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E. Grant Gibbons

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10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay? One of the reasons for bringing in liquefied natural gas apart from generation of electricity is also because it gets used for fleet use as well. It is very clean burning and, like LPG, it is certainly an alternative that would cut down on some of the asthma, the particulate matter, the soot and other stuff which comes out …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Sorry? I missed that.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes, okay.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Good. I am glad you are with me, Mr. Chairman. POINT OF CLARIFICATION Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Can I have a point of clarif ication from the Minister?
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Then something is not making sense then because if you look at the budgeted amount last year compared to the actual, this is page B-203, you go from $11 million, revised to $12.6 [mi llion]. Okay? So, when does this new staff come in? It is coming in this year or last year?
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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It is going to come in this year. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Right, so we are over $1.3 million in salaries expenditure this year, so we under - budgeted last year and so, once again, I am sayi ng and therefore if that is the case, then we are under - budget again for this year.
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I know where the Honourable Member is going. The challenge we have here is that there are unfilled positions which are often budgeted for. And I am not sure what the ratio of un-filled to positions is, but they are often budgeted. So, you have money that is actually budgeted for but the position is not filled because several drivers …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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No, this is the issue . . . I think this is the broader issue of money which is coming in to the Department of Airport Operations as revenue and then going over to Skyport (or as they would like to call it, Aecon). I think what is important to recognise i s, yes, revenue is going over to Skyport …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. The Honourable Member from [constituency] 29 asked me about charter boats. This is a little off -topic because this is America’s Cup. He asked me whether the charter boat operators had been spoken with, and the a nswer to that is yes. There have been a couple of meetings with the Tour Boat Operators Association. I think as …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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No. I think the maintenance fee required to actually have that going. Okay, there has been a lot of discussion about buses being out of service and I guess I have a couple of points to make here. I am told that the i ndustry standard is that 20 per cent of fleet is out of service at any time. …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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The answer t o the first question, was there anybody on the bus? I am informed that there was somebody on the bus, but I do not think there were any injuries or anything of that sort. But as I said, the drive shaft broke which is obvi-ously a major issue. I, unfortunately, am unable to give the Ho nourable …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I can do that. I suspect that the substantive Minister would probably want to have a crack at that as well. As you know, I am . . . that is above my pay grade on some of this stuff, so . . . but I understand the Honourable Member is inte rested in an answer. So, we will see …
10 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move Heads 48 (just the transport part); 30 Marine and Ports; 31 Airport Operations; 34 Transport Control Department; 35 Public Transport ation; 57 Civil Aviation; and 73 Maritime Administration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am introducing the following Bill for its first reading so that it may be placed on the Order Paper for the next day of meeting: Electronic Communications Amendment Act 2017. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Right. You’ve got that right. Bermuda House of A ssembly Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: The difference is, we are going to be the next Government. He is going to be the next Premier. And he is going to be, probably, the next Minister of Finance, if he decides to keep it. I just do not understand why the honourable colleagues …
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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No. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Yes, you did. [Laughter] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: The Honourable Member was taken out. I was taken out. That is how it works on that side. All right? The Honourable Member, Mi-chael Dunkley, was just hanging on each shoulder for every one of us. [Inaudible interjections] Hon. Wayne L. Furber t: He eventually became the …
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I never said there was. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: —connotation. It was neg ative the way you said it. I think it was wrong. So, all I am saying is that our young people who want to be something in this life, who want to make something out of their life as far as being constructive, —
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: — you sent the wrong message.
8 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I do not think so, but anyway. [Inaudible interjections] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: The Honourable Member does not want to apologise, saying that he does not think it was wrong for him to want to be a Premier. I can guarantee, the Honourable Grant Gibbons, that it is not about “wannabe.” We will be , the Honourable Member will be …