Speeches by Christopher Famous, JP, MP

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker ––

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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—and good morning to the people of Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, sometimes people read stuff in the Royal Gazette, and it may or may not be true. R ecently, I read that — [Laughter]

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Recently, I read that the Department . . . the Ministry of Education had extended the contract to these consultants from Australia and New Zealand. So, I want to know first, Is it true? That is my first question.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Supplementary.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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I want to know, Why? People want to know why.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Last supplementary.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Can the Minister assure the public that they are getting value for money? Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Mr. Speaker, the only way I can answer that question is, Absolutely.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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I would like to associate [with the comments] for Mr. Brian Morris, Mr. Harold Moniz, Mr. Danny Farias. A ll of these gentlemen come from Devonshire—Mr. [Henry] Llewelyn Phipps, Green Acres. Vincent “Boxy” Caines, Happy Valley, Shane Furbert, Friswell’s Hill —all from Devonshire. And Ms. Ismay Steede, she lived in Wellington Back Road, but she originally came f rom town, …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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I will yield if anyone from the OBA would like to get up.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Okay. Mr. Speaker, let’s go back to some numbers here. Let’s talk numbers. The OBA is talking about, Oh, there’s nothing going on in the country and this and that. Mr. Speaker, I started off today earlier saying thank you to the Bermuda Housing Corporation because they are building units for Bermudians, affordable units for Bermudians. Let me name off …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Parliamentary Register. PLP in 2017 had 20,000 votes. In 2020 [the PLP had] 16,000 votes. So 4,000 votes less. I said, Wow, 4,000 fewer people voted for PLP? Then I r emembered. Oh! The OBA could not find enough can-didates. So in at least three of those seats, there was no— [Inaudible interjection]

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Work with me, work wit h me. In three seats, there was no contest.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Constituency 17, constit uency 26 and constituency16. [Inaudible interjections]

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Can anyone tell me how many registered voters per seat, roughly? About 1,200, 1,300 or something. It depends. So three times 1,250 is how many? Okay. Okay. Let us round it off to 4,000. Four thousand people in pro- PLP seats, where [on] average 95 per cent votes go to PLP. Let us times that by three. That gives us …

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker —

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Not only did our numbers stay the same. But when you break it down by the seats — [Inaudible interjections ]

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, could you ask these gentlemen to be quiet, please?

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I am talking to the Chair.

3 Feb 2023 House of Assembly

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When I did a line- by-lineitem in each seat, bar one, the PLP percentages went up. I will get to that in a minute. [Inaudible interjections]