Speeches by Jamahl S. Simmons, JP, MP

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Point of clarification.

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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I just want to clarify —

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Point of clarification, Mr. Speaker.

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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The point of clarification, Mr. Speaker, the question we actually asked, would he provide us with a list of the names of the accredited media.

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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But I must praise her, b ecause the reading of the script has become clearer, much better enunciated. So there is progress. And I think it will do her well in her life after politics after the next election.

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Madam Deputy Speaker, the 2016/17 Budget Statement by the Honourable Minister Bob Ri chards is not a budget statement. It is a political, economic and social suicide note. It is a suicide note that the Honourable Member from [con-stituency] 2 signed her name to, the Honourable Member from [constituency] 1 [sic] signed her name to, and we could run down …

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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I am sorry. In the Bermuda you are building, it is hard to tell. Madam Deputy Speaker, they have had Members of the backbench sign their names on this suicide note. But we, I in particular, will not be signing our names on this suicide note. The 65,000 Bermudi-ans out there are not going to sign their names on this …

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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The people now who, when they ring the phone, are singing, Mr. telephone man, there’s something wrong with my line. I took down the Bermuda House of Assembly number, but then I get a click every time. This is what we are talking about, Madam Deputy Speaker, right? Now, you know how it works, Madam Deputy Speaker. But for the …

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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We have to be patient with our young people, Madam Deputy Speaker. We should be patient.

26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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We should be patient, and we should be compassionate to our young people. He is new here. He is new here. But he is not going an ywhere. He will be over there for awhile, so he will have time to learn and get used to it. But, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am trying to find the point (I lost …

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and thank you.

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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I rise today to give condolences to [the family of] Mr. Hilton “Chickty” Binns. And I would like to associate all of the Members of the western parishes in the Progressive Labour Party with this. He was a stalwart, a strong supporter of the Pr ogressive Labour Party. He began his participation throughout the process as a member of the …

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Oh, yes, yes, yes. Like my Leader, they had the same —

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Ah, okay, okay, okay. Well, we all cannot be perfect, can we? Mr. Speaker, I would also like to join in the condolences [to the family of] brother Lee Harvey. I also spent some years at ZBM, and my fondest memory of Lee was not from broadcasting, because he was a phenomenal mentor and always had time for people from …

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon colleagues and good afternoon Bermuda, the listening audience. I would like to begin, first, by being very appreciative of the Minister because he actually reached out to me and offered the assistance of the technical staff in looking through this Bill and having any ques-tions that I raised being addressed. And this is a …

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Madam Chairman, the Bill gives a tremendous amount of power to the Minister. And while I think that no one in this House currently would be accused of having conflicts of interests, [since] they would certainly declare them, with this amount of power in a small Island, who will police the Minister to make sure …

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. The question for the Minister, actually, currently on your responsibilities, do you have the Registrar of Companies under your portfolio? Dr. the Hon. E. Grant Gibbons: Yes.

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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And how does this work in relation to the consultation period, because normally that would have been held by the Minister of Finance, correct?

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. The TD&R Licence, the establishment of this, the continuance of a monopoly, it bothers me. Is there any provision for the future for there . . . whether it is new technology, new situations, new anything for there to be an issuance of a second TD&R Licence, or a third perhaps?

12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. I appreciate the Honourable Member’s answer and I think what is . . . consulting with some of the 586 12 February 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly previous Ministers in the PLP Government when we were doing the Energy White Paper which led to a lot of the framework that led to …