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3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Well, I believe the Minister is misleading the House. Certainly, what is in the doc-ument clearly calls for a bipartisan committee com-prised of both political parties and stakeholders, and talks about that potential tax being one that would be directed toward, mainly, persons who own commercial property and [have] extensive property holdings. Cer-tainly, that has to be on table. Thank …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I believe the Member has mislead the House in part. The Caroline Bay deve lopment began under the PLP Government.
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Certainly, they have—
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member from constituency 12, who just took his seat, he does talk about race, but always in a very reactionary way, much like his colleague from constituency 7, in a way that almost places the onus of these issues of income and inequality and racial disparity on the victims as opposed to those who are …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. But you will note, Mr. Speaker, that during the time of the Pathways to Status protest there was an agreement made between the Government and the representative of the various groups including the union, that were at the forefront, the vanguard of that protest. And one of the items agreed upon was that the Labour Advisory Council in …
3 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Twenty seconds. Well, I am going to have to try to get some of this in at some ot her time, but I just want to say again, we have a changing strategic environment. I would like to see this Government recognise that the old status quo and the entrenched interests that it represents can no longer take this country …
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . I must say though that this seems somewhat like déjà vu—
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, I saw this question somewhere—
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , for the Honourable Minister Cannonier, question number one would be will the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House as to the status of the publicly acknowledged negotiations between the Ministry of Public Works and the Salvation Army as it relates to the proposal to lease the current Bishop Spencer site in Pembroke to the church?
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker .
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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When does the Minister anticipate that the negotiations with the church, that being the Salvation Army, will take place with respect to this lease agreement?
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Moving on, Mr. Speaker , thank y ou.
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Question number two.
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Mini ster please advise this Honourable House whether the Ministry of Public Works will assist the Salvation Army in making the current Salvation Army Shelter on North Street fit for purpose and habitable for the existing clients by making available the necessary resources to effectuate long overdue renovations to the dormit ories?
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker .
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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The Minister, and I appr eciate the response that they will continue to do so, but the reality is that we have had a winter nearly completed and persons have been subjected to the ele-ments at these various dormitories. Can he come with any concrete proposals and/or a timetable by which the dormitories can be made habitable?
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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My third question, Mr. Speaker .
24 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Mini ster please advise this Honourable House, in lieu of the conclusion of the aforementioned negotiations with the church, whether the Minister will commit to repair the various structural issues that are afflicting the current North Street facility such as the blockage to a major drainage system that routinely floods with the onset of heavy rains?