Mike Charles, of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that there has not been a meeting with his Union and the Ministry for months. So I was wondering if the Minister can clarify whether he has had any consultati on with the Bermudian Union of Teachers.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, to the Honourable Minister, on page 2 it states, second sentence, “ Changing family structures as well as the emotional and financial strain of caregiving . . .” Would the Minister be able to tell us, what is being done by this Government to stop the changing family structure? It has been said by …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The question is, What is the Government doing to address that particular fact?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last week we spent quite a bit of time discussing a motion to bring a joint select committee to discuss entrepreneurial opportunities, employment opportunities, and the like. Now , I am not reflecting on that, but it kind of just leads into som ething that I wanted t o discuss today. And one of …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, we were just issued some written replies to some questions that I asked, and I think some of these answers speak directly to that claim of over -employment coming. Because if you talk to some, the definition of over - employment is the need to issue out work permits be-cause there just are not enough Bermudians to …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Oh, I am getting to that. Thank you for reminding me. Not only have we found out they issued these permits, but they have not bothered to get them nationally certified. Where do we go f rom here? What do we tell our people who are looking for employment? What do we tell our people who are out there getting …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The Bill is the National O ccupational Certification Act 2004 and it states, if someone “holds a certificate or other document granted by a board, an institution or other body in an overseas jurisdiction in that occupation, and —(i) has filed an application under this Act to have that certif icate or other document recognised as being equiv alent to …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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But, Mr. Speak er, I would not say that if I did not have something else to say about it. We heard on numerous occasions about the wonders of the Job Board—the wonders of the Job Board! I will add that the replies to the questions for the Job Board was “we are unable to determine the inform ation as …