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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that clauses 15 through 21 be approved.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would like your permission to move clauses 22 through 29.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Clause 22 provides for the functions of the [Bermuda Anti -Doping] Appeal Panel, which are found in the BSADA Rules and the WADA Code. Clause 23 provides for particular cases in which appeals can be made to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Clause 24 provides the Minister with a regulation-making power. Regulations made under this section are …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I move that clauses 22 through 29 be approved, Madam Chairman .
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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I move that the preamble be approved.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, I move that the Bill be reported to the House as printed.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker . Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will declare my interest. I was the General Manager of the quango, the St. George’s Golf Course that opened on 8 August 1985 that caused that road to be negotiated through Mr. Gib-bons’ property. I had the cause during this period to give my account both to the lawyer representing …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker . I move that the Bill entitled the Anti -Doping [in Sport Act 2023] be read a third time.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Deputy Speaker . I was reminded of a conversation I had recently in a grocery store after the Throne Speech [at] Paget Modern Mart. I remember when it was owned by my good friend, David Fer rerai. We used to play a little golf over at Bellmont, way back when. A person stopped me in the …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—irrespective of how it came about. And there is a natural synergy between Bermuda and the Caribbean as a consequence of how that came about. And there is a natural synergy between Bermuda and the Azores and how that came about. And now in more modern days there is a natural synergy between Bermuda and places like the Philippines as …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—to come towards —
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—the UBP.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Okay. And I hold him with the upmost respect and love as a family member. Those would know I was a pallbearer at his father’s funeral up there on Mount . . . not Mount Hill. He came from Mount Hill. But up there in Glebe Road area. I am here to say that those of us who were there …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. [Deputy Speaker], I would like to be associated with the condolences to [the family of] cousin Walter Roberts, an icon of the Somerset Bridge community, who was the first Southampton Gleber to get elected to Parliament amongst some 10 or 11 of us who can claim that, including the Speaker of the House. …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Ms. Moniz, whose husband is a very dear friend of mine, whose brothers and sis-ters are close friends of mine and constituents, and whose aunt married my uncle, Stanley Hall. B ermuda House of Assembly Ms. Nina Smith, who is also from that Roberts family, so that Roberts family in that week lost two family members. And I ran into …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will just wait for the clock to be adjusted so I get my 40 minutes. [Laughter]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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No. [Inaudible interjection]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Save and except for the end, the immediate past speaker started off on a very good wicket, but then the talking points started to resurface. The overarching theme [of] divide and conquer is all too prevalent in Bermuda. And when persons en-gage in the divide- and-conquer theme, they utilise finger pointing. So the divide- and-conquer theme may be a two- …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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That is the origins of the One Bermuda Alliance. I never denied that I was UBP because I was the last man standing with another man like Swan who decided to go back the other way. And I stayed there. Because Bob Marley says, you know, You got to know yourself. You never know yourself. And it is no good …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And I want to tell you that the Progressive Labour Party that they accuse of dividing actually put in place the PRC that PRC people today would look at the PLP cockeyed, but they have an equitable system that was put in place to counteract what the UBP had put in place . . . did not put in place. …