Speeches by N. H. Cole Simons

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Minister. My second question is, C an the Minister table the National Literacy Plan that the Ministry has in place for our schools so that the community can see what the overarching roadmap is?

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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—and at that time they were, you know, on the cutti ng edge in undersea cables. They ran into challenges. And we also had the Electronic Communications Act 2011 . So, again, I am delighted that the PLP is picking up the responsibility of moving this industry forward, and they have my support. I know that in 1998 and 2011 …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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[Constituency] 8. Just one question. I would like to refer the Minister to page 6, [clause] 5. My question is this: How will the cable r epair companies, underwater cable repair companies, be covered under this application form? Becaus e you can have a local cable repair company, and you may have an international cable repair company. And so my …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Clause 5, page 6.

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Just for clarification, I direct the Minister to “Ministerial direction.” And [claus e] 8(1) says, “ The Minister may, . . . issue Ministerial directions to the Authority regarding—(a) protecting national security interests . . . .” (I accept that.) [Clause 8(1)(b)] “ securing compliance with . . . international obligations; ”. (I accept that .) [Clause 8(1)(c)], …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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That is my question. Hon. Walter H. Roban: But those companies we do not license. If somebody is providing, like CCS provi ding cable services to Digicel, who is a licensed ICOL provider, we do not govern Digicel. So I think . . .

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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That answered the question. Hon. Walter H. Roban: Ok, so yes. I hope that helps. Now, going forth from [clause] 5, if Member s can be patient, I will go to the issue in [clause] 20— is that the next one?

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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I would like to refer the Minister back to—

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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I would like to refer the Minister back to [clause] 29 and it is 29(a), it says “after all reasonable precautionary measures . . .”. How would one enforce that or define what is meant by all reasonable precautionary measures? And then the question that I have in regard to the last sent ence, in regard to the owner of …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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But what if he is negligent? Hon. Walter H. Roban: I think I have answered the question to that.

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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[Clause] 63, Considerations for grant of licence, page 27, [subclause] (b). “The Authority shall not grant a submarine [cable] licence to an applicant unless it is satisfied that the applicant has sufficient financial resources to enable it to provide the facilities, equipment [and] personnel” et cetera. Is Bermuda House of Assembly there . . . now, I know that in …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Clause 63(b) on page 27. And then my follow -up question is, if we have the minimum capital requirements, what type of ev idence is required to show or demonstrate that these companies are financially sound? The Cha irman: Okay. Hon. Walter H. Roban: Thank you for that question. This is all operating in the telecommunications space and I think …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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I would like to go to [clause] 73 on page 31, Notice if [submarine] cable ceases to be in use. Can the Minister speak to how they intend to administer redundancy cables, cables that are running parallel to a regular cable and are just there for an insurance policy, they are not activated but will be activated in the event …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would l ike to thank the Minister for his presentation. He was thorough and as a consequence I do not intend to go through the details. What I would suggest is that the community in essence get a copy of the Annual Report so they can be up to date with what is …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Sorry, the Board of Governors. They are: Chairman, Mr. Peter Sousa; Deputy Chairman, Romelle Warner; Members: Malika Car twright ; Cherie Dill ; Chris Famous ; Dr. Greene; Zaire Hart; Karmeta Hendrickson; Randy Horton (the former Speaker) ; Delight Morris ; Jerome Reid, the Perm anent S ecretary ; Romeo Ruddock ; Kathy Sharpe Keane; Bruce Sharpe; Latifa Smith; Necheeka …

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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They are very deserved. The Vice President of Academic Studies has a little contribution to make and she spoke of the external articulatio n agreements. The Minister said there are 20 of them and I am delighted that they conti nue—

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Oh, 30 of them —I am delighted that they continue to augment the number of articulation agreements that they have because this lends credibility to the institution and also puts us on the map in Canada, the Caribbean and the UK. And that will basically be a manner in which our institution is endorsed fully by other institutional agencies and …

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to [ask the House to] send condolences to the family of Ms. Darce- Ann Tucker. Darce- Ann Tucker is the sister of former Member Darius Tucker and also sister to Ranelle. She recently passed. We went to school together all through it, and then on to Sandys. She was a …

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes. Absolutely, you can see that. But yet, she has been working hard at it for years and years. She has coached a lot of people. And I think it is a great reward. I think she has the di stinction of having achieved two licences in the same evening here in Bermuda. So, I wish her continued success. As …