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E. Grant Gibbons

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25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thanks, Madam Chairman. To his first question on seat belts, the answer is yes, they will be required. With respect to only allowing electrical rental minicars, while I may be sympathetic to what the Honourable Member is saying, I think there was consider ation about this. Part of what we are trying to do here is provide entrepreneurial activities for …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. In regard to the first question about the Go vernor’s involvement, the Honourable Member will know this is a pretty old piece of l egislation, at least by his standards (it is not that old by mine). But it goes back to 1951. And in those days a lot of stuff was done with the Governor …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—you can present your Bermuda driver’s licence, and they assume that the due diligence is done on the Bermuda end. We will have to assume that, and it will be in the regulations which driver’s licences will be recog-nised as valid. We will have to assume that appropr iate testing was done to give that person, in that juri sdiction …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, I think the si mple answer to that is when the drafts people looked at that and they looked at what the Department or the Ministry was trying to do, this is the way they d ecided to draft it. Unfortunately, the draftsperson is not here right now. They may be able to provide a more tec hnical explanation …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I just wanted to get a better understanding because, obviously, I was not in those meetings. With respect to the comments about Doc kyard, I think the understanding I have from the substantive Minister is that they . . . if there were, in fact, minicar liveries in Dockyard —and that is an if—that there …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman, and I agree with your sort of ruling on this. I do not think it applies directly. I think what the Minister had indicated to me was that because of the special circumstances around Dockyard there prob ably would be some limitation on the number of vehicles up there. But I do not think any …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. This is way out of bounds here, but I think the Minister has indicated that they were going to do a written policy with respect to the second- hand cars that would be allowed to be brought in and they would consult with them on that particular provision. But obviously that has nothing to do with …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thanks, Madam Chairman. I think it is a little difficult to answer a question like that on the fly. I think what I would suggest is the Honourable Member needs to suggest to his colleague or associate that they go down to TCD or have a chat with the Ministry or the Permanent Secr etary, or whoever at TCD …
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, I move clauses 1 through 6 as printed.
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move the . . . what am I doing next? The cit ation?
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I move the Preamble.
25 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that the Bill be reported to the House as printed. Thank you.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise on, I think, a happy note to say that, as many Honourable Members will be aware, we had a very successful Global Entrepreneurship Week last week. And I would like to congratulate all of Bermuda House of Assembly the members involved at the Bermuda Economic D evelopment Corporation, the BEDC; the Youth …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , there were a lot of questions I think coming from the other side of the House and rather than putting that entire burden on the Junior Minister let me see if I can in the meantime tackle some of these questions — [Inaudible interjections]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—that have come up and I think reinforce the comments that the prev ious speaker, the Honourable Member from constit uency 31 made in terms of the importance in making sure this development goes forward and, frankly, in a timely way as well because I think the people of St. George’s for at least 15 years (and probably another five …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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[Constituency] 15, okay. The Honourable Member from constituency 15, in terms of that. The issue that he raised with respect to the developer or the Minist er of Public Works, in this particular case, varying any terms of some of the underlying lots and that sort of thing are for minor issues. If you had to move a tennis court …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Sorry?
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I am sorry, yes.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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So that is a compl iment, I think, to the Honourable Member .
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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He had asked the question of why the provisional licence is not in the St. George’s legislation , and we will get to that, I guess, in a subsequent piece of legislation. And I think the answer to that, as I understand it, is to ensure that all provisional licences are dealt with in the same place. And obviously, as …