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N. H. Cole Simons

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9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Pardon me? [Inaudible interjection]
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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No, it is not the “Simons Summit”; it is the Ocean Risk Summit. And they have some world- class leaders who will be basically talking about the changing state of our oceans and how this changing state and the risks associated therein will impact cultures, economies, businesses, and other economic initiatives. They have chosen political lea ders, economic leaders, risk …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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We have His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco and he is a patron of the IUCN [International Union for Conservation of N ature]. We have Queen Noor coming. We have the founders of Oceans Unite. We have the Deputy Prem-ier of BVI [British Virgin Islands]. We have various senior members of the United Nations, our local Mike McGavick. We …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. I just have two more points that I forgot during my—
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes. Where 90 per cent of our world’s fishes stock is fully exploited, it is our r esponsibi lity to manage our marine resources and, in particular, our EEZ. Mr. Chairman, I know that there was a study done through Catapult in regard to the satellite company that monitored our EEZ for a certain period of time and came up …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Administration, 3203.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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B-317. The Chair man: Thank you.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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And you can either do 3203 or the Marine Environment.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, that is close to my heart, yes. Billfish tournaments, Mr. Chairman.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Billfish tournaments.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Are there any regulations in place that will enable us to study the possibility of having tag and release? Because personally I am di sgusted that you see these fish hanging there after the billfish tournament —300, 400 pounds, 25- year-old fish—just to have a picture taken and weighed. And then the carcasses are discarded. From an environ-mental point of …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—from an environmental point of view?
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, I think we—
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—I think we need to do more from an environmental point of view.
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And so I am just raising that as a personal issue, Mr. Chairman.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Hon. Walton Brown: Let me just say, Mr. Chai rman—
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Madam Chairman. I am going to start where the Minister left off and that is the Bermuda College, Head 41. I would like to begin by commending Dr. Duranda Greene for a sterling job as far as leadership. The Bermuda Col-lege has a prominent role to play in our tertiary educ ation and we are seeing the …
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Pardon? Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Since the beginning of time or—
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Just for the— Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: —or last y ear.
9 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—last year. Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Because I mentioned it.