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27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary?
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too want to associate my comments with that which was expressed with regard to Mr. Moe Ming. Last week we talked about another icon who had passed, Mr. Speaker, that being Henry Talbot, Jr. And I only bring that up again because, like Henry Talbot, Jr., Mr. Moe Ming was an icon within our comm …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Gladly, sir. With respect to the culmination of the processes outlined here, does the Honourable Premier anticipate that the Office of Project Management and Procurement will have a role to play in the redevelop-ment of the airport?
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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And what does the Premier anticipate that role will be? Hon. Michael H. Dunkley: I’m happy to supply the Honourable Member with some full details of what the office does. And I will br ing that back to the Honourable Member if he is interested.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, thank you. Mr. Speaker, for the Premier, it has not gone unnoticed that the Premier touted, this morning, I should say, the fact that the Azorean Government has established a technology centre, or park, to such an extent that he looked to adopt probably t hat idea for his own Government. The question is as follows: Is he …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, is the gulf between this side of the aisle and the other wider than the geographic gulf between ourselves and the Azores? They had to go that far to get the idea that was staring them right in the face?
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, firstly , I just want to associate with the remarks with respect to young Miss West . As the Education Minister pointed out, it was a great achievement. She is only 19 years old. And I want to extend that commendation to Radell Tankard, who is the Director of Career Pathways. Mr. Speaker, I spoke on this before, …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, thank you so much. There are times when it is not easy to follow the learned Member from constituency 20 . . .
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Constituency 31. But I am going to try my best. I just want to say this in respect to the positive numbers we have seen in the first quarter, that one quarter does not a season make, or, for that matter, a year. I want to be optimistic as well. We know that it is in the best interest of …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Oh, it is an Order. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen on both sides of the aisle here for correcting me. I just thought that we . . . then I will get right into it now, Mr. Speaker, before I wrap up. I just thought that the $84,000 figure that would be used to subsidise Bermudian entertainment . . …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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That is what they are looking for. I understand that is what they are looking for. I am just saying that I just think it could be higher m yself. I would like to see more money available to be spent on Bermudian entertainment at that hotel. [Inaudible interjection]
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Hmm? [Inaudible interjection]
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Oh, they can? Okay. This represents the minimum then? [Inaudible interjection]
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. Well maybe then— [Inaudible interjection]
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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But then can we ask for, or can we demand a higher minimum? [Inaudible interjection]
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay, when I go into Committee it will be . . . on my desk here. You know, if that’s an option that we can negotiate to see if we can get a slightly higher minimum, I would be happy with that. Otherwise from that, there were some discussions about how we can hold the hotel developer accountable for the …