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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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23 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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639 words
And on time by this Government , I might add. 3 Royal Gazette 2 January 2024 Bermuda House of Assembly Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: That is right. So, Mr. Speaker, the other thing I wanted to touch on too because they mentioned in their Reply and they talked about you know government should not be in the hotel …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, sir.
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like a letter of condolences sent to the family of Mr. Albert Saltus from Mullet Bay, who passed away. What it is will be sadly missed. On a happier note, I would like a letter if possible sent to both the Bermuda College and the US Consulate, especially the US Consul General, …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will continue on where the Honourable and very good Minister just left off. And he said, judge me by my deeds. And indeed, there has been work that goes unnoticed sometimes. Mr. Speaker, I remember a time when Bermuda did not have fast ferries and introduced fast fer-ries. And it was at a time when …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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I have not heard not one person say . . . and I am one, Mr. Speaker, that . . . I will declare my interest. I am in the hospitality industry and I certainly am trying to do my part to get more people to come by air to Bermuda. But in the absence of hotel beds that slipped …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Came to Bermuda. When? During a time between November and March when we need more visitors in this country! That vision that got criticised in 2012 is yielding fruit today, Mr. Speaker. Yielding fruit today! [Inaudible interjections]
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Well, you know, I am getting there, Mr. Speaker. I am here to tell you that some-times when you are prosecuting a vision, people will shoot you down and stand in your way and prevent that vision from realising immediately, but those who have a vision will prosecute it if it is in their heart. They will do it no …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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That is what I am talking about. We care about people.
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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And we do things when people are sleeping. And no, it is not glitz and glamour, but it gets you results when it is time. And it is time now! For some of these things are lining up. At a dinner . . . and I always run events . . . [Annual] Ladies [Pro- Am] Golf Tournament coming to …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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So uplifting women is not only a responsibility for women’s rights advocates. Women’s rights advocates must exist within the male realm, especially by those like Minister Weeks spoke about. Those of us who have daughters would know how important it is. Those of us . . . all who have mothers will know what it is. And I can tell …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, as the goalkeeper. Randy Horton was our PE teacher and coach. We had the greatest . . . and we took out Churchill with [Earl] “Gabby” Hart too! [Inaudible interjections]
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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Oh, yes! We took them out! And we took them out twice! 362 9 February 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly And national captains came out of that side and we beat national captains on the other side. Oh yes! So when I talk about golf, I do not go to Yorkshire and not see what could happen …
9 Feb 2024 House of Assembly
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And I say that because when you are doing things in the best interests of people sometimes, you know, it is easy to look past the person at what the real commitment is. And the alignment of Sandys Signature School with the hospitality degree and the reason why I came to the Princess, because when we had the function at …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise on congrats and obits to be associated with an obituary brought by the Deputy Speaker last week. It came to my attention through his obituary that Mr. David Ralston had passed away. And I felt certainly a huge welling in my heart to as sociate myself with that, but more so …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I move that consideration be given to the draft Order entitled Tourism Investment (Ariel Sands) Order 2023 , proposed to be made by the Minister responsible for Tourism under section 3 of the Tourism Investment Act 2017 with the written agreement of the Minister of Finance in exercise of the power conferred by section 5 of the Tourism …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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I mov e that dr aft O rder . . . No . . .
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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No? Yes. N o. Yes. T hank you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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That was one of Dr. [Ewart] Brown’s one-m inute briefs. [Laughter] DRAFT ORDER TOURISM INVESTMENT (ARIEL SANDS) ORDER 2023