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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, just my second supplementary, because I only had one more, Mr. Speaker .
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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He said they do not include the Minister of Economic Development, so just to be clear, that does include the Attorney General and the Cabinet Secretary in the figures that he gave? Hon. Michael H. Dunkley: No. The Attorney General would be covered under his own Ministry, and I will have to check on the Cabinet Secretary.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , pursuant to Standing Order 17(9)(a)(vii) deferred answers from last week’s sitting, the Premier undertook to come back to the Hous e with the original contract value for the new www.gov.bm portal.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , my supplementary question is — and I thank the Premier for his answer —can the P remier please explain the discrepancy between the fi gure which he provided to this Honourable House for the total cost of the project of $601,000 last week and then the figure that was released …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker . I thank the Premier for his answer and I will ask if the Premier would not mind submitting written answers on the full breakdown of those costs. If not, I can subm it a supplementary written question if he would like. Thank you.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening. Oh, we are going on evening now. No worries, Mr. Speaker, we will make sure that you do not go hungry. We will make sure. But I think that it is important and it is a good thing that, I guess, the Government’s agenda is light. As we have see n repeatedly the Government’s agenda can be kind …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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It was . . . we only have one, Mr. Speaker. The Royal Gazette. 1988 3 June 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: No, we have other public ations than that.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, not online. Sorry. Printed.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Our printed daily newspaper. —
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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—that being the Royal Gazette. There was an 2editorial , I want to say, maybe, on Wednesday, which said, “The t ime to stand up to evil minority is now. ” And I did not actually get to read this editorial until yesterday when someone had mentioned it. I was actually shocked that I was reading this in 2016 in …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I have absolutely no idea what that means. But I wonder what on earth would motivate the editor of the Royal Gazette to put that in print in 2016, “marches that discoloured our most famous street.” Thankfully, Mr. Speaker, there was somebody who read the Royal Gazette editorial who responded, because the objective of the Royal Gazette editorial was to …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, the writer in today’s daily who responded to the letter to the editor, said something very, very interesting. I am going to read a quote. It said, “ Interestingly, you draw a comparison with the Pathways to Status protest and question why it should draw such attention while shooting deaths do not. For your information, sir, that …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Ask MP Leah Scott. Ask the former Minister. I do not even think they listen to some of their Cabinet Minist ers. If they did, I guess he would probably still be the Minister of Tourism and Transport. And we learned that in two years there has been a 1,722 per cent increase in work permits in categories that require …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I thank the Minister for that, but I am just wondering. So in this completely independent commission, I am assuming that this is the no - direction- from- the-Minister. Nothing at all? Okay. That is fine. We will accept that. We will accept that and I will accept it because I will go back to look at the specifics of …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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But, Mr. Speaker, that is what the people learned today. What they did not learn today, Mr. Speaker, is what I am going to tell them. And that is because yesterday, as Chairman of the Public A ccounts Committee, I had to cancel a Public Accounts Committee meeting because after a summons was issued for Schedule A of the Airport …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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He is frustrating the will of the elected body. He has delayed on a request from your very own Public Accounts Committee, which was passed unanimously. And now he has ignored a summons which was voted on at another meeting. Nothing from his civil servants. Nothing from the Mi nister. All we hear is that we have to get Aecon’s …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Imagine that, Mr. Speaker. That in 2016, in a Government that says they were elect ed to bring openness, transparency, and accountability to this country, for over nine months a contract has been signed and no one on that side on the front bench will say why the people of this country cannot see it. Really, Mr. Speaker, when the …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I want him to tell us why, even when his own Members vote to see the terms and definitions in a contract which was signed more than nine months ago . . . he will defend his Minister of F inance for not releasing that information. Mr. Speaker, if we are to have good gover nment, we need to have …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Whose interest do they really care about? And why does this Government continue to hide the facts of a contract that will privatise our ai rport and rob our Treasury of very, very, very precious revenue? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.