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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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430 words
Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It will be a whirlwind three minutes. I will start off with thanking Mrs. Wolffe for her years of service. I certainly enjoyed her tenure here. Indeed, at CPA events that we have attended, if I just write a book there are a cou-ple of chapters in it that I would certainly have to include . …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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297 words
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Deputy Speak er: Thank you, Honourable Member. Any other speakers? The [Chair] recognises the Honourable Member MP Tyrrell. Mr . Neville S. Tyrrell: Thank you, very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Good afternoon, colleagues. It would be very remiss of me if I didn’t give my personal thanks to the outgoing Clerk, Ms. Shernette Wolffe. …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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1,317 words
Yes, Mr. Speaker, thank you. From my notes the situation in Bermuda with regard to gaming has to be looked at in context. And the context is that there was real good reason why we are still here at this point. Culturally, it took Bermuda a long time to accept that gaming was actually something that we wanted. I remember …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Come off of that, Bermuda! We have got to get past that! We cannot stop perpe-trating the type . . . because in this country the boardroom does not look like me!
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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They do not look like me in this country. And unless and until the Opposition can accept that as a problem and try to help us change it . . . Bob Marley sang a song.
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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The one that the Honourable Haile Selassie wrote. He put it to words —Until.
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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The philosophy of one man, right? Until . . . the colour of his eyes . . . s ignificance, Until . Yes, you know the words. [ Laughter]
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I have not got my lyricist hat on right now. I did not write this down. But it is there. Until that day . And that is the problem that we come up against. And we come up against it in Finance. But you know what? When the historians look back on this pe-riod and they look at where the …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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With my two minute preamble being acknowledged I want to first start off by saying how appreciative I have been for the 20 years of service of Mrs. Shernette Wolffe. I was in another place for nine years prior to coming to the House and got to know her very well. I want to acknowledge some of the things that …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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164 words
Mid-Ocean News . But they were joined at the hip as well. And the Bermuda Sun came along, [a] far more liberal newspaper. You look who bought them out. You can’t even google today and find out articles that they wrote . . . because they didn’t keep up the website. When I was looking today for the article that …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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That brings me to my next point. You know, I’ve been to and spent a lot of time in the UK recently so I have become accustomed to the UK news . This week in the United Kingdom, because I came back yesterday for the sitting. This week in the United Kingdom the major . . . I couldn’t believe …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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And I am here to say, but we don’t see that type of wanting to be a One Bermuda. You can call yourself one, but when you deny what you really are, when you are not prepared to embrace what we really have to live in this country, that is keeping us retarded. And I am not saying anything that …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Nice way of telling you that, you know — [ Inaudible interjections]
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. The best I can do. And I got a few prompers and I know where they came from. But I am here to say that in Britain reports are revealing that [those] who we turn to when we have trouble are troubled! And we are turning a blind eye to the troubles that are at the foundation of the …
24 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I am here to tell you why. Because I know why. I have lived why. I have lived to point where all I could depend on was prayer over the last three months. And I am praying that in this world we will start looking at truth as it affects Black people and peo ple of colour in this world …
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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3 words
Yes, Mr. Speaker.
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Indeed, the Honourable Member who just took her seat was absolutely correct in stating that St. George’s is very much a residential —far more res idential —constituency as it relates to the municipality. But one thing I am very grateful for when it comes to St. George’s is I see a renaissance taking place. I see …
8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I feel duty - bound to just weigh in a little bit on a subject I know very well. Through golf I would have had practice in how division is manifested. I am just going to cast our minds back to December 2, [2016]. A report was done by a joint select committee in this House that revealed …
8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Right. That was one of our visionaries who had put that . . . and during the buoyancy no one was reckoning [it was] a global recession. And so, the workers of this country got short -stripped because when the union realised that the country was in trouble, the first group of people to really embrace that there was a …
8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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95 words
Absolutely. But you have to know who your people are, what your foundation is built on, and not be ashamed of it. Make something better of it because there are some persons who are beneficiaries of some things that oppressed other people. And we have to do better. Take a page . . . Study. If you want to study …