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Ernest Peets

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20 Jul 2022 Senate
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330 words
Thank you. I certainly want to congratulate and give a shout out to the Bermuda Sloop Foundation. You guys may have noticed on social media, particularly on F acebook for example, if you follow them on Facebook, they had a wonderful trip from Bermuda down to Turks and Caicos and back, tracing the story, of course, of the beloved Mary …
20 Jul 2022 Senate
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601 words
Yes. Thank you, Madam President. This has been, not a long day necessarily, but certainly a long legislative session. So, perhaps a summer recess is certainly due to us. I motion that this Honourable Chamber adjourn until September 14, 2022. The President: Thank you for that. Would any Senator care to speak on the m otion to adjourn? Senator Michelle …
20 Jul 2022 Senate
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I could, Madam President, if there i s no one else. The President: I do not see any other indication. So, the floor is yours. Bermuda Senate CUP MATCH
20 Jul 2022 Senate
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Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I know the listening audience cannot see what we are doing today but they would be impressed. T oday, the Opposition came in with coordinated red and blue. But I also want the listening audience to know that there is a fair representation of blue and blue here in the Senate Chambers. So, both Houses, …
20 Jul 2022 Senate
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If we decide to make a count . . . I certainly want to just pause really quick. And I promise I will keep my comments brief. But yesterday of course was the fifth- year anniversary of the July 17 general election. Obviously, I was a new person to the political arena, having spent most of my time professionally just …
6 Jul 2022 Senate
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Yes, thank you, Madam President. I certainly want to wish a happy belated birt hday to Roger Dill, Valley Heights Road in Devonshire. It is part of my constituency, in constituency 10. He celebrated his 65 th birthday yesterday. And I trust that he had a great day. But also, Madam President, on a sadder note, we regret to announce …
6 Jul 2022 Senate
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Thank you, Madam President, I [move] that this honourable Senate Chamber adjourn until Wednesday, July 20 th. ADJOURNMENT The President: Thank you Minister Peets. Would any Minister care to speak on the motion to adjourn? Senator Robin Tucker, you have the floor. GANG VIOLENCE IN BERMUDA Sen. Robin Tucker: Thank you, Madam President. I think that we have had some …
6 Jul 2022 Senate
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Yes, thank you, Madam President. Thank you for an opportunity to close out our m otion to adjourn today. I certainly want to thank Senators who spoke earlier during motion to adjourn. In particular, I want to thank my fellow Senate colleague, Senator Darrell, particularly for his passionate motion to adjourn in reply to some of the things that we …
22 Jun 2022 Senate
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467 words
Yes, thank you, Madam President. I certainly want to thank the Junior Minister, as well as the substantive Minister and the entire Ministry for this particular Bill. I think this type of conversation and this type of action on behalf of the Government really sort of encapsulate the desires and wishes of all Bermudi-ans, both old and young alike. So …
22 Jun 2022 Senate
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Yes, Madam Pres ident. The President: Minister Peets, you have the floor.
22 Jun 2022 Senate
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Yes, thank you, Madam President. All of us are aware, of course, of the passing of Sister Olga Scott, wife of former Premier Alex Scott, mother to Robyn Eve and our beloved Minister La wrence Scott, Minister of Transport . We certainly invite Senate to join with me in sending our prayers and 542 22 June 2022 Official Hansard Report …
22 Jun 2022 Senate
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Thank you, Madam President. I move that Senate adjourn to Wednesday, July 6. The President: Would any Senator care to speak on the motion to adjourn? Hearing none, then, Senators, the Senate stands adjourned until July 6. [At 11:06 am, the Senate stood adjourned until 10:00 am, Wednesday, 6 July 2022.]
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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1,182 words
Yes, thank you, Madam President. I certainly thank the Junior Minister for her brief. Of course, we have seen this Bill before and we have heard these issues and concerns last time, and we have heard them today. I just wanted the listening public to know that if they are worried that these tour vehicles are going to be running …
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Madam President. The President: Yes.
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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The Minister of Transport cannot approve a vehicle to transgress or trans . . . what is the appropriate word? That particular ability and discretion does not fall to the Minister of Transport. He cannot approve a vehicle to go off of the main road into a protected area. The President: Minister Peets, we do have three objections, and we …
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Madam President, can I make a motion to suspend [Standing Order] 35? The President: You may, yes. The Clerk: Okay. Let me just not e the Senators’ o bjections [being], Senator Smith, Senator Wight and Senator Tucker. The President: Yes, and Senator De Couto. Yes. So that was four. The Clerk: The objection is to the third reading [I NAUDIBLE] …
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Yes. Sen. Lindsay Simmons: I second it. Bermuda Senate The President: It does not need to be seconded. We take a vote on it from the Senators. That is suspending— [Crosstalk ] The President: This does not happen often, so . . . [Crosstalk ] The President: Just a reminder, Senators, that al though we have the [Standing Orders], there …
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Yes, Madam Pres ident. The President: Senator Peets, you have the floor.
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Thank you, Madam President. I certainly want to send my congratulations out to our Senior Men’s Team. They lost yesterday, of course, in Guyana, unfortunate for that. But I want to congratulate Dante Leverock in particular. I received a phone call from my son— he is a football player and loves football and has aspirations one day to repr esent …
8 Jun 2022 Senate
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Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I move that this body, Senate, adjourn until June 22. The President: Thank you. Would any Senator care to speak on the m otion to adjourn?