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E. Grant Gibbons

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19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, I think this Honourable Member should know that the Vending Act has been in place for some time. The Restricted Marketing Order is a separate piece of legislation. All I was trying to do was make Honourable Members aware that if you are going to be doing street vending, or vending, you need a licence under the …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think the Honourable Member is a little bit over the top there. Let me just make sure the Honourable Member understands what we are talking about here. The Restricted Marketing Order’s specific purpose is to prevent signs and advertising, which actually is also covered to some degree under the Advertisements [Regulation] Act 1911. But the …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not sure of the extent of all the work underway. Clearly, there are issues of mov-ing the road, there are other issues related to drilling wells. The issues that have been identified in the Statement here, by and large, are underway. I do not know as of today or yesterday whether there …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I did check with the Permanent Secretary and I was i nformed that the Hotelco Group is doing some initial site preparation down there now.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will have to take that one under advisement because I would like to speak with the substantive Minister on this particular issue. But, obv iously, I will come back to the House with an answer one way or another. Thank you.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Obviously, I do not want to deal in hypothet icals or essentially speculation here. What I can say is that the statement was very clear , and that was that there were certain infrastructure- related matters that needed to be addressed during, before and after the construction. In order to make sure this project moved …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you. Yes, I think that is public information. Clearly, we have said in a statement that this was an effort to try and move this project along with some of the prep-aration [and] other infrastructure things that we felt Government could assist with.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure I can put a precise date on that, but as the Honourable Member would know, having been part of the past Government, and I think of par-ticularly the former proposed developer for this site, it took a very, very long time to get absolutely nowhere with Mr. Bazarian. I can think of …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to put this context. [Inaudible interjection s] 1706 19 May 2017 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Hon. Dr. E. Grant Gibbons: Those Honourable Members will know —
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Those Honourable Members will know the implication of the question was that somehow this is taking a long time. I am simply reminding them — [Inaudible interjections]
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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I am simply reminding them that whether you look at t he— Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think we are on the importance of moving the road here to try and get this moved forward. That was a discussion obviously which happened between the Government and the developer. It is a public road. The movement of the road actually will be quite bene-ficial to the people of St. George’s —
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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—because it will allow better access to both parking—
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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—which is public parking and the beach.
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, obviously, there has been a lot of discussion about the casino fees. I think the devel-oper, particularly in terms of Mr. Purroy, as I understand it (and this was from the substantive Minister), met with the Opposition and they were told that the casino fees obviously were a concern of the develop-er. But the …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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So, clearly, it is very hard to pull apart all these pieces. I am sure . . . and I was not involved in these substantive discussions with the Minister. I am sure casino fees were possibly raised. But what I think we are saying very clearly in this statement is that there were other issues where Government felt , …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, I do. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: He wanted a bridge going over Ferry Reach and then of course through Flatts. And then he lost me. He said, I am going to build a bridge from Fairyland up to Dockyard. I said, You are not going through David Gi bbons’ house? I said, First of all, there is no money …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would also like to be associated with the Premier’s condolences to the family of Dr. David Saul. I knew him both as a boss, when I was in Cabinet, as a friend, and certainly I had business associations with him going back many, many years as well. He was an extraordinary man; one might say …
19 May 2017 House of Assembly
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And 10- miler as well. But [he] was a very accomplished from an athletic perspective. But he loved adventure. He loved to tell st ories. He was a member of the Explorers’ Club in New York; quite an elite club with a lot of worldwide explorers. He had been very involved in setting the BUEI [Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute] up. …