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Dennis Lister III, JP, MP

Dennis Lister III, JP, MP

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8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker . I first want to start off by also associating my congratulations with Purvis Primary for their Christmas Play last night and also associating with the CARI FESTA [celebration] last weekend. I attended and thoroughly enjoyed it and was blessed by the performances that our own Bermudians and a few that even came in from abroad …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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But yes, I just would like to congratulate the Sandys Parish Council and its partnership with its sponsor, the Lister Insurance Agency. Thank you.
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Speaker .
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Or good night, I should say. I just want to follow along with the previous speaker, Mr. Speaker, in [recognising] the progression that we have seen towards the attitudes with marijua-na. Fifty years ago, when this war on drugs star ted, marijuana was the most hated, most evil thing that you could have out there, Mr. Speaker . Fifty years …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Under . . . let me find the page again . . . under (on page 18) “Criminal Trials for Drug- Related Offences by Sex.” In 2016, there was (under possession of cannabis) those that were arrested, 55 males, 4 females. Funnily enough, they have under “not stated,” 7. So, it is either male or f e-male. I do not …
8 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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I heard a previous speaker before me speak about an acceptable amount. How when they were bargaining some said 3 grams, some said 5, some said 7— whatever the different amounts were, Mr. Speaker . I have here a chart of some countries around the world that have legalised or decriminalised marij uana, Mr. Speaker . And I first want …
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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The point of order is to the Honourable Member’s comment. Yes, in Bermuda, sailing is a mixed sport, because we are surr ounded by water. I myself sailed for three years when I was young. But the sport in itself of the America’s Cup is predominantly white. That is where the comment was made, not necessarily in Bermuda. So, yes, …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. I just want to follow the speakers before me in offering my support to this amendment to the National Parks Act. I also want to start off congratulating the workers of the Parks Department. I, as a former su mmer student, have done three summers at the Parks Department, pushing the lawnmower, cutting the grass, raking …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, my honourable colleague. And even yesterday, Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Mr. Weeks, you and I all enjoyed a wedding down at Chaplin Bay yesterday in the beauty of our green and open spaces that we are fighting to pr eserve. So, Mr. Speaker, this is dear to my heart because, as I said, I am a child of …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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And Woodsies , too. And you can see, as mentioned by the speaker before me, the Oppos ition Leader, Spanish Point. You can see Admiralty House. You can see all the islands in the Great Sound; you can see Dockyard. So, to me, that is a spot that I cherish because of the pristine view of it and also the …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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There are even people out at late hours of the night. So, Mr. Speaker, these people, they also appreciate it. And again, I just want to offer my support to the amendments that we are making to protect and preserve the limited greenspaces we have, to make sure that . . . and, Mr. Speaker, it is well known th …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order , or point of clarif ication, Mr. Speaker.
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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I am just trying to understand. Are you saying that we do not recognise the Gombeys? Because we do have the Gombey celebration at the [WER Joell] Tennis Stadium every year to cel ebrate the Gombeys and we recognise those who have participated in outstanding Gombeys. So I am lost as to what you are trying to say that we …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Good evening.
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Or goodnight, that is what I should say. Mr. Speaker, first, I want to start by saying that this week we saw in the newspaper the celebr ation of 20 years of CedarBridge Academy. CedarBridge Academy celebrated 20 years from 1997 to 2017, Mr. Speaker, which is very good and it is com-mendable. We have seen the school progress from …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you for my honourable colleague, Mr. MP Scott, for adding some information to that. But to what he said, Mr. Speaker, the Gov-ernment has the final say as to what is done, the i nduction of the school programmes and school curric ulum. But to get to my point, Mr . Speaker, we have seen over that 20 years …
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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—they do not have to worry about a gang mentality going to school. Mr. Speaker, I know friends of mine who went to CedarBridge but they could not go to a class because [if] you are from one place and [if] you have a class with guys from another place, [and] if you are in there by yourself, you cannot …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Twenty -eight.
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I first want to apologise. I do not have any stories about fast cars like my honourable colleague,