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Ben Smith, MP

Ben Smith, MP

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7 Dec 2018 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary. And, if possible, if we could find out, if there is an additional payment, how much would the extra budget have been? Hon. Wayne Caines: [Yes], Mr. Speaker — The Speaker : Thank you. No further questions, no supplementaries. That brings us to a close of the question- and-answer period for this morning. And we will now move …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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1. Will the Honourable Mini ster please provide to this Honourable House the breakdown of the fifty -seven (57) antidoping tests which cost The Bermuda Sport Anti-Doping Authority the total of $102,996, delineating how many Performance Enhancing tests and how many Illicit Drug Screening tests were conducted, by sport? 2. Will the Honourable Minister please provide to this Honourable House …
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Good morning and thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Minister for the update. O bviously, there are a lot of moving parts, a lot of things that he is having to deal with. I just wonder if the Mi nister could tell us, ho w many people make up the Gang Violence Reduction Team? Hon. Wayne Caines: As …
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Supplementary.
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Just following on from that, what I am looking for is, have there been any requests for more staff? Because, obviously, with a task this big, which is obviously important to the entire country, do the two Members need more support so that they can conti nue to do this work?
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker . I grew up in a household that was influenced by tourism greatly, my father being an entertainer. I remember a lot of stories of where tourism used to be a long time ago. Obviously, there were significant changes over the years. But at the time he would tell me of entertaining in multiple hotels, multiple places …
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the Statement, it is discussed that there is a grant of $650,000. Is it possible for the Minister to let us know the last time this grant was assessed for ef-fectiveness, as this particular grant takes up most of the budget of sport. Almost 50 per cent of the budget of spor …
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, just re -asking the same question because I am just asking if —
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. Thank you. Hon. Lovitta F. Foggo: But I thought you would appreciate the other facts.
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you.
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you.
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just looking at the fact that there are 57 tests, which is costing us $256,000, t he reason I brought up the other sports is that if we are spending so much of our money on testing and not a lot of money on developing athletes, how are we going to develop at hletes to test? …
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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So, Mr. Speaker, I guess my question is, how much is a test? If it is 57 tests, $256,000, it seems like we are spending a lot of money on these tests.
16 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. So, I guess carrying on with this same line, what is the level of our athletes to warrant this level of testing? The reason [I] ask the question is, if we are paying this amount of money, do we have athletes of that calibre to continue to . . . Do we have the statistics to show us that …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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When was the bid put out?
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. How many other applications?
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker . I just want to give some congratulations to Ras Mykkal on the launch of his new book yesterday on nicknames and how we got our nicknames. I would just like to say congratulations to him for continuing to try to do things for Bermuda and bring attention to . . . kind of items that …
8 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. [Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr., Deputy Speaker, in the Chair]
8 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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I would just like to start out by saying that I come from a family of diabetics, bot h sides of my family. So this subject is important to me, understanding what that disease has done to people in my family, specifically my mother is battling the disease as we speak. Knowing what that is, and knowing that the food …