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E. Grant Gibbons

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16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Oh, are we getting personal now? [Inaudible interjections] Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: I do not hear anybody questioning John Swan’s net worth. He was Premier for 13 years. You know . . . See the thing is . . . see us folk that have to start from scratch, we know what it is like to start from …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I am sitting here listening very patiently. The Honourable Member clearly is imputing improper motives. He is suggesting illegal activity. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Well, Mr. Speaker, I tell you what, I tell you what . . . I will tell you what —
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, point of order.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, the question I have is can a Backbencher read a Ministerial brief? I think it needs to be another Minister . . . ess entially because we have got collective responsibility here and a Bac kbencher does not have that. It is not that Mr. De Silva is doing a bad job; I think it is just a question …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. I appreciate the introduction from my honourable colleague, Mr. Baron. Mr. Chairman, as the Honourable Member said, we thought it was probably appropriate on this side that I deal with Head 67, which, as you can pro bably s ee, is on page B -296 of the Budget Book. It is Bermuda House of Assembly …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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In technology. That was set up by President Obama probably about five years or so ago. Standards and Technology . . . National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST. They put out a framework which is used both by the US Government and also by a lot of US bus inesses as well, t o in a programmed and careful …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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It was 2013. [Inaudible interjection]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes. And the reason I think it is an interesting parallel is because traditional reinsurance had relied on essentially more standard contracts and their own capital to be able to cover risks. But insurance- linked securities went out to the capital markets and essentially started getting a huge amount of money, it could have come from pension funds and …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Clarien is actually not in it, but thank you for asking. [Inaudible interjections]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you for asking. The issue here is, this stuff is all around us and I think you can be sure that the reinsurers . . . I know AIG is very involved in it, are also doing work. So it is going to be interesting to see how this area develops over the next few years. There are a …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Could be. I am —
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—talking about . . . yes. I will be careful here. I guess the issue here is, this department is about policy. I think part of what goes into policy is the issue of, okay, you have got these tools, this a pproach, what are you going to get out of it as a country? I think we need a …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, you know, they did in certain respects. But again, I think this department is also i mportant in terms of, what I will call, helping to develop some of the talent. The Minister did talk about that in his brief, the Technology Leadership Forum [TLF] and others. But we need to have a way to essentially pr ovide some …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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CFATF. [Inaudible interjections]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman— [Inaudible interjections]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—the Honourable Member should not be talking—
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—about an ongoing police investigation. Point of order, yes, Mr. Chairman.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. This is . . . while we fund the place, we do not tell them what they should be doing, as the Honourable Member should know.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, I have had a look through the electricity and electronic communications fees and what . . . most of them have not changed at all because ther e is a proportion of kilowatt hours or things of that sort or of a . . . $13,000 for particular frequencies. The one that did …