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Lauren Bell

Lauren Bell

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18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Your report —
18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Our people are telling you this. [Gavel]
18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker — [Inaudible interjections ]
18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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But this Government has failed and no amount of spin or press statements or financial ratings can change that. It is time we stop pretending. It is time we started acting for the people who still are here and those who we hope will one day return. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Desk thumping]
18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Point of order Madam—I never said we are issuing too many. I said they are making statements that they are protecting the jobs of Bermudians and yet we have, under their — Hon. E. David Burt: We are protecting the jobs of Bermudians.
18 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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—leadership, we have more work permits being issued than in the history of our country. That is the contradiction right there. Not what I said.
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, I have a s upplementary.
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Can the Premier direct us (“us” being the public), to real data s upporting that we have seen a favourable impac t on our health outcomes as a result of the sugar tax? Where can we find that data?
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Sec ond supplementary.
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Given that people suffering from high blood pressure is pretty prevalent in Bermuda as well, and a key contributing or key reason behind that is salt, does the Government intend to also impose a tax on food items that have salt? Hon. E. David Burt: No, Mr. Speaker.
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. I am glad to hear that response from the Minister, particularly about educating our entrepreneurs on expanding beyond our shores. Given our population challenges, our age ing population and the need for more working people, does the Minister believe we currently have a thriving base of potential customers?
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary.
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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Given the successful rate at which people are graduating from the entrepreneurial programmes and schemes that the Minister has put in place, does he have any concern that there may end up being too many entrepreneurs for the current number of customer or potential customers that are out there, thereby making it extremely difficult for these entrepreneurs to actually succeed?
11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly
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No. I thank the Minister for his answers. Thank you.
13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I know from firsthand experience, having sat with the technical staff who the Minister just thanked, and I would like to thank them as well for the efforts that they have put in. This is a very complex area and very difficult to keep track of all the different re-quirements under the protocols, et …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to ask the Minister a quick question on the average length of the training programmes. I think that’s . . . I didn't hear that in the Statement, but I feel it may encourage, if it's between two or three months, that's not that long to equip yourself for either a change of …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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A new question.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I thank the Minister for that answer. Another thing, I didn't quite understand, or I may have misheard. The Minister was talking about the Learn Through Experience programme. He said seven individuals had taken advantage of that. And then he went on to say that three out of four individuals that were . . . were they of age to …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker. The remaining three, were they younger or older? Or people younger than 18 cannot enter these programmes? Just out of curiosity. Hon. Jason Hayward: The persons that fell outside of the category of 18 to 26 were older.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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No. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Minister.