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Walter H. Roban

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29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. I will not be much longer. On page B -307, Business Unit/Professional Services, there is a number of 510 for status register entries. How many of these for the year 2015/16, how many of these are specifically associated with births and wi th grants? I would be interested to know from the Junior Minister how many of these . …
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I had a lot of questions, so I am quite happy to get my answers from the Minister either in writing or maybe another time
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Madam Chai rman. Mr. Sylvan D. Richards, Jr.: —put in place.
29 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I think the Honourable Member is misleading the House. Because I did not ascribe blame to the Government on these, I raised these as points of concern from the public and I actually com-plimented their additional staffing for compliance so that they can more aggressively pursue these efforts. So for the Junior Minister to take the tone that he is …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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No, [constituency] 15.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has been an interesting debate so far, Mr. Speaker. I must first, of course, congratulate my ho nourable colleague who sits in constituency 18, the Shadow Minister of Finance, for what I think is a . . . and I believe that it is a Statement that has continued in the quality of responses that …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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So did they have to? Well, the money was borrowed to cover deficits over three years. But you ran out of it in two, so clearly whatever plan that this Government had or the rationale that they had for borrowing that money, of which, frankly, I do not see anything that is representative of what they have spent. What is …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Where is the proof? Because there is nothing tangible I can put my hands on other than paper that that money even existed. Now, all I am saying is that those are my re nditions of the facts. I am not trying to be untruthful, Mr. Speaker. I am just being representative of what I have seen and what I …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—c apital success in this country, then who else are we here for, Mr. Speaker? We are here for our people. Thank y ou.
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. There was n ever such a policy during the 14 years of the PLP Government to social engineer or bring people in from a particular region for any particular purpose whatsoever.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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So the Honourable Member is misleading the House —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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—if that is what she is sugges ting.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. Can the Honourable Minister confirm that the drain is actually in the wrong location? Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: That the drains are in the wrong location? No. No.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker. Can the Honourable Minister bring back to this House information of when the gate, which is pr ohibiting the public access, was actually constructed? Or does the Minister know, where he can report right now?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the first page of the Honourable Minister’s Statement, he states, “Since Christmas, Bermuda has experienced . . . serious crimes, some involving fir earms.” Would the Honourable Minister agree that this trend happened certainly long before Christmas, and Bermuda House of Assembly we were seeing this trend all through the year of 2015?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Next question.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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The Minister in his Statement mentioned three different organisations: Team Street Safe, Inter -Agency Gang Task Force, and Inter - Agency Community Response Team. This appears to be the first time that the Minister has extensively described these organisations in a Ministerial Statement. Would the Minister be able to provide us with some reports on the deliverables of each of …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.