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22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you so much. Mr. Speaker, Mary Prince was a seminal fi gure in world history, no less Western history, and certainly is central to our narrative around Bermuda and who we are as a people. And I want to just take some time to commend the Ministry of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, specifically the Department of …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Yes, Well, no, and I appr eciate that, Mr. Speaker. I will just wrap up very quickly. So, I would like to see that. I want to commend CURB for supporting the idea to have Mary Prince be ensconced, to be honoured statutorily and that we all honour her on the second day of Cup Match. And I do hope …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if we are a t ourism destination and if we are in the business of tourism and hospital ity, then let us demonstrate that. This is one further, I think, indication policy -wise in terms of public policy that demonstrates this Government’s commitment to that idea. Again, we have heard the term “ modernis …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it may be efficacious to start from firs t principles, that being what we call the r esolve that is found in the motion moved by the Honourable E. D. G. Burt, the Premier of Bermuda. And that resolve is as follows: It says, “BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House rejects the unwarranted …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Under the heading, “Findings of the Commission,” subheading, “ Constitutional, Political and Legal Issues,” it reads: “Bermuda is a non-self-governing territory administered by the Uni t1458 22 March 2019 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly ed Kingdom.” The fiction being, of course, that we are an internal polity that has internal control of our affairs. Even I from ti …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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“Cool Britannia” as part of this whole exercise to not have Bermuda and its terr itories viewed as colonies ! But in the real terms, constitutionally, the status has not changed. It has not changed. So, that is where we are at. I do remember that in 1997– 1998, Mr. Philip Perinchief, a former A ttorney General of the Government …
22 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Access health care and the rest. But that the British Government, the UK Go vernment would not mandate that reciprocity be part of that overall arrangement. They have thrown that out the window wit h this, at least for now. And the test will be . . . and I want the listeners out there to understand. As the Premier …
15 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I would ask this House to send condolences to the family of a constituent of mine, Mr. Glenn McClinton Bean. He passed away a couple of weeks ago. You know, he was a pillar in that community there, which borders Middletown and the rest. He was a well -known man in the trades and had his …
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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They understand well. Hon. L. Craig Canno nier: No they don’t. They do not understand, necessarily, the nature of the work that we do. Some are saying that they understand well. He does not know what he is talking about. There are many who I came into contact with who did not have a clue; it was purely politics for …
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Opposition Leader just sat down. He said that the EU does not understand (I am paraphrasing) who we are. I interpolated that they know all too well who we are. Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay, some. But for those others, they know all too well who we are. [Gavel]
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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This is who we are in their eyes: we are a country t hat has an effective zero corporate income tax rate. We are a country that does not impose income tax on its highest earners. That is who we are. Now, between the 1980s and perhaps 2008, 2009 and 2010, in that world that was all right. What we …
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member and others who are not in this Chamber —
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand to take your advice. Would be those who are often on the frontline in making those disparaging comments as described by my colleague in [constituency] 14, to divide and conquer our people, while they get away with paying relatively nothing at all in terms of Bermuda’s tax burden which has disproportionately fallen on black …
11 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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No. There is a French expression. They call it, r éel politique . So you hear many of us in Bermuda talking about, Oh, what they are doing; they have members in their own club who are indulging in tax avoidance practices and the whole nine yards. It does not matter. He who has the power to wield it. That …
8 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just wish for the House to send condolences to the family of Ronald Norman Eugene Clarke. Mr. Clarke passed away the other day, and he is [being] buried today. I have been asked to assoc iate Mr. Tyrrell, from constituency 26, with these co ndolences. Mr. Clarke was the husband of Ms. Joan …
6 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and thank you. I just want to take time out quickly to acknowledge and offer condolences to the family of Ms. Melba Edith Lavinia Smith. She is the mother of Mr. Norbert Simons, who is a leading civil servant within the Department of Sports.
6 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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She also i s a distant cousin of mine, through my mother. Secondly, I have the loss that I wish to a nnounce of one of my constituents from the Cavendish Heights area, Ms. Florence Lillian Dearing, who passed away recently. She was a pillar of that Cavendish Heights community, having lived there for decades. What is interesting about Ms. …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I did not intend to get up. But after hearing of the death of Mr. Alex Swan, like the two colleagues preceding me, I had to get up and say that Mr. Swan was iconic, a pioneering figure in Bermuda’s black community over the last 40, 50, 60 years. We heard this morning a fitting tribute …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not really know where to start, Mr. Speaker. After all, the Member for constituency 14 said it all!