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Glen Smith

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10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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You did not recognise me in your colours today , that is why, Mr. Speaker.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I will be brief because I believe in the previous discussion the lot was covered. However, I stand here and I fully support this concession of the former Surf Side Beach Club. Mr. Speaker, I would think that a lot of our constituents are probably concerned that all they hear is us giving things away and without perhaps …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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It is totally different.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you. As I said , I spoke to the owner yesterday and he reassured me that it was not the same. It would be owned outright by the individual. [Inaudible interjections]
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So, Mr. Speaker —
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to congratulate these new deve lopers. From my understanding in my meeting we had yesterday, the majority of these primary investors are Bermudian. They already have the financing in place, obviously, and once and hopefully this concession goes through the funds will be released so they can get going. And also I have …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would also like to be associated with the congratulations sent to the committee that put t ogether the Agricultural Show. I was a participant, so I got to see the other side of how it all r an. And without the numerous volunteers who volunteer ed their time and their energy it would not …
11 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, and good morning, Mr. Speaker and the listening audience. I rise today to send congratulations to the A rtemis team. Last week Friday, I believe i t was, they had their official opening of their new facility in Morgan’s Point. And when the Honourable Minister from Economic Development first announced that the America’s Cup would be coming to …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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3 Hon. Derrick V. Burgess
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Speaker. First, I would like to thank the Finance Mini ster and our Cabinet for putting together a very tough budget. As we all know things are tough financially. I see it every day in my community. I also feel it with my constituents. We know it and it is not easy. The Honourable Member that just …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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And I will declare my interest. I am in the car business. But that is a fact. They have advertised it. Why are they doing that? Because they know there is confidence in the market for people to repay their loans if they do offer that. And of course they go through the due diligence to see if anybody that …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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We are doing better, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are all aware about the noise we hear about the alleged $77 million for the America’s Cup. Well, from where I come from and the numbers that I look at on a daily basis, given what the return on i nvestment is going to be, it could be up t o $250 …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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We most certainly are.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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You know, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will break it down into smaller numbers because when you start looking at these big numbers they really do not mean much, they become fuzzy.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Sorry, no, I have not.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Anyhow, we are roughly paying, I calculated and I will call it round numbers, about $500,000 per day on interest alone. You break that down, if you take a population of 60,000 that is about eight dollars a day each one of us are paying . . . each one of us. Break that down by a year it is …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Sure. Thank you. So, Madam Deputy Speaker, we recognised when we came in that we had a deficit and we are working very hard to reduce it because, at the end of the day, it is our future children that we have to be concerned about, that will continue to pay if we continue to borrow to spend and spend …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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And I mentioned my difficulty of rai sing capital for my business. The banks would not touch me; they would not look at me. We went and raised our own funds and we got overseas investors involved. Well, lo and behold this w eek, I kid you not, on Tuesday the bank showed up at our doors and said, Mr. …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, in closing, this Go vernment is working very hard. I continually f eel like salmon swimming upstream, I can tell you that, because it is not easy. It is absolutely not easy. But we are doing our best that we can do in the circumstances that we have. And the truth of the matter is, Moody’s has said …