Speeches by Renee Ming, JP, MP

8 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker and listening audience. I was going to say the age was the factor, but I am going to stop there.

8 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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First of all, I would like to congrat ulate the First Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Church on their 133 rd session of the Annual Conference, which st arted yesterday at the Sout hampton Princess Hotel. This is an annual event for the AME churches in Bermuda, and we look forward to what their year of restoration brings for them …

8 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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There are some men who have worn the purple, as well. (I was not finished speaking.) There are some men who have joined the fight with us women and have worn the purple.

8 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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Yes. The gentlemen have worn purple, as well. But I just want to say thank you because we recognise that, as women, we are contin uing to fight for gender equality, parity, and all of those other things that w omen fight for. So, the theme this year is #balanceforbetter . And what we are looking for is to do …

6 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker and listening audience.

6 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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I would like to rise to my feet today to just give a condolence note to the family a nd friends of Allan Leroy Bean, commonly known around St. George’s as “ Bean ie Man.” And if you have ever been down on the square or at any family function—does not matter if it was his family —he was there …

1 Mar 2019 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker and listening audience. First of all, Mr. Speaker, I would like to be associated with the comments for Mr. Alex Swan. And I would also like to extend thoughts and prayers to the family of Mr. David Parsons, formerly of Bermuda, now in Canada. His daughter, Fiona, works with me. And I know that this has …

15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I was about to s ay, I’m going to need some eyes in the back of my head for this one today.

15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly

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First of all, I just want to be assoc iated with the remarks already made for Tubby Ric hardson, Marvin Washington, Selena Minors, Cheryl Eve and Michelle Roberts, and of course, Glenn Smith -Blakeney. And I would also like to extend thoughts and prayers to the families of Marguerite Swainson , George O’Brien and Meredith Lattimore. And I would like …

15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you. And also, I have had some significant birt hdays in my area. Ms . Winifred Georgia, she celebrated her 90 th birthday last week. And this one, praise God that I am even able to stand up and do it again— 103rd birthday for my great -grandmother, Ismay Steede. She celebrated 103 in January. [Desk thumping]

15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly

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And you all know she had a Dark ’n Stormy . [Laughter]

15 Feb 2019 House of Assembly

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That goes without saying. So, yes. And also, congratulations to Ebenezer Met hodist Church for keeping us lit every year with their candlelight service. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly

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I would like to begin my comments on a sad note, first of all, to send thoughts and pra yers to the family of Arthur Fox, from Floral Lane in St. George’s. Mr. Fox —when you canvass, you get to meet a lot of people. So, he gave me a lot of history lessons with regard to politics and his …

7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly

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The whole House is being assoc iated with those comments.

7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. Speaker, on that note, I will end my comments. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker and listening audience. I, too, would just like to add to the obituary notes for Mr. Charles Tatem. I met Mr. Tatem when I joined the Corporation of St. George’s as a counsellor. And he was sitting on the St. George’s Preservation Authority. So, I knew that the one thing we had in common was the …

30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, and listening audience.

30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly

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Good evening. Good evening. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take my few minutes today to actually speak on the article that was in the Royal Gazette this week with regard to the Premier’s support staff. Being a wife and a mother, I think that I was, I would not say offended, but I did think to myself, Whoa! I …

30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly

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That is busy without being the Premier of a country, without being the wife of a Premier of a country. So, I can imagine that all of us must be able to appreciate that support is needed. I do not know why the Honourable Member that sits in another place asked those questions. For whatever reasons, he daily puts it …