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Shawn G. Crockwell

202
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10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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436 words
[It] turned out to be a di saster, Madam Deputy Speaker —unmitigated disaster. [He] came here and there was nothing but chaos. And he had to leave, okay? And after he left we put Bermudians in place as Acting Commissioners of Education. Are you going to tell me that during t hat timeframe the necessary training could not have been …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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306 words
Now, the Minister says, and I take his point, that he does not make the dec ision. The Cabinet does not make the decision. The decision is made by the PSC. And that is a fact. I take the point because the Minist er and I have had conversations on this privately. I take the point that the rules needed …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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That is how long he was in education —because he loved it! Loved it! Committed and dedicated! He teaches now part time at the Adult Education School and he still teaches GED at Wes tgate. That is dedication, because the man is invested in his country. And that is what you need at the head of education. So somebody needs …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I also want to speak on the issue of the next National Hero, who is Sir John Swan, who I believe is a hero in this country. I have a tremendous amount of respect and adoration for Sir John Swan. I have had the opportunity . . . in fact, I saw him this morning. I was able …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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You have to be careful, Mr. Speaker, because we can set a bad precedent. And so I just stand and say that it is time, whether it is the PSC, or whomever it may be, Mr. Speaker, that we ensure that the Bermudians in this country who have worked hard, who have gone to school, who have applied themselves . …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Honourable Member is misleading the House on a few fronts. With your permission, I would like to address a few of them.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Number one, the Honourable Member said that it cost a million dollars per f atality, and that is way off, Mr. Speaker. Unfortunately, of course, fatalities are the worst situations which i mpact our community . But the fatality is where it is the least cost to the Government and to insurance companies. It is when individuals have paralysis and …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think it is incumbent to just address some of the comments made by the Honourable Member. First of all, I encourage the Honourable Member to continue to advocate and push the Government to get this done. And so I am glad that he has raised the issue and I encourage him to do so. …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Lover’s Lane. No, was it Lover’s Lane or Manse [Road] ? Anyway, I think it was Lover’s Lane. And this tourist —it was a mother and a daug hter—and the mother was in front on a bike and I do not know why she thought that she was supposed to turn up Lover’s Lane with traffic coming down the one …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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And I never passed him. I looked in my rear view mirror to see about 30 cars behind me and we all just cruised in nice and slow behind the Speaker of the House. And when I saw you I told you , Well, I can vouch, as the Minister, that you are a law-abiding Speaker of the House. [Inaudible …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. And I will vouch that he certainly was not texting, Honourable Member. But, Mr. Speaker, we have to very mindful when we are driving behind our tourists. Once upon a time when we saw a tourist on the roads , we were very cogni sant of it and we made sure we stayed some ways behind the bikes and …
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also rise to support this amendment, which is supporting the specific event — the Heroes Weekend Event —but also any type of tourism ev ent that will be deemed suitable to procure a tourism event licence. And so I think that what we are doing today encourages innovation and creativity from the …
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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And Bahamians, Mr. Speaker, okay? A simple thing like . . . we cannot even do that, we cannot even do that. So these are ways . . . and this may be forecasting on a future debate today . We want to talk about creat ing jobs? We have got to be more creative and less restrictive. Because you …
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Point of order.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is misleading the House in that the specific area that the former Premier and former Attorney General was referring to was relaxing laws as it related to marijuana and the Honourable Member knows that. The Sp eaker: Thank you.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of Order, Mr. Speaker.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of Order, Mr. Speaker.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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I am referring specificall y to what those Members said in this House. The former Attorney General specifically referred to . . . he felt that that paragraph was referring to relaxing marijuana laws in this country.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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He made it clear.