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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

2524
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24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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191 words
You try to bring in Heineken. You try to bring in any household product right now. Because what? They have exclusivity with the suppli-ers in the United States, Canada and the UK, but they do not have it with the manufacturers in the Caribbean. So, could you imagine if we had direct ties to the Caribbean? And I will declare …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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48 words
Mr. Deputy Speaker , there are those who have been educated at the University of the West Indies which is arguably one of the best uni-versities in the world but yet they are not recognised here in their own country because it is located in the West Indies.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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88 words
Because of a stigma. And that stigma has just been perpetuated not by fact but by rep-etition. Remember prior to 1998, you had thirty years of repetition that anything that empowered the middle class was bad but anything that trickled down from the merchant elite was good. So much so that we will always question leadership and leaders that look …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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18 words
Not questioning those who do not look like us was America’s Cup and the building of the island—
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Cross Island. Not questioning those who do not look like us ended up with the airport financial deal.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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56 words
But yet they will question any economic decision made by us. Remember the hoopla and the questions and the names that Dr. Brown was called when he had the vision and foresight to build the docks up at Dockyard for larger cruise ships. [Inaudible interjection] Hon. W. Lawrence Scott: I was going to get to that.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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57 words
And so, Mr. Deputy Speaker , when somebody from the other side of the aisle tells us that CARICOM is not good for i s blatantly ignoring that their former colleagues, their family, their friends are economically benefitting out of CARICOM right now this instant, providing the same services for a fraction of the price. [Inaudible interjections]
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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230 words
How is it that they can provide services in the Caribbean that they say they cannot provide here? Same company. You compare the cost of living. And if we were able to become stronger members . . . you know what I think, Mr. Deputy Speaker , their real concern is? It is that in the Caribbean they do not …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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56 words
And, Mr. Deputy Speaker , maybe being a full member of CARICOM and seeing that being able to make internationally strategic decisions and trading decisions and partnership decisions with other countries without having a middleman make the decision for us standing up there in Whit ehall, maybe then we will start to believe our own leaders.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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94 words
Maybe then when we say something that is pro- Bermudian, the Opposition does not try to pull the race card. Maybe then, Mr. Deputy Speaker , we will see more Bermudians owning communication companies, banking institutions. These are the thin gs they do not want us to see. This is what they do not want us to have, because if …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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151 words
When we have access to capital, we have access to opportunity. Where we have access to opportunity, we have the ability to start employing our own. And when we employ our own, we set our own up to be successful. That is what the Caribbean has done. But they will try the bogeyman tactic of saying, Look at Jamaica. But …
21 Jul 2023 House of Assembly
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5 words
Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
21 Jul 2023 House of Assembly
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5 words
Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
21 Jul 2023 House of Assembly
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41 words
The Honourable Member is misleading the House when he talks about hotel workers. As somebody who is in the hotel industry, is a hotel worker, we are still employing and looking for more re-cruits even with the new wage in place.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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196 words
Good evening, Mr. Deputy Spea ker. Mr . Deputy Speaker, when we talk about concessions and the length of time that a government should, could, would or has given such concessions for a real estate development, my mind goes to the 30- year concessions given by the OBA Government to develop our current air terminal. For the then Government , …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I won’t argue with the Deputy Speaker. We give five-s tar service down there. But, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the business model—t he quality of service provided—s peaks to, attracts and caters to thos e individuals of a jet-s etting lifestyle. And, Mr. Deputy Speaker, nobody visits a country to see the experience that they get at an airport.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I am tying it in, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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556 words
I am tying it in because a country, especially a tourism destination, generates its revenue from the people who it attracts to its shores. And airlines, which is one of the two pillars of how you get people on and off this Island en masse , determine how they categorise a destination based on the hotel bed inventory. In 2019, …
6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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32 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to be—I believe that it has already been done, but I want to be associated with the condo-lences for Ms. Esther Hayward from St. George’s.
6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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115 words
Yes. And as I was not in the Chamber at the time, she was a good friend of the fam-ily. She actually helped raise me. I am good friends with her daughter , Tiffany Hayward, and her son and her other, youngest daughter. She will be missed. She was persistent on trying to get me to switch allegiances, both in …