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E. Grant Gibbons

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21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I did try and answer this a little bit earlier on and I understand the Honourable Member’s concern with respect to clause 4. Just for absolute clarity here, in principle, Planning stuff has already gone in. They have done their Environmental Impact Statement, so what we are talking about here is . . . and …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move that consideration be given to the draft Order entitled the Casino Gaming (Designated Site) Order 2016, proposed to be made by the Minister respons ible for Gaming conferred by section 4(1) of the Casino Gaming Act 2014, acting under the advice of the Bermuda Gaming Commission.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, I am pleased to introduce the Order entitled the Casino Gaming (Designated Site) Order 2016. This Order relates to the St. Regis Hotel and Resort to be situated at the old Club Med site in the town of St. George’s. Honourable Members will recall that the purpose of the …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—and not going into Committee. The first paragraph is simply the citation, which is the Casino Gaming (Designated Site) Order 2016, Designated site, paragraph 2, essentially sets out “All those parcels of land in the parish of St. George’s, Bermuda, described in Schedule 1, as shown delineated and outlined in red on the Depar tment of Land Surveys and Registration …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, let me thank Honourable Members for their support. I will be honest, I will have to find the answer to that. It really has nothing to do with the site designation, that is more of a Planning issue, I believe. [Inaudible interjection]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I understand it is attached, but the question you are asking is a Pla nning application, in terms of how the roads are run. All this does is specify the area that will be designated as approved as a designated site. [Inaudible interjection]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes. So, I was not prepared for a Planning question in that sense. But we will see if we can get you the answer to that particular issue of how Barry Road goes. With that, Mr. Speaker, . . . let’s see —
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I move that the draft Order be approved and that a message be sent from this Honourable House to Her Excellency the Acting Governor.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I move that consi deration be given to the draft Order entitled Casino Gaming (Designated Site) (No. 2) Order, 2016, pr oposed to be made by the Minister responsible for Gaming, conferred by section 4(1) of the Casino Gaming Act 2014, acting under the advice of the Bermuda Gaming Commission.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be brief, but I am going to repeat some of the same things because we are going through a different site. Honourable Members will recall that the purpose of the Casino Gaming Act [2014] is to provide for a licensing and regulatory regim e for gaming in Bermuda, which includes gaming in hotel resorts …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Maybe unbeknownst to us the House was designated as a —
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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So, upon approval of an application i t became a designated site, subject to section 4(1) of the Act. The Minister, acting on the advice of the Commission made by order published in the Gazette designated a parcel of land or an existing tourist resort as a site for an integrated resort. If any condition imposed in relation to a …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I would be delighted, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move that the draft Order be approved and that a message be sent from this Honourable House to Her Excellency the Acting Governor.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank y ou, Mr. Speaker. Just bear with me a second, I am shifting papers around here.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I move that the Bill entitled the Casino Gaming Amendment Act 2016 be now read the second time.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to introduce the Bill entitled the Bermuda Casino Gaming Amendment Act 2016, on behalf of the substantive Minister of Tourism, Transport and Municipalities, Senator, the Honourable Michael Fahy. Mr. Speaker, the purpose of this Bill is to amend the Casino Gaming Act 2014 to streamline the process relating to the introduction of casinos …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Four provisional licences. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Maybe the Minister will speak on this. And I want the country to hear this. Will the commissi oners still have the right to decide how many licences they give, and who gets them? All right. So, send that message to St. George’s that, You don’t have a licence yet. And maybe their …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, I remember that. [Laughter] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: There is something in the Act (and I will talk to the clauses later on) that talks about Cabinet Ministers and Members not getting i nvolved after two years. I was not clear, Mr. Minister, whether — [Inaudible in terjection] Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Oh, sorry, Mr. Speaker. I was not …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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You’ve been in a casino? Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: I was sitting down there at a machine. I was sitting down there because we had just come in from a CPA [Commonwealth Parliamentary Association] course. And I pulled the machine, and I was looking around a nd all of a sudden the thing went off. I thought I had broken …