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David A. Burch

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6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, the D epartment of Land Title and Registration’s mandate is: Guaranteeing land titles, simplifying property transactions, and using digital technology to maintain data security. Additionally, the department’s objectives are: • to create and maintain an electronic register of all legal estates and interests in land thus providing securit y for owners and third parties; • to publish as …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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No, T. N. Tatem. Mr. Chairman, business unit 107030, Land T itle Management, in the past year, the Land Title Registration Office undertook and achieved the following performance measures . . . I am going to pass on those. If you have got a question, I will answer. Mr. Chairman, Major Achievements I would like to highlight. The LTRO commenced …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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The Land Title Regi stration Office Public Access Module (PAM) now has a payment gateway in place and will be ready to be rolled out this coming fiscal year. PAM, as it is called, will allow the public to check their deeds information online to ensure that it is correct. It will also enable stakeholders to carry out searches online …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, the key projects for 2020/21 are as follows: • The office is now looking to explore and pr ovide further security to their data by introducing new Blockchai n technology to its system. In essence, Blockchain is a digital database (or ledger) distributed across a network of computers. The records are protected by cryptography (secret codes) and are …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman—
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—nice to see you.
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Okay. I am going to go, I believe, in the order in which they came, even though I have duplicate answers from my people over there. Hopefully, they are not in conflict, otherwise somebody wi ll be in trouble. Any anticipation of selling buildings? Is there a process in place of which buildings are for sale and how does one …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I can confirm that there is no bias in this, Mr. Chairman, between the West and the East. I accept all the Parks workers as my children, so except for the week of Cup Match, they belong to me. But essentially, the answer to this is going to be the answer to several other questions where there have been cuts …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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But I think they should look on the bright side. The ability to get funding for the whole country is probably greater than just focusing in on St. George’s. That is what I will say. And ne ither one of them are here. I am sure they will get the word. Head 49, 227, Performance Measures, Objections of Proposals. Why …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Okay. [Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr., Chairman]
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I have got about three more minutes, do I not, Mr. Chairman?
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I am just saying, Mr. Chairman. [Laughter]
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Oh, you can’t see that far? Okay. Mr. Chairman, I end my presentation on this Ministry of Public Works Heads by quoting the motto of the Ministry, Business as usual won’t do . And I said that earlier. In my opinion (and this is mine, so . . .) it would be fair to say that [motto] c ould apply …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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The system is broken. It is old. It is archaic. It is disjointed. It is confusing and frustr ating to both the Government and the Oppos ition. It was designed for a long time ago, Mr. Chai rman. Fifty -six hours is too long . . . a time when the passage of information was via donkey, not fibre optic …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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The only people pr esent in the House are the Minister, generally, and the Shadow . . . we have got a few more now. So, the i nformation is not shared with all Members and the learning process is made a nonsense of. This year we used zero- based budgeting —the process, on the face of it, sounds like …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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I am probably going to even get a flogging for this, but what else . . . you know, go talk to Alice. [Desk thumping]
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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But, Mr. Cha irman, my point is . . . my point is that we could do so much better. We could do so much better for both sides. We could do so much better for the people of this country who do not have time to listen to Burch talk for three and a half hours and the Oppos …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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—process of this. And I would invite the Minister of Finance (in his absence I am sure somebody has called him by now), to consi der, in consultation with the Shadow Finance Minister, doing something different that actually makes sense to those people and these people, and those people and those people out there. This process could be far better …
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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And so, with that, with those comments on my limit, I move the following Heads: 36, Ministry of Public Works Headquarters; 49, Land Valuation; 53, Bermuda Housing Corporation; 68, Department of Parks; 81, Department of Public Lands and Buildings; 82, Department of Works and Engineering; and 97, Land Title Registration Office.
6 Mar 2020 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. [Motion carried: The Ministry of Public Works, Heads 36, 49, 53, 68, 81, 82, and 97 were approv ed and stand part of the Estimates of Revenue and Expend iture for the year 2020/21]