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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Madam Deputy Speaker, the Ho nourable Member is misleading the House. He cannot come here and say that the term limit policy was not adhered to when the things were considered within the policy. That was the very policy, that there were [situations] where term limits were extended. So we cannot say that we were not adhering to the policy, …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order. The Deputy Speaker: Thank you, the Chair recognises the Member from constituency 18. POINT OF ORDER [Misleading]
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is mi sleading the House again, as he will know that it was not until the One Bermuda Alliance came into office that companies could invest in residential property because that happened in 2014. The Honourable Member needs to get his facts correct and stop mi sleading the House.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Honourable Member is misleading the House. He said the Progressive Labour Party Go vernment gave exempt ed companies the right to own residential property. That is not correct. The Honourable Member needs to withdraw it because it is not factual.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Point of order.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, we have had, wit hout question, a relatively long debate on this matter of what is, without question, of urgent public importance. But it is interesting that the Members of the Gover nment bench seem to be at war with themselves and seemingly at war with their own minds because in every …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Madam Deputy Speaker, he cannot even remember what he said. That is the joke here; he cannot even remember what he said. For some reason, this very important debate, this important situation, is levelled to the fact of a joke for some Members of the Government. They happen to think that the opinions of the people of this country do …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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And the very fact that a Junior Minister does not realise that he is a part of the bac kbench shows everything that is wrong with the One Bermuda Alliance Government and the person that is going to be leading Pathways to Status through this House, as he so claims —as he so claims. That is precisely what it is. …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much. It says: WHEREAS the public welfare is now challenged by proposed amendments to the Immigration law, and the likelihood for growing and sustained u nrest increases daily; and WHEREAS there was a need for an inclusive approach for the betterment of Bermuda on such law, accompanied by the movement away from brinkmanship dispositions; BE IT R …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister is mi sleading the House. As I said in my remarks, during that there were Green Paper consultations, there were town hall meetings, there was a White Paper and then there was the final Bill. There were three stages before that change went. And during the Green Paper there was wide consultation from Members inside of this …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Minister did not inherit a $330 million def icit. He inherited a $242 mi llion deficit.
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is nothing controversial in this Bill. Of course, this was something that was brought in under the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance [has seen] fit to extend it. The Minister has said how many retailers have ben efitted from this already wi th the total value amount. I …
7 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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It is okay, Madam Chairman, it is early, I understand. Just a quick question to the Minister, which I did not ask in the general debate, if he will allow and there are no objections to this. You did not mention the total amount of duty. Is there any indication inside of your brief knowing that your technica l officers …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Good morning to you, Mr. Speaker.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I would just rise to associate myself with the condolences that are being sent to the family of Mr. Jasmine Saltus. As Honourable Members would know, in a former and current life, I do a lot of work for the Transport Control D epartment. And I worked with J azz quite closely over 1052 4 March 2016 Official …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I understand that I do not hav e a lot of time and I want to give the Minister time to r espond, so my comments will not be as expansive as I would have liked them to be. However, I do have a few questions for the Minister of Finance. For the most …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Pardon me? How important it was, Minister . . . that is what it is? No problem. Well, we can have a debate because as I am talking, I will ask if I could yield to the Minister of F inance, because the Minister of Finance says that, you know, the economy has had six consecutive years of economic contraction. …