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Renee Ming, JP, MP

Renee Ming, JP, MP

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29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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26 words
Mr. Speaker, and listening audience. Mr. Speaker, I am firmly one who believes that if you spend a dollar, we should be looking to make two.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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9 words
Right? And especially as we sit here— [Inaudible interjections]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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9 words
I don’t know how you would know about that.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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263 words
But when we think and we consider the Bill, I am one who is very supportive of the public access to information. I believe that the Government has an obligation to be accountable to the taxpayer. So there is no issue with me there in terms of anything to do with PATI. And if you go back historically and we …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Because that could be a lot of our people in terms of that. And then even when we start to look at charging fees, what does that actually mean and where do we monitor that in terms of . . . if we saw like a reduction of PATI requests happen after that, what does that mean? I mean, how …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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7 words
Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker and listening audience.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I was associated with comments earlier for Cory Steede, but I wanted to just add my own personal link to that. Cory is a born St. Georgian. His family had been in St. George’s all of their life. We were part of the crew, one that all around that time play ed marbles together. And our families’ fellowship has been …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Deputy Speaker , and listening audience.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I feel honoured that I can lend my voice to this debate tonight. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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You might not after my speech, though. [Laughter]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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42 words
First of all, when I think in terms of Throne Speeches, they kind of remind me sometimes of budgets. And they have always been for me about people. So less about the numbers and more about the people, Mr. Deputy Speaker .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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21 words
The Throne Speech is a snapshot in some cases of the desire of the people and the agenda of the Government.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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2,188 words
Right now if you actually talk to our people, believe it or not, they have political fatigue. And not just from Bermuda politics. They have it mostly from United States politics and the fact that we have a gen-tleman who is now, who will . . . who has won the presidency of the United States with the electoral vote, …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Well, you know, I am from St. George’s . I guess I have got tough blood. We were bum rushed (for lack of another word). We were marched on. We were every single thing. And my former Senate Leader knows that I kept every date, every protest, because I could not believe sometimes what we were going through and in …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Right? So, as we . . . you have to sit in this space. When you sit in this space, Mr. Deputy Speaker, you have to care. You have to care.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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160 words
And I don’t think that I will say that any one person who sits in here doesn’t care. But we also have to make those efforts in what I said to you about those three Cs. And I think that what we have in front of us in terms of the Government ’s Throne Speech definitely has areas of showing …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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90 words
And they know for sure that those are the things that I will do. But I think that what I speak more on this time is more on the collaboration thing and that we should continue to share ideas, continue to share suggestions. And even in terms of the Opposition. I heard somebody earlier say, We are not telling you. …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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54 words
Right. So, share those ideas if you have them now because at the end of the day it is about our country doing better and being better. So I don’t want to see somebody, like I said, holding onto something for the next 25 years, right, when you could share it with us now.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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39 words
So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on that I will end my comments because I think I have said enough, and I would hope that I have given some points and nuggets for everyone in this space and the listening audience.
27 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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29 words
Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and listening audience. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I don’t know if this was done last week but if not, for Duvaughn Signor. [Inaudible interjections]