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Walter H. Roban

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14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Again, it is another ge ntleman whom I think that the whole House might want to have themselves associated with. Those of us who have close connections with North Hamilton know of the Black family. But Mr. Black was another pioneer. A man of humble begi nnings, another constituen t (and I will just finish here) . . . but …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . May I ask, Mr. Speaker , how much time do I have for my —
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this particular debate on the Throne Speech which was delivered last week, and the Reply that was delivered today. I took note of the eloquence of the first speaker from the Government . He had a lot to say, Mr. Speaker . But what …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
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Okay.
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . I am aware of the rule—
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—but it is not written in a way —
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—that is necessarily clear. It says that I have —
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—it cannot be interpreted b ecause my Leader gave the Reply.
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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That could be interpreted as where the time goes. So I do appreciate your clarific ation, Mr. Speaker . Well Mr. Speaker , last week we did hear the Speech from the Throne given by His Excellency —29 pages of words about what the Government ’s agenda is to be for the upcoming year. And I took note of a …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , I know what I have heard, and I am just making reference to it. But I am moving on. Again, it is very interesting that the Honourable Member spent 40 minutes of the 50 or so mi nutes that he spent really just disparaging our own presentation. It is very interesting, because one would have thought, with …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes I will—
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—withdraw that word, Mr. Speaker —
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—or those two words, begi nning with the “p” and the “s” —but essentially making a whole lot of people in Berm uda not too happy from the very beginning. They went after our children, they went after our seniors, and they have gone after, right now, the jobs of thousands of people. And they seem to have in the …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—lack of openness.
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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They are the Government of darkness, that is what they are. They love the dar kness. They cannot seem to do anything in the light . . . anything that is worth doing for this country in the light. Sign away our airport —everything in the dar kness of night —come out of nowhere. We signed away your most valuable …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Page 20 at the bottom. Anyway that was in trail under the PLP. Why it was stopped, I do not know. But, again, they are creeping back these things that they had promptly shut the door on because they were not the authors of them. And they found a way back into their Throne Speech. Another resurrection provision: the Orange …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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That is the part of the factual book that one can look at. Now let us even look at the factual book a little bit more carefully here from a fi scal standpoint. This Government came into power in December 2012. That means that the budget that the police were using and had been vested with up until April of …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, I believe we do have Tourism Minister, but are they still following the Plan? We have the Bermuda Tourism Authority that has a substanti al amount of money to actually impl ement, to research tourism. Today I heard something from that particular body, Mr. Speaker , which su ggested that some of their frustration is, Oh, you know, the …
14 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Grant Gibbons says I should use it wisely. Does the Honourable Member presume that I do not use my time wisely, Mr. Speaker ? Or perhaps I just cannot think things through, like some other people that he has often mentioned in the past . . . I do not know how to use my tim e wisely.