First (1st) Sitting of the Third (3rd) Meeting of the Second Session of the 13th Legislature of Parliament · 24 Sep 2026
Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
Would you like me to help her?
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Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
Okay, I mean, just in case, thank you, Madam Chair. And just in case anyone have any technical questions, I may be able to answer them. The, uh, the tablets is just going to be like your laptop computer. It's not, it's no different. It's ju…
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Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
No, I don't think it's going to be a remote desktop. I think the Members Portal is going to be just a storage area to put information in for members. So, for instance, if you have bills, if you have audit papers and stuff like that, they wi…
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Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
Wouldn't be the portal though. The Minister of Home Affairs was saying that if you can access it from a third-party device, yeah, you'd be able to access the portal from a third-party device, but the portal won't be a remote desktop where y…
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Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
Thank you, Madam Chair. Now, as I said before, the tablets are just your laptop. It's a different form factor. And so you will be able to save files directly to the tablet. It's just an iPad. I'm not sure which models they got. It could be …
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Standing Orders of Parliament Amendment 2026
I would say yes, the devices could be loaded with anything, but from a design point of view, those are the things that you'll normally find in the members portal. So when you log into the portal, you'd see the laws of the Turks and Caicos. …
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Deferral of Parliamentary Questions
The average figure, the average.
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Deferral of Parliamentary Questions
I was just waiting for the light to get on. Sorry, my apologies. There were some questions posed to the Minister of PPID that looked suspiciously like they were questions meant to be for my ministry, and so I've got the answers here and I'm…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's just that the representative for The Bight asks all 4 questions and one goes. So I'm just going to go through them one by one, if that's okay?
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Okay. So the first question that he said was that the circumstances in which an electricity provider is permitted to issue an estimated or average bill. That's the one I'm going to speak to. And I'm sorry that I don't have it printed out be…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, and through the Speaker, there was a few questions asked there in terms of who approves the bill. For estimated bills, if you have an issue with your estimated bill, you can raise it. My recommendation is to raise it with the sup…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Even if they estimated the first bill wrong at $1,500, the bill in November should catch up because once they read the meter, the meter would then be able to show exactly what your reading is. So one bill will be higher than normal and the …
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me go to the Minister, Representative for The Bight, to say I'm still going to go through your questions as asked. And so while I'm taking the supplementary questions, based on what I know and gather from the Ele…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think what you're saying is instead of going to the supplier first -- Because I'm recommending going to the supplier first. I'm recommending that if you have an issue with your bill, to take it to the supplier firs…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you. As a representative, through the Speaker, the representative for South Caicos, I'm going to say that contrary to any— to the popular belief, the government As I know, it has not added into any negotiations of any license with thi…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Now, I can go into question 2 now.
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Okay.
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the second question— I just have to go and repeat the first one. First question, I'll go to the second one because it feeds off of the first one. So the first question was the circumstances in which an e…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In terms of the devices, I'm going to say something that I've heard, okay, so, and then I'm going to speak to it. The supplier didn't tell me this, but I've been told in the past that the devices that you may be spea…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
Thank you, through the Speaker, and I apologize to the All Island Member Number 8 because I feel I've got my back to her, but I apologize for having to turn around. Mr. Speaker, as I said before, it's not just a case of turning to the elect…
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Question on estimated electricity billing and Pelican Energy TCI metering systems
I will just take it as a note, Mr. Speaker, and just let the representative of South Caicos know that as part of the digitization of government and 24/7 government is to be able to— is setting up the websites and the portals and the feedbac…
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Two-minute speech by Hon. Erwin Jay Saunders
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Two-minute speech by Hon. Erwin Jay Saunders
Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. I noticed that you stressed 2 minutes with me and everybody else got a little bit more, but I promise I won't be as long. First of all, I'd like to thank you, Mr. Speaker, for giving me the time. I'd like t…
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First (1st) Sitting of the Second (2nd) Meeting of the Second Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 23 Sep 2026
Mortgage Corporation Amendment Bill 2026 - Committee Stage
Second.
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Mortgage Corporation Amendment Bill 2026 - Third Reading and Passage
Second.
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First (1st) Sitting of the Twenty - Sixth (26th) Meeting of the First Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 30 Jul 2026
Supplementary Appropriations 2026-2027 Bill 2026
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thought we were going to take a break for supper, but I understand we will go through and take supper a little later. Honourable Premier, Honourable Leader of the Opposition, elected members, Chaplain, strangers in…
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Supplementary Appropriations 2026-2027 Bill 2026
And it averaged 16 cents. Mr. Speaker, you are an accountant; you know that is not a large range. Fourteen to 17 cents is a very tight range, and I would say very predictable. The average combined effective rate for 2025 was therefore appro…
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Supplementary Appropriations 2026-2027 Bill 2026
That is what you are suggesting we have to do for electricity. It is temporary, as I said, because it responds to an immediate period of exceptional fuel price volatility. It is responsible because it provides relief without pretending that…
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Head of Expenditure 03, Police
Thank you. Through the Chair, to give a bit of context, the Attorney General is correct. There are two systems. The OTRIS system is technically a police records system, but it is used by a number of the overseas territories, and the UK Gove…
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Head of Expenditure 14, Statutory Charges
Thank you. I apologize, Madam Chair. Through the Chair, I would say it is probably more of a change in approach. I do not want to go as far as saying a mistake, but when you are doing the budgeting, you try to get the exact figure that you …
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Head of Expenditure 14, Statutory Charges
If you want, you can debate. Did you get the presentation from the person who is the project manager of this? Ms. Taylor was around doing presentations for all of the Members of Parliament, and I do not know if you were able to sit in on th…
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Head of Expenditure 14, Statutory Charges
I would say this is an attempt to be able to move it faster. I cannot speak for the procurement process. We would hope that this would allow us to move things faster but, as my colleague just pointed out, we would never try to circumvent an…
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Head of Expenditure 54 - Ministry of Finance, Economic Development, Investment and Trade
Thank you. Through the Chair, I am only picking this up because, as the former Minister of Finance and now Minister of Innovation, the portal would come to my attention from time to time. A lot of this information is used for statistical pu…
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Head of Expenditure 57 - Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture
Second.
