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Walton Brown

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26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Right. No, what you need to do is have a conversation with —
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I am speaking to you, Mr. Speaker. I am speaking to you directly .
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Speak to the industry people who are articulating that position. They have talked to you to some extent already, talk some more, have some open discussions. Let us have a discussion about that, Mr. Speaker, if you are serious. If all you want to do is to protect the elite and the greedy, then do not tell me you are …
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification, Mr. Speaker.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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If the Minister will allow me just to clarify a poin t, the Minister for Immigration recently stated that he accepted in the 1960s and 1970s imm igration policy was manipulated for political purposes.
26 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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It should not be a novel idea.
19 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at the next day of meeting, I propose to move the following motion: WHEREAS numerous matters concerning immigration laws and policies remain contentious, un-resolved and deeply divisive; AND WHEREAS there is a need for an incl usive approach for the betterment of Bermuda by di smantling historic piecemeal approaches and to embark instead on …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, good morning, Mr. Speaker.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Good morning, colleagues. Would the Honourable Minister please inform this Honourable House of the number of Bermuda’s public school students who have transferred to private schools, home schools, and to overseas schools for the years 2011 –2015?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes. Would the Honourable Minister agree that this represents a crisis of confidence in public education?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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And second supplementary?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Minister agree that this emigration, primarily to the UK, al though it may fall outside of his ministerial remit, speaks to a much broader set of issues that this Go vernment has not adequately addressed? Hon. R. Wayne Scott: Again, I would not agree with that. I think it is important to note, as the Member would …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes. Can the Minister answer, whose decision was it to provide that additional lay -by (I am not sure what the term is), that piece of land that is adjacent to the well that was built by the Governor’s great - grandfather? Why was that special area cr eated? And what does it have to do with the roundabout? …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, given that the Go vernor was so quick to have some regimental band perform on that grassy knoll area . . . [Laughter]
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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. . . even before the roundabout was completed, cannot the Minister confirm whether or not the Governor had any involvement in having this actual park land created, given that the whole effort was to celebrate his great -grandfather’s construction of that well? Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, I cannot confirm that. I cannot confirm. [Inaudible …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Well, can you get the confirm ation? Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: I can. I cannot confirm that, though.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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For Minister Cannonier. Will the Honourable Minister provide this House with the de-tails on the agreement between the Bermuda Government and the Spanish Point Boat Club regarding public access to the public slip which is adjacent to the boat club property?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I hope the Minister understands what he just said. This is a public slip, which you have Bermuda House of Assembly just said the public would now have access to, [if they give] 24 hours’ notice, Mr. Speaker. Do you not agree, Honourable Minister, that for a slip that is a public slip, the only slip that is public in …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I do not want to preempt the second question. But can the Minister at least state to this House whether or not the 24- hour access that he spoke of is actually contained in that initial Memorandum of Understanding?