Speeches by Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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In history! Right? And so therefore I hear the Honourable Member GordonPamplin trying to throw water on the flame that is the PLP and our illustrious history in governing this [country]. [General uproar ]

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Some thing that her party was never able to do! [Gavel] [Inaudible interjections]

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And Mr. Deputy Speaker, coming off of a 20- year low — ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE DEPUTY SPEAKER HOUSE VISITORS

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Mr. Deputy Speaker. The PLP administration, consecutive PLP administrations under the leadership of Jennifer Smith, Alex Scott, Dr. Ewart Brown reversed a 20- year low in tourism. And how did they do that? They did that by introducing low cost air carriers. And so, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that is not it. That is not all they did. So …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And the 1Hansard shows that in a debate around the airport, the Minister of F inance said, and I quote, “In that other thing with the hospital, the Government is on the hook for the pa yments. But nobody in Bermuda knows the details of that. I do not even know the details of that. The people of Bermuda do …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And I hear the Honourable Gordon- Pamplin say, Oh Lord. If she took more notes, she might be better at what she is doing. Right? [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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So therefore, the thing is that it was not until I went down to the Airport Author ity Board to find out that her Minister of Finance, in the Cabinet that she sat in —

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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—the Honourable Member sat in, [and they] overlooked this clause that they made a promise to the country and everybody else, they did not put it in the project agreement. So that meant that for years, from the time that we passed the Bermuda Airport Authority Act to the time that I sat on the board, there was no air …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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So . . .

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And that is what we should have done, and that is what I would have done, and that is what I told them they could have done. They could have even taken my —they talk all the time, Oh, we want to work with you, we want to work together, dah-dah-dah. What was their response when I gave them the …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And so with the work that the Airport Authority has done, we now have, let us just say, multiple irons in the fire. We have irons in the fire regarding routes and possible a ir service from Europe, North America, the Caribbean; new routes from, I will just say jurisdictions; new airlines; and more flights by existing airlines. And, Mr. …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I find it very, very ironic that this Honourable Member would get up and talk about, he did not see it in the Budget Debate [sic]. Right? One— [Inaudible interjections and laughter ] Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: Not in the speech, in the Budget Statement, not in the Budget Debate.

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Right. But he did not see it in the Budget Statement. So that means that he has not gone into the Budget Book and looked under the Mi nistry of Tourism and Transport to look under the Bermuda Airport Authority’s grant for $16 million that i ncludes air service development. Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: Point of order, point of order, …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am going to go back just for the slower Members in the room and just say that —

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Okay, for the Honourable slower Members in the room. [Laughter]

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is interesting that the Honourable Members on the other s ide like to try to use the airport as a political football, even though they are the ones who deflated that ball in the first place. They are the ones who are using an American football to play what ot hers know as soccer and …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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And this is the point that I am making. [Inaudible interjections]

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Mr. Deputy Speaker, r emember that pin that I talked about back when we were talking about King’s Wharf in the early 2000s? And it is because of it we, instead of looking at things as a challenge, the PLP administration looked at them as opportunit ies. It is because we invested in our tourism infrastructure in the early 2000s …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that Isaiah 44:8 says, “Fear ye not, neither be afraid . . . . ” Neither be afraid. And the reason why I say that is because, unl ike the OBA would like to have you believe —that hope is not lost —there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Transverse orientation, …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I have yet to hear someone say that, You know what? We are going to look at the Department of Statistics numbers, which show that employment is up, which show the strength in the economy, which shows the growth in our economy. And they do not even . . . and it is not even if you want …