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The Hon. Zane De Silva, JP, MP

The Hon. Zane De Silva, JP, MP

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30 May 2025 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
46 words
No point of order on that. Hon. E. David Burt: A pledge that we made. I remember, 2007, I was Chairman of the Party. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Oh yeah. Hon. E. David Burt: Made Bermuda College free. And the party opposite removed that.
15 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
117 words
Oh no! Hon. E. David Burt: So, if we want to talk about next year and all the rest, let’s be clear. This Government is using its increased and better performance from a strongly performing economy to invest in affordable housing and to ensure that we freeze health insurance rates for the third year in a row. That Government used …
8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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No, she cannot do that. The rules are you speak to line items. And you speak to sec-tions in the Budget Book. You cannot say, Well, until you do this I’m going to speak to whatever I want . That is not true. And it should not be allowed.
3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member, I do not know if he is intentionally misleading this House. But he just misled this House. You will r emember, Mr. Speaker. The OBA, I believe under his premiership, had a Throne Speech, Mr. Speaker, and the airport was not mentioned. Bob Richards, the former Minister, the Honourable Minister of Finance, 316 3 February 2023 Official …
18 Feb 2022 House of Assembly
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Who are you, Susan, our new consultant?
18 Feb 2022 House of Assembly
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OK, Mr. Speaker, got you.
18 Feb 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, the reason I drew a point of order and I said the Honourable Member is imputing improper motive . . . and I have to smile. I have to smile, right? Because he is trying to link MP De Silva with proceeds of c rime legislation, and he works for …
19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly
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I have not even started saying yet. [Laughter]
24 Jul 2020 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Sp eaker: New point of order? POINT OF ORDER [Misleading] Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: The Honourable Member is misleading the House. Mr. Speaker, he is talking about pure speculation. If we would have built a hotel [sic] 10, 12 years ago . . . it is pure spec ulation! You cannot make …
1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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No, sir. Hon. Jamahl S. Simmons: They have spent a signi ficant amount of time seeking to rewrite, rehabilitate and resurrect the failed, rejected Pathways to Status agenda, or as I like to call it, open up the imm igration floodgates and hope for the best for Bermudians. Mr. Speaker, one would almost believe that, minus the updated financial figures …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like the Honourable House to send congratulations and thanks to the Bermuda Blood Donor Centre for their summer blood drive. Due to this drive, Madam Deputy Speaker, we had 60 new donors that signed up this summer. And I think that is fantastic for the Blood D onor Centre. You …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh, well, I would certainly like to be associated with that. And I thank my colleagues, in my absence, for not letting that pass them by. She was certainly a fantastic . . . I do not know if it was mentioned last week, Madam Deputy Speaker, but she also had got her umpire qualifications. So Pinky has certainly shown …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. History will show that the former Premier of the Progressive Labour Party, Mr. Ewart Brown, and former Tourism Minister, said many times that a Tour-ism Authority was not a bad concept and I think many on this side agree. However, we all know that it is not the silver bullet and like most concepts the true …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh yes! Oh yes! Mr. Speaker, 2007 was [when we had] the most tourists that we have ever seen in Bermuda in our history. POINT OF CLARIFICATION Hon. Michael H. Dunkley: Point of clarification.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Number of visitors, yes, Mr. Speaker. [Inaudible interjections]
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay, my apologies. We all do that in our excitement at times.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I will correct that, Mr. Speaker.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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It was the record amount of tourists we have ever seen in Bermuda's history. Ever. Ever! [Inaudible interjections]
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member D r. Gibbons also said that the Chairman, Mr. [David] Dodwell , has the most experience and has been most successful and if we followed his idea maybe we would not be in the sad situation we are today, from Dr. Gibbons. Mr. Speaker, let us not forget that that chai rman, Mr. Dodwell, was a Tourism …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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The point, yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker —