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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the purpose in bringing this Tourism Inves tment (Ariel Sands) Order 2023 before this Honourable House is to enable the grant of tax relief to the developers investing in the tourism product Ariel Sands Ltd., which is in the national economic interest of Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to invite this Honourable House to take this draft …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Kempinski Hotel group.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Yes, Mr. Speaker.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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I just want to thank Members for their contributions. I want to give a special thanks to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who prior had responsibility and did a great deal of the heavy lifting that was required to get these two draft Orders, but this p articular draft Order as we are speaking to today, over the wire. …
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 the Tourism Investment (Bermudiana Beach Resort) Order 2023 proposed to be made by the Minister responsible for Tourism under section 3 of the Tourism Investment Act 2017, as applied by section 13B of the Bermuda Housing Act 1980, with written agreement of the Minis-ter of Finance in …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the purpose in bringing this Tourism Investment (Bermudiana Beach Resort) Order 2023 be fore this Honourable House is to enable the grant of tax relief to developers investing in the tourism product, Bermudiana Beach Resort, which is in the na-tional economic interest of Bermuda. Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members will recall the Tourism Investment Act …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to wholeheartedly thank the contributions of Members, especially two substantive Ministers who are intimately knowledgeable and involved in the progression of this Tourism Investment (Bermudiana Beach Resort) Order 2023, especially the Minister responsible fo r Public Works, whose Ministry, through the Bermuda Housing Corporation and its connection with the Minister of …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker .
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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I have been listening intently and the Honourable Minister Rabain prompted me to be reminded of the bogeyman. And the bogey-man in Bermuda politics was independence and income tax.
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Those two words could cause persons . . . and I declare my interest. I ran for election in 1983, which this is the 40 th year, so it was quite some time ago when I first ran. And I remember that when you had elections percolating around that time, there were code words that were used to cause people …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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I voted for it in 1995. I stood at the polls for it in 1995 while supporting a conservative government at the time and a leader who would have you (at that time) think today that he didn’t support it but recruited persons based on it. Some persons would allow him to rewrite his history in his late 80s, but …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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The other word was income tax and the Progressive Labour Party, because I know when I first came into the legislature in November of 1998 as a Senator and served in another place, we had a library then at the House of Assembly and it had all the speeches of L. Frederick Wade who was t he Shadow Minister of …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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And that is worth noting given when historians look back on this country and they look back with a fine- tooth comb to see what took place in the 1950s. Who benefited from the system that took place in the 1950s and before?
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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Who are the beneficiaries of the system that [was] put in place, and who was calling for a more fair and equitable system in this country? And then who (when given the opportunity) did things that were fair?
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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The Progressive Labour Party by far!
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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In many spheres, as persons used those code words, dog whistles as persons use, my colleagues in the United States would say that dog whistle language that allowed people to get tickled up and feel uncomfortable. Oh, I don’t feel comfortable. I don’t feel comfortable about what they would do if they were in power. I don’t feel comfortable. They …
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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MP Dunkley spoke well when he referred to the balance that is needed when persons out there were to pretend to be your friend until something comes along that benefits them better and then you find out how friendly or how much of a friend you are. I know a little bit about that myself! [Laughter]
15 Dec 2023 House of Assembly
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But I won’t go there. I will certainly stick to this—