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27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you so much.
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is a great day for Bermuda! I mean, the opinion received by Standard & Poor’s, u pgrading Bermuda’s rating, followed by the news that we got as per the press conference a little while ago, Mr. Speaker, with the Premier concerning the MOU with Binance headed by Mr. Changpeng Zhao, orig inally a …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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I said then, or wrote, “The ancient Greeks had two words to denote time. Chronos, which speaks to the steady drumbeat of mundane time, the artificial passing of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years, ad infinitum onto seeming eternity —time as defined by man. And then there is kairos, which refers to the quintessential moment, a definitive event, which …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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Look at what has happened now, Mr. Speaker. Milton Friedman. This is a historic first for Bermuda, but not only for Bermuda, for the world. And I am sure that we are prepared to take ad-vantage of it. Mr. S peaker, I hear d of t he H onourable Mini ster w ho . . . first I w ant …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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And she is now going to play a frontline role in that private sector company. That is what we are talking about. Okay? So people ask, What’s in this for Bermudians? And what they are saying in coded language is, What’s in it for black Bermudians? Keep your eye on this space. Because leaders like David Burt, the Honourable Leader, …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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So, I just want to say this, Mr. Speaker. We want a collaborative relationship with these cutting- edge innovators from wherever they come. We are not going to discriminate against them; but they must understand that we are doing business the new way, that we are looking for companies that are going to be diverse, that are going to eventually …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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Probably less. We have heard from both the Premier and the Minister of N ational Security that, at least in the short term, that is where the desperate need is. So, we have a course that, perhaps in 11, 12, or 9 months, we can get them at least level -one ready to take some of these jobs. We also …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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Oh, I have got a little time. I have got a little time. [Inaudible interjecti on]
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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No, I know I do not. I do not. Now, Mr. Speaker, I talked about the potential this has in a very real way for jobs, for training, for education. But let me say this. One of the biggest fai lures in the previous PLP Government, not theirs alone, between 1998 and 2007 or 2008, was that while facilitating and …
27 Apr 2018 House of Assembly
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They are still here? This is the power, the potential power of blockchain. Mr. Speaker, if I may, again this is quoting from Bloomberg, an article written by Kyunghee Park . And again, it was in Bloomberg. And I will just give a couple of excerpts: “Globalization has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , certainly we are happy about the fact that we continue to see the drive for a more pr ogressive system of taxation beginning to take root in Bermuda. It is long overdue. In a previous debate, at t he risk of too much retrospection, I did talk about the tax incidence survey, …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, point of order. The Member’s misleading the House. Certai nly with a 21 seat majority, you were acting as if you were God, so I mean—
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—I think we have 24 seats —
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Or 19 seat majori ty.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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A one -seat majority. 1818 16 March 2018 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Hon. Dr. E. Grant Gibbons: And clearly so, given what I would say, is a total lack of consultation to this point. Mr. Speaker, the last time, in my me mory, that an election was deferred in Bermuda was back in the referendum of 1995, …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, thank you for ack nowledging me. Look. The bottom line is we have a corpor ation which is totally dysfunctional. It is representative of an archaic, dare I say, anachronistic form of government. I accepted with a grain of salt the evocations of the Member from constituency 22, who talked about the democratic processes and the democratic …
12 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to commend Argus Insurance. They donated $13,000 to Sandys School’s STEM programme. Mr. Speaker, this is a good development. We certainly need more investment, and we need more in the Bermudian and IB [international business] corporate sector to contribute even more than they do, particularly in this area. I am sure that many …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. This is certainly one of the most critical debates that we are faced with, in consideration of these heads. With respect to B -123, the new Government with the new Minister coming in has demonstrated a significant commitment to education, translated into the major additional investment in the budget, as we discussed earlier, to the …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. I am sorry. The coding programme in the primary schools. Sister Cora Wells . . . (Excuse me for my f amiliarity by using the term “ Sister. ”) But Ms. Wells has teamed up with the Ministry of Education under the Minister here and is doing a fantastic job in taking coding to, again, a lot of these …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. That is why I am — [Crosstalk]