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Ben Smith, MP

Ben Smith, MP

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5 Jun 2020 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, as I am talking about immigration, I think it is important that we look at how we can make sure that we are providing for our Bermudians, making sure that we are supporting our Bermudians while also trying to encourage people to come to our shores and trying to encourage people to invest in Bermuda because we …
5 Jun 2020 House of Assembly
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish the new Minister, Honour able Jason Hayward, good luck in moving forward. I look forward to his r esumption of the Immigration Reform Committee and carrying on what we were working on and moving t oward what is going to happen with work permit policy, what will happen with status in …
5 Jun 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and good afternoon. The S peaker: Good afternoon.
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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First, we would like to say that the Opposition is in support of regulations that have been implemented, the changes that have happened in phase 2. I will say that the opportunity to be a part of the Committee has given us, as the Opposition, an opportunity to give feedback, suggestions, concerns, and to have the dialogue within . . …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. Good morning, colleagues.
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, as it has been confirmed that a member of the Bermuda Fire Service was tested positive for COVID -19, that member and their family was quarantined and the station that they worked at was s anitised, can the Honourable Premier please tell this Honourable House what the protocols are for testing, tracing and quarantining in light of this …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. I would like to join in the condolences to the family of former Speaker Lowe. As someone who grew up in Southampton I remember clearly having him knock on the door and spend long hours sitting in my living room talking to my father as I was youngster in the house and seeing the way …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, t hank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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I would like to lend my support to this amendment. Obviously, we are going through a time period that none of us could of even imagined. Not just the fact that we have this pandemic ravaging the world and taking the lives of loved ones locally and changing the way that we do everything in our day -today lives, but …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, good afternoon, Mr. Speaker .
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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So, as they are going through that, the changes would be that you have people that are now in golf carts —they have access to a golf cart, B ermuda House of Assembly they have access to . . . there are pins. So, now the ability for people to actually touch the same items is now there. Well, if …
17 Apr 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
17 Apr 2020 House of Assembly
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I first would like to thank Minister Caines for the communication that I have had with him going back and forth during this time period. And I would like to echo his sentiments thanking all of the Members within our National Security —the Regiment, the Police, Customs, Fire and Prisons. Because when we are in the situation that we are …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. Firstly, Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the prior Minister, the late Honourable Walton Brown for giving me the opportunity — and the other members of the committee—to form this reform committee. [Inaudible interjections ]
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Prior to the committee being formed, over several years, Walton Brown and I had had se veral conversations specific to immigration. It has been said a couple of times today, but I think it is actually important that you understand the lens that we had to start this proc ess with the history of Bermuda [which] has a lot of …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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But as we progressed forward, we started to understand that there were economic rea-sons that we had to be changing our immigration pos ition. There were jobs that we needed to have for our locals that were going to be attached to immigration decisions. So, as we s tarted to have more and more of those conversations, you could tell …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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So, with that, we support the Bill. We are hoping that the amendments that are put forward are going to make sure that all of the pieces are co vered and that all Bermudians are going to get the opportunity. And with that I would like to thank all the tec hnical staff and everyone that helped us as we …
11 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. Just following off what the Minister’s response was according to having somebody who is actually showing symptoms and going through the questionnaire and then potentially having to be taken to the hospital for further testing, what would happen if that person was showing those symptoms on the aircraft? What about the people who were …
11 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. So the issue is that once that person has been taken to the hospital and they are going through the testing and there is a five- day period waiting for the test to come back, the other people who potentia lly were exposed to it have gone home and have po-tentially taken that to their elderly parents. The …