Speeches by Linda Smith, JP, MP

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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My question is specific to a comment that the Minister made about there being a coordination, or there will be a coordination between Public Works, Health, and the Environment to try to protect the community against the bacterial diseases brought about by rodents. My question is, w ill that also consider the impact of uncollected garbage, which tends to be …

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. In relationship to the coordination between Public Works, Environment, and Health, do we feel that we have enough resources to prevent this from becom-ing a more serious problem than it is at the moment?

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do.

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Second question, please.

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Are we looking at other additional ways to perhaps stem the rodent population beyond baits and traps, something that perhaps would have a more fundamental outcome? Hon. Kim N. Wilson: Madam Deputy Speaker, as I indicated in the S tatement, I gave a number of examples of what the Environmental Health team was doing …

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you. I do have a supplement al.

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Is the objective here control or eradication? Hon. Kim N. Wilson: I'm not sure if the objective with respect to [ leptospirosis ] is to ensure that the public are aware of it so that we can take our own measures. We can control it. People can travel overseas and go swimming with elephants and come back to Bermuda and …

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes. Yes, please. My question really is in relationship to the rodent population that we have here. You know, there are certain things that we do to help control it, but there may be other things that could be done, and this is really the basis of the question, that could h elp move us from controlling to eradication.

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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I'm asking her whether we would consider, for instance, trying to perhaps be more aggressive with the rodent problem.

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. What, if anything, is the Ministry of Health going to do to monitor any additional cases and take action if necessary? Hon. Kim N. Wilson: Madam Deputy Speaker , as I spoke in the [Statement] , the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit are well -equipped. They did COVID -19 to deal with monitoring certain types of bacterial diseases …

7 Nov 2025 House of Assembly

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No. Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker .

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question is, the Department of Lands and Buildings within the Ministry of Public Works has filed two planning applications to facilitate development of commercial enterprises at Southlands National Park ; will the Honourable Minister please provide this Honourable House with some details of the due diligence work that has been conducted by the Ministry prior …

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. Thank you. Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House as to whether there are or have been any arrangements or discussions with the cruise line or cruise lines for the use of Southlands [National] Park, the beach and proposed new facilities that are included in these planning applications? Hon. Jache Adams: Mr. Speaker, do I …

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you very much.

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do, please. So, I have a question that is specific to the application for the zip line facility in the park itself, which the application says is a P ublic-Private Partnership. My question is, considering that this is a PPP, what is the public taxpayer's role in this Public-Private Partnership? Thank you. Hon. Jache Adams: Mr. Speaker, it …

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Okay. Sorry. My question is, Is there a Public-Private Partnership involved in the application that is under discussion? And is the matter of interest that we a re discussing this morning?

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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And if so, what is the public's part in that?

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you.

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to rise today to recognise Habitat for Humanity [of] Bermuda, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. And for the past 25 years, Hab-itat Bermuda has been transforming lives. It has completed over four small renovation projects that have improved the lives of approximately 1,600 Bermudians. The projects are benefiting mostly vulnerable people, …

26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we make our way into the weekend and the things that we have going on, I just wanted to mention that Ja’Dore Wilson is still missing , the 15- year-old girl. Her family has put out a reward, so the new flyers have gone around. I was contacted because I think the family this weekend …