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Dwayne Robinson, JP, MP

Dwayne Robinson, JP, MP

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12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Minister for still endeavouring to answer the questions. First of all , my supplemental is, is the Minister confident that with the opening of Fairmount Southampton the Bermudian workforce will be able to sustain employment across our industry?
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, and thank you for your answer, Minister. My second supplemental is, how have the efforts to interest Bermudians in seeing hospitality and tourism as a potential career been? Can we get an update on . . . [that ]? [Inaudible interjections]
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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That's my supplemental.
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House what course of action will he take if hotels fall below the 70 per cent employment requirement for concessions due to a shortage of Bermudian workforce available?
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, and just for clarity, my supplemental is if a hotel does find themselves in that position due to there being a lack of workforce, not essentially them unable to try or not trying, what exactly is that assistance that will be granted to them to reach that threshold?
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, and I just want to clarify as well that it is not about hypotheticals. This is a real potential pitfall if a hotel is trying to employ and maintain their necessary requirements for concessions and cannot find the suitable employees. So, my supplemental is, can the Minister confirm that there will be . . . that . …
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, please, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House whether he or his Ministry request any periodic feedback or progress on the management trainee programmes within the hospitality and tourism industry, especially those tied to concessions?
12 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, and just for the clarity of the listening audience, because a lot of these concessions are tied to Tourism Acts and Tourism Investment Acts, I just wanted to know why does this seem like this particular question is being referred to the Ministry of Economy and Labour when this is . . . is tied to concessions …
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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New question, Mr. Speaker . Second question. As the digital footprint rises and we move into social media platforms, will there be any compliance training or cybersecurity training for staff who are operating this particular platform?
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just rise to support my colleague in the spirit of this M otion because I believe that the opportunity part is the largest piece of this M otion because we are presented with a once- in-a-lifetime opportunity. And as it was mentioned earlier in debate (not to reflect on it ) we are, at the …
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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—what you hear from this side is passion to ensure that Government takes advantage of this once- in-a-lifetime opportunity and places Bermuda in a better position. This is not a course of us to come up into this House and simply rubber stamp what Government does. It is on us as the O pposition and as representatives of the people …
5 Dec 2025 House of Assembly
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And company profits are remaining, but manpower is reducing. So, if we are basing a lot of our hopes on rebates that are going to go to the community, we may not be able to save some of these jobs. And therefore, those rebates may not have as much effect on the Bermudians who really need them. So not to …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . And I just wanted to know , since if this is a hardship relief for someone who is going through a re-ally tough time in their life, obviously losing a spouse, will the J unior Minister be able to clarify whether this is automatic, or do they have to go through the application process to …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker. If the property is tied up in probate, will this relief be able to be extended? Will there be any discretion for an extension until the probate process is completed for the property? Thank you.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Second question, Mr. Speaker.
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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If the senior who has passed on did not apply previously for their land tax relief, because we see this happens a lot, that some seniors are not applying for their initial land tax relief, is the spouse of that senior still eligible for this relief?
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I just wanted to make mention of a huge issue that plagues our community . And I know that we are tackling many issues at the moment, but this particular one seems to be, not falling to the wayside, but there does not seem to be a lot of legislative movement on this particular …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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I yield. [Crosstalk]
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I welcome the Member’s intervention as someone who has been Chairman of the Road Safety , and I'm glad that that information is out to the public . But specifically . . . and I am also happy to see that the work has started . But specifically , what I mean is something that carries …
21 Nov 2025 House of Assembly
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But I just wanted to put that forward. Also, there have been calls in the community . And I think that we as legislators need to respond to them. And that is to consider stiffer penalties and tougher laws on impaired driving. I mean, we have had cases where unfortunately someone has come out after causing death through negligent driving …