Speeches by Linda Smith, JP, MP

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, good morning, Mr. Speaker, and good morning, Honourable Premier. My question is around Southlands and what consideration and data has been taken into considera-tion in guiding the Government's recent planning appli-cations for the development of Southlands Park amenities, including a zip line facility on the north side, a cafe, parking area for cars, cycles, minibuses and taxis, public restrooms …

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. Are there any arrangements, or have there been any discussions, with a cruise line or cruise lines for the use of Southlands Beach and the new facilities that are being proposed in those planning applications? Hon. E. David Burt: Not to my knowledge, Mr. Speaker, but I am happy to ask the Honourable Member to speak to …

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. According to the information contained in one of the two applications, a key offering of the proposal is a public -private partnership for the development of the zip line facility. What is the cost to the taxpayer for these planned amenities —the zip line, the restaurant and the beach improvements, please?

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you.

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to extend congratulations to the Filipino Association of Bermuda who recently celebrated their 127 th anniversary of independence. It was on June 22, and they had a really great event at Victoria Park with lots of music and lots of great food, and it was a really good time. Congratulations to them and …

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Okay, to be associated with that. And Minister Darrell was also at the celebration, so I would imagine, as he seemed to enjoy himself , that he would like to be associated as well, even though he's not here. But congratulations to them and thank them for sharing their culture with us. Thank you.

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I did attend the Cost of Living Summit and I have to say , my take away was [that] one of the major components to a solution would be to increase the number of people on the I sland so that we are splitting the costs . And that did come up repeatedly in the discussions …

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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I did not say — [Inaudible interjections]

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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—I disagree with granting of status. What I absolutely disagree with is opening the floodgates and granting status to people to build up the population. We have to put a plan around this . Okay? And it doesn't . . . it is not . . . it’s not — [Inaudible interjections]

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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—It is not one alignment . [Inaudible interjections]

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Where's the plan ? W here's the plan? [Inaudible interjections]

27 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Point of clarification.

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am sure the Premier spends probably more time than we do traveling around the Island and can probably see what we see. So, my question is in relation to what we are seeing, which is a proliferation of very large banner advertisings all over the roadways , on buildings, on construction fences, on the side …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, I do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Premier give us a sense of a timeline for when we can see something happening here? And I actually did, just for clarification, speak to people within government departments trying to find some-body and obviously it is in a period of shift right now. But I know the public would like …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you very much. As we are waiting for this to be done, what is going to be done about the banners that are out there right now that will expire, because the event will have taken place? There are a lot of them around the Cup Match period and even around this weekend. Who is responsible for taking them …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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I will withdraw my questions. Thank you.

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to extend congratulations to the Port Royal Primary School community. They recently celebrated their 90th anniversary. They had a celebration event , but they also set up and established an alumni association that includes some very impressive people: Dame Flora Duffy , Dr. Carik a Weldon and Patrick Tannock, who is a well -known …

26 May 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I am referring to page B -265, just to mention the gang reduction budget. It is $1.7 million. On page B-267, one of the performance measurements is measuring the percentage of survey question data showing improvement in skills development and prevention programme. And I may have missed something, but I didn’t really see any other measurement …

21 May 2025 House of Assembly

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Correct. Thank you, Madam. Deputy Speaker . I just wanted to associate with myself with the comments made by the Honourable Minister with re-spect to the Outstanding Teens award and congratula-tions to all the participants and certainly the winners. And I think it does speak about, you know, the quiet people in this community that are doing the good things …

21 May 2025 House of Assembly

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And I associate the Honourable Member Robert King, with my comments. Thank you.