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Wayne Caines

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1 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
1 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, first, I would like to give congratulations to the Bermuda Institute, class of 2024. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday gone, as you know, it is a tradition at the Bermuda Institute, the school of the prophets, where the senior graduating class is presented acknowledgement of their academic year, and they were presented in front of their families and church …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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If it pleases you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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I would like to ask that a letter of condolences be sent to the family of Kaelon Jamal Bermuda House of Assembly Charles Ellsworth Furbert. He was a resident of Cedar Park, died in his 53rd year. We attended the Prospect Primary School together. In our community, he was one of our community DJs. Everyone got along with him very …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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If it pleases you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am excited to learn of this opportunity for our country. If we consider back in the 1980s, when we were a thriving tourism destina-tion, there was a Member of Government at the time . . . but then the 1920s , a then Minister of Tourism said, We have too many tourists in Bermuda. Our streets are …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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That same Minister said We do not want burgers -and-french- fries-type of business coming to Bermuda. We know directly thereafter we had it so good in Bermuda that we thought that this would continue forever. We saw Lantana, the Somerset Bridge Hotel, Sonesta Belmont, Glencoe, Horizons Inverurie, Elbow Beach, Waterloo House, Harmony Hall, the Hamiltonian Hotel, Ariel Sands, Coral Island, …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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If it pleases you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the Tourism Investment (Bermudiana Beach Resort) Order 2023. I have had the opportunity to consider all of the facts and the circumstances, how the project started origi nally, what it has morphed to be and the benefit that it can bring to Bermuda in its current iteration. And I will go in to why we need tourism development, …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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No, that would be the total number of rooms here, 180. [Inaudible interjections ]
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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That would be an increase of 108 per cent of the 2019 inventory. The projects that we have on tap include Bermudiana Beach Resort, the Fairmont Southampton, the Grotto Bay, the Azura. We have seen projects that have been completed like Cambridge Beaches. We hope that such projects that we see will inspire another major property that we have on …
8 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Good to see you again, Mr. Speaker.
8 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, today I would like to thank and congratulate the Bermuda Tourism Authority [BTA], the leadership and the entire team for this year’s Tourism Summit that was held on November 28 at the Hamilton Princess. The theme for this year was Unifying Our Efforts: Building a Better Bermuda Tourism Ecosystem. The conference saw over 200 attendees, tourism leaders, government …
8 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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It was a phenomenal day. I would like to thank Ms. Tracy Berkeley and her leadership team for a phenomenal Tourism Summit. It was good to see that the actual conference was opened by the Honourable Owen K. Darrell, who shared his vision for tourism. He was working the room on that day. He met with the stakeholders. He met …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to offer condolences to the family of Mr. Icen “Bud” Robinson. Mr. Robinson was born in Bermuda, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in 1982. At about four years old, Mr. Deputy Speaker, he contracted a medical condition called relapsing pol-ychondritis. And this affected him for a number of years, which caused …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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He attended the Prospect Primary School “French Vale” . He attended Bermuda Institute, and he graduated from the CedarBridge Academy. Icen was a phenomenal man, always in good spirits. At his funeral he had young people from all walks of life in Bermuda. Everyone was there. They celebrated in St. Bermuda House of Assembly George’s afterwards just sharing the time …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker,
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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If it pleases you, Madam Acting Speaker. I seek your permission to read two paragraphs, Madam [Acting] Speaker. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Of course they must extol the virtue, the vision, the words of their party. That is their right. That is their responsibility. But just as how they have a responsibility, we have a mandate that was first given to us in November 1998. And that is to lead t he people of this country! That is a sacred trust of …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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An independent living centre. So, we take all of the issues that we have around the helping services and the child and family services, they are going to build homes for our young people that so when they are 17 years old and remaining in the care of the director, they have life skill preparations. When we are looking we …