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1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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1,265 words
We still have to shift more of that burden to those at the top tiers of income di stribution in this country and ensure that the wealthy are paying an equitable share in terms of taxes. No one here today can say, with a straight face, that that is occurring. Mr. Speaker, the reality is that while many of the …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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34 words
—on the issue of racial diversity within that industry. I mean, you are laughing, but look. I mean, I actually heard— 696 1 March 2019 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly [Inaudible interjections]
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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—I actually heard Jonathan Reiss, the son of the founder of that industry, talk about the role that white supremacy —this is the term he used— was playing in inhibiting the acceptance and growth of prominent and qualified blacks within the industry. Those were his words. An Hon. Membe r: It is happening every day.
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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And it is happening every day. I mean, how could we have an industry over four decades and there are no entry -level positions? Come on! Is this what Sir Jon Swan also bequeathed to us? Huh? As long as they were getting their cream off the top, who the hell cared about . . . with all due r …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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—about those at the bottom who were trying to make a way out of no way. Let’s put him in context too. Mr. Speaker, that industry (and I am saying now, not just the insurance industry, but IB in general) generates over 60 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange and 20 per cent of its GDP. That is why …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Two minutes! Oh, two minutes. Okay. So, some of the opportunities . . . Mr. Speaker, we had a great announcement today with the knowledge that Signature Bank i s going to start providing banking services (Mr. Swan) to the FinTech sector in this country. [Laughter]
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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That is excellent news. We know that the hard work of, again, Minister Caines and the Premier in pushing to make Bermuda a gl obal hub of FinTech was being stymied by the fact that we could not have the type of banking services that were needed. That seems to be the case now whereby it looks like we are …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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—the great job he has done —
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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—in delivering this budget.
15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would.
15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly
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I would like to start by commending you on the 30 years of service that you have rendered to Bermuda. You have inhabited a vantage point of history that I do not think anyone else in this Chamber serving today can equal over that three-decade span. And again, we commend your service. Mr. Speaker, just moving on, we were pr …
15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly
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Excuse me!
15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly
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No slight to my Trojan friends and cousins, as Mr. Burgess would say.
15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly
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167 words
Troy Berkeley, yes. He was a great young man, and for his generatio n made some major contributions on the field of soccer. And his death was a very tragic event, and the news hit many fairly hard throughout the community, not just in Somerset, I might say particularly of my generation. So, our love and our condolences go out …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you for acknowledging me here. Mr. Speaker, if only we were sovereign!
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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I have a feeling that the sovereign nation that we are affiliated with as a colony has no objection to what the EU is doing. Somebody could stand up and correct me, but that is the world we live in. Mr. Speaker, when most Bermudians blithely go about their daily business, and when the festive cheer makes its appearance, we …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Of the Economic . . . the revised Bill that we were handed this morning, Mr. Speaker.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, I was not going to — The Speaker: You cannot speak to it.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, the Bill —