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26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Point of or der. The Member is misleading the House. She characterised the Grand Slam as being an elitist event. There is no more elitist event than the America’s Cup.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. You know, the last Member from constituency 25 seemed to be in a very funny mood tonight.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I hope he was entertaining his fellow Members and colleagues on the other side. At the same time, when the despair because of Ber-muda’s failing economy, notwithstanding what was said by the Finance Minister, is causing great pain, economic, social, eve n with the impact it is having in the realm of the mental health of Bermudians, as we throw …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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The Royal Gazette February 16, 2016, stagnant salaries conc erns—Ms. She elagh Cooper asserts that, “unacceptably low salaries among the bottom quartile of Bermuda’s population presented a more pertinent problem than supermarket price levels.” She claims that real wages in Bermuda have stagnated and have been in that way for decades in real terms, that in many ways real wages …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Full implementation 2002, started 1999, as the Honourable Opposition Leader opines. But there is a differ ence. Back then you had people who were not leaving to go there under compulsion. We are talking about authentic economic m igrants leaving here now. That is the difference. [These are] people who feel that they have no choice, that there is no …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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That is what we need to do. 812 26 February 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Speaker, there is goodwill on both sides and we need to acknowledge that. We will have our differences. But increasingly the demands that are being placed upon our people mandate that we cannot view this t rivially. We cannot view this …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I have 13 minutes left. It is interesting about the payroll tax increase in that the increase has gone up by 1 per cent. It went up by 1 per cent the previous year, but you do not hear anybody decrying that. You do not hear fierce opposition, although I will say this: If you can reme mber when the …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Fair enough. [Inaudible interjection]
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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It was before the Budget. That is what I thought. [Inaudible interjection]
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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It was. Okay, thank you for the corrections, colleagues. Yes, so, Mr. Speaker, again, the OBA . . . prior to the election, the false narrative. Yes, I heard the MP from constituency 7 and he talked about the fact of the businessman, the tycoon (if you will) who could not get his nanny here. He was indignant about that, …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you for acknowled ging that. Thank you for acknowledging that they, as permanent residency certificate holders, would have all rights, save for the right to vote. Simply that is not good enough for them. They want to have the same privilege as those numbers of foreigners who fled into the country in the period I talked about —the 1960s …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr . Speaker.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is misleading the House. He is referring (obviously) to what I said. I acknowledge that after the British offer was given that those motivations that he is citing were probably reflective of reality. —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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But I said in the last four —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I said a new phenomenon in the last three years —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—has been driven by ec onomic necessity.
19 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
19 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. WHEREAS it has been acknowledged that unemployment and the underemployment of Ber-mudians, and in particular that of black Bermudians, continues t o persist; AND WHEREAS due to the widespread use of foreign- sourced low -cost labour over the last two decades, real wages, once inflation has been factored in, have seen little or no growth; AND …
19 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Can the Minister and Premier shed any light on why this phenomenon is ring- fenced around Bermuda’s black community?