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3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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That is okay. Okay. Mr. Speaker, again to the Minister, on page 4 of her Statement, she stated that “Homes that are not satisfactorily meeting Regulations receive additional follow -up inspections.” A simple question: How many homes have not satisfactorily met the aforementioned Regulations?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speak er, as you know, last year this time I was putting forth my take note motion to this House that talked about the role of technology in this society, its impact on our labour market and, more broadly, our economy. I also called for a national effort to get more Bermudians involved in STEM …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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My apologies, Mr. Speaker , to you and the Honourable Member s here, for my d elay. May I proceed?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Would the Honourable Premier please inform this Honourable House if this Government has any intention in c ompiling and quantifying on a routine and ongoing basis the necessary statistics on emigration from Bermuda beyond that provided by the 2016 Census?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Honourable Premier, will you not concede that, especial ly considering the gro wing emigration trend that albeit we have anecdotally been aware of, particularly to the UK, that may number in the hundreds over the last three years or so, that it may be efficacious of the Bermuda Government to find a way to compil e these types of statistics …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary? The Speake r: Yes.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Well then, can the Premier give some guidance here? Do not the statistics that are compiled by the Immigration Census or by the Census really amount to nothing more than projections?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Second question. B ermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Yes. QUESTION 2: 2016 CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Would the Honourable Premier please inform this Honourable House if it will be useful for the Department of Statistics to obtain upto-date data on emigration so that other Government departments have the data they need in order to make more informed decisions on relevant policy objectives?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I first want to commend the great job that was done tonight by the newest Member of these Chambers, the represent ative of constituency 13, MP Diallo Rabain, who highlighted how there are companies in Bermuda that are wilfully contravening the Act and the Law and doing so with impunity at the expense of Bermudians. The Minister has …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, getting back to the issue that was raised by the Honourable Member from constituency 5, the Honourable Derrick Burgess, in the matter of the recent affirmation of the ru ling of the Human Rights Commission Tribu nal on the matter that concerned the issues raised and the mat-ters raised by Mr. Pernell Grant emanating out of his employment …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, at least in my prese ntation I made it clear, that issue goes back five or six years before the OBA became Government.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I do not think anybody is pointing fingers at this Government.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The Member is misleading the House. By the time the Human Rights Commi ssion Tribunal had made its determination, that company, you know, had reached the end of its shelf life in terms of getting a Government contract.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, I do, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Premier make a co mmitment to get the necessary information out there in the public domain that will better inform them of the current challenges and what is being done to remediate those challenges?
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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As has been outlined, pri ncipally the absence of data and some of the other r elated issues that are associated with that. Again, [I ask] just so that the public can have an idea and be informed of the challenges that are currently taking place in that regard.