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E. Grant Gibbons

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8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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We just did one. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: That little . . . this little thing they cut down . . . [Inaudible interjection] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Yes, it was. It was very small. [There w ere] 37 rooms, or 38 rooms. He kept seven acres. And that was the whole purpose of it. He got a piece of …
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, you worked on it all right. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: See, the Honourable Member Grant Gibbons, is living in loco land sometimes.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The point of order is the Honourable Member is misleading the House.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The statement yesterday— Bermuda House of A ssembly Therefor e . . . and what bothers me . . . and this happens every time. It is becoming a pet peeve, Madam Deputy Speaker, that the Government laughs when I bring up important situations. This is why I wonder whose interests they have. Who do they really care about? And …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, there have been occasions, as some Honourable Members will be aware, when the Bermuda driver’s licence has not been accepted for securing rental cars while res idents have been abroad for both business and le isure. Within the last year, r estrictions have been highlighted in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, and in particular the Alamo car rental agency …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I said, the Ministry is working through a number of particular , or potentia l, options and approaches with various stakeholders. In fact, there have been meetings held with a number of stakeholders in the form of the taxi drivers, minibus drivers, those who help to provide instruction for those looking for licences …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I will also say that this is not simply a Bermuda issue. Because of the legislation the Honourable Member refers to, the British Government would also necessarily be involved in it as well. Thank you.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, as I said, the Ministry is working through possible options here. And those options could essentially address the treaty, which I think was not signed by Bermuda dur-ing the period the former Government had responsibi lity. But there are a number of ways to approach this. And I think it would be fair to say that consultation is …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I said, there are a number of moving parts here. And there are options, which the Ministry of Transport is certainly looking at. One of the issues that comes out of not dealing with this a num-ber of years ago and perhaps signing the treaty was the fact that many of these issues …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a sad note this morning, and I know that my honourable colleagues, particularly in Cabinet, would probably wish to be associated with these comments. But I would ask that the House send con-dolences to the family of Rochelle Butterfield, who died— [Inaudible interjection]
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh, I am sorry. I beg your pardon. I was looking at something else.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, those of us who worked with Rochelle Butterfield, particularly in Cabinet the last few years, will know what a huge contribution she made to modernising the way in which Cabinet essentially deals with a lot of the pa-pers and other correspondence. And she did this in a way, in her own way, which was very efficient and seamless, …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing the following Bill for its first reading so that it may be placed on the Order Paper for the next day of meeting: Registrar of Companies (Compliance Measures) Act 2017. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Actually, what I would prefer to do is start, Mr. Speaker, and then come back after lunch.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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We are going to be here for a long time, Mr. Speaker.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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And we might as well keep going. But I will stop at 12:30, so if you can give me indication.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. [Inaudible interjections]
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, [Madam Deputy] Speaker. What we just heard over the course of the last hour and probably 40 minutes is apparently the election platform of a wannabe Government that was read by a wannabe Minister of Finance and a wannabe Premier. But very little I heard suggests that it has the substance required to move the country along the …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, before lunch we had the Oppos ition’s Reply to the Budget Statement, and I had just started to make some of my remarks in contribution to the debate. Before lunch I said that in listening to the Opposition Leader’s Reply I thought that it was an excellent opportunity to get their platform out …