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E. Grant Gibbons

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8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, has the UK provided any gui dance to Bermuda or the other Overseas Territories in regard to a post -Brexit situation regarding the EU and the offshore financial activities of Overseas Territ ories?
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure whether this would be part of the consultation that the Premier refers to, but I have a very specific question. On page 16 of the European Council’s Report, under the heading “ Existence of tax regimes that facilitate offshore structures which attract profits without real economic activity ,” Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. So, could the Junior Minister please tell us whether it was the Minister of Finance who submitted the financial statements late to the Auditor General, or whether the auditing process after the submission of the statements was responsible for delaying the pr ocess?
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would. The Honourable Member will know that, a year ago, I was also in Washington with the Financial Secretary at the time, William Francis, on the space issues. And at the time (because the FCC is men-tioned in the Honourable Member’s Statement on page 7), at the time we started a procedure …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Did they indicate that, although nothing had happened to date, that they were likely to pursue a review of that moratorium?
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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It sounds very bureaucratic. Yes, Mr. Speaker, I have got another question, a second question.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, second question, yes, yes.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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In regard to the issue of . . . let me see if I can find it. Yes, page 6 of the Honourable Member’s Statement, he refers to condominium-style satellites, or condo- sats. I wonder if there was any further discussion about Bermuda’s existing segregated accounts legislation, the fact that we are actually looking at incorporating cell legislation, or [ …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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It is actually a third question, Mr. Speaker.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. The Honourable Member will be aware that Luxembourg and, actually, also the UK have been very active in the last year or so, particularly Luxembourg, in looking at legislation that would allow for such diverse areas as space mi ning and putting in place a structure for those sorts of things. Was there any discussion with respect to the …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the update the Honourable Member has given on the energy sector . In his Statement, he refers several times to displacing fuels with clean, renewable sources of en-ergy. He talks about a greener energy economy. And I think there is another statement here about . . . yes, with respect to photovoltaic —that is, …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I think some Honourable Members will have noticed the retirement of Bradley Kading who, as many will know, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of ABIR. And I think it is only appropriate . . . Mr. Kading has been sort of operating in that capacity for about 12 years, …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Speaker . I see the Honourable Member does not have a lot of defenders on that side of the House.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker , I waited and nobody seemed to rise in support, so I was just, I thought, stating the obvious. Mr. Speaker, let me start by saying that had the Honourable Member tabled legislation like this in the House of Commons in the UK and prefaced his introductory remarks along the lines that he did, I think they …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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I did not say that Ho nourable Member needs to grow up. I said, Had it been in another place. What I said was that he needed to be able to get along with people who do not sugar - coat stuff and tell it like it is.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , point of order.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, point of order. Bermuda House of Assembly The Deputy Speaker: What is your point of order, Dr. Gibbons? POINT OF ORDER [Imputing improper motives ]