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24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Member is misleading the House and they keep doing this because t hey do not want to face the racial realties of Bermuda! [Inaudible interjections]
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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I’m sorry. My apologies.
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Speaker.
24 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I frequently hear this in the blogs amongst those white racists who support their party, Oh, it is only because there are more of them. Proportiona tely, it does not work out that way. So, stop saying that! Because it seems like you are trying to—
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister convey whether the insurance industry is moving in the direction that is going to provide the policies to cover this risk both at a local and a global level?
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, certainly the country has been rocked by revelations concerning the so- called “Par adise Papers” of late. There are many in the community who will advance the view that it is nothing but a storm in a teacup. That is not the unanimous view, but certainly there are those who will assert that. Mr. …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Let us move on to payroll tax, if I may, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With respect to payroll tax, you had 5.1 per cent that was represented. . . in terms of the percentage of payroll tax, the lowest income group paid . And most of those people would have been not earning anything. They probably are not working and so …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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—savings rate. Bermuda House of Assembly I think the Member from [constituency] 24 made a quip about that. In essence, saying about having a negative savings rate. So, we know at that time [it was] minus 54.0 per cent. Moving up the income level, household i ncome, $22,000 to $38,000, minus 8.0 per cent. Third, $38,000 to $82,000, circa 1998, …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Go ahead.
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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No. No.
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, sir?
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Mm-hmm.
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, that is not true. Okay? This data was not submitted to our committee. Okay? This is public data. This data came . . . has been . . . two successive Governments, firstly the UBP under the former Minister, and then under the PLP Finance Minister —
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay, so, we have to deal with the structural issue that has been engendered by economic inequality. There is no doubt about it. It is a pernicious phenomenon, as I said, that is having a very destructive impact on Bermuda in a variety of ways. And that i s why the Government was wise to talk about forming a tax …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. And if we think that by simply managing that status quo, no matter how well, that we are doing our job, we are not. Because by doing that we are rei nforcing inequality to this country and it is something that we cannot allow to stand. And those people who voted did not vote for us because they …
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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A point of order, Mr. Speaker. Point of order. [Inaudible interjections]
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the Member is egregiously and insidiously misleading the House.
10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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No one mentioned the i nterlocutor’s colour or race at all.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Like many, I too am shocked by the news of Mr. Reggie Burrows’ passing. We had a little insight into the fact that he was not doing well of late. But, of course, when you reach that point of finality, it is always hard to accept, especially from someone who was so respected i n the …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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He was a major party stalwart. And as I talked earlier about Brother Reggie Burrows and that generation—and I associate all of the House here, and on this side especially —I just want to say you had people like Mr. Lightbourn who were in the trenches with them. These were the support troops of the Progressive Labour Party. And he, …