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The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

The Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP

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15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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The supplementary to that is. . . most scholarships are not afforded to anyone who has not completed the first year of school. And typically, once you have completed your first year of school, it is only three years that are allowed. And since we have education . . . since we are allowing for up to four years, I …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Whether it does look out specifically for high school students, this particular programme.
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Second quest ion.
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Would the Minister be able to answer if the policy that encourages attendance to the Bermuda College, if the programme the student se eks is being offered by the Bermuda College first, rather than giving money for them to go overseas to seek such programmes? Does that still exist?
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too w ish to get up and echo the comments of my colleagues about this progressive movement. It was some time ago, I am sure all of us are old enough to remember those little boxes that used to be outside of our kitchens. We used to call them grease traps . And the purpose …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And you know, Mr. Speaker, following on from what my colleague talked about , is when you are gi ving the concessions , the concessions need to be r eciprocated in some way or there has to be something that you are getting back from that. What we are looking to do here, Mr. Speaker, is, …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. I would like to ask the Junior Minister, is he aware that there is no such zoning as hotel zoning within our Planning Development Act? So what zoning? I have heard the Honourable Member from constituency 22 mention it on several occasions. What zoning is he referring to? Because there is no zoning under our …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Just a little help for the Junior Minister. There is no such thing as dormitories zoning and the like. There is residential 1; there is residential 2; there is rural; there is tourism; there is institutional; commercial; mixed -use; industrial; and ai rport. That is all we have. So, I guess the question is, which …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman And trust me, not to belabour the point, but I want to make it crystal clear to the listening audience, because they are listening to us and wondering what is going on up here, and getting very frustrated with what is going on. I want to make it clear to my colleagues as well, you …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—and they have asked for a change of use.
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Again, not to belabour the point and not to point out to the actual Minister of Planning, but you cannot change the zoning of a property. You can change the use of the property. This particular thing that we are talking about is zoned commercial and it has now been cha nged. The change of …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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That is it. What we are tal king about, what you have got to understand is the zoning of the property always remains whatever the un-derlying zoning is, but you can apply for a change of use of the property. So you do not have to use it as a commercial building. They are using it as a dormitory building …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have just gone through the exercise of an amendment to the substantive Bill that this Order comes from. But I do want to reflect on some of the things that were said during that —
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am speaking to the Order.
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am being mindful of —
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, we will probably hear that the particular hotel that is being allowed to develop this property will be moving their staff from Southampton Princess and the like to come down here. But I think it is important for the public to understand and know, Mr. Speaker, that this building was acquired over a year ago. The plans …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am curious to know.
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am curious to know. So we are looking at an Order. We are looking at an Order that is essentially creating hardship. We talked about it. We heard it. We do these concessions to grow Bermuda, to make Bermuda greater, to make Bermuda better. But we are doing a concession that is going to cause hardship to the very …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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So, Mr. Speaker, we are tal king about 100 people now out of the rental market. Let us say, on average, they pay $1,000 a month. At $1,000 a month, it means $100,000 of rental income has disappeared. That is $1. 2 million of rental income disappearing from the market, money that will now go to the hotel that we …
15 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.