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Mark J. Pettingill

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3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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I will take my seat. I have just about nearly two minutes. Those are my concerns. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to ask condolences be send to the family of Liz Scott, Liz “D ookie ", who is the former wife of my very good friend, Milton Scott, who is a former Senator. It looks like the whole House wants to be involved in that. I appreciate that. Milton a nd I, and his …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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It is the only way, I think, they helped a little bit maybe. But she was a tremendous lady, originally from Trinidad, and unfortunately was stricken with cancer four years ago and had engaged in a heartfelt and courageous battle over the last four years. On Tuesday, Mr. Speaker, I was assisting in helping an air ambulance out of Boston …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I certainly agree with the Honourable Member who just took his seat that for every action there is a reaction. I think sometimes what we find in Parliament is that for every action there is an overreaction. [Laughter]
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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And maybe that is just the p olitical approach of presenting polar positions. But I have to say this, hand on heart, I think that the Honourable Member knows this: I certainly fundament ally care about things that impact on our people —all our people, you know. And it is not always an easy position with regard to how you …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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So we will find a way. We will think. It might present an opportunity; I do not know. I hope not, because I do not want to see people getting hurt. But I have looked at this. And my understanding is this. I understand and verily believe that the taxi drivers were consulted. Certainly, I saw the reports in a …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I cannot even count, Madam Deputy Speaker, the number of ti mes that I stopped to help tourists who were, you know, smashed up on the roads, injured. And, tragically, there were even a couple of fatal accidents involving tourists. Because on the bikes they tended to gravitate to going on to the wrong side of the road, whereas in …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Welcome back. Mr. Speaker, I do not see that we are sudde nly going to have this horde of minicars on there. The truth of the matter is I think there is risk involved in this as far as the business goes. It looks to me like a sensible way to provide an option to tourists who want to come …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I just need to . . . in looking at it, j oining with my honourable and learned friend, Mr. Crockwell, in relation to his question there, because I am well fami liar with the Bribery Act in other jurisdictions and what has been done. And, certainly , it was something that was started under my …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I remember once getting lost in a car driving in Ireland.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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In Ireland. In Ireland. I was driving across Ireland — [Inaudible interjection]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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And I probably should not have been there. But I stopped. There was an old farmer on the side of the road. I pulled over and I said, Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to such -and-such a place ? And he pondered for a moment and he said, Well, to be sure, you wouldn’t want …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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It was significant. You know what I mean . . . how big it is, right? You know, we are not going to have som ething like that. Our model was an amenity to a resort hotel operation . . . an amenity —a boutique casino. Now that is where I left it. And in going into private practices, I …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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And they explain to me how equitable is that . . . to my business. I am the only law firm that going into private practice advertised gaming as part of the service that I was going to provide. And I have had significant clients doing it. Now, Mr. Crockwell and I got fired by one of them the other …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Fired! They called up, Hey guys, sorry. We didn’t really want people to, you know, this is a confidential relationship to start with but, you know, we don’t want to have a hot potato, that type of thing. Thanks. Thanks. That is just a fact. And nobody has come to me and said, This is how we are going to …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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You’re laughing. But I know I got to work. I am looking across, I see other people, but everybody works outside of here. I mean . . . hold your hand up if you are truly a full -time, full- time Member of the Opposition, a full -time politician here. You do not have other business interests or som ething …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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No, no. Certainly, no favour able treatment for me. I get it. 226 21 November 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly I would like to see where the other clauses are because of the bigger picture, it requires my support because otherwise we are not going to get it done. I guess you cannot work for Desarr ollos. …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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And they are not like cattle. They will wander off and do whatever they want to. So the Commission is over here doing this, Minister over here doi ng this, Opposition saying do this, people advising do this , all over the place, taking so long I found it astounding. I have had the view on why has this taken …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Today. Well, they will not be my clients tomorrow, but today. I did have. But look at that, it makes eminent sense. But we are off looking at this, looking at that, and we are not moving this forw ard. I know that is the Premier’s goal. He wants to move things forward. He wants to move things forward, but …