Speeches by Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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The Honourable Minister referred to gang culture as a cancer whi ch needs to be arrested and eliminated. Did the Minister just say she neither . . . she doesn’t deny . . . she neither supports gang culture nor denies gang culture whilst cal ling it a cancer?

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Supplemental as well. [I NAUDIBLE] Mr. Speaker, I was referring to a statement made by the Minister this morning in her Ministerial Statement. Can I not refer to that?

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Okay. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification, Mr. Speaker. I will move on to question number two.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House the current gangs and number of members on Island?

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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None for now, Mr. Speaker.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker. Will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House what the plan is to reduce the recruitment and participation in gangs? Hon. Renee Ming: Surely. I remind my honourable colleague of my statement to this Honourable House on the 26 th of November where I stated that our plan was to change the pattern of behaviour of …

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you. I thank the Honourable Minister. Honourable Minister, could you clarify what is meant when you said financial assistance would be provided? Hon. Renee Ming: At times, Member, we may have someone who may need assistance with actually just negotiating or navigating through financial assistance, and so we offer those types of services as well. Sometimes it is …

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker, suppl ementary.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Who determines which services get matched with which case? Will the Honourable Minister please clarify who determines which services get matched with which case? Hon. Renee Ming: The Gang Violence Reduction Team has outreach services, and they can consist of . . . some of them may be social workers, some may be counsellors, and they try to …

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, I will turn the video on, just a second.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Okay, good afternoon. Mr. Sp eaker, I would like to give congratul ations in the first instance, recognising persons’ birt hdays. There are four. And I will not say their actual ages, but it is interesting that they are turning 70, 60, 50, 40. I will not say who goes with those numbers. And that was interesting to me because …

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, MP Richardson.

4 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. I will follow in the previous speaker’s spirit in that I thank the Honourable Finance Minister for bringing this before the House. Mr. Speaker, it is no small thing for a country like Bermuda to keep up with the ever -evolving and shifting goalposts of regulatory standards. It seems as though just as we accomplish one, there is …

10 Dec 2021 House of Assembly

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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Honourable Minister. Good morning to my colleagues. Bermuda House of Assembly With respect to the matter raised by the Honourable Minister in his Statement on page 3, about the middle paragraph, where it says that “the Department had select ed Microsoft Dynamics as its chosen platform to implement an end- to-end application and …

10 Dec 2021 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker. So my question was, Who would be undertaking the work? And I may have presumed it was a consultant. But the question is very much Who? So if it is IDT, then that is sufficient for my question, Mr. Speaker. Hon. Jason Hayward: And so for all of the Immigration digitisation and a utomation improvement work, IDT …

10 Dec 2021 House of Assembly

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I am, Mr. Speaker. Supplemental?

10 Dec 2021 House of Assembly

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What is the anticipated cost for that work at this point? Hon. Jason Hayward: That is somewhat of a difficult question to answer, Mr. Speaker. The total budget cost . . . as you would know, we are going to do these processes in phases. There are a number of appl ications that we are coordinating, and Government has its …