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16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Exactly. In particular. I thought that the fact that we did not begin by going down the road of comprehensive immigration reform, in the end was a practical response to that house of cards called the Immigration and Protection Act 1956. Because remember the view back prior to the 2017 election for many, particularly on this side of the aisle, …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, sir. I continue, “We went down” she says, “to the Elbow Beach Hotel . . . We went in with our little secretarial certificates and said we were looking for a job. He said ‘You’re hired.’ In those days you just came for a job and got it, as long as you were qualified.” The point of this, …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I will take up that mantle.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, it is in times such as this that leadership is tested and forged. It is easy to lead during times that are normal, but it really calls upon leadership to address extraordinary times such as these, which I be lieve we are now facing as a country. I am only going to speak here very briefly to say …
13 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a non- coronavirus -related question. I heard someone say that even in this time we must be able to chew gum and walk at the same time. The question is, What has been the impact, Premier, of STEAM education implementation in pub-lic school s under the PLP Government?
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Minister: Minister, you have talked about the benefit of these proposed changes. To Bermudians who have had children born overseas — for example, for myself, my new granddaughter was born only a few months ago in the UK —how will this allow people in that category to be able to achieve rightly their status …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, belatedly I would like to assoc iate myself with the expressions of condolence offered by this House to the family of Mr. Ed Durham. Mr. Durham was actually my first club coach at PHC. We were the PCH Whites, and you had the PHC Blacks with Dale Russell and the rest. [Inaudible interjection]
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes. We a re talking about the late 1960s, actually maybe around about 1967 and 1968 when I first started. But getting back to Mr. Durham, Mr. Durham was a quintessential Bermudian gentleman. And I guess in coaching terms, I guess you would call him a players’ coac h because the way he handled us young boys and tried to …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Kenny Thompson. Sorry. What did I say, Kenny Bascome? Yes. No. Kenny Thompson and North Village for successfully winning the Premier Division league title. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I too, was unavailable the other night. Both MP Tyrrell and myself were, and still are, dealing with the loss of two women very close to us, our mothers.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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And so, I was in the dark as to what had occurred here with the comments by Mr. Brannon. That only became more clear [to me] as the weekend sort of ran its course by Saturday and Sunday, when I finally took some time jus t to look at what was happening in the House, and I heard the comments …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, okay, thank you. So, she wrote, “ 1Well, not right now,” (in r esponding to someone.) “. . . you black people may think you run this island. Trust me, your stupidity is laughable. Just because you went into the bushes and came out with your inbred children ‘to get the votes’ does not mean you ‘run this country.’” …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Well, I prefaced by saying that, or I alluded to t hat. Let him go and find the proper path and deconstruct and detoxify again from that image he has in his mind and attitudes toward white supremacy and black inferiority. And the bottom line is (and I am going out on a limb here) . . . for so …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, my mother passed away, as we all know here. And I am deeply appreciative of the expressions of condolence and the great memories that were conveyed to me by yourself, Mr. Speaker and everyone over the last few days. But I think I said something like that in one of the tributes that they were shadowed by racism …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, they had me in the white Fairylands, Tucker’s Town section with the rest of the white babies! [Laughter and inaudible interjection
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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As my learned colleague here says, I had white privilege for a couple of hours. It was so quiet t here, you know. [Laughter and desk thumping]
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Oh, Lord! No, but all jokes aside, my mother said to this day that the little . . . what she thought was an inno-cent question from the white [mother] there, who happened to be the mother of one of the top doctor/surgeons at the hospital (I am not going to call her name) . . . the view was …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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That’s right and now I proudly represent Mi ddletown. But that is the Bermuda that I was born into, in 1957. Two years later, though, my mother, my father and countless other Bermudians, both those in the Progressive group and those who were out there like Kingsley Tweed and all the rest of them and the tho usands of Bermudians …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Tony Brannon graphically illustrates that the work, so much of it still [needs] to be done. He actually provides us with more evidence for what they are still in denial about, that there are Two Bermudas. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, good mor ning.