Speeches by E. Grant Gibbons

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Clearly, clearly, clearly, I think everybody in this House . . . well, ma ybe everybody in this House, believes that there may be a future business where we have more superyachts coming through here. And I think the ter-minology is important here because we are not talking about small boats here, we are talking about vessels that are 100, …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. Let me try and take those questions in order. In the brief that I gave in the House, I explained that the working group was comprised of representatives from the Bermuda Shipping and Maritime Authority, Marine and Port Services, Environmental Protection, Conservation Services, Customs, the Ministry of F inance, and the Ministry of Economic Development. …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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In terms of the fees for the ticket sales, they have been going pretty well. I do not have up- to-date numbers with me right now, but as you know Bermudians get, or residents get, about 50 per cent off of the ticket fee in most cases.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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I think it might be useful if I have a conversation with the Honourable Member afterwards because there are plenty of tic kets that are still available. So I am not sure what the advantage is here. There are packages that the America’s Cup Event Authority had with some of the boats that they have sort of essentially worked with, …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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No? Okay. All right, okay.

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. My understanding is that we are going to deal with these boats in the same way we do with cruise ships. So there will be a manifest of people working on them, they will be vetted by Customs, they will be vetted by Immigration, obviously, but we are not going to be going through the work …

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. We would be, obviously, very supportive of that because I think we are trying to, as we said earl ier, make sure the opportunities get spread around.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that clause 6 be approved as amended.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you. I now move clause 7, and clause 7 effectively provides for the commencement, and it is in two parts. The first part is, as we said, the Customs amendments will go back to the original coming into operation of the America’s Cup Act on the 20 Febr uary 2015 and the remaining parts of the Bill will come …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move clauses 1 through 7 as amended. Bermuda House of Assembly The Chairman: It has been moved that clauses 1 through 7 be approved as amended. Any objections to that m otion? No objections. Agreed to. [Gavel] [Motion carried: Clauses 1 to 7 passed as amended.]

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move the Preamble.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that the Bill be reported to the House.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the Governor’s recommendation, and in accordance with section 36(3) of the Bermuda Constitution, I move that consideration be given to the draft Regulations entitled the C asino Gaming (General Reserve and Casino Taxes) Regulations 2016, proposed to be made by the Minister responsible for Gaming conferred by section 144 of the Casino Gaming …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since this is going to be dealt with in the whole House, I will go through the Bill as well after I give my general comments.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Mr. Speaker, and Honourable Members, I am pleased to introduce the Regulations entitled Casino Gaming (General Reserve and Casino Taxes) Regu-lations 2016, on behalf of the substantive Minister of Tourism, Tr ansport and Municipalities, the Honourable Michael Fahy . These regulations establish the procedure for and the manner of payment of the casino tax by cas ino operators …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Sorry. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: —because if we are going to work together on this particular issue, or this entity, or new business that is going to be coming into Berm uda, we need to be working together to get it right. And normally the Minister is up front, but I appreciate even the lateness. So I do not have …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank Honourable Members for their contribution. Let me work through some of the questions that were asked. I think Honourable Members were straightforward in terms of what they had to say. In terms of the questions from the Honourable Member from constituency 6, which jurisdictions have been used in forming these Regulations, I think the …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Oh, I thought you were—

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Okay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move that the draft regulation be approved and the message be sent from this Honourable House to His Excellency the Governor.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the Governor’s recommendation—