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Lauren Bell

Lauren Bell

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30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to encourage everyone to come up to the National Sports Centre on Wednesday night to encourage our Gombey Warriors, our senior men's national team, who take on the Cayman Islands. They then follow that up days later in Cuba against Cuba. They are still . . . I'm congratulating them in advance …
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, and good morning, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister mentioned that the participants in the Incubator programme have access to resources. Just for clarification, are any of those resources loans?
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Does the Minister know whether or not the terms of those loans are standard or specific to each individual?
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Second question. The Minister outlined that over 50 entrepreneurs have been supported over various cohorts. We have 10 more participating in the next cohort. Of the over 50 entrepreneurs, does the Minister have any statistics on how many of those busi-nesses are still existing? Bermuda House of Assembly The Deputy Speaker: Thank you, Member. Minister. Hon. Jason Hayward: I can …
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplemental.
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I accept what the Minister has said as far as the tools that people are equipped with, but given our population challenges, we can be as prepared as possible, but we still need a customer base in order to be successful. And does the Minister feel that our current population challenges could be detrimental to those who are currently graduates …
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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No, Madam Deputy Speaker.
26 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chair man. I just have a couple of questions and a comment, if allowed. For clarification purposes, the Minister mentioned that the Property Operations Department of the Bermuda Housing Corporation is responsible for the maintenance of 710 units, but he also mentioned in several spots of his brief that existing units were under renovation or refurbishment. I …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Bermuda House of Assembly I also would like to thank the Minister and his members of staff on an extremely comprehensive brief. I feel that the Minister had a camera in the room when I was formulating my questions. So, I think that our—
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I didn’t say that. I didn’t say that. [Laughter]
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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No, but the brief was quite comprehensive, and I have no problem in saying that. I will ask some questions that were probably already answered, but bear with me if that is the case. In any event, I believe it is worth hearing the answer again. It is extremely difficult to monitor your questions and hear everything the Minister says, …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, I figured that was it. There are a lot of pages in this book, so things will be missed. But the main thing is, I believe the numbers were correct underneath. We were able to figure that out. Moving down to the General Summary. This is under business unit 54010. It says, Consumer Affairs. It had a revised estimate …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Well, particularly, I am . . . the scenario as it relates to that portion of the question, that asks if anything is in Salaries, particularly, I am thinking of a scenario where a consultant is hired specifically to fill a role because of an employee not being onboarded or being out for whatever reason for a lengthy period of …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Okay. I may be overthinking this but under Percentage of the Tribunals Held, it says 33 per cent and then the next performance measure say Number of Immigration Tribunals still Outstanding. So, if 33 per cent are held and two are still outstanding, that would mean the total starting with would have been three. But my question is, Is that …
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Okay.
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, I may wish to come back to [Head] 44, if you don’t mind, if I come across something in my notes that I may have missed, but at this particular time I would like to move to Head 14, the Department of Statistics. And I will be starting on page — Hon. Jason Hayward: Mr. Chairman.
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I have no problem with that. Whatever is going to get us the answers and get the listening public some understanding of what is behind the numbers. But I believe I may have some colleagues who may be looking to speak as well, Mr. Chairman.
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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With the understanding that if I have a question later on I can come back.
19 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I ask your permission just to ask one follow -up question of the Minister based on one of his answers. Do I have your permission?