Speeches by The Hon. Tinee Furbert, JP, MP

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. (Sorry about that.) I have a question for the Premier on the same Statement. Mr. Deputy Speaker, on the last page of the Premier’s Statement, the Premier mentioned that he wanted the BEDC to focus their efforts this year on a one-stop shop business start -up service. Can the Honourable Premier please elaborate on what …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I would like to send congratulations out this morning to the Bailey’s Bay Youth Cricket team, who actually won the Eastern County overall. And I want to send a special [congratulations] to all the team me mbers. Minister Foggo and I attended a prize- giving, as well as MP Sylvan Richards and Senator Marcus Jones …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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So, I want to again congratulate Zyare Outerbridge. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker , and good afternoon to our listening audience. On our break, I went back to the office, my office, and I was speaking to my colleagues, Mr. [Deputy ] Speaker, and I was telling them that we will be debating this piece of legislation this afternoon and I said, you know, we are looking at …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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And previous [speaker] MP Dunkley spoke about the level of engagement that it takes to have to raise children. So, it even takes past the age of 18 sometimes to be engaged and remain involved with our children. But this is an important piece of legislation where we . . . I remember myself with maternity leave. At the time …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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—because some states do not actually mandate paid maternity leave, but you can take up to 12 weeks unpaid. Most women actually take up to five weeks of maternity leave and 25 per cent take nine weeks, Mr. [Deputy ] Speaker, of m aternity leave and half of that the percentage, 16 per cent take four weeks and the remaining …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for recognising me on this side. Thank you. [Laughter] HURRICANE HUMBERTO

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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I want to speak to the hurricane preparedness that this Island recently went through. And I actually, first this week, if you will allow me to read something from the Throne Speech of 2017, there is a piece in there that speaks to our hurricane season. And so, it goes like this. This is of 2017: “As we a dvance …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Deputy Speaker, I also just want to speak because very rarely do we get to hear our youth’s views on things that we should be a ddressing in politics. And recently, I had the opportunity to visit with some Berkeley Institute student s, S1 and S2 students. So, I just want to take the opportunity to be able to …

27 Sep 2019 House of Assembly

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Not the use of marijuana. They also wanted us to pay attention to our foster care system and our contained homes. They wanted us to make sure t hat children, or youth who are in our homes , were treated fairly and they were treated just. And they wanted more opportunities for them to have exposure or have the opportunity …

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes, good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, and good afternoon to Bermuda. I wan ted to speak to this topic, Mr. Speaker , not that . . . I do not have any relatives that I know of—or maybe I do —who were war veterans. [Inaudible interjection]

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Okay, thank you, cousin. But I do run into lots of clients who are recipients of the War Veterans Pension and I just wanted to say that I do support this Bill. At one point the pe nsion, I believe, was $400 and then it increased, I b elieve it was $600 . . . $800, and now today it …

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was going to say that you are lucky we are on the same team. [Laughing] PLP GOVERNMEN T COMMITTED TO PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to actually speak about scholarships. And here recent-ly, if you open the paper you will see that many st udents leaving high school have been granted, or have been recipients of awards and scholarships. So this is the time where students are now r eceiving letters to say whether or not they were successful …

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I will not be long, Mr. Speaker. But come September, after all their efforts of applying for scholarships and awards, they will not have the opportunity to go, and so t hey will probably have to stay home and try to secure employment so that they can raise money to further their education. I say all this to say, Mr. …

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I do want to highlight . . . I did mention how parents take a big role in funding their children’s education. Interestingly enough, because I have to highlight that there are many single parents out there, Mr. Speaker, and there are a lot of financially absent fathers out there, Mr. Speaker. And it can be very, very difficult to …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And good morning to everyone in the listening audience. I particularly want to speak to this Bill. I am definitely in support of it. I am working with a senior population. A lot of times, I have even noticed younger people refusing to believe that they are going to get older one day. [Inaudible interjections and …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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And this will affect . . . This legi slation, Mr. Speaker, w ill affect every single one of us in this room. It will affect every single one of us. And what I particularly appreciate about Go vernment Bills is that when the public service, or Government makes a decision or takes a lead on som ething, then usually …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes, you are old! And people waste away. And that is not, not the truth. I know personally what happens to the body biologically. As we age, there are som e things that do happen to the body. However, if you keep the body active both mentally and physically, then you reap the benefits. You know, we get up every …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am going to keep my comments brief. But I feel obliged to speak to you on this particular Bill, the Employment (Wage Commission) Act 2019. Here recently I was traveling. And I had a driver who was taking me to my place of residence. And he was telling me that he was from Trinidad and …