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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

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4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Well, the skirling ceremony is where they have kilted pipers, drummers and dancers perform to the bagpipe skirl of the Bermuda Island Pipe Band. I did not even know that. And that is every Monday through the 31 st of March at twelve o’clock. I did not even know they had that. You can visit the Unfinished Church. There is …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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There is the Featherbed Alley Print Shop, and there is a place where you can go, Rock Island Coffee, where you can sip locally roasted coffee. So, there are a lot of things that people can do when they come to Bermuda. I am actually proud of Bermuda and the things that the BTA has actually accomplished. Finally, before I …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Oh, yes. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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So, if you have people who are producing more Bermuda items, then people are shopping; then that money is going to go to our rev enue, to our bottom line. [Pause]
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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I do not want to talk about that one. Okay. So, Mr. Chairman, going back to Head 48 [cost centre] 58000.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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[Cost centre] 58000, Administr ation. So, in 2017, Mr. Chairman, there was a payment made of $100,000 to the Bermuda Sailing Trading Association for the Tall Ships Regatta. And I know that the tall ships are not coming. But what happened to that $100,000 allocation? Has that money been allocated to do something else? In 2018, it was antic ipated …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay. The tourism plan is to i ncrease visitor arrivals in Bermuda to 428,000 by the year 2022, and in 2018 we are five years before that goal date. Is that number s till anticipated? Do we still think that we are going to be able to make that? And I say that just in that we are looking at …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, Mr. Chairman, it is kind of difficult. Last year, tourism and transport were contained in the same Ministry. And so, one of the things that I would like to know, and I may have to wait until Friday when we do the Transport debate, is, as we are trying to increase our tourism revenue and …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Yes, Friday. Okay. No problem.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay. And, Mr. Chairman, I guess I may have to wait for Friday on this one, because I was going to talk about the modernisation of a cashless payment sy stem, which they were going to be looking at, and I want to know the status of that. But that would fall u nder Transport, as well, I would imagine.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Right. Okay.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay. So, I will go back to [costs centre] 5 8000 under Administration. And last year’s budget, there was a funding of $400,000 that was ring-fenced for an initiative for Bermudians. And that was going to be in partnership with the hospitality i ndustry. And I would like to know if further funds will be allocated for that, and how …
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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And then, under 4801, Admi nistration 58000, there was a $39,000 increase in travel fees for 2018. What was the amount of travel fees for this year? And what has been allocated for that? And, let me see. [Pause]
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, in 2017/18, there was $1 million a llocated to America’s Cup for sponsorship. And that money was supposed to be diverted in 2018 for integrated marketing campaigns or marketing blitzes. Is money going to be allocated for that? And what would those campaigns entail? The other thing is that —
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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I am referring to my brief from 2018.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Because I am thoroughly confusing you?
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Right.
4 Mar 2019 House of Assembly
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Okay. [Pause]