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Walton Brown

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10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to be allowed to finish my thought. [Inaudible interjections]
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So you empower the schools, you give proper resources to the schools; you do not take away money. When you have a properly resourced school then you can say to the principal, Here are the standards that we want you to meet. Meet those standards or you will no longer be principal. It requires courage. It requires leadership. So you …
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, is the Honourable Minister at all concerned that this decision by the United Kingdom Government represents yet further incremental dissolution of power back to the UK and actually runs in contras t to the powers under our Co nstitution?
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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That it represents incremental dissolution of power back to the UK; are you concerned about that? And also the fact that, under our Constitution, we have full authority, which has now been devolved back to the UK, over the issuance of passports.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister —
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Second question.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister, at a very minimum, commit to working with the other Overseas Territories to develop what was once proposed as a regional initiative to issue these passports? That it could be the responsibility of the Overseas Territ ories as a group, based on the economies of scale and cost to manage the biometric issuance of these pas …
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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My final question.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I will ask that this House send a letter of condolences to the late Gladwyn “Moe” Ming, my uncle. He was one of the founders of Spinning Wheel. And he was involved in the . . . [Pause] The Sp eaker: Take your time, Honourable Member. [Pause]
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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He was involved in the entertai nment business his entire life. So I ask that we send condolences.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification.
27 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, is it not appropriate to decide on the first amendment before we do a second?
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good afternoon, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, my first question for the Honourable Premier is, other than the possibility of direct ai rline routes to Bermuda from the Azores, did the Go vernment delegation identify any other concrete initi atives or projects that could be developed between Bermuda and the Azores?
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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I have my second question.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Second question.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Can the Honourable Premier advise this House whether or not the Bermuda Gover nment was required to secure UK permission to undertake that, effectively, state trip?
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes. This is, I guess, my suppl emental and third question, because it was on the MOU.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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I have a question.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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My third question.