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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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828 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The purpose of bringing this Tourism Investment (Rosedon Hotel) Order 2024 before this Honourable House is to enable the grant of tax relief to the de-velopers investing in the tourism product Rosedon Hotel, Rosedon Limited, which is in the national interest of Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to invite this Honourable House to take this …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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418 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the one question that the Shadow Minister (former Premier) had, he pretty much an-swered himself in that there is time that is needed to take place to get different approvals, which includes also the Ministry of Finance and the like. There is some to and froing that takes place there. I want to thank …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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37 words
Yes, thank you and welcome back, Mr. Speaker. I have the honour to attach and submit for the information of the Honourable House of Assembly a report entitled the 2023 Bermuda Tourism Authority Year in Review .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to start off by putting a few things into context. OBA MP Campbell in his maiden Throne Speech with his new -found friends decided to talk about the party that he represented with his financial prowess as it related to turning around a supertanker when the OBA took Government. I believe …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Maybe one or two. Hon. Jarion Richardson: Point of order.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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A lot of rhetoric. POINT OF ORDER [Misleading] Hon. Jarion Richardson: The Honourable Member is misleading the public. If anyone wants to flip through it, any time there is a problem statement there is a solution following the problem statement. [Inaudible interjections ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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And, Mr. Speaker — The Speaker: Be mindful of his point of order. Address the Chair.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I remember my good friend , Brud os telling me, Come with some concrete solutions that a Government can take. We have had a Member on this floor say, We don’t need to get that ; you need to come up with it. That’s not responsible leadership on the part of an Opposition, because an Opposition …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. Very much so. So, from that point of view we need to take into consideration the type of governance that they provided during their opportunity when they cut scholarships. It goes to the ethos of what they really care about. Right? When they told the seniors, Listen, the money just doesn’t grow on trees, they turned their backs on …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I stayed the course. I served out my time as they elected me. And that is what persons of integrity would do when it comes to service. If you get elected as one thing, you serve it out.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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All right? You guys left me by the side of the road. Dead for gone you did. But I can tell you what, right?
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Cannonier, you cut many a deal, many a deal —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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And sometimes . . . many a deal with the UBP! [Inaudible interjections and general uproar ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Many a deal. And you came up in this House and then you carried on even like the UBP on steroids during your doggone . . . Right? [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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You came on . . . you are the grandchildren and the inheritors of the UBP. And you know you are! Some of you are the sons of UBP candidates. Some of you are the grandchildren of UBP candidates. And I am telling you what — [Inaudible interjections and general uproar ]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I never ran away from who I am! [Inaudible interjections and l aughter]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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You know, Bob Marley says you can run, but you can’t run away from yourself!
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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You can’t run away from yourself. You’re the UBP on steroids! But the unfortunate thing is that you try to deny it. And not one time, not one dickey -bird did I ever, did I ever come up in this House as a Progressive Labour Party and deny that I was UBP. Not once. And when a UBP member died, …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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6 words
Oh, Mr. Speaker. Oh, Mr. Speaker.