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Rolfe Commissiong

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22 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker . Point of order.
22 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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The Member, I believe, is misleading the House. The individuals he is talking about are resident here. And even when they leave, others come in and are earning the same degree of money. And with respect to the issue of income inequality, it has the impact on Bermuda as a whole. So, I think that is a non- argument meant …
22 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Sorry.
22 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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My apologies.
22 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, thank you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, the dem ographers would characterise Bermuda as having entered into what is called demographic winter. The census reveals that the median age of Bermuda’s population has gone up three years from 41 to 44 years of age. Now that has a number of significant implicati ons, of course, particularly from a public …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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You are right, you are right,
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the other night on the news we had two young black women who are very enthused about the prospects of their carving out a career in Bermuda’s reinsurance and insurance industry.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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They are very enthusiastic. One of whom was, I think, either a graduate or a soon- to-be graduate of one of the major Canadian colleges. And she talked about the innovation in the industry and the great things in the industry and o pportunities that it presents for persons like her. And she w ants to take her place in …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, will the Member accept a point of clarification?
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Member, is this the same person who once called Rolfe Commissiong the David Duke of Bermuda politics? Are you thinking of the same individual?
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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The Member is right that the mining of cryptocurrency does require tremendous amounts of energy, but that is not what is going to take place in Bermuda. Bermuda was . . . it is not i ntended for us, or Bermuda’s jurisdiction, to be involved in any mining of cryptocurrencies whatsoever.
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I had the occasion to look at the insert in today’s Royal Gazette newspaper, and it was sponsored, as indicated earlier by the Ministry. And I was her e saying to myself that, Well, perhaps the level of hysteria, broadly put “Opp osition” to this ground -breaking and pioneering initi ative, is declining in proportion to the number …
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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(A beta test. Thank you.) A beta test that took place only recently with major global companies, such as AIG, IBM, a global bank, brokers, and other partners. If I may, she explained how . . . this is Pooja Barodekar . “She explained how it evolved to m eet a goal of linking a broker, client and insurer with …
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, I am not aware if you know, but I am planning t o be off -Island next week. I will not be here on Friday. It is going to break my heart, as you know.
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, I do not think my wife will allow that.
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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So, I am going to take an opportunity to maybe offer a part one on what I would hope would be an extended consideration of the issue I am going to bring up. Mr. Speaker, I just want to commend the Right Reverend Wesley Spiewak , Bishop of Bermuda, who is the Island’s Roman Catholic Bishop who this week announced …
1 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Now, come on now. Based in St. Theresa’s, and also served mass in at least two or three other churches throughout the Island throughout that period. We had a small group of . . . I was later joined by a l arger group of students of African Bermudian descent in that school and they, too, participated fully as Catholics …