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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

2498
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6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, firs t off, I want to s end condolences to the family of Ms. Marie Pacheco of Devonshire. Bermuda House of Assembly Moving on, Mr. Speaker, I would like to join in the condolences to the Tyrrell and Mills family for a lady whom I rightfully should be calling aunt, Dorothy Mills. What the Premier did not speak …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, I am not sure if it was mentioned already, but I would like to give condolences to the friends and family of Ms. Keita Wilson. She was Campaign Manager for MP Tinee Furbert, and she was a PLP stalwart. She was a young lady who . . . everybody wants to be associated. She was …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am possibly the closing bat tonight.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to say something. I am going to ask you because I can only talk to the Chair. I am going to ask you if this is logical. Some guy says, I committed murder, but I am not a murderer . Does that sound logical? I stole something but I am not a thief.
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I am a little bit pregnant but I am not having a baby. That is not logical. My point is that Mr. Brannon —B-R-A-N-N-O-N—said, I said something racist, but I am not a racist. 3390 4 March 2020 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Well, hold on bro! You said two things racist. You did not say one thing …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Let me go on, Mr. Speaker. The other day I got a WhatsApp from somebody in the media saying, Hey, we want to speak to you about something. I am like, Speak to me about what? Liverpool? (I couldn’t resist.) No, they said they wanted to ask me why Bermudi ans hate IB. I am like, Bermudians hate IB? Bermudians …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Let me go on to another false narrative, Mr. Speaker: The civil service is gro wing. Nothing of that nature. There is, in fact, a hiring freeze. We heard today about shortages of workers in different departments under National Security. How could that be if we are just hiring people willy -nilly? Well, let’s go to some facts. In the …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Oh, here we go. She is a Berkeleyite. POINT OF ORDER [Misleading] Hon. Patricia J. Gordon -Pamplin: Yes, I am a Berkeleyites , and I kind of add the same way the Honourable Member added. I believe that he is inadvertently mi sleading the House. I think what was said in respect of the numbers was taken directly from the …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I carefully never mentioned the OBA. I said, there is a narrative. Not everything out there that is negative is from the OBA, Honourable Member. There is a narrative in the community that this Government is willy -nilly growing the civil service. That claim was out there long before Bermuda House of Assembly your Budget Reply, respectfully speaking. …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, let me touch on immigration very briefly. Again, false narratives: PLP hates white people . PLP hates IB . Here is the reality, Mr. Speaker. Four years ago, thousands of people surrounded your Honourable House up on the hill which is under renovation. They surrounded it not because they hate IB, not because they hate white people, not …
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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He was deported! He was the first deportee! [Laughter]
4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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The minute they saw the black tips on his ears, out you go, Bro! Our country has been scarred by immigration, but that is no excuse for us not to progress. There are multiple forms of immigration. There is the mixed status, there is Bermuda status, there is PRC, there are the belongers, there are work permits, there are the …
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I was trying to yield for the lady.
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I would like to . . . it has been a rough week, a rough couple of weeks for Devonshire. I would like to join in with the condolences for Michelle Woolridge Grimes. She was Loyal Hill like extraordinai re. And the Education Minister wants to join in on that and the MP for the area, …
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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Yes indeed, Mr. Pedro [Eastmond] and his assistants. They are actually go-ing through their own renovations, so I was kind of like, Hey, this sounds familiar. You’ve got to move out of one place t o go to another.
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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And most importantly, they had a museum attached to their parliament that gave part of the history of Barbados —the labour movement, the emancipation. It highlighted their national heroes. So I am just saying, Mr. Speaker, you know, some of us could learn a thing or two from some of our sister islands as to how to more enhance our …
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Point of order. You had to go there, so I am going to reply.
28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly
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No, it is not baiting in, Mr. Speaker .