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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

2524
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28 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
248 words
Therefore , we must be working together with others. And the best place that I be-lieve and the Government believes to start is with the House of Representatives leading the way and having those conversations on your behalf, Mr. Speaker . Because this is a J oint Select Committee, y ou are the one that would determine who sits on …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
93 words
And, Mr. Speaker, even Members on the other side said that as we were making progress the J oint Select Committee was moving forward with transparenc y and that everybody was treated equally . And I will now go and embellish a bit that this was more parliamentary than it was party. We represent you, Mr. Speaker, when we reach …
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
21 words
And, Mr. Speaker, as my colleague to my left that is lucky enough to share one of my names — [Laughter]
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
11 words
—has said, it is good governance. [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
28 May 2025 House of Assembly
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21 words
And so, Mr. Speaker, on that note, I move that we do move forward with the Motion, and be it resolved.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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83 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House. He has said multiple times that the Government has nothing to help reduce the cost of living and he uses the grocery store as an example. This Government has reduced duty costs and duty amounts on fresh fruits and vegetables, on water and other grocery items which have not been passed on to …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
5 words
Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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7 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
159 words
The Honourable Member is sitting here trying to paint a narrative that his version of what he says, politicisation of the Bermuda Tourism Authority [BTA], is what is hindering growth in the tourism sector when it is actually the fact that we don’t have enough hotel rooms, which they spoke against when we brought the Southampton Princess Bill to the …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
6 words
Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
107 words
That Honourable Member is misleading the House. He is making . . . for the person who is listening on the radio and if they had just turned in, [we] would [understand] if they misunderstood . . . if they had the understanding that the CIT tax is a PLP initiative. This is us actually complying with a global directive. …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
12 words
Point of order, Mr. Speaker [sic]. Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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7 words
Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Laughter]
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
86 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House. The Honourable Member is making it seem as though the only construction that is happening in the Island is on Front Street. There are hotels that are expanding themselves and growing. There are hotels that are building new wings, hotels that are building new conference areas. And that does not happen just on …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
51 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House. He is saying that we are returning old derelict buildings into parking spaces, but yet he conveniently is leaving out the fact that they spoke against the PLP Government allowing for a change in the height restrictions to buildings which has sort of inspired—
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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7 words
—the building which he is speaking to.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
6 words
Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
32 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House. It makes it seem as though the Government controls the police. The police answer to the Governor, not the Government. The Government only provides funding.
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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270 words
Good evening, Mr. Speaker. I want to start my remarks by sort of bringing to the forefront the American employment psycholo-gist, Frederick Herzberg, who was the one who made an observation that salary is a motivator and not a satisfier. And that in a capitalistic economy (which is what we are in right now) salaries are normally based on the …
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
77 words
The first salary in 1975 was £1,800, the equivalent of $15,000 per year. And that was, in their words , not mine, to ensure the undesirables did not make it or did not participate in these hallowed chambers. And the undesirables that they we re talking about was anybody who was not a merchant elite. If you did not own …