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E. Grant Gibbons

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20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Additional question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. 376 20 October 2017 Official Hansard Report B ermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Okay. We recognise the Honourable Member from constituency 22. Continue, Honourable Member Gibbons. QUESTION 2 : GOVERNMENT REFORM PROGRESS REPORT
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since it is pretty clear that the Minister has indicated that these disclosure forms will not be made public, how will issues — [ Inaudible interjection]
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Well, that was the sense I had. How will what I will call “ repeat offenders ” of, to use the Minister’s words, high -end dinners be addressed from a sanction or other perspective?
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure over the last couple of days of attending various parts of the Co nvergence 2017 conference, put on by the local ILS (insurance- linked securities) Conference Group. And I would ask that congratulations be sent to Greg Wojciechowski, who is the Chairman, and as people will know, is the CEO …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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And certainly, I think the whole House probably w ould ask that she be reco gnised for her contribution. And finally, Mr. Speaker, there is another ind ividual who is stepping down. And I guess there will be more to say about this individual. But I gather that Dr. Ed Harris of the Maritime Museum is due to retire fai …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I thought somebody else on our side might wish to speak, as well. I am just curious. Obviously, my honourable colleague, Jeanne Atherden, made a num ber of points. And I think, as the Junior Minister observed, it is unfortunate in many respects that we are now moving towards more of an emphasis on …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I would like to make I guess a couple of observations, having had some experience with this . . . having had responsibility for this in a prior life. I guess a couple of thoughts. I think the Honour able Member who speaks for Energy referred to three separate issues, and …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, it is clause 4, and just by way of perhaps clarification, when the Minister got up in the House to talk about the six -month or 12- month period I just wanted . . . just so that we are all clear, under section 66 if you were an existing provider, for example, …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Chai rman. Clause 4, the Premier elaborated somewhat in the whole House, but could he give a better understanding of the seven members, who they might be? Does he . . . has he got types of individuals in mind? The comment, I think, in the House was that there would be Members from this side …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman.
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I have a question.
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, as the Premier was speaking, I wonder whether he could give us a sense of the tim eline as to when he expects the seven members to be appointed and the Commission to be up and going.
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, clause 6(1) “ The Commission shall decide for the purposes of its functions on the programme of operations, which shall be provided to the Minister. ” In the House, the Minister raised, I thi nk it was five points that he felt should be part of the Commi s-sion’s approach. I am just …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Acting Speaker, or Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will not be long, but I guess I was struck by how the Government is trying to rationalise this broad and sweeping change to essentially sweep aside the Human Rights Act. In fact, it is ironic in many ways because I think as some of my colleagues have said the …
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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—family status, religion or beliefs.
20 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I am being very careful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. So, I think people have to be very clear about what is going on here because I think, as Honourable Member s have said on this side, this is really taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Honourable Member s on this side have also said that there may be mischief here. …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the question I have for the Ho nourable Member is in relation to his London trip. Apart from delivering his talking points and, obviously, meeting members of industry over there, what useful i nformation did he r eceive as to how we might improve our shipping registry or our competitiveness in this particular sector?
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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It is a supplementary,
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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As shipping is certainly a worldwide industry, would the Minister be able to comment as to whether there were any requests for, I will say, a Far East office t o be set up for the shipping inspection for the new register?
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is going to be a further question.