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17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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I got it.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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I am not drawing attention to it. Mr. Speaker, we all know, as the Finance Mini ster indicated, that the EU requires that all companies which are, in our parlance, exempt companies, foreign owned companies that are registered in Bermuda must, if they have not a physical presence, establish one in Bermuda within the next six months, or Berm uda …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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That Member and the then AS&K were the pioneers in this business. But even before that, going back to Sir Henry Tucker, with the trust business, with his experience on Wall Street, going back to the 1930s, perhaps, he began to pos ition Bermuda as a place that could become a refuge for foreign capital assets. So even while Bermuda’s …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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We also know that this deadline is probably imminently upon us, probably within the next 5, 6, 7 or 8 months, I believe. I stand to be corrected. So, again, if in 2008, that era which gave rise to these offshore business centres, such as Bermuda, came to an end, and if, as I contend, we are going through a …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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I share deep confidence in the Government. [Inaudible interjection]
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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You are welcome. You are very much welcome. [Laughter]
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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I am emboldened by the spirit of bipartisanship around this issue. But let’s be under no illusion. This will be a major challenge to us and it is not over. Let us not be fooled into thinking that if we agree or acquiesce to this, as we will do, because they have all the leverage and we have little or …
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, I am looking for my final page as well, Mr. Speaker.
17 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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So I will just close with this, Mr. Speaker. I think so far it has been an issue that I hope will resonate publicly. Again, it asks of us some very deep and profound questions about who we are as a country and what t ype of country do you want to be. I have heard expressions of the issue …
7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker . Mr. Deputy Speaker, Steven High, the author, wrote a book called Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940 and 1967. I have used this quote before and, with your indulgence, I would like to r epeat it. He described Bermuda, and I quote now, “Ruled by and for a white oligarchy” and said that …
7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Ashley’s Lemonade. I love Ashley’s Lemonade. I just do not . . . I like some, but I have to say . . . you know, I have to be politically astute here. I love it; but I would not like it as much if it was down on the Shelly Bay Beach. But anywhere else, Ashley. So, that is …
7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Ten and a half, okay, I still got some time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I just want to say this, that what I was really positive about . . . were two things. I believe we need to get the proverbial monkey off the back of Bermuda’s low income, its poor, its middle class —which is shrinking. And I am happy …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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[It is] 21.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and thank you. Firstly, I would like to offer condolences to the family of Ms. Mariae Camela Agatha Dixon. She was my constituent, came from a Roman Catholic family, as well. And I know her family well. This i s a sad occasion. She was also involved in this nascent sport of Olympic walking that has …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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[Law] & Order, for hours on end, the reruns. And that was her inspiration to go into this profession. Very quickly, I am pretty sure that, in addition to the professional expertise she is picking up, she will also be committed to issues of social and racial justice, in line with her family’s tradition. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Dame Lois Browne- Evans, the great one. I said, Aunt Lois. That is how I refer to her. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The S peaker: Would any other Honourable Member like to speak? I recognise the Honourable Member Weeks. Honourable Member Weeks, are you on your feet? Yes? Okay. We recognise Honourable Member Weeks.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is a welcomed Bill that we have before us, Customs Tariff Amendment (No. 3) Act 2018. But let us not delude ourselves. This is not enough. We have facing us a tsunami, a demographic tsunami that is going to overwhelm Bermuda unless we step up the pace. And this is a challenge to …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Sorry, Mr. Speaker . May I have a point of order here?
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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I think the Member is egr egiously misleading the House. [Inaudible interjections ]