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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

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10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, everybody knows t hat. [Laughter]
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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I feel like I am preaching. Therefore, we feel as though there should be recommendations. We are recommending that there be classes, courses, an educational component that is 3112 10 August 2018 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly implemented as well as, in conjunction with the liveable wage. Now, Mr. Speaker, just as Robert Southey’s tale has become a …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Even though we are provi ding the tangibles for our children, we are neglecting the intangible. No longer are we able to go home and sit down and do homework with them because that comes during our second job. No longer are we able to eat dinner with them; no longer are we able to ask them, How was [your] …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I was not the cool, calm, and collected individual that you see before you today. [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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But Mr. Speaker, the thing is that . . . I bring up those times because it was my pa rents, it was my family over dinner. We used to eat at five o’clock. And during the Price is Right , but right before the Young and the Restless . . . and the thing is, tha t’s when I …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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But, Mr. Speaker, to me that is what is wrong with our society today. Because the thing is, we will sit here and when we see antisocial behaviour by our youth we automatically (1) blame the youth, and (2) blame the parent. We say it is bad parenting on one side, and we say that the youth is out of …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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But, Mr. Speaker, we talk about non- Bermudians c oming into this country and taking jobs that Bermudians can do. I am going to say it, Mr. Speaker. And the reason that they are doing Bermuda House of Assembly that is because there are some employers who people would say are exploiting, abusing the fact that they will work for …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Therefore, Mr. Speaker, we have individuals who are building a business based on the model of paying what some would consider slave wages. Mr. Speaker, what happens is this. Bermudians cannot afford to work a job . . . it is not worth their time to work [for] $7.00 an hour. But yet, if they are desperate, they will do …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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The reason I say that . . . and for those who are not aware, the Bermudian looks more attractive because what they are doing is they are . . . the employers who are saying, I’m paying you $5.00 an hour because I have to take your rent out of your pay, because I am providing a household for …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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— is the EMT —
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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—is the first responder. This is what this report is about: An honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. It is about making sure that everybody in this country walks around with their head held high because they know that they are able to pay the bills at the end of the day. Not by working four jobs! Not …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of information.
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of information for the Member is that in our research as a committee, in the jurisdictions that have implemented a liveable wage, there was no decrease in employment, there actually was an increase in employment with the implement ation of a liveable wage. Mr. Sylvan D. Richards, Jr.: I will take your point. I do not believe it though. …
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, good morning.
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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And good morning to the listening audience. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would like to give Shauna MacKenzie the Best of Bermuda award for all of the work that she and her team have done in terms of getting us together and where we need to be for our compliance. She has done yeoman’s work. And I have known …
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, the EU, the European Council, has an approach to how they determine whether an offshore centre is one of concer n. First, they look at us on a substantive basis. The substantive basis is —“First, as the following sections will explore, the criteria depend largely on adherence to OECD standards. While this provides external validation …
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have couple of questions on [clause] 2(1) which amends [section 42A(1) of] the Proceeds of Crime Act 1997. There is [an insertion of par agraph] (j) that says, “ carries on for or on behalf of a customer the business of providing any of the financial activities specified in Schedule 3; …
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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On the same page, page 4, Schedule 3.
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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And then [paragraph] 1(f).
27 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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[It reads] “ financial guarantees and commitments, not including financial guarantee insurance which is insurance business under the I nsurance Act 1978.” What is a commitment? I understand . . . a guarantee can actually be a physical document, like when you go to the bank it can guarantee something. But I am not sure what a “commitment” is and …