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Susan E. Jackson

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10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And I have to absolutely commend the Minister of Health for that speech and for all the work that she has been doing. I would like to take advantage of the situation and focus in on our seniors for a few minutes.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And so, given the context that the Minister of Health has laid out for us right now, I would like to first of all mention that within the Throne Speech there was not much mention to or about seniors and in the Reply to the Throne Speech there was the cont ext which I would like to get to. But …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, the seniors in our community are really having a difficult time. The Minister of Health has clearly set out pathways to make sure that our seniors are healthy or have access to services that are going to keep them healthy and maintain their healt h. But there are many other components to life as a senior. In …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—or it could be a caregiver, or it could just be a stranger out there in this world who wants to steal their money and commit fraud, whatever. And we have seen instances of that in Bermuda locally and we have also seen external foreign folk, whether they are calling our seniors on the phone or online through the computer …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—which is going to lead me on to another point.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Our transportation system in Bermuda is not quite as coordinated as our health sys-tem.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And we need to have that conversation. I have made it clear. I have sent the message. We have got to have some sort of roundtable. We have got to have a summit. And getting back to and sticking to the Throne Speech, we have to look at reviewing some of this legislation and maybe some of regulat ions as …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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So somehow, we have got to have that conversation, Mr. Deputy Speaker. And it is not enough for us to just simply throw a crumb at the industry in hopes of . . . maybe just as a delay tactic because we are just not ready to have that conversa-tion. But you know, say that, so that the industry understands …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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I know I was doing really well, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I really did. But you know, all I can think of is it’s Front Street. And that just . . . you know, we have all been there together. And so, I am going to leave it there, but I would very much like to see the attention remain. I …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Mm-hmm. I can. [Inaudible interjections]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am going to end—
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—with the hope that Bermuda is able to reposition and get itself on a trajectory for prosperity. When I listened to the Reply to the Throne Speech that the Opposition Leader gave today, —
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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—it was uplifting. [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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For me personally to dream of what it would look like for us to get back to that place . . . and Mr. Deputy Speaker, I get it. We get beat up sometimes. I am just going to make the analogy of a house or a building, right?
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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You get beat up with hurricanes. You get beat up from the salt, the humidity and then here comes something more catastrophic like COVID -19 and you can’t get out and you can’t maintain anything and it gets neglected. It absolutely gets ne-glected. And so, at some point we have to put all hands on deck and we have to …
29 Sep 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning, Minister. I do also want to share my ap-preciation and thanks for the work of all of those in-volved, in particular Fiona Beck for her work in developing this relationship with Google. But my question is, What if anything has been done to prepare the Bermuda infrastructure? In particular, when I heard the …
29 Sep 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. This is just a benign question, but is there any indication that with the construction of the landing station that Google as a private entity would come up with their own environmentally sustainable electric generation? That they could come with their own, whether it is some form of solar, wind, et cetera?
29 Sep 2023 House of Assembly
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I have a new question, Mr. Speaker.
29 Sep 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. My second question is around the cable landing station itself. And certainly, we can wait, but I thought I would ask if a particular location or area in Bermuda has been identified for the cable landing station?
29 Sep 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. So, I am aware of that landing area. (Thank you very much for that, Minister.) And I would suspect then that through planning or any other government processes that the area residents would be made aware of any changes in that neigh-bourhood. If the Minister could just confirm.