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E. Grant Gibbons

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12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Page 30, the very bottom of the page. It is Head 25. So, the authorisation fee there has gone from 2.5 per cent last year up to 3.5 per cent. This is a pre tty large number because it is based on the relevant taxable tur nover of telecom providers. Last year the estimate was about $196 million for the …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, you partially addressed it. The point of order is that the Honourable Member is imputing improper motives by sug-gesting that my c olleague had a personal vendetta.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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You did. But he should withdraw it, I think.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Yep, here he comes.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I couldn’t resist that bait.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member knows . . . we have been around this one before. He is misleading the House. Those projects were much tighter than he suggests. He only needs to look at when the project actually began, as opposed to taking, for example, Tynes Bay, which was 10 years beforehand, before the projected was properly formulated. Westgate, actually was …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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So, Mr. Speaker, if the Honourable Member will persist, I am going to have to persist as well. Thank you.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, point of order. POINT OF ORDER [Imputing improper motive]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member has been around long enough. He knows he is not supposed to be i mputing improper motive, and he is certainly doing that now. Retract that. Hon. Michael J. Scott: I am not retracting. I am expressing a view of history as I see it.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and thank you. Mr. Speaker, the question I have for the Ho nourable Member refers to the fir st page of his Stat ement, where he proposes to defer elections for a year until May 2019. And I underscore “while the Gover nment undertakes consultations with the Corporations of Hamilton and St. George’s and the residents.” …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker. Are the corporations aware that this Bill is being tabled today?
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. Would the Honourable Minister say, or could he comment, as to whether the corporations are supportive of the amendments in this particular Bill, i ncluding the deferral of the May date, but other parts of the Bill as well? T hank you.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, could the Honourable Member comment as to why he is unprepared to state whether the corporations are supportive or not of the deferral of the election?
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Yes, a supplementary,
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, is the Honourable Member saying that they were not consulted about deferring the date of the election for a year?
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to be associated with the condolences to the family of Ruth Paynter . Certainly, she was well known in that community, and I think very successful as a businesswoman in her own right , and certainly, a matriarch of the family. And I did not know her well, but certainly she …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, I am actually pleased to have the opportunity to weigh in and make a contribution on the education heads. I am going to probably focus my comments mostly on education and partic ularly the Department of Education on page B -128. It has been a couple of years since I had the pleasure of …