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E. Grant Gibbons

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3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Two minutes, okay. So the fact of the matter is we are also pr omoting entrepreneurship. I read a number of stat ements in this House about what the BEDC is doing over there. I think they are doing a terrific job to essentially promote and help entrepreneurs. We have got them working now on plans for getting people in-volved …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker . [Inaudible interj ection] POINT OF ORDER
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, the Honourable Member is incorrect in saying it has not happened in our history. In 1997 there were plans for a business technology park down there. More recently there have been a number of incubators which businesses have set up over time, in fact, there is one now in Con-nectech. Thank you.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , point of order.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is not only [imputing] improper motives he is simply wrong.
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, I can advise the Honourable Member that local companies not connected to international business are eligible— this is important — eligible to apply for concessions under the Incentives for Job Makers Act. And as the Honourable Member will know, if he has read the Act as originally passed in 2011 and as …
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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No, I cannot confirm that. I would disagree with that assertion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker .
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . The legislation as drafted in the [Incentives for] Job Makers Act is there to sustain Bermudian jobs in Bermuda. It also has the potential impact of attrac ting business as well, but it is there principally under section 5 to sustain Bermudian jobs in Bermuda.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker , I would like to update the House on the progress of preparations for the America’s Cup . It is hard to believe that we are less than 100 days away from the event which commences on the 26th May 2017 and continues through to the end of June. Since my last …
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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I do.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker . D evelopments over the past decade, partic ularly the transition from analogue to digital technology, have affected the ways in which consumers in Bermuda and around the world access news, information, and entertainment. C onsumers now access audiovisual content from a variety of platforms including free over -the-air broadcast radio or television services, subscription …
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker . I do. F ollowing on from a press statement I issued at the end of last year about my visit to the Headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Admi nistration (NASA) , I would like to provide Honourable Members with details of other meetings that I held during that visit to Washington, DC, …
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I move that the Bill entitled the Companies and Limited Liability Company Amendment Act 2017 be now read the second time.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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I am pleased, Madam Deputy Speaker, to introduce to this Honourable House the Companies and Limited Liability Company Amendment Act 2017. This Bill will amend several provisi ons of the Companies Act 1981 and the Limited Liability Company Act 2016, to set forth requirements to retain certain records once a Bermuda company or LLC has been dissolved or struck off …
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. I believe the Honourable Member is reflecting on Parliamentary Questions.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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During that debate, he was assured by the Attorney General that there was no breach of international treaties. That does not comply with this particular iss ue before us today.
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Tell me what the Bill said. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Well, I will tell you in a few minutes. [Laughter] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: But it is clear, Madam Deputy Speaker, that this particular Bill that is being brought for us today is very important, that the Fina ncial Action Task Force of which we are a member, and the …
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. There have been a number of issues and sort of allegations raised. Let me just start where the former Member left off. There was, I think, an impli cation, at least when he started, that somebody had done something illegal, that a company was not basically —
17 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. I will move in a slightly different direction, because I think the sense that I had was he was suggesting that something had been done which basically should not have happened. And I think what we are looking at here— let me just go back to what this Bill is really about. It is simply correcting a gap as …