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E. Grant Gibbons

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7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member did not answer my question. I am quite happy to have the Premier to answer the question, since he seems to have had additional conversations with the US au-thorities here. The question is, you do not require a criminal conviction here to be put on the stop list. Has there been any discuss ion, any discussion with …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, yes.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Member did not answer the question. So, hopefully, when things change he will come back to the House, after having (I will say) a further discussion with the US authorities, to let us know whether this is going to make much of a difference or not. Thank you.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, new question.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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On page 4, the Honourable Member reminds people that a police officer of any rank has the lawful authority to seize any amount of cannabis in the possession of any person, including young persons. Could the Honourable Member share with us, since the legislation has been brought into force, the number of both aged people and young people who have …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to be associated with the condolences to the family of Mr. Tatem. He was actually a constituent of mine for a number of years before Paget East moved west. He lived down there at the foot of the lane where Gary Phillips lives now, a little cottage with his wife. …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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That is right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon. Mr. Chairman, I have a number of topics that I would like to cover with the various heads under the Ministry of Finance, but I thought I would start on the issue of tax, Tax Commissioner, which is on B -113.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I guess for the avoi dance of doubt, I should declare interest as a taxpayer. Hopefully all of us are in this particular place. I was sitting there thinking of . . . [being] reminded of the famous quote from [Russell] Long, one of the governors of Louisia na, who said, “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me. Tax the [fellow] …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. I think it is 99, isn’t it?
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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[Page] B -99.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Under Pensions. It is the grant underneath that. Let me just start on a broader note here. The issue of pension reform has been talked about at least for a couple of years now. Some of the work of the Pension Commission goes back probably two or three years on a number of different levels. In fact, I think the …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Sorry? [Inaudible interjection]
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. So the issue here is other countries that would be comparable. The Caymans have done this for a number of years. The interesting thing is the fact that nonBermudians did not have to contribute to a pension plan has often been cited as one reason that (I will say) certain employers preferred them because there was less cost of …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Sorry? [Inaudible interjection]
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The Harry Viera scheme. Yes. You know, I do not want to detract from it. It does what it was intended to do, which is a suppl ement to somebody’s retirement plan. But if you do not have another retirement plan, if you are really an employee that was there a long time ago, have been r etired for 15 …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. I wish to assure you that I will not take the 55 minutes. A couple of other questions, if I may. The Mi nister said this morning that the consultants for the EU in the UK have now been moved to the Cabinet O ffice. I could n ot pick it out of Head 10, but I was cur …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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In your dreams. Hon. E. David Burt: Oh, in your dreams! Oh, you just crushed someone’s poor heart there. [Laughter] Hon. E. David Burt: From constituency 22. I am quite sure that the former Chairman of the Bermuda Ec onomic Development Corporation was looking forward to sitting inside of your chair. That much being said, the details for the $980,000 …
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, if I may, just a point of clarification. Hon. E. David Burt: I will yield.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
7 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The H onourable Member is misleading the House. When he was in Government, the professional services line was well over $100 million. The former OBA Government had to reduce that over a number of years. So talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Hon. Zan e J. S. De Silva: Thank you. It is funny. That $100 million cannot …