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Jeff Sousa

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27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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We will see. I will be here. And I will go further. I will say to entrepreneurs out there that there has never been a better opportunity for you to go forward to jump in if you have the right attitude, the right work ethic to be an entrepreneur. Never, never in my lifetime . . . I am 56 …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, and collea gues.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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That is constituency 28, Warwick West. Mr. Speaker, I would hope that all the Honourable Members would join me in sending congrat ulations to the team of concerned Bermudians that came together to rescue the AG Show. We formed the AG Show Ltd. (Bermuda Ltd. , I should say .) This e xhibition had gone on for the last 75 …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Speaker, and honourable colleagues in the House and to those who may be listening in the listening audience.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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I am delighted to stand tonight, Mr. Speaker, to add additional support to the Hotels Concession Order on Tucker’s Point brought to the House by the Junior Minister of Tourism, my dear friend, Kenneth Bascome. And as has been said earlier on, Kenny has always been passionate about tourism in this country, and I know he will do an awesome …
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker. It is number 28.
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, good morning, Mr. Speaker.
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Good morning, colleagues. Goo d morning to those in the listening audience. I rise today to ask the Honourable House to send congratulatory remarks to the Berkeley Institute dance programme, in particular the Director of Dance and the dance teacher, Nakia Manders. On Friday evening, I thoroughly enjoyed attending their dance concert called Bring the Noise. And this truly showed …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon, colleagues, and good afternoon to those in the listening audience. I certainly would like to congratulate the Mini ster of Finance for his fantastic Budget that he has pr eBermuda House of Assembly sented, like the Minister of Tourism eloquently spoke about earlier. Personally, I feel Bob Richards will go down in history as …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I was not reading. I was referring to notes as everybody else does in the House of Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. [Inaudible interjections]
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. Mr. Spe aker, we heard the Members on the other side say that we should not talk about the past. But what we need to remind those that sit on the other side is why the budget is the way it is now. Let us be honest. We are in the mess we are in now because in the …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—at the time, we were — Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: Point of order.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—carrying on like drunken sailors. [Inaudible interjections]
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, much of what I am sa ying is in this document right here, this green document by the Auditor General. Okay. And of course goodness . . . you know, the thing is, so many of the top civil servants of the coun-try were recommending that this should not occur. So the Ministers at the time went against …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Many will remember in leading up to the election that they received in the mail this document, Mr. Speaker, “Jobs and Economic Turnaround Plan.”
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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And, of course, then we highlighted reducing Government debt —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—is what we highlighted. An d, of course, we have done that or we are doing that.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I am liking this, Mr. Speaker. And, of course, control Government spending. Goodness, Mr. Speaker, the former PLP Government grew the civil service between 2006 and 2007 by 25 per cent.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Obviously, Mr. Speaker, I must be hitting a nerve because there are points of order every five seconds. This is why almost 85 per cent of the Budget is on salaries, grants, contributions and debt. This cannot continue, Mr. Speaker. The PLP talk about job losses last year. Yes, there were job losses. There were 298 job losses, and of …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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These are the facts, Mr. Speaker. And, of course, I want to emphasise that nobody was terminated, nobody was laid off from the civil service.