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Jeanne J. Atherden

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27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am so di sappointed to have to stand right now, because it just seems to me that the tone of our discussion is j ust starting to go down. I do not understand it. I thought we were coming here to debate the Tourism Authority Act and we have gone off into so many different direc-tions and …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I am reading the ad that was in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday, September the 24th. It is the ad that says, “Tourism in Transition, Chief Executive Officer.”
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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It says, "This is a senior executive position that is responsible for leading a competent group of professionals towards the realis ations of its objectives." The second thing that is ind icated here is that, "He or she will have substantive experience and success in managing people, venHouse of Assembly 2190 27 September 2013 Official Hansard Report dors, and projects." …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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My supplementary relates to the question with respect to collective responsibility and information that ministers get from technical offi cers. I think everyone goes on the basis that the information that they get from a technical officer is what they then present to the House. [Inaudible interjections]
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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My question is, Is it poss ible that unless the Minister queries further, the Mini ster accepts the information that has been given to Bermuda House of Assembly them as being factual and , therefore, the responsibility is based upon the response?
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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My supplementary is, at what point in time did the Ministry start to look for al-ternative premis es?
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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To the Minister, my supplementary relates to the fact that I asked a question Bermuda House of Assembly about whether alternative accommodation had been looked at prior to the election. And you have now indicated that yes, it had been. Hon. Lovitta F. Foggo: Not prior to the election. Not prior to the election. [Crosstalk]
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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(Sorry.) I understood in a response to the Opposition Leader that the post office in town had been looked at. Can you say to us when the post office in town had been looked at and when it was deemed that it was not going to be suitable?
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Could the Minister indicate whether she is aware that the former Finance Mini s134 22 September 2017 Official Han sard Report B ermuda House of Assembly ter, Bob Richards, had looked at the Hamilton facility as an alternative to the processing of the mail? Hon. Lovitta F. Foggo: No.
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I have a supplementary.
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I have a supplementary. And if the Minister can clarify this again, because it said the Authority will pay Project Co $600,000 as a single liquidated sum as full compensation. And the Bermuda Post Office will be permitted to remain in its current premises for the term, without further payment or rent or occupancy cost, subject to the Bermuda Post …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. Minister, if you can clarify . . . I thought you indicated that if they stayed down at the airport, it was $30,000 a month. And I thought you indicated in r esponse to my colleague, Cole Simons, that that rent might also be $30,000 a month. And therefore, the question then is, if the rents are equal, but …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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That is okay.
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Obviously, like Bermuda, I am very pleased to see that we are whitelisted, because I do remember the previous Minister talking about having to protect us from being potentially blacklisted. So I know that France is one of those countries that we had to really pay special attention to. So my question is, the F inance …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, and, obv iously, Members of the House and the listening audience understand the need to have this Bill. And as the Finance Minister and Premier has indicated, this Bill was in train. A nd I think it is important for us to recognise that sometimes when you try to do things, you have to tweak it to make …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, as the Premier and Finance Minister indicated, these changes are necessary so that we can make sure that unintended consequences do not result. Because I think that ev erybody . . . the intention was to make sure that payroll tax would increase the revenues to the government, but at the same time, in the spirit of ensuring …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Bearing in mind, as we go through these clauses, there is the d efinition of “gross earnings” as opposed to . . . definition of “remuner ation” as opposed to “gross earnings.” Would it be possible for the Finance Minister to clarify what type of things would now be deemed to be remuneration that people might have confus ed when …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, under normal circumstances, one would worry when you change something from an affirmative to a negative resolution. But I think we all recognise that with respect to the TIEAs [tax infor-mation exchange agreements] and the information, everything is changing s o quickly as it relates to the need to be on the right side …
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, I think that this is going too far, Mr. Speaker . [Inaudible interjection]
22 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , in the spirit that, as the Min ister said, this Act was something that the former Government had well in hand and, ther efore, I know it very well. That was why I did not say anything when the Minister went from the Act into the Regulations because, of course, they are a package. But we still …