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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. I [move] that the Schedule —
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I approve [sic] that the preamble be approved. [Inaudible interjection]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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I move that the preamble be approved. Yes.
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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And I move that the Bill be reported to the House as printed.
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the Bill entitled National Heroes 2024 be read a third time. 1664 20 September 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Any objections? There are none. Continue. BILL THIRD READING NATIONAL HEROES ACT 2024
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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I move that the Bill be read a third time and approved.
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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And passed.
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, for fear of the gavel going down, I thank you for this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, you know there is an election season in the United States. They say that when the United States sneezes, Bermuda catches a cold. So, right now there is a lot of fact -checking going on in America because there is a candidate (who …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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We are democratic! We are held to account by the members of CC, by the backbench, every two weeks. I have not seen a party in Bermuda yet that can hold this Premier accountable every two weeks. And he comes here and deals with it. And I am here to tell yo u that our people will jam you right …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Oh yes. But let me just get back to the fact -check, right? We go forward to the person who became the Premier in 1977, because Jack didn’t last that long. We loved Jack. And Mr. David Gibbons became Premier. And what post did he hold? The second- longest Premier, up until the current second- longest Pr emier, held the …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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And he would always say I’ll let my record speak for itself. And in finance he had some things to tout. And then came Sir John [Swan] in the election of [19]82. And in the Parliament of 1980, that was 22 to 18. The PLP had 18 seats. And if it wasn’t for St. George’s my cousin Doc Hall and …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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I was a pallbearer at his father’s funeral in Pond Hill , [Minister] Weeks. [Inaudible interjection]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Right up there. The church coming down. I thought I had some currency when I went up there and only got 35 votes with the late Keith Young. May he rest in peace. Or was it 34? [Inaudible interjections]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Thirty -four votes. I have not been up . . . I have not been to Pond Hill since. [Laughter]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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But I am here to say that we have to do some fact -checking. And The Royal Gazette and TNN and those people out there in the news, 1678 20 September 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly they have it owing to themselves to get their facts right, because it is wrong. Somebody looking back at history . …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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I am sorry. $560 million. I am sorry. You know, give or take $50 million. [Inaudible interjection and laughter ]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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But let me say this. What does that mean in the real world? It means in the real world that persons out there looking at Bermuda, people that . . . I have been running around this world using my own money trying to tell them because I have been running around with a lot of rich people all my …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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And nonsense follows nonsense, and we got to put paid to the nonsense. [Inaudible interjection]
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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We have to put paid to the nonsense. Why? And you know what, Mr. Speaker ? Prior to the recession of 2008, Bermuda, under a PLP Govern-ment, which I knew how to tickle up quite well, enjoyed the best economic boom this country ever enjoyed prior to that recession. And I am here to say, Mr. Speaker, that that Fairmont …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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And so, you know, I am urging the writers and the people of this country to fact - check, because there is an election not only coming up in TrumpLand. It is coming up in here. And some people are trying to use that playbook. And I am not having it, because I lived it! I encourage persons who call …