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E. Grant Gibbons

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6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I could not figure that out, either.
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, actually, there are no page numbers on this Statement. But on page 3, the Honourable Member speaks to the Royal Bermuda Regiment assuming responsibility for inshore maritime patrolling from the police and that becoming a reality. He goes on to say the necessary posts are approved. Could the Honourable Member say how many …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The supplementary is, Will there be a reduction in the number of police posts to offset the i ncrease in the regiment posts?
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
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Yes, thank you. Could the Honourable Member state what the approximate costs will be of the 14 posts which he refers to?
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I have a new question. Hon. Patricia J. Gordon -Pamplin: I have a suppl ementary.
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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New question, Mr. Speaker.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr . Speaker, the Honourable Member notes in the Statement, and in the response he gave a cou-ple of questions ago, that there will be, obviously, a plan put in place. There are more issues that need to be sorted out. He refers to the next financial year. Can the Honourable Member state when he believes …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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It is a new question, Mr. Speaker.
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On what would be page 7, the Honourable Member speaks to “Pastor Bean has a singular focus, and that will be on imple-menting programmes to reduce gang violence and antisocial behaviour.” Could the Honourable Member say how the success of these proposed programmes will be measured? The Speaker: Minister. Hon. Wayne Caines: I almost feel that the question is based …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think we can all sympathise with a general reduction—
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I think we can all feel the need for a reduction in gang violence. Mr. Speaker, we have been talking about this for many, many years. And the question that I am really asking the Member is, Are there specific objectives as part of this plan that can be measured, apart from what would be considered to be a subjective …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think a lot of us are aware of the danger now with, particularly, weeds as they are growing up right at the side of the roads, because cars swing out and somebody is going to get hit because they are usually over the line. I guess the question I have to the Minister …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. Thanks, Mr. Speaker, yes. So I take it from what the Minister just said that the Integrated Vegetation Management plan has now been completed, which was not clear from the Statement?
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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A new question, Mr. Speaker.
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I would like to make a few observations around this particular piece of legislation as well. I think it is important to try and put, I will say, the genesis of this particular legislation in context. And when the OBA came into Government essentially in late 2012 early 2013 we actually …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I said, How helpful is this? Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Well, because I am talking about banks. Is that not . . . you are not interested in that? All right. Okay. Just very, very short. So the point is that we find out that there is a whole aspect of finding a way to get this money into a …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Sorry, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Not a large issue, but in clause 5, specifically under Part 3 Powers, 18A. It reads, “The powers pr ovided in Part 3, Chapter 3 may be exercised by the competent authority to enable it to establish whether regulated a non- financial business or profession, specified in Schedule 2, is carrying on business contrary to …