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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

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13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I do not know.
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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And the visitor, second day in Bermuda, sa id, Who is that? And I said, Well that person is on the Opposition as well. And he said, Man, they really sound like they have an axe to grind. I said, Not really. You know, they just come from a different perspective. And the visitor gave me his perspective on that …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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What they tend to do, as the Honourable Member from constituency 7 said, is that somewhere along the line there is going to be a little small snippet of social media that they are going to clip out of something that s omebody said that is going to find itself on Bernews , Twitter, Royal Gazette. You name it. So, …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I said probably .
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Possibly. Probability. Let’s just . . . Let’s do a Pearl Harbour on them through social media. Right? So, I . . . You know, in studying, when you play football or some competitive sport, you look at the opponent and you see how they play and you say, Okay. Well, they mastered that tactic. Right? You cannot blame them. …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, let me move on. MP Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker, said something earlier about apprentice scheme[s]. Mr. Speaker, back in 1980s thereabout, [the] t elephone company , some people would know it as TELCO with their yellow trucks, they had an apprenticeship scheme for what they called summer casuals . So, whether you were high school or college …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Okay. Check the— [Inaudible interjection] Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Christopher Famous: Okay. Check the Workforce Development. [Inaudible interjection]
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Okay. My mistake. I would encourage companies to take on an apprentice be-cause 40 years ago I was somebody’s apprentice. There are other people in this room who were somebody’s apprentice. And that helps to build the next generation. The trend that we are on, as Honourable Burgess said, [is] a trajectory [of] negative birth rates . Unless we build …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you to the Whip for intervening.
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good evening, Mr. Speaker. Good evening, honourable colleagues.
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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And good evening to the people of Bermuda. Mr. Spe aker, I want to start off wishing happy 93 rd birthday to a lady who is somewhat one of the mothers of Devonshire, Mrs. Lucille Woolridge, mot her to Oliver, Jul ie K., Ricky and Vicky . She is also the grandmother to Minister Owen K. Darrell. Mr. Speaker, on …
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I do not know. It is quite all right. He knows. We had dogs set on us in constituency 13. MP Kim Swan and I were canvassing for thenMinister . . . well, he was not a Minister then, but thenSenator Diallo Rabain. [Inaudibl e interjections]
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Just say dogs were there, man. Dogs set on us. It was a lady from Somerset. I think you know her, Mr. Speaker. They used to call her Pinky, who said she went out canvassing with Mr. Cox. And they set dogs on her, on them. And she out-ran Mr. Cox. And I am not talking about Bill Cox either—Eugene …
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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So I said, UBP, calm down, calm down. You are not UBP. You are not UBP. I will give you that much. All right? My point, Mr. Speaker, is conflation, this constant narrative that the PLP is anti -IB. In 2001 there was a gr owth of IB. In 2005 there was a growth of IB so much so that …
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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No, that was his brother. [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I know a little Englis h history. And he was King of India. He had everything! Along comes a lady from America, Wallace Simpson, another lady from America or the first lady from America. And he wanted to marry her, and the Church of England said, You can’t marry her because she’s a divorcee. And he says, Well, I’m going …
10 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, what is the relationship to Bermuda? Up until about 40 years ago Bermudians were the kings of the construction indus-try—Bermudians of all colours, Black, White, Port uguese. We were the kings. We built our own homes. We built most of these buildings in Hamilton. Churc hes, schools, you name it, we built it. Somebody needed something fixed, call …
6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I will yield to MP Jackson. 756 6 March 2023 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Okay. MP Jackson.
6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Good morning to the people of Bermuda, and honourable colleagues. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring condolences to the family of Ms. Maria Da Conceicao Frias Da Ponte Burgess, who was originally from the Az ores, one of Deputy Speaker’s other cousins, a.k.a. Ms. Connie Burgess. I did not know her personally, but I know her son, Mr. Wayne …