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Jeff Baron

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12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Chairman. I would like to s tart by thanking the Minister for the comprehensive brief. I know we have allotted five hours for this debate. I do not anticipate taking so much time, but a few housekeeping matters. The Minister did mention a health matter so, of course, if the Minister needs to excuse himself I …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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You know they could have wrapped it up for me, Minister, but they did not tell me that. Thank you. Thank you , Mr. Chairman, I do not want to digress, but I appreciate that. I say that because a good amount of conversation occurred with the members of the Bermuda Police Executive and the Unions who were represented there …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I shall start, Mr. Chairman, with Head 6, Defence, which is found on pages B -276 to B -279. The Minister quite rightly highlighted some of the achievements that the Regiment has had in the last year and I am going to assert something that I hold firmly, that the Regiment —many of the uniform services, but particularly the Regiment …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Will there be any police officers attached to the Royal Bermuda Regiment as a handover period, assuming there is a handover per iod, Mr. Chairman? And how many —if the Minister can let us know —how many Bermuda Police officers will be attached if there is a handover period? Will the Royal Bermuda Regiment seek to create separate …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, I will get to that. I applaud that. The number of soldiers was 40. Can the Honourable Minister let us know beyond, I suppose, holding an-other course, how these funds will be used to bett er address recruitment of Bermudians. I say Bermudians, Mr. Chairman, because I am led to believe that there were approximately 20– 25 per cent …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Of course. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN HOUSE VISITOR
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome, of course, you did the welcome much better than I did, Mr. Chairman. That was the question regarding Overseas Camp. So, moving on to 16080 Courses and Attac hments, can the Minister confirm if any of our soldiers will be attending the Sandhurst Military Academy this fiscal year? If so, how many …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you . Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Chairman, it has been clearly articulated by the Premier and the Government in their statement regarding the budget that emphasis or, if I can read briefly from the Budget Statement a sent ence, Mr.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, this is what I understand. [Inaudible interjection]
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Secondly, my question to the Minister is: If we are hiring two people to address a gap and we are making the money available sometime in April or May, and we have a CFATF audit in September, what type of impact are two people (who are going to be learning where Reid Street is and Church Street is in May …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you . The number of hours delivered by anticrime and anti -gang awareness in Bermuda’s schools and the community at large. My question to the Minister is: Can the Minister inform this House how many school children have graduated from the Great Programme to date during the 2017/18 school year? So, look, from September to the winter break there …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. Okay. Okay, I figured that. So it appears that the money . . . and kudos for identifying that. The remaining money, the 345, is to pay the balance of t he monies paid to basically say, Hey, can you start to build this? I know that it takes some time. I know that we have had some struggles …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I am reading from the Budget Book page [B -]28, Mr. Chairman.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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That covers the entire Ministry of N ational Security.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Indeed, we are. And the Budget Speech that was made by the Premier speaks to it.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I will get you the very specific head,
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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So my comment with regard to the Police was under Head 7, on page B -281, and the comment regarding Fire Services, Mr. Chairm an, was page B -293, which speaks to the overall budget. And the comments regarding the Department of Corrections, Mr. Chairman, is on B -289, the overall budget. So we have heard, Mr. Chairman, that the …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good evening.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Good evening to all colleagues here and the listening audience. It is always entertaining from the Member who just took his seat. The rhetoric sounds a lot like a third grade math teacher, he talks a lot about division.
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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No, I am saying their rhetoric —