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Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

Mr. Kim Swan, JP, MP

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30 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Oh yes. And maybe if Bermuda only needs, you know, “X” thousand—not mil-lions, “X” thousand—people to make it work in January, February, March, October, November [and] December, maybe we will start figuring out . . . and that is where we are working. And I am not talking about things that prior to. . . I am talking about deliverables …
30 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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But the fact is that I am getting old, and I lost my spot. [Laughter]
30 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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But you know, that is okay. Because to get a robust year you need to work on the months of the year and know the people who it appeals to. And what are we doing in that space? You know, we were criticised, the Progressive Labour Party, of having no appeti te for the yachting community. Well, I make no …
30 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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No, it is the story of our lives. My mother was upset when she saw her baby coming through Town Cut from White Hill because she left him home with her momma, and her daddy was tired of me crying and he says, Come with me. And he took me to watch his grandson sail for the first time in …
30 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I am here to say that this is what this strategy is tying in. It is showing people the relevance of what an economic plan means to them. And yes, there are people in our midst who have great pain. This recession of 2008 and this pandemic and a dispassionate (in some respect) regime that in other jurisdictions . . …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I would like to be associated with the remarks given by MP Foggo with regard to East End’s St. David’s and Clearwater Schools, and also associate with the condolences on the passing of my friend, Mr. Shirley Gibbons, one of the first persons I met when I came to St. George’s in my connection …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. [Deputy] Speaker. I just want to take this opportunity on the eve of Father’s Day to also give thank s for all those who are father figures and serving as fathers in our community.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I take the opportunity to reflect on those who have impacted my life over the many years. I make no apology that many of [t hem] centred around sport. First, as a footballer and a cricketer and then as a golfer. Mr. [Deputy] Speaker, I give thanks for people like Edward “Buzz” DeShields, an elder in the Seventhday Adventist Church …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Good day, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would just like to echo and be associated with a Ministerial Statement earlier by the Minister of Works congratulating both the Minis-try of Works and the Corporation of St. George’s and Mr. Mark Soares with the St. George’s marina development. The yachting trade …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Well, congratulations and apologising for not being there at that time.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I would also like to congratulate the organisers of the Bermuda Day Parade for the decision to make sure that the show did go on. I was there in an official capacity. Notwithstanding the weather, it was an outstanding, an outstanding day. And I know I speak for all who participated and all who had to make sure that the …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I saw in the newspaper that a long- standing civil servant is retiring, Mr. Rochester, whom I have known for many, many, many years. And his story I am sure will be told in the months to come of how he started off very humbly in government in the early 1980s and rose to t hat …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Acting Speaker. I thank the previous speaker for very succinctly putting some important points into perspective. I am go-ing to pick up on one of the points he left off on, referring to piecemeal. Language is very important to pay attention to, the inference of language. The choice of words and what the intent of them is …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And if you think that decisions come just by Members of Parliament standing up, you know, you need to maybe ask for a pass to come visit and let someone show you just how grassroots politics really works. And so the narrative sometimes is deliberate because it has a purpose. The purpose is how one can erode away whatever goodwill …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Depu ty Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I choose to speak this afternoon on this particular Bill today, the second reading of the Tourism Investment Amendment Act [ 2023 ] which sets out a framework and, I would say , is definitely in the national interest. I am not going to read out the 22 major hotel properties …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I am. I am. The point I am making, Mr. Deputy Speaker, is that the decision that they made cost us $50 million during the pandemic. The opportunity for us today to come to some consensus on showing the peopl e what this Government is trying to do, to use my good friend the plumber’s analogy, prime the pump . …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. And I am reiterating it and I am appreciative of both of them for making that point, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because it is s ignificant. And to suggest that the need for concessions is something that was not thought out, that it was only going to be done because other jurisdictions are doing it in the south is …
19 May 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I on a very sad note would like to associate myself with the condolences to the family of [Angelia] “Angie” Minors from Wellington, St. George’s. Mr. Speaker, I can say that Ms. Minors’ Carlington family was one of the f irst families I really got to know some 40- odd years ago when I first started working in …
19 May 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
19 May 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am very appreciative of the comments that have been made thus far. And, Mr. Speaker, I just want to weigh in on this subject matter that means a great deal to me, that being tourism, because I owe my life to tourism. And tourism is about hotels. It is about c ottage colonies. It is …