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Walton Brown

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17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker , and good afternoon, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, the politics of distraction . . . clearly, it is a factor today. But I doubt that it is coming from this side of the Honourable Parliament. Earlier today, the Honourable Minister for Economic Development cited the decision by a former Premier, Dr. the Honourable Ewart Brown, to bring …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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This is in relation to the Stat ement of the Premier or something else?
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Questions. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question is for the Honourable Minister for Home Affairs: Will the Honourable Minister please 476 10 February 2017 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly inform this Honourable House of the number of PRC applications and approvals for each year since 2010?
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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A supplementary, yes. Mr. Speaker, so, obviously the increase was because of the reduction in fee paid for the PRC ap-plication. My question for the Minister is, Given that the Incentives for Job Makers Act was designed to ensure that those companies involved in international bus iness had the ability to have security of tenure for their employees and therefore …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Another supplementary.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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So, would the Minister therefore accept as appropriate that a grocery store chain such as Marketplace, which has now applied for five PRC applications for its top five executives, would be a suitable beneficiary of the Job Makers Act?
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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My second question, Mr. Speaker.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House if the Registry General is now or has been instructed to begin col-lecting statistics on suicides in Bermuda?
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Recognising the sensitivity to families on this matter and calling for the publication of aggregate data as opposed to individual data, will the Minister agree that it is important to understand the nature and extent of such an issue so that we know how best to respond to it? It is a growing concern in a number of jurisdictions, …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Given that this question is for the Minister for Home Affairs, will this Minister undertake to persuade her colleague to publicise such relevant data?
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, my third question: Will the Honourable Minister please advise this Honourable House if the Department of Immigration and/or D epartment of Workforce Development currently conduct unannounced checks on employers to determine compliance levels with labour and immigration laws, and if so, what is the extent of this undertaking? Hon. Patricia J. Gordon- Pamplin: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Does the Honourable Minister appreciate that there are a significant number of low - paid employees who face tremendous intimidation and pressure in the workplace, who are disinclined because of that intimidation to raise matters of concerns with the relevant government authorities? And does the Minister not appreciate or agree that a more proactive approach should be under taken to …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on page 2 of the Premier’s Statement, he states that the JMC European negoti ation team would ensure that the territories’ position is adopted throughout negotiations. In the same sen-tence, he said the territories’ position, including from a UK perspective, will be adopted. So, I just need clarity on what this means. Because the …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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No, I have no supplementary on that.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Second question.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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On page 3, in the second par agraph on page 3, the Premier states that he personal-ly “emphasised that the UK Territories can contribute to a truly global Britain.” Now, in light of recent dis agreements that the Overseas Territories, Bermuda and particularly the Finance Minister have had with regard to the UK, how do we undertake to assist the …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Elucidation. [Laughter] Hon. Michael H. Dunkley: Yes, I take that comment across the floor. In the context of the meaning of that part of the paragraph is significant because if you look at the territories, they come from a pretty wide range throughout the globe. And if the UK has the best i nterest of all those territories in place, …