Speeches by Scott Pearman, MP

10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can be pretty quick because I think my colleague Shadow Minister MP Cannonier said what needs to be said. And indeed, let’s be blunt. The Mi nister said it all when he opened with “here we are again.” It was not very clear last year when the election was pushed off why that happened. And …

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. And good morning, Mr. Speaker. And thank you, Honourable Minister, for your Statement to the Honourable House. You indicated in your Statement that you are seeking to address delays in both passports and work permits. My first question is about passports. In the Budget Debate on Monday, you indicated that there is an 11- week processing period, or …

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I do not. I am moving to my second question, please, Mr. Speaker.

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Minister, thank you for addressing the issue of seeking to get the 20- week period down to 11 weeks on passports. Turning now to the second part of your Statement on work permits. Are these internal rearrange-ments going to truncate or lessen the period for work permits, and can you indicate what that period currently is and what you hope …

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, supplementary.

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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You have indicated that renewals tend to be . . . I think you said well within the 20-day period. How about new applications for work permits? Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Minister. Hon. Jason Hayward: Mr. Speaker, I indicated that for all documents we will want to have a maximum of 20 days in terms of processing times. …

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Minister.

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to be associated with the remarks of the Premier and my colleague, Susan Jackson, MP, to cel-ebrate International Wom en’s Day today. As a grandson, a son, a brother of three sisters, a husband and a father to brilliant and very powerful daughters, I am delighted to see that this is being recognised, although …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is not a great deal that needs to be said about this Bill. And I thank the Minister for his presen-tation. In effect, there are three things going on here. Firstly, there is an expansion of the scope of infor-mation that the police are now lawfully entitled to pro-vide. And this is happening in two …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just one point of clarification and that is in relation to clause 2 of the Bill where a new section 32 subsection (1)(j) is being inserted into the original pri-mary Act, which is the 1974 Act. When I had read it and read the expression “possession and control ,” I had understood that to be …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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That answers my question and so does the former as explained in the memorandum. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you Honourable Minister. And thanks to those of the police who are here this evening.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Honourable Minister. Minister, in your Statement provided to the House today, at the bottom of page 7, you identified three hurdles that you are facing, one of them being airlift and the second being the absence of a conve ntion centre. Then you had a third. Could you please inform this Honourable House …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Supplementary, first supplementary. Thank you, Minister. We h eard from the Minister of Transport, who informed this Honourable House that Delta (I believe it is Delta; it may be JetBlue, one of the two) will be fl ying to Boston, but unfortunately not until November. Are there any plans to increase airlift between no w and November that …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. But, Mr. Speaker, the Mini ster has just said that they have been working together with Transport to provide this project and plan.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I mean, if the Minister chooses to not answer it, that is up to him.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. Second supplementary. Turning from airlift to the convention centre, given as you have just told this Honourable House correctly that these things are booked two years out, where would you see as the best opportunity for Bermuda to have an active convention centre in the i mmediate future?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Third, I think, supplementary.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Oh, second question?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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You are keeping an eye on me,

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. I want to stick with the convention centre with capacity. You have identified how the existing Hamilto n Princess Hotel is in the middle, the medium size. In terms of the large size, where do you see that deve loping if at all?