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E. Grant Gibbons

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10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, with your help, I can clarify that.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The Auxiliary Services has nothing to do with minibuses.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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That is why we are trying to get you a new airport. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: And you know, the Honourable Minister, says that’s why he is trying to get us a new airport. Well, I do not feel like paying my paying . . . my problem is with that is that I do not feel like …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is misleading the House. Maritime Safety and Security has to do with safety of life at sea. He is tal king about interdiction which is Customs and Police, basically, in terms of screening containers. So it is an entirely different head and an entirely different Mini stry.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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If I can help the Honourable Member . Yes, when I went through the brief earlier I explained that $17 million was actuall y coming back to Government this year , essentially from the new quango. Okay?
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Well, we will see. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: You will be sitting on this side. That is one sure thing; I can promise you that part. And my Honourable Member who is the Minister of Finance is going to have to— [Inaudible interjections] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: The Minister for Finance is going to have to explain . . . …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, if I may, just a point of order.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, the lighthouse comes under Public Works. It is not in this Ministry at all. Bermuda House of Assembly Ms. Lovitta F. Foggo: Mr. Chairman, the lighthouse is still an item under Marine and Ports which falls under the Ministry of Transport and it says grants —
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, Honourable Member , if I may —
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I can help the Ho nourable Member out I think. You can get up again.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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What she is referring to here is the Lighthouse Keepers Association. That has nothing to do . . . that is an International Association where Bermuda has a membership. So, that is what that is about. The actual maintenance and the issue she is talking to with respect to upkeep the lighthouse is under Public Works. It is not under …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, first of all I would like to thank the Opposition for scheduling five hours for what probably could have been a three- hour debate, but be that as it may, I think they have all had something to say, and then some Members have had something to say, and then something to say , …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I am going to try and w ork my way through some of the questions. I am sure, since we have still got at least another hour, so if I forget something I am sure they will be back to har-ass me about it. But let me try and work my way back through some of these issues. With respect …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I think what I was trying t o explain was, it was in the budget last year , okay, in the Department of Airport Operations. In the transfer and shifting around it will be moved . . . any minimum revenue guarantee will be moved into the Ministry Headquarters because the revenue guara ntee was only signed about a month …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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No, because there was no minimum revenue guarantee that was signed until about a month ago on that particular . . . okay ? So it is an issue of timing more than anything else. But I think the issue that the Honourable Member raised is why was it not budget ed? T he answer very simply is , it …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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—that I have got. Okay? Let me move on to a couple of issues relating to . . . the Geneva Convention seems to have figured fairly prominently tonight. The Honourable Member was raising the issue that , hypothetically, if the Gen eva Convention is an approach that is taken by the Ministry in terms of an effort to sort …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, I am happy to, go ahead. We have plenty of time left.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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You know, what is interesting about this, there was a programme that was put in back in 2004 or 2005. It actually gets r eferred to as a provisional licence. It was, I think the TCD was calling this a fast -track programme. And I think it was the former Government’s effort to try and deal a little bit with …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay, that is the most excitement we have heard tonight, I think. I would also like to say, and Honourable Members will be aware of this because we have done some statements in the House on this, that as we are looking for liquefied natural gas as a fuel —and that is part of the fuels policy under, Mr. Chairman, …