Speeches by The Hon. Tinee Furbert, JP, MP

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Please bear with me this evening as I try to go through tons of information that was shared with the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee of Dece mber 2 nd. I was one of those Members who had the opportunity to sit on this Committee, and I also just want to speak to . . . I …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also would just like to make clear what . . . and I believe our chairperson of the Committee has done that, but I would like t o reiterate what our mandate was, and that was to look into the events of D ecember 2nd including the decision- making and any d irectives of the …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Stonewall, yes. Question 18: Were you awar e of the existence of Platinum Command? Was this an individual or group of persons? What role did he or she play on December 2, 2016? [The answer]: He was not. HowBermuda House of Assembly ever, I refer to you the evidence of Mr. Paul Wright in which I understand he dealt with …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Southern border or being . . . I would like being in a dancehall and there are so many people and you are trying to get to the bathroom and you cannot get through because it is just so many people [that] you are cram ped, you are squashed and nobody knows the direction. So to give a command, Move …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I have the audio. I have the a udio, Mr. Speaker.

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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It is very. . . yes, it is a couple of seconds. [The Honourable Member played an audio clip.]

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Speaker, you can hear and we have the video footage as well where you can see: “Captor now! Captor all of them!” That is a com-mand, Mr. Speaker. And people . . . and the officers are compl ying. And if you want to know who it was, Mr. Speaker, it is actually in here in the report. …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Could we have prevented what occurred? Yes, I think we could have. Pepper spray should never have happened that day. Could we have prevented the pain and tra uma of that day? Yes, Mr. Speaker, we could have. One of our colleagues earlier, Mr. Richards, was, you know, making a comparison between the riots of 1977 and December 2, 2016. …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you. The airport Bill eventually was passed by a majority when MPs came to the House really early – like five, six in the morning to pass legislation —

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I just want to end with this, Mr. Speaker.

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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That really is the voting power,

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Good morning and thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to send out a couple of congrats to Mr. Delano Ingham, who was recognised for a Queen’s Honour, a former Progressive Labour Party colleague of ours, but who also has a history with a career in broadcasting. So, I want to send congratulations out to him. And also, Mr. Dennie O’Connor, …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Congratulate, actually, all of those students who participated in leaving cerem onies. And that also includes our primary students, our middle school students, as well as our senior school students, who would have reached a milestone. And it was just great to also acknowledge them because it is a journey that they also have had to experience, both in primary …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Excuse me .

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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A big congratulations to all of those students who participated in their leaving cer emonies. But I also want to recognise Dellwood Middle School. They had a celebration of the Mirrors Pr ogramme. [Inaudible interjection] 1958 5 July 2019 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Mrs. Tinee Furbert: Sorry. Yes, Mirrors Programme, where they have a leadership component to …

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also would like to be associated with the r emarks giving obits to Ms. Beunice Crockwell. More recently, [as I was] her Member of Parliament in constituency 4, she will be a big miss in the Duck’s Pud-dle community. Ms. Crockwell is actually my aunt. She is the stepsister to my mom. And so, greatest …

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First, I want to thank the committee and persons who put together this Transportation Green P aper because I know it was a hefty task and they did such a wonderful job in accumulating all this data and information, so for that we are thankful. I wan ted to touch on four areas in this Green …

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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So now I am just going to go on to accessibility transport, which is something that is very important to me. The other day I was in a nursing home and I was talking to a former . . . well, retired senior PTB manager. He is now wheelchair bound. When I first saw him he was in sort of …

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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So we seriously, seriously, ser iously need to respect this, because we do not know what our condition is going to be like one day, and we ourselves might need to have access to a disabled parking spot. But I will continue with what some of the community had expressed in the town hall meeting held in September 2017. Some …

31 May 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to send out [condolences] to [the family of] one of my constituents, Mr. Junior “Pop” Swan, who has left us. Pop Swan was a resident of Easter Lily nursing facility, and he will be missed greatly. He was one who would often engage with the public, standing up for their rights. …