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The Hon. L. Craig Cannonier, JP, MP

The Hon. L. Craig Cannonier, JP, MP

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4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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477 words
You know, on the weekend that place is packed because they have live entertainment, per se. But we still do not . . . What are we doing about that? I mean, we have a whole tourism product here, beautiful beaches. But what are we doing in the entertainment area as far as looking at what we can do when …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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410 words
So, what are we doing to attract the younger demographic to come here? The new world has millionaires and billionaires who are in their 20s and 30s. What are we doing to attract that demo-graphic? Those numbers are low if you look at them in the air arrival s. And we have got to figure out what to do. We …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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799 words
BermudAir. Fantastic job! So I give kudos to the Government and everybody involved there. I mean, I have flown it several times. It is a bit short for me. I have to bend over. But it is okay! I get on, and I got a whole row to myself. So kudos to the flight and to i ts expansion, actually. …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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15 words
Context! It is all about context. Making sure everyone understands when I ask a question.
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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441 words
Yes. Thank you very much. The Minister also, with his speech and preamble (whatever you want to call what he said) . . . I want to ask questions on some of that as well as to what he was saying. But if you go over to page B -245, and I was looking over the performance measures, I did …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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89 words
PGA. I was going to talk about the golf as well, right. The LGP, the PGA, all of these are big events. What is the next big event that we are looking at? And have they considered potentially . . . I mean, Bermudians, men and women here in Bermuda are big—Spanish, German, Berkeley’s league—football fans. Maybe that is something …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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No. That is why we want to get young people because the young people will come out for that, Mr. Chairman. [Laughter]
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Are we looking at something like investing some money so that we can get these people of high net worth here for a week, just a week? It would be millions that we probably would garner from such type of event. I know he said go to the website, but not ever ybody is going to go to the Tourism …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. All about the budget. Yes. Borrow the money, man. You guys are giving grants all over the place. We are up to a billion in grants. Just get a grant, man. Get a grant. [Laughter]
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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598 words
Mr. Chairman, just curious about that. And also, for big events have we considered professional women’s sports? I mean, that is a big thing right now. Down in the islands they do the NBA pre - game. Maybe we can get the women here to do some of their pre- games here in Bermuda. I do not know. But I …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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807 words
Yes. Over on page C -7 under Tourism Maker Spaces for Creatives for the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport. I was not quite sure if that is what he was talking about when he said the BTA - plus, that this was part of a programme that fitted under business unit number 75368 on page C -7, Maker Spaces …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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247 words
I think, Mr. Chairman, that may be my part. Now, let me just make sure I did not miss any questions. Ah. I am hoping that we will get the objectives. When it comes to tourism outside of . . . are we looking at any other areas outside of the European market and the US market? Because when I …
4 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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2,253 words
School mates ? Hon. E. David Burt: Yes, we did go to high school together. I will try my best to answer as many questions as he posed, but I am sure that if there are questions that are not answered, I am sure that he will ask more. We will start on Ministry of Finance Headquarters, Head 10. I …
1 Mar 2024 House of Assembly
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590 words
Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. On page B -272, I will go right to my questions. There have been quite a few so I know it is going to take the Minister a bit of time. At the bottom of page B - 272, business unit 0710, Bermuda Reserve Police. I do not think that the employee numbers …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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166 words
Yes, thank you very much. Let me first start out by saying that this Ministry, quite frankly, encompasses far more than any other Ministry. And it is the foundation for just about every other Ministry that we do have in keeping things up and running. So I recognise that this Minis try, quite frankly, is no easy task. And I …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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72 words
Because, quite frankly, he has been thorough. He has been thorough. And so I appreciate all the time that goes into this. I do have quite a few questions. And I may have missed one or two. I apologise, Mr. [Chairman], I had to run to the restroom. I might have missed a few things. (But I am just going …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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527 words
One of the areas that we probably have never really gone into is . . . and I am going to turn over to it, the rentals over on page C -26. Estates does manage all of the rental properties. And I thought that this year maybe we would take a look at how successful we have been with our …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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85 words
I’m sorry! One thousand! Yes! What am I saying? Yes, $1,085. I am adding a few zeros there. When in actual fact it is $27,000. A drastic increase there. I don’t know if we were just partially in it for some reason or not, but that is a rather drastic . . . maybe it was a part of a …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes, yes. Thank you very much. So it would be nice to know exactly what is happening there. And I will reiterate again, the Estates De-partment, those guys are really good when it comes to trying to get the best price with real estate and rentals. So, these anomalies that I am bringing up are anomalies, quite frankly. And …
28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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418 words
So, on page C -14, he gave us answers to those, so I don’t really have much to ask there. But what I was not quite sure of was under Public Works, under the [line item] 76495. And I am talking about Capital Acquisitions here. And I wasn’t quite sure in the Vehicles and Equipment if we were adding in …