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Head of Expenditure 60 - Ministry of Physical Planning and Infrastructure Development
Second.
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Head of Expenditure 60 - Ministry of Physical Planning and Infrastructure Development
Second.
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Head of Expenditure 61 - Ministry of Tourism, Agriculture, Fisheries, Heritage and the Environment
Second.
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Supplementary Appropriations 2026-2027 Bill 2026 - Committee Stage
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that the sum of $13,889,899.95 now stand part of the schedule. Do I have a seconder?
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First (1st) Sitting of the Twenty-Fifth (25th) Meeting of the First Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 23 Jul 2026
Destination Management Fee Amendment Number 2 Bill 2026
Second.
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Destination Management Fee Amendment Number 2 Bill 2026
Second.
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Second Sitting of the 23rd Meeting of the First Session of the 13th Legislature · 2 Jun 2026
Committee stage - amendments to Turks and Caicos Islands Tourism Authority Bill 2026
Yes.
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First (1st) Sitting of the Twentieth (20th ) Meeting of the First (1st ) Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 2 Apr 2026
Easter greetings and condolences
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would like to start by welcoming everyone who is listening to the House proceedings today by radio, those in the gallery and those streaming by Facebook. I would also like to wish the Honourable Minister of Home Aff…
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FIRST (1ST) SITTING OF THE NINETEENTH (19TH) MEETING OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH (13TH) LEGISLATURE · 23 Mar 2026
Head of Expenditure 69, Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that the sum of $8,727,009.17 now stands as part of the schedule. Do I have a seconder?
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Head of Expenditure 69, Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy
Thank you, Mr. Leader of the Opposition. Through the Chair, line items 173, 077 and 093 all relate to vacancies. I have the breakdown as well. The savings are all underspends relating to vacancies.
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First (1st) Sitting of the Sixteenth (16th) Meeting of the First Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 14 Jan 2026
Supplementary Appropriations Bill 2025-26 - Second Reading
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members of the House, strangers in the gallery, and anyone tuning in via radio and streaming media, my fellow Turks and Caicos Islanders, good afternoon. I rise today in support of the Supplem…
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Committee of Supply - Head 65 National Security Secretariat
Second.
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Committee of Supply - Head 66 Ministry of Public Safety and Utilities
Second.
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Committee of Supply - Head 69 Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that the sum of $9,301,056.21 now form part of the schedule. Do I have a seconder?
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Motion to include $9,301,056.21 in the schedule
Yes, Madam. Chair, I have a contribution.
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Motion to reallocate $250,000 from micro projects to policy planning and admin support
It's a net zero contribution. The reason why I'm saying this is because I got the message from the PS, but it hasn't been run by Finance. But it's a motion to move $250,000 from micro projects currently under 6909304305 to policy planning a…
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Withdrawal of motion to reallocate $250,000
Okay, okay, okay. I withdraw that, sorry.
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Pelican/Fortis rate review funds
Thank you. As I said during my speech, it's no longer needed, but the application is actually Pelican's application, Fortis's application, in the sense that they applied for it. And so they would have to be managing about how that's moving …
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Pelican/Fortis rate review funds
What I could say about it is that it's Pelican's decision. Right now, we removed it because it's no longer necessary. That's money that we had put aside. But like I said, it's Pelican's decision whether it's finished or whether it's ongoing…
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Proceedings on appropriation schedule
Someone swiped my book, but okay.
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Proceedings on appropriation schedule
No, I'll read it. It's the same motion.
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Motion to reallocate $250,000 from micro projects to policy planning and admin support
So this will be a motion to me moving this amount to the schedule, so I want to make an adjustment to that. Having $9,301,056.21 as part of the schedule, I'd like to make one motion to that. It says to move the sum of $250,000 from micro pr…
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Impact of reallocation on RTC and studio upgrades
I don't usually say this, but good question. It doesn't impact us. As I said before, this gives us more flexibility. We've got the equipment. I've actually seen it with my eyes. We've got all the cameras and everything in there. This will a…
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RTC staffing increase
The short answer is yes, but it may not be permanent staff, it may be consultants depending on the situation. Every increase in staff at the government affects the total number of staff, so some people we may have to bring on as consultants…
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First (1st) Sitting of the Fifteenth (15th) Meeting of the First Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 8 Jan 2026
Business License Amendment Bill 2025 - Committee Stage, Clause 3
Second.
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Business Licence Bill - Transitional Provisions and Surcharge
Yes.
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Business Licensing Amendment Bill 2025 - Committee Stage Amendments
Second.
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Business Licensing Amendment Bill 2025 debate
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand in support of the Business Licensing Amendment Bill 2025. I'll be brief because my colleagues have already touched on the details. These things are done not by luck but by design. This took a long time to get…
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