Speeches by Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Minister, I had the opportunity to attend one of your information sessions down in the great [constituency] number 7. And my question to you, Mr. Minister, for all of us I guess, is going to be, you spoke quite a bit about what is happening and where we are now. But can you talk some more about the curriculum …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Minister, can you elaborate mor e or give an indication in terms of the degree to which parents have been receptive to this change and the degree to which they are involved in the process to ensure that their children do in fact benefit from this proposed change? Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Thank you, Member. As I stated …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is, to what degree have you incorporated . . . or will the different styles of learning be incorporated into the process? We think very often in terms of boys and girls learn differently, but there are other different styles. And so to what degree has that been incorporated or will that be incorporated into …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to join my voice with the chorus to the sad passing of Tony Cordeiro. I knew him as a young reporter in the newsroom. I am sure every journalist in Bermuda, both present and past, not only admired Tony for his f orthrightness, his clarity, his stewardship. He always took us young journalists …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. [It] is always [with] a heavy heart when you come to recognise those persons who are deceased. But in a strange way, there is also an element of joy knowing that they celebrated full lives. And in that r egard, I will say that I was saddened to attend the ser-vice for Ms. Wanda Paynter and …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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What I mean by that is if I went to her house early or late, in my mind she was dressed, well dressed. And so, I just want to say thank you—

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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—to each of those. And thank you, Mr. Speaker.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, again, to you, Mr. S peaker, to my colleagues and those in the listening audience. Mr. Speaker, I am going to do my best to be very careful and deliberate in what I say. But I do want Members to respectfully listen because, Mr. Speaker, I do rise today to notify this Honourable House of my disappointment with …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Get in line is right. But, Mr. Speaker, my disquiet was only am eliorated this morning when I saw that [the Premier] had issued a clarification that, clearly, that information was not correct. Mr. Speaker, of course, I am being facetious. What was interesting was that [the Premier] did go to the said website and he wrote to them and …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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1“Recently, David Burt has made numerous public comments about the possibilit y of Bermuda becoming a sovereign state. When asked if residents support or oppose Bermuda securing their sovereignty from the United Kingdom, a strong major ity of residents [83%] were in opposition, while only ten percent were in support and seven percent were unsure in this regard.” Big headline! …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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It says at the very bottom, “The results presented in this document were collec ted from Narrati ve Research Bermuda’s proprietary online panel of adult residents, Bermuda Voice. Per industry standards, a margin of error cannot be ascribed to online survey results.” What does that mean?

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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It me ans that the information cannot be relied upon.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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But what happens? We have a blazing headline, and we all think that this is now correct, not realizing that . . . guess what? At the very bottom it says it cannot be relied upon. And so, what we have now, again, is an example whereby the media (in this case) chose to report information that was not accurate. …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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He would not be the most wealthy Member in the Chamber. And so, again, we have to think through what is this narrative? What is the intent? And so, I say to all of us to be mindful. And I accept that right now the body language of some of those opposite is som ewhat sceptical. But guess what? It …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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I am not referring to you for sure. But I am just saying to you that we have to be very mindful of all of these things. And so, Mr. Speaker, the idea of this continuous negative narr a-tive is dangerous for a lot of different reasons. One of which is that i t causes us to not focus on …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this de-bate this afternoon. Mr. Speaker, when we were not sitting and we were all on break, I had occasion to go by a gas st ation [to buy] some gas and there were some guys si tting outside the gas station just chatting away. And they were …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, to colleagues and those in the listening audience.

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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I want to offer congratul ations in a few areas. One is a belated birthday co ngratulations to Mr. Ronnie Burchall who had his birt hday last week Saturday. [Desk thumping]

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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He is a stalwart for sure in [constituency] 7 when it comes to canvassing. I want to generally congratulate what I call the Number 7 Vi llage in terms of, we had as we t alked about before several deaths in the area. And they decided to hold a vigil, and they were able to put together the entire event …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to bring condolences to the Outerbridge family who lost their son [Keni Outerbridge] in a t ragic shooting on Ord Road and Tribe Road. And I assoc iate Members of the House. As we continue to lose our young men to the blight that is violent crime, we must not forget that when we …