Speeches by Renee Ming, JP, MP

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I move for leave to introduce the following petition: The Petition by St enprop Limited requesting that legislation may be enac ted to enable the company to discontinue out of Bermuda, as set out in the Bill entitled Stenprop Limited Act 2019 (the Bill). I ask that the said petition be r eferred to the Joint Select Committee …

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker .

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Seeing as we are on a very i mportant topic right now —

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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—I am going to leave that one alone.

26 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes. Mr. Speaker , I would not say I am pleased, but having had this Joint Select Committee last year and submitting the report with recommendations, I am pleased to see that some of the recommendations that actually cam e out of the report are being actioned at this time. I believe in total we had 29 recommendations and the …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Good eveni ng, Mr. Speaker and listening audience.

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, December 2 nd, 2016, is a day that I know for sure I will never forget. I am sure that many Bermudians will remember the events of that day. But, Mr. Speaker , to get to December 2 nd, 2016, I think you have to look back over and see where we were as a country at that …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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And not one of my favourite people, but I do like to read his things, and that is Sir Wi nston Churchill. And it goes on t o say that, “We must always look forward, but we have to understand our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I have seen too many instances where people …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when you see this here you can see that we were in the state of protest, some of them unprecedented. Now, the question is, Why were we there? And how did we get to December 2 nd? Well, I am sure like tonight as we are sitting around here, we have listened to many who have …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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And I know that I have had conversations with his colleagues. And there are some police officers who, to them, December 2 nd, 2016, was the worst day of their policing careers. And some of these persons, Mr. Deputy Speaker, are police offi cers who are career police officers. And they will tell you that December 2 nd, 2016, was …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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So, I guess she will never, ever forget December 2nd, 2016, either. Ask her how she feels about it. 2274 19 July 2019 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Deputy Speaker, notwithstanding the fact that people were out there protesting, the route taken by the riot police was Court Street onto Church Street, left at Parliament Street. There …

19 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, there is also mention on page 82, where— and I am sorry I am reading like this. It is just that the copies are not very good. “Once the officers engaged the crowd, the crowd started to push back . . .” Well, what type of engagement happened? Aggressive? I do not know. What engagement was …

12 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Amen!

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Good evening, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and listening audience. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wanted to use my time this evening to actually talk about communities be-cause each and every one of us represent some part of a community here in Bermuda. For me, I happen to represent constituency 1, which actually has a community centre. If you are from St. George’s, …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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And continue to support your centre and advocate for them because sometimes the advocating that you do not just on this floor, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it could be in other places, to the relevant persons that can make the change. BERMUDA POLICE SERVICE —STRANGER DA NGER PROGRAMME

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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And I want to use my other few minutes to talk about a collaborative effort that I had last week with the Bermuda Police Service [BPS]. There are times when things happen in our various constituencies and you see that there is a need for something else. There were some things that ha p-pened, I know, in my area and …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Deputy Speaker —

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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—I thank you for allowing me this time.

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker and listening audience. Although I have been associated with the comments for Beunice Crockwell, I just wanted to add my own story to this. Although I have known Ms. Crockwell through her children most of my life, I have had the pleasure of really interacting with her when she worked down in the Cabinet and I …

7 Jun 2019 House of Assembly

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And she could be found on Fac ebook always defending and letting everybody know that she was —she wore —she was blue.