Speeches by Christopher Famous, JP, MP

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Good morning, colleagues, and good morning, Bermuda. Minister, are all of these school closures really about saving money or what? What really is going on there?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. Minister, thank you for that. In talking about that, so if we are saving on infrastructure, what is the savings by closing a school? In other words, cutting out the electricity bill, cutting down?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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A new question.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I most likely will have a supplementary, Mr. Speaker.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Could the Minister tell us (I may have missed it), at Clearwater and at Heron Bay, what was the average size of each class?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Spe aker. I do not ask questions randomly. [Inaudible interjections]

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So there has been this growing trend since I went to schoo l that smaller classes are better, fewer students, more attention that the teacher can spend on each child. So why is it that we already have these classes that are small, but when you are combining, moving these children to other schools, …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Second and last suppl ementary, Mr. Speaker.

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Do you not see me standing, man?

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. Back to my question, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister tell us, is there a max imum number of students that should be in a class? Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Mr. Speaker, I did answer that earlier on. The maximum number is set by the Minister every year. Currently right now in the lower primaries it is, I said …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I would like to start off with some condolences to the family of Mr. Llewellyn Eugene O’Neill Hackett of Collector’s Hill. He was one of my constituents. His daughters , Ulys Burch and Dionne Hackett and a few others. Also, Ms. Beatrice Elizabeth Palmer -Hodgson, commonly known as “Betty.” She was and will always be a Devonshire person. …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker. I am going to continue in . . . I am going to take libert y and plagiarise from my two previous speakers. [Inaudible interjection]

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Pun intended. Mr. Speaker, we talk about those who . . . the Honourable Member from constituency 33, Sandys not Somerset, spoke about those who put themselves on the line time and time again knowing quite possibly they may not win. But they did it to advance the cause, not just of the party, but of the people. I sit …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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So I say thank you to the Colonel because he put himself on the line. He has run in seats that the PLP never would have won, but he advanced the cause. Today I could probably say, most of us could probably say, we became MPs the same day that the Colonel became an MP, finally. Then there is another …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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And I don’t want to say he is the most senior man in the House, but . . . quite possibly. BLACK GOLFER’S WEEK IN BERMUDA

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, going now for the plagiarising my dear cousin from constituency 14. Mr. Speaker, there is a thing called statistics, and some opponents like to say, Look at the tourism stats; they are going down. Which is true, we can’t lie. But they don’t say is only 10 per cent of our visitors are Black in a country that …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Heard of him? Mr. Speaker, CARIFTA, as you know, is all the Caribbean islands. It is like the mini -Olympics. And over the last few decades you can almost predict who is going to win a gold medal by those who won at CARIFTA. But there are those who say we shouldn’t waste any money on CARIFTA. It has no …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Be silky. We have to stop being afraid to showcase our diversity. A few years ago, it was the 170 th anniversary of the first Azoreans coming here. People were complaining. Black and White people were complaining, Why do we have to give them a holiday? Why do we have to do this? These are our people. There is a …

3 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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[Does] anybody know their complexion? The point I am getting at, Mr. Speaker, is that when we talk about our 60 years as this party, this party was not formed solely to be a Black party. It was to be a party for the working- and middle- class people of this I sland, which included White people. Many White people …