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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Brother Famous would probably know some of them down in Devonshire. I actually grew up around some of them up in Southamp-ton. I am actually a country boy, up there around the Moores and Madeiros and folks like that. Yes, I grew up chasing cows and all the like. I ran around Luke’s Pond because we are pond dogs up …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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That is why I challenged cousin Cole last time because I knew he did not think like that. He was one of Dame Lois’s favourites. [She said,] You know, I really like Cole and you. I don’t know why you byes over there . . . and Barritt. And I said, How about Maxwell? She said, Oh, yes, of course …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes! And that is the origin of the divide that we in the Black community have to endure daily, currently. I remember a year ago a journalist said very derogatory things during the same tournament that I have to be here today that I am involved in. Right? Saying negative things. And I took him to task. And if I …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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That is what annoys me! You know, when I became a legislator 25 years ago in that esteemed building up on the hill, we had a library. [In] my first year I lived in that library reading the speeches of Dame Lois Browne- Evans, reading the speeches of L. Frederick Wade, reading the finance . . . budget . . …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Budget replies. Reading the solutions that they offered. And the UBP took! You think Bermuda lowered the voting age because we in the UBP wanted to lower the voting age? No! It was the PLP recommendation. You think the Pitt Report came about and made . . . we cherry -picked and took the ones that were beneficial and left …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And I have solutions that I offer and my colleagues have taken. And I am going to get to that; I have 21 minutes.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Let me share something like this. [Inaudible interjections]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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I’m here to tell you that when it comes to this economy (right?), I want people to be reminded that we did not just have a global pan50 10 November 2023 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly demic. And if persons are going to pin the global pandemic on the PLP, they would have done it and it would …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Just like they did the world recession.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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People still today blame the recession in 2008, 2009 when Dr. Brown, myself, Mr. Don Kramer, Mr. Phil Butterfield, and Mr. Gregory Slayton were causing all the communities to come to-gether to look at that . . . pin the tail on the PLP. That is politics. [ They] ignored the fact that during that same recession that caused persons …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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You know? When we talk about . . . and cousin Ben, I love him dearly, his father did a lot for me in my life. I tell you. And my name is Hubert as well. And he took me around like I was his son back in the Senate. He was coming here swinging carrying that narrative here today. …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Zane said he’d take a tree before a job. But I am going to tell you this. You tell me, if there is anybody in this House today that does not see the economic imperative of us getting Southampton Princess rejuvenated and functioning as a hotel. And the argument of the SDO falls away when the same people are saying, …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes! And those properties were around at your time too. And the thing is this: What we must do is let the responsibility of the Opposition . . . when this country is on the cusp of getting an SDO, the opportunity for economic development is real! Because I am going to tell you that just as the little old …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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England is doing the same thing. I mean, you know, sometimes we have got to get real. And we cannot just push that narrative that will keep us as a people divided. And yes, we are very much concerned that we have to go somewhere else to see our grandchildren. We are very much concerned. And that is why the …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Like we had to take or leave Morgan’s Point.
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And let me tell you, I come from Southampton. I want Morgan’s Point redeveloped. I believe it should be the second world- class golf Bermuda House of Assembly course. Why? Because when Mid Ocean was taken from my family down in Tucker’s Town (right?), it is now for the specialist. But you have got people overseas who want to come …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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I write! I have been writing. You know my cousin, Stanley Morton, stopped me at the post office back in the 1980s when I realised that I would never be good enough for a safe seat in the UBP. He said, You know what? You write well. You’re articulate. He told me that right in the . . . and …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And that was foresight. And the global recession . . . and when we pinned the tail on the PLP for the global recession, people bought into the narrative. Well, the PLP did not cause XL stock to go down the tube. The PLP did not cause AIG to change their name, or American International to change their name to …
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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And countries to fail. No! But the narrative that was portrayed against the PLP was political. [Crosstalk] [Ms. Lovitta F. Foggo, Acting Speaker, in the Chair]
10 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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Madam Acting Speaker, we do have a plan to rebuild this economy and I am proud to be a part of it. I just want to touch on the growing of the population base that Minister Hayward has articulated on more than one occasion, on more than two occasions, on almost every occasion, papers written about it, right? And I …