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E. Grant Gibbons

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23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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—a cute way of putting it. So, I suspect — [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, no. You have got the Honourable Members Furbert and Simmons over there, so — [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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—so who knows. Who knows whether there is certainly some legacy — [Inaudible interjections and laughter]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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—legacy UBP issues lurking within the depths of the PLP. Anyway, there are probably some elements of truth in that. It is certainly a business -friendly budget. But I think it is fair to say that an OBA budget, had we delivered one this year, certainly would not have come out with all the divisive political rhetoric that we had …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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But I must confess. I have to give the Premier some credit. My honourable colleague, Cole Simons, referred to him as a good salesman. I think he probably has packaged this PLP budget better than some of the budgets that w e had produced in the past. Substance was our strong suit; not necessarily our political rhetoric. But I think …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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I got it. Yes. [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I will continue to do that. It has been there— [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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It is never going to go away —
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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—of what the former One Bermuda Alliance party achieved over the last four years. In essence, the Progressive Labour Party has been handed a remarkable record of economic recovery and stabilisation, when you look back at the state of the economy in 2012. [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Was it perfect? No. But certainly, based on what we were handed, it is quite extraordinary. It is kind of interesting. When Junior Minister Furbert earlier on repeated the cute phrase, W e are not going to compete with the OBA to see who can best manage the status quo . . . Mr. Speaker, had we left the PLP's …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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You have been to Port Adriano. Then you understand the potential for a superyacht industry, and a high- end marine jobs area. [Inaudible interjections]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Dr. Brown may well have a boat there, but you know about it, I do not. The other area of course that is worth purs uing, again for that area out there, is a variety of spor ting projects. Triathlon came directly as a cons equence of the America’s Cup. There are a whole s eries of cycling, swim ming, …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, I will yield, if he is quick.
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Honourable Member. The interesting thing about this is [that] there was a technolo gy park that was proposed back in the late 1990s down there. , in some respects , that boat sailed a while ago. You know, I think I glory in the enthusiasm, particularly at that Minister and others, but frankly, …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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No, I am running out of time.
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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We wi ll get to it in the Committee of Supply.
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you. As some people have said, I think we have to be very careful, particularly with the cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. There is a lot of fraud going on in that area. And I know that the Government is very sensitive about this, but this is an area, partic ularly with our, essentially, CFATF review, that we have …
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Two minutes?
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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The other issue, of course, is start -up capital is not available here. It is going to be required. And so those are some of the issues that I think we . . . and education — [Inaudible interjection]
23 Feb 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. I am going to touch very briefly on the 60/40 provisions. I must confess; I have very mixed feelings about this, as a former Mi nister of Finance in the 1990s and having been responsible for Economic Development in the last budget. I probably should declare interest on two levels. One is, I am interested and I have seen …