Speeches by Christopher Famous, JP, MP

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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What the Member is failing to acknowledge, or admit, was that he was in the UBP and it was a UBP candidate that was the lead antago-nist who then became an OBA MP. And one of the B ermuda House of Assembly other antagonisers became an OBA Senator and an OBA Minister. So do not put this on the PLP.

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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It is not perspective. It is the truth. [ Inaudible interjections]

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Sorry. I could not hear you. Bermuda House of Assembly The Acting Speaker: I recognise the Honourable Mr. Famous. Mr. Famous, you have the floor.

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Acting Speaker, imagine if you will, that this is not Parliament, but this is a courtroom right now. [Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr., Deputy Speaker, in the Chair]

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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So, just imagine. Mr. Deputy Speaker, the prosecution has heard from the defendant. [Laughter]

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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And usually in cases there needs to be corroboration of witnesses, corroboration of evidence. The defendant has failed to give any cor-roboration of his claims —zero. Even one of his codefendants has walked out of the courtroom, his chief co-defendant. If it may please you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to call some witnesses, please. Mr. Deputy Speaker, witness …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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He chastised the former Minister of Finance, Honourable Curtis Dickinson, for stepping in to save the country by paying off the debt. Do you know what he said? He said, Play it again, Sam. I would do it again. In a courtroom sense that is called “lack of remorse.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, with your indulgence, I would like to call …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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And I quote, Mr. Deputy Speaker, he stated that the BEST [ Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce] protesters are “worrying about their own little cubby hole space” and are separated from reality. I quote again, the Senator als o stated that he takes “real issue with this muppet show.” In this same session, Senators David Burch and Kim Wilson complained …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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So, Mr. [Acting] Speaker, we are $232 million in debt. We have to come back to this House and raise the debt ceiling on the cusp of a pandemic because of the OBA and BEST and others (who will remain nameless). But lest we forget, we are cleaning, as the Honourable Member from constituency 2 said, we are cleaning up …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Speak to the Chair, please. Hon. N. H. Cole Simons: Thank you. I am talking about, which bank or custodian actually holds our investments once they are made? So, you can have a number of lines in a por tfolio which can be a mixture of all of the instruments summarised here. And they are held at a custodian either …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, good night to the people of Bermuda. I am going to take lead from my Whip, my cousin, my mentor and speak quickly about Parish Pride Project. When we were elected, our country was in a state of disrepair. Our roads were overgrown with cane grass, Mexican pepper trees and whatever else you can’t even describe. I went …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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I didn’t buy a machete. I bought a weed- whacker because a machete might get me in trouble. But anyway, Mr. Speaker, over the last five years, fellow MPs, Wayne Caines, Vance Campbell, Diallo Rabain, Senator Lindsay Simmons and Deputy [Premier] Walter Roban have joined in Parish Pride, and also, we got a call to come down to St. George’s …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, again, I am going to follow in the vein of the Whip. I am going to say a quote. You know a guy named Richard Nixon? Anybody remember him? I’m not a crook! I’m not a crook! He had a quote, Mr. Speaker. “I gave ‘em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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I did not say where. I did not say where. But it was important because from what I u nderstand, had it been the other way we might have stuck it in them, too. But more important, it was a wake- up call to each one of my colleagues. We have a full House tonight. We had a full House …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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In this Administ ration. Work with me, work with me. Then there was MP Scott Simmons who was Whip. Now there is MP Neville Tyrrell. Each one of those was duly nominated, duly voted on and then duly elected. Not appointed! Class, elected, not appointed. Please send a mess age to Mr. Shaun Connolly that the duly elected Whip does …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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Cavello Bay, wherever those other —

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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As a fisherman off the rocks, sometim es you have got to take the bread, throw it over, let the fries come up, right? The fries come up and then the snappers come up. You do not want to eat the fries. Sometimes you want the fry as bait just to get to the snapper. In Back o’ Town, you …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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My, my, my, my, my.

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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My, my, my. Let me move on because he has just . . . dug that hole again. Mr. Speaker, he went on to say, elaborating and boasting about the OBA’s Throne Speech Reply, you know, the one that actually looked like a PLP document in green? Then I said, Hey, of all the OBA guys that were in . …

9 Dec 2022 House of Assembly

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After being challenged. But anyway, moving on. [Inaudible interjections]