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Renee Ming, JP, MP

Renee Ming, JP, MP

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16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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264 words
First of all, I would like to extend congratulations to Ceble Crockwell. She is the—she, she—new President of St. David’s Cricket Club. And obviously, we throw our support behind the young l ady. And I would also like to say Happy Birthday to one of my constituents, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Cala Smith. His name really is Calvin, but everybody in …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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7 words
Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, and listening audience.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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370 words
It is actually a privilege for me to be able to stand up here today on behalf of the bipar-tisan committee, Mr. Speaker. My colleague spoke a little bit about the committee, but I can definitely say, since September of 2017 when we were asked to sit on this committee, that you definitely saw people evolve. And when I say …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I was not able to convert any of them, Mr. Speaker. I will note that my colleague, Mr. Smith, is wearing St. George’s colours today. So— [ Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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He is wearing the light blue —
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Well, it was never a clearly defined winner until August.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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244 words
And for me, thank the Lord, we were on a break during that period. But on a more serious tip, I thank my co lleagues. I think that there are times when we all can get passionate. And what you saw in our committee was the passion was there, but we learned to also create balance. And, as we moved …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—get things going. But I think we have moulded him now, Mr. Speaker. I have actually . . . and I say this in a serious way, because I think I even saw the . . . and my colleague said it right. We saw the Minister evolve as well. And so, two years’ worth of work and we saw …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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We have grown. So, Mr. Speaker, it is hard not to talk about immigration in Bermuda and not look at the history of it because . . . part of being on this committee, I used to . . . you want to know what people are thinking and you want to know how they feel about things, because at …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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And I think most of us who have spoken have said that. And that is because we believe that immigration is fluid. I truly do think it is. I think that as we move forward there may be some things we may need to change with regard to thi s Bill. There may be some things that need to be …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Now, if I was speaking on another topic I would say that most of the most beautiful things actually are down the eastern end of the Island, Mr. Speaker, and that is because it is where it all started.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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But that is not what this —
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—discussion is about today, Mr. Speaker.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to stay on track —
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—today, Mr. Speaker. [Inaudible interjection]
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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And because the topic is sensitive and it is emotive and one that I think is near and dear to each and every one of our hearts, at times it does cause angst and fear. So, we have seen it divide us and separate Parliament, and we still have some work to do there, Mr. Speaker. Like I said, I …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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390 words
Good morning, listening audience and Mr. Speaker. First of all, I would like to be associated with the comments with regard to the AME Annual Confer-ence. And I also would like to congratulate organisers of Internationa l Women’s Day 2020. This year’s theme is actually Each for Equal. In the sense that if we are women who are empowered, you …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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63 words
Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I would like to be associated with the comments for Glenn Simmons as well. Mr. Speaker, if the man told me 10 times, he commented about som ething in St. George’s 10 times. Most of the time it was about my poorly playing cricket team and the fact that we were not succes sful in our …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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But he would be sure to remind me about something about St. George’s. Because he got around a lot, he sometimes would send me messages abou t something in St. George’s that either needed to be fixed or improved, or a suggestion that he had. And one day he sent the message and he told the person . . . …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—I can, you know, reassure him that we came out of our slump.