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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

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22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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That is the specific brand or whatever, strain, I guess you want to say. But worldwide Cavendish Bananas are now in a shortage because of a bug that went around and has just destroyed —decimated—crops worldwide, including Bermuda, all right? When last did you have a Bermuda orange, Mr. Speaker?
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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A Bermuda lemon?
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Okay, all coming out of the woodwork now. My point is, Mr. Speaker, these are the th ings that we grew up on, commonly —
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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—and we could find them left, right and centre. But because of overdevelopment in our country over the last 20, 30 years, up to 2007 we had housing development on steroids in th is cou ntry. All right? The price of land has gone up. The price of construction has gone up. But our food, our domes-tic food supply has …
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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And that is my batting partner talking. Mr. Speaker, as you know, right, one of the things I have been tasked with is to be attached with CARICOM. CARICOM over the last two months has put a mandate together that domestic food production in the Caribbean must increase. Now, there are going to be those who say, Oh, well, we’re …
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. Are you hearing me?
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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I moved as far west in my house as I could possibly get.
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes, indeed.
22 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I had the privilege during the lockdown to freaky travel because I am an essential wor ker. But among those days of traveling, nights of traveling, there was something eery about you being the only car on the road, like, da ytime, nighttime, literally you see no other car on the road. On my journey I drove across …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon co lleagues and good afternoon Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, I have often heard the term, Go on a good line and length, Member, stay on that line and length, I often wondered where this term originated. So, I did a little research. To follow a good line and length meant to be sure that y ou knocked on every …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Speaker. Can you hear me?
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Ah, okay, okay. Good evening my fellow colleagues, how are you? Do you hear me good, Mr. Speaker ?
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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All right. Mr . Speaker, I will be very brief tonight. I am not even going to use 10 minutes. Mr. Speaker, what if . . . ? Mr. Speaker, yesterday I was stopped by a gentleman, a well -known sportscaster. He said to me that his team only needed six more points to be EPL. (EPL means English Premier …
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Well— [Laughter]
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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Okay. I stand corrected. What if we in the western hemisphere do not eat bats?
8 May 2020 House of Assembly
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What if that person who ate a bat got sick and others around him got sick? What if so many people got sick that the authorities in their country had no idea what was going on? What if this mysterious disease started to make its way around the world? What if government s around the world had no idea what …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon to co lleagues on both sides and good afternoon to the li stening public. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I went to a church service. It was a celebration of life. And we had persons from both aisles of this Honourable House speak about a gentleman. They spoke strongly about a gentleman, his love for golf, his love for football, …
16 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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8 words
Death Valley actually, at Southampton, but anyway —