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E. Grant Gibbons

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13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Let me work through the questions from the Honourable Member. First of all, with respect to staf fing, the answer is yes. The Registrar will require add itional staff in order to be able to create a compliance function. Right now it looks like that will start with three but up to five additional bodies may …
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. It could be, and I do not have the book in front of me, and besides, we are past that . . . we are past that now. But there was an amount of about $400,000 that has been budgeted to address it, so yes.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I am pretty sure that the money is actually budgeted in there. I cannot tell you exactly where it is off the top of my head, but since this is a relatively recent provision because of the legislation it may not have slipped in from a numbers perspective. It may also be, and sometimes this happens …
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay, Madam Chairman, I move that clauses . . . let us see, we want to do 1 through 21 be approved as written.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move the Preamble.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Sorry, I move Schedule 1.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I move the Preamble.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I move that the Bill be reported to the House as written.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move that Standing Order 21be suspended to enable me to move that the Bill entitled the Registrar of Companies (Compliance Measures) Act 2017 be now read the third time by its title only.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The Registrar of Companies (Compliance Measures) Act 2017, I move that the Bill do now pass. The Speaker: Thank you. Any objections to that? There are none. The Bill is passed. [Motion carried: The Registrar of Companies (Compl iance Measures) Act 2017 was read a third time and passed.]
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, point of order.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is clearly misleading the House. He has no idea what the profitability was like of any of these companies at that particular time. And he is getting very personal, if I may say so.
13 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Nonsense!
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, with the Governor’s recommendation and in accordance with section 36(3) of the Bermuda Constitution, I have the honour to attach and submit for the consideration of the Honourable House of Assembly the Electronic Communications (Regulatory Authority Fees) Regulations 2017, proposed to be made by the Minister of Telecommunicat ions in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that Heads 95, Ministry of Economic Development Headquarters, and Head 67, Department of Information and Communications Technology, be now taken under consideration. The Chai rman: You may proceed. HEAD 95 —MINISTRY HEADQUARTERS
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It gives me great pleasure to present the budget for Head 95, the Ministry Headquarters for the Ministry of Economic Development. And that is found on pages B -330 to B-333 of the Budget Book. I would like to make some brief budget -related comments about the overall Ministry of Economic D evelopment before getting into …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon. MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HEAD 95 —HEADQUARTERS [Continuation thereof]
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Before lunch, I started on Head 95, which was the Ministry of Ec onomic Development. And we had gotten part of the way. At the time we broke for lunch I was talking about the Bermuda Economic Development Corpor ation, and the grant for that particular quango is on page B -331 of the Budget Book. And the grant for …