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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly
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That is right. A lawyer not charging, doing social conscience work for the betterment of Bermuda. Bermuda House of Assembly But I do thank the technical staff. This is a substantial change in this area of law, not just this, obviously, but the earlier Bill, the 2023 Bill, and the regulations in 2025, I believe they were. So, I do …
13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly
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Anyway, that was not meant in any rude way. But we are now in 1 st of August. But let me pose just a couple more questions, if I may, for the Minister or for the technical staff. So, in the Minister’s prior speeches, he raised that there would be an allocation of necessary funds to ensure the new or …
13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. As the Minister just pointed out, the clause 4 deals with the amendment to Schedule 3, and it is there where we are dealing with the Madrid Protocol point. The Minister in the general debate very kindly addressed the Madrid Protocol point, but did not answer one further answer was just on timelines. And so, I …
13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chair man. Thank you, Honourable Minister. I would be delighted to receive that in due course when conven-ient to you. Thank you.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good morning to the listening public, and thank you, Minister, for the very helpful Statement this morning on the Trade Marks Amendment Act 2025 and the Bill that will be tabled in this Honourable House later today, as I under-stand it. Just one question, and you referenced in your Statement industry feedback. I declare my interest. …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate that very helpful answer. I have no supplementaries.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thought the Whip was ahead of me in the queue, but I will go as you have directed me. QUESTION 1: DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING UPDATES ON STREAMLINING MEASURES
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Honourable Minister, for that helpful Statement. And I certainly commend the fact that the Government is looking at this. And I agree with you that this is a very frustrating area for planning, being a very frustrating area for people. It's something we hear a lot of. My question is in relation to your point seven in your …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Thank you, Honourable Minister, for that detailed answer. Just in terms again of the waiver, how does the Minister anticipate that the request for the waiver would get to the Minister? Would that be by the applicant or by the officer or by the board or all three? Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Thank you for that. And …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, second supplementary. Thank you again, Minister, for that detailed answer. In terms of the waiver and the scope of it, would it just be curtailed to breaches of the Bermuda Plan or might it be more broad in your thinking? Bermuda House of Assembly Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: I'm actually not sure what else it could cover. Development …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Second question.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you. Following on again, still in the same topic of the waivers. In terms . . . you just indicated to this Honourable House that what you would do is probably publish twice a year a list of waivers that had occurred. If a member of the public, i.e., not someone who's in favour of the waiver potentially, …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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It's actually third question.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Still the same topic. Final question. I'll just wait while the discussion is being had between the Premier and Minister. Thank you, Minister. Just in terms again of the challenge, presumably the waiver would also be open to challenge in the usual way that any other element of the application would be open to challenge. Is that correct? Hon. Diallo …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Minister.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last night I had the pleasure of attending the Spring into Arts Festival arranged by the Department of Education up at CedarBridge [Academy], and I see the Premier, who I was about to acknowledge, no doubt will join me in commending it because he was there as well. I believe maybe one or both …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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It was excellent. There were six or seven schools there, but what I would like to do is give a shout -out not to my son's school or indeed to the Premier's son’s school, but to the school that I thought just blew the doors off, and that was West Pembroke, and Mr. Robinson, who is their conductor. Their performance …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is interesting that this debate and the other one on Wednesday over tax issues have become Bermuda House of Assembly rather fractious. So, I'm going to try and just take the heat out of this a little bit and be a little bit more measured. And you will be delighted to hear as well, Mr. …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I just have two points of principle that I wish to make. The second one, rising perhaps unwisely to the hook that the Honourable Minister put in the water, but he's asked for an answer, and I'll give him one. And that's my second point but let me deal with the first. Mr. Speaker, this is not a Bill of …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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But where this Government . . . and I hear from the Honourable future Premier, Zane De Silva. Got that right , he said. [Laughter]