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Wayne Caines

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29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
12 words
And I will leave that as the high watermark, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker —Mr. Speaker, I sat in the court and I listened to young men come forward and describe what their life was like when they were addicted to drugs. And he would not mind, because he gave his testimony online today, Mr. Trevor Lindsay. Mr. Trevor Lindsay came into this court, Mr. [Deputy] Speaker, and he got up …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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That was the theme. I was forced to reflect on the treatment courts. Most people while they acknowledge . . . and you very rarely hear people say that these courts were not of benefit to Bermuda. Many people in the room acknowledged that the treat-ment court changes lives. Many people said, This is what the benefit of treatment looks …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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This is what a therapeutic court looks like. This is the purpose of our helping agencies. This is why judges are important, to have a holistic approach. Mr. Deputy Speaker, this did not happen by osmosis. This came as a result of this party, the alternatives to incarceration legislation of 2001. So when we think of thankfulness, we must understand …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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In 2001 the alternatives to incarceration came as a result of what? In 1998, the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party being elected into office, one of the things that they did in the first three years is put in the alternative to incarceration legislation. T his is some of the fruit of the alternatives to incarceration. This is some of the …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. [Deputy] Speaker, yesterday a lady drove up in a taxi and she brought a hand of ba-nanas. The little, small Bermuda ones. One lad, she brought all she had to help somebody. Another lady came, drove up, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and she got out of the car. I went to lift the hatchback and she said, No, don’t lift …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I remember Mr. Speaker, I remember a time, Mr. Speaker, where my father (as you know) was in the Tax Commissioner’s Office—
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—for the majority of his professional career. And he, like many civil servants today, could not openly discuss their political affiliation. And like many civil servants there was this fear that if they spoke out against the powers that be, if they spoke out about the injustic es in our country that there would be political, social, economic consequences for …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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My father is an accountant. He counts numbers. You will never, ever hear him speak publicly. He in that house, he was measured, he was disciplined. But guess what he said to me? I toed the line so you don’t have to. I am minded that there are things in our country that many of us still don’t like. I …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Two points. Mr. Speaker, the Member is inadvertently misleading the House. Number one, he said there are no programmes. There is a GED programme. There is an anti-violence programme. There is the TLC programme for drug rehabilitation that is down at the co- ed correctional facility. There is a GED programme that is being given at the prison. That is …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point o f order, Mr. Speaker . The Speaker: Yes. POINT OF ORDER
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The Ministry of National Security has had a strategy for the last seven years. He said it was an update on the strategy and looking at new ways and new methods in which to deal with the gang crisis in Bermuda. There has always been a strategy. [They are] now looking at it differently and upgrading their strategies. Thank you, …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker . 82 15 November 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Point of order. POINT OF ORDER [Misleading]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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This Member is misleading the House. The Alternatives to Incarceration programmes are to prevent people from going to jail. In his soliloquy just now, Mr. Speaker, he said that there were no programmes in jail. The programmes to the Alternatives to Incarceration are to prevent people that have committed offenses from going to jail.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The point, Mr. Speaker, is that it will never be in Westgate because we have programmes, the Alternatives —the literal word —the Alternatives to Incarceration prevents them from being in that room at Westgate, Mr. Speaker .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , like . . . if it pleases you, Mr. Speaker — [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Like Elizabeth Taylor said to her third husband, I won’t keep you long, Mr. Speaker . [Laughter and crosstalk ]