Speeches by Ben Smith, MP

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Madam Chairman, mindful of the time, I am going to speak to Fire now. And then, I am going to try to be as brief as possible because there have been a lot of questions that have been asked and I want to give the Minister time to be able to give responses to those questions because, otherwise, we just …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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We are on page B -302 and it is 55150.

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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So, you end up with a situation where everybody came in in the same recruiting class. So, they are all going to reach their retirement around the same time, depending on whether they decide to stay in or they are only going to do their minimum requir ement. So, my question is: Are we bringing in enough recruits on an …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Point of clarification.

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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I would agre e with what the Minister is saying. I guess to be more specific on what I am saying is that during conscription there were people that were trying to run from conscription, people that would never be in the Regiment. And what I mean by that is that there are people that, moving on in life they …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Point of clarification. So, speaking specifically to what you just said, that was the crux of my question. Because, obviously, the police of ficers have a different contract for how they get paid. The Regiment officers do not have overtime; a completely different contract. When you bring them together and hire nine, what is that going to look like? Hon. …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just following along with two questions in Corrections (before we start to get the answers from Corrections ). One, there were two fentanyl overdoses that happened in the prison. I am wondering if the Mini ster— Hon. Wayne Caines: Mr. Chairman, with the greatest respect we deal with fact. There were no fentanyl overdoses anywhere in …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, also in the Corrections, if the Minister can let us know whether the prison officers were actually in attendance with the meeting that he had with the prisoners when he was there two weeks ago during his visit.

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have two quick questions. One is under police. So, as the Minister was just talking about all the different savings, he also said earlier that the surge by the police actually cost $250,000 over a short period of time. Once we go back to normal levels of policing, if t hat need for a surge …

4 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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A point of clarification. Earlier, when the Minister responded to my question the first time he said there was no charge. So the reason I am asking the question again is, if you take an ambulance run by the fire service, from St. George’s, is there not going to be a charge on your insurance. Or if you do not …

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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I would like to have congratulations sent to young Jack Berry, from Somerset Primary, and I would like to associate MP Cole Simons. He partic ipated in a story -writing competition. It is the Collins [Big Cat Writing] Competition. He won for Bermuda. He has just won for the region.

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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And now he is in the final eight in the world. So congratulations to him.

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. Just a question. Page B -200, 58000, Admi nistration . I just want to ask a question on sports tourism. I know that the BTA had a conference, a session, where they invited local sports to see if they had certain objectives to host events in Bermuda. Just a thought and a question for the Minister. …

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a follow -up on with the sports tourism question that I asked earlier. I think what I was referring a little mor e to was some kind of package that would kind of lay out what is available in Bermuda that could be given to our sports teams so when they tra vel they have …

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes. Good evening, Mr. Speaker.

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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I just had the opportunity to see that Tony Brannon has tried to make an apology for what he said. The problem is that . . . So last week I spoke to the fact that immigration has been used as a wea pon in the past. I am going to put a little bit more detai l on that. …

2 Mar 2020 House of Assembly

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The problem that we have is there are a lot of people who do not say it out loud. But we are not sure whether that is what they are thinking when we are in the room. Bermuda House of Assembly We spent a lot of time and effort trying to get this immigration situation right. And it is a …

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

28 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you to the Honourable Minister for the Statement. With the upgrade in the technology for the radio and communications, I am just wondering . . . in other jurisdictions there are body cams that are worn by some of the police officers that are part of the communications and technology that they have. Is the Minister able to tell …