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E. Grant Gibbons

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5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning. Mr. Speaker, on page 1 of the Minister’s Statement on C asino Regulations, he refers to the development of Regulations hitting a stumbling block. My understandi ng was that the R egulations that the former Government had done were pretty much finalised and were ready to go. Could the Honourable Member please articulate …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary, Mr. Speaker. 1362 5 March 2018 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Go ahead. SUPPLEMENTARY
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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We are now nine months down the road. Obviously, these are essential for any forward movement in the casino gaming area for potential licensees. Could the Honourable Member say what has taken the Government so long to get these ready? In fact, it does not sound like they are ready yet.
5 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 Kim Young, by my colleague, Honourable Member Jeanne Atherden. And particularly to Ward, her children Shannon, Jon athan, William, Jeness, and her stepchildren Ardleigh and Ward, Jr. As Ho nourable Members may know, Kim Young was my running mate for a …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. And I appreciate the opportunity to be able to participate in this debate on Head 95, which I guess is on page B -333 of the Budget Book. Let me start by saying that I appreciate the Minister’s willingness to give us a copy of his brief. It is nice to know there is reciprocity …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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The Minister interjects it was actually three times. But I have to say that the BEDC did a very nice job and they are getting an a d-ditional million dollars. So I would actually like to comment on a couple of areas related to the BEDC. The grant is going up from $1.56 million last year to $2.56 million. The …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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That is true as well? Thank you. So why focus on this issue of the available capital? I think it is important because one of the reasons the capit al has not been increased either under the former Progressive Labour Party Government or under the former One Bermuda Alliance Government is because the actual utilisation of that capital has come …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Different programme? Yes. So, the Minister confirms that it is a di fferent programme. I think the other question I have here is there was a KPMG report that was commissioned in 2016. I think one of the key recommendations coming out of that was thi s issue of a focused incubator programme. So I am guessing this is probably …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, I notice a change of regime here. I am going to shift now to another quango, which is the Bermuda Business Deve lopment Agency, otherwise known as the BDA. Again, that has a grant on page C -21, and also listed on page B -33. The BDA, I think as Honourable Members know, is a public/private partnership. It …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I am getting an interjection, “come on.” It is a very, very clear risk. I would be interested to know where the BMA stands on it. One of the other areas which has not been mentioned at all, but I think is important, is this issue of the introduction of foreign law firms, whether that comes under the Ministry of …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. A couple of issues that I was hoping the Mi nister would clarify. I think there are at least three di fferent tech hubs, or incubators, that have been talked about. Could the Honourable Member distinguish between the tech hub which was originally proposed for Southside; the Tech Incubator, which is, I think, called Enterprise …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just have a question. Towards the end of his comments, the Honourable Member talked about company permit fees. And I think we r emember last year when the former Minister of F inance, I will say, appreciably raised certain permit company fees. And I am curious as to whether there has been …
5 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to get the Mini ster’s confirmation that, essentially, this is raising all fees by 5 per cent straight the way through? The reason I ask is because I was looking at livery minicars, and that licensing has been in place for only nine months or so mething like that. So …
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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This is a suppl ementary on my colleague’s question.
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes.
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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So, just if t he Honour able Member could confirm, was it really the low tur nout for the Recruit Camp that made the Overseas Camp not viable? If the numbers were just simply too small to really afford to do the Overseas Camp? Bermuda House of Assembly
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My colleague actually covered some of the questions that I wanted to ask the Minister.
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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But I do have a couple of others. The first question, Mr. Speaker, is the Honourable Member talked about timing. But it was not really clear whether this Coast Guard unit will be up and going in this fiscal year, or whether it will actually begin in the next fiscal year, the 2019/20 fiscal year.
2 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Actually, it is a new question, Mr. Speaker. The Speake r: Okay. Your second question. Continue. QUESTION 2: ROYAL BERMUDA REGIMENT OVERSEAS CAMP