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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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11 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
109 words
Good day, Mr. Chairman. The Opposition Leader said he is searching for precedent. I can provide precedent in another place. On this very debate (not particularly this particular head) a Member, Mr. Cal Smith, with a very lengthy brief spoke for a very abbreviated period of time and the Opposition Leader in the Senate sent me up to vet and …
11 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move that consideration be given to the draft Order entitled the Tourism Investment (Azura Bermuda) Order 2024 .
11 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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684 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the purpose of bringing this Tourism Investment (Azura Bermuda) Order 2024 before this Honourable House is to enable the grant of tax re-lief to the developers investing in the tourism product Azura Bermuda Clearwater Development, Limited, which is in the National economic interest of Bermuda. Mr. Speaker , I am pleased to invite this …
11 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the second question by the Shadow Minister with regard to the 70 per cent being unrealistic, I will note that and certainly share that with the substantive Minister. I can say whilst I am waiting for some re-sponse to the first question to come in, that considerable training is being offered to Bermudians in the …
11 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, I move that the draft Order be approved and that a suitable message be sent to her Excellency the Governor.
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, tonight I am reminded of a gentleman who was carried up the stairs of the House of Parliament. You probably were in the House at that time—
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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170 words
—when he was carried up the steps by his colleagues to serve Bermuda. Today, Mr. Speaker, I had to take my shoes off and stand on my left foot right now to give this speech, and I pray indulgence to be barefoot like I had to be teaching golf when I did not have any health insurance and the Honourable …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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500 words
Mr. Speaker, when some 25 years later I got the opportunity to serve in another place —which I did in 1998 for some nine years, seven of them as Opposition Leader in the Senate—I went to the library that existed in another place, and I read the speeches of L. Fredrick Wade. I read the speeches of C. Eugene Cox. …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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And a little 16- year-old, 17year-old, could not . . . I mean it is true. I am not telling you any lies. So, I am just here to say that when an Opposition week after week cannot participate in this debate . . . step aside and let somebody else that may want to get here take your place. …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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So, I am here to tell you that this country is not being served well by an Opposition that fails to participate, that will be like Donald Trump and go on Twitter and social media and rely on the Royal Gazette and those lot to come here and get their message out and be nasty and tell lies on people. …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, this evening I asked the indulgence of the Whip to go to the airport. In 2022 . . . because in 1980 and 1970s I was a trail-blazer in this country, representing this country wearing a blazer like this (probably this one, too, because it has moth holes in i t). I am the country boy from White …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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—because his mama worked for an insurance company here 40 years ago before going back. Relationships. People love Bermuda overseas. And you know, Mr. Speaker, when I was over in the UK being strong and training and the like, I al-ways thought it was because of golf. And I am finding out now it is because of the relationships that …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. But you know what I said to myself? And I have used this before in a speech. I had the biggest conflict of interest in this country. I care so much about this country that I gave up my career to run at 25- years -old. And I never stopped wanting to be like my cousins on both sides …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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426 words
They all need to be here. They need to take a page. They need to take a page out of the book of L. Frederick Wade, Lois Browne- Evans, Ottiwell Simmons. They need to take a book out of the page of Reggie Burrows and Stanley Lowe. They need to take a page out of the book of Walter Roberts …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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401 words
Having to deal with the guarantee and the money that was committed by the Government on the eve of a General Election happened. And a pandemic. And, given the opportunity to Bermuda House of Assembly spend money on the people, the PLP did that in 2009, 2010, and 2011 to make sure that our people had a lifeline. And the …
8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Well, he whaled me. And I am just here to say that, Mr. Speaker, we care in this House. And I think it is high time that persons know that the people whose shoulders we stand on also cared about this country, and did yeoman service in doing so. But we need more from the Opposition. We really need more. …
6 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I have the honour to attach and submit for the consideration of the Honourable House of Assembly the Tourism Investment (Azura Bermuda) Order 2024, as made by the Minister responsible for Tourism under section 3 of the Tourism Investment Act 2017, together with the written agreement of the Minister of Finance in exercise …
6 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to take a few brief moments to speak about the significance of Bermuda achieving a balanced budget in 2024. I believe it is the first time that this country has had one since 2002. [It is] significant because I remember some 12 years ago when the whole conversation was around the debt. I …
6 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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“ 1Chamber data dive paints stark picture of economy.” And I said, boy, the Chamber is coming out with an article today, which I will deal with somewhat. And then I went looking for what the Chamber said as a collective when the budget was released. The most interesting thing that I found was that the article in which is …
6 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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And I want to say this: since 2002, [for] 22 years, [when] this country achieves a balanced budget it is huge! And the Royal Gazette has to have some responsibility to be responsible. And they want . . . they just want to hang on to that bone to paint the PLP in a bad light. And I am here …