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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

2232
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26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
20 words
I am not reflecting on . . . I am not reflecting. There was no debate! They said nothing! [Laughter]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
20 words
I cannot reflect on what they did not say! They said nothing! He did not make the decisions! [Inaudible interjections]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
143 words
Now, Mr. Speaker, let me talk about the Sylvia Richardson [Home] for a minute, a great initiative that met up with great objections. I declare my interest. I may have been one of those, just like fast ferries, just like the dock in Dockyard now which provides over 400,000 visitors to Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, we have a serious problem in …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
527 words
Marc Bean before him. And others, calling, talking about FinTech. When you were in Government! You were not Premier then. Talking about what FinTech would bring to Bermuda. Brought legislation. But what did the OBA Opposition do? Well, led by your chief spokesperson, made every effort to put stumbl ing blocks in much the same way we saw witnessed today. …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
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The black community has done that. The black community has led the charge with it. The white community have voted 96 per cent, 97-plus per cent for one party. [Inaudible interjections and general uproar ]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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267 words
It is true! Denial. But here is the truth. Here is what the truth r eally is for you. From the days when constituencies like Smith’s South, who now enjoy a 71 percentile of OBA voting bloc, you, Smith’s . . . you have got Smith’s South, you have got Devonshire South, which is yours. And you have got Paget …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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That is the real problem, you know. Julian Hall wrote about it. And let me tell something why. Julian Hall was UBP, too! [Laughter]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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But on the road to D amascus there have been many who have woken up and seen the light , on the road to Damascus. Let me tell you. The reason why on election night I had people said, My gosh, man! What were you drinking? Not one ounce! [Laughter]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
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What were you smoking? Not one spliff! You know what else? I was high on life! Because I got up on that stage, and you know what I sang? Amazing Grace!
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! Right? Well, I can sing it because it is true! Hon. Lovitta F. Foggo: Once was lost, But now [your] found. Was blind, but now you see! [Laughter]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
258 words
On the road to Damascus! And there are many of you who need a road to Damascus in your life, as well! [Inaudible interjections and laughter ] Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Hubert (Kim) E. Swan: Many of you need a road to Damascus. This country needs you to have that road to Damascus! It is not about knowing the …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
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Mary Prince embodies the lie that we have lived, of the benign nature of the atrocious Bermuda that we have come by. “Dedicate this book to my darling . . . I. K. Swan. The most i mportant history about Mary Prince, a Bermudian r esponsible for the story about the atrocities of slavery and cruelty.”
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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Truth won’t rile people up! Truth will set people free! [Inaudible interjections ]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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90 words
And you know what? When a person understands who they are, other people will respect who you are. When we sufficiently e ducate and empower our people with truth and knowledge about who they are, where their foref athers come fr om, the West Indies, Jamaica, St. Kitts, Anguilla, Turks & Caicos, Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Tanzania. Let me tell …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
245 words
The tail has been wagging this dog for too long, Bermuda! Too long! And on this emancipation eve, the great, great, great gran dson of Charles Roach Ratteray, a founder of the AME Church of Allen Temple and other AME Churches in this Bermuda, is here to say this: that the change that Bermuda makes is not dependent on the …
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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That is the problem! That is the problem. That is the problem. [Laughter]
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
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25 words
You know, Mr. Speaker, I will close with a quote from the Royal Gazette. And it quotes me in May of this year, this 2011.
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
1 words
Pardon?
26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
73 words
The bottom line is this. Mary Prince, Mr. Speaker, paid the price. She showed us the way forward. We need to pick up and carry that torch. In military terms (and I was not in the military, my father was a career police officer), I say we need to pick up that flag of freedom and move forward. And that …
19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
177 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to be associated with the condolences being offered to the late Jeannette Cannonier. I did not know my cousin had passed away. We come from that long line of Andersons that came out of Salt Kettle, and her through the Ushers . And I served with her in the other place for …