 Mr Speaker, I rise to support the bill that is before the House as presented by the Honourable Prime Minister earlier today. But Mr Speaker, it would be remiss of me to make a very short presentation on the bill without acknowledging the earlier contribution by the member for view for itself. I think Mr Speaker, we were treated to a master class of a presentation by the member in supporting the bill as presented by the Prime Minister. But Mr Speaker, I will crave your indulgence briefly to place on the record my condolences to two families in my constituency who have lost loved ones. The Noel family in Olio and the Kelly family of Despin. And Mr Speaker, I also want to join the member for Gruzily in congratulating Julian Alfred for having represented her educational institution and by extension our country with distinction. Mr Speaker, Superintendent of Police, Britain Dituville is a constituent of mine. And I must also place on the record the condolences of the people of Denry North to the Dituville family on the passing of the senior police officer. Mr Speaker, today is historic, historic in terms of the parliament and also our country. Today we boldly transition from the previous council to the CCG as the final appellate court for our people and our country. Mr Speaker, I believe that taking this particular bill to the parliament or the amendment of the constitution is a profound expression of confidence in the homegrown legal talent that reside in our country and by extension the Caribbean. Mr Speaker, there was a time in our history when people would frown on the quality coming out of the Caribbean, not because we were not matching up to what obtained elsewhere, but we had been made to believe that anything coming from us was inferior to what obtained elsewhere. Mr Speaker, thankfully today we are able to see the light for ourselves and tell our people as leaders that what emanates and what comes out of the Caribbean is comparable to what obtains anywhere else in the world and the legal fraternity is not an exception. Mr Speaker, many have criticised our administration for going the route of the CCG. Mr Speaker, the CCG that we are presenting to the people today is not a Jabba sack. We gave a commitment to the people of St. Lucia when we were on the campaign trail that we would have replaced the previ council with the CCG as the final appellate court for our jurisdiction. Mr Speaker, so this was not or is not a Jabba sack. When the people of this country went to the polls, they knew what they were voting for. They knew they were voting for among other things the reinstatement of the one laptop per child programme. They knew they were voting for an administration that would absorb the cost of CXC Math and English. They knew they were voting for an administration that would give expression to the philosophy of having one university graduate per household. And Mr Speaker, they also knew that had they voted for the St. Lucia Labour Party, they would have seen the young athletes of this country receiving better support in the exploits irrespective of where Mr Speaker or the discipline that they chose. And so Mr Speaker, in equal measure, they also knew that once the St. Lucia Labour Party had won the elections to form the government that we would have replaced the previ council with the CCG. And Mr Speaker, not only is it contained in the manifesto, but in the front speech by the Governor General after we became the government, the Governor General spoke to St. Lucia embracing the CCG as the final appellate court. This was reiterated by the Prime Minister in his budget address Mr Speaker. So here we are today making good on a promise made to the people and we are being faced with opposition that is not objective. But as the member for grocery quite rightly said Mr Speaker, the opposition sees an opportunity to posture politically because nothing seemed to be working for them. And so they believe Mr Speaker by making noise about the CCG or posing the CCG that will probably give them a foothold. And I watched the member for me could solve this morning Mr Speaker. I have been in opposition before. Opposition is lonely. And when he looked to his left Mr Speaker where he would have had some form of support, he noticed that there was nobody to chair him on. And so he went off on a tangent. He tried to speak about crime. Mr Speaker, he talked about bad governance. And Mr Speaker to make it worse, he even tried to provide or give advice to our government. The same man who want to lectures on governance and good governance Mr Speaker was Prime Minister for five years. He went beyond the customary five years dragged us into a six year presided just one head of expenditure constituency development programme in excess of one hundred million dollars. And he did not give a single project to the six of us who sat in opposition. And when he stood Mr Speaker, I looked at the member and I saw a portrait of desperation. I saw incoherence. I saw a man who did not know what he was talking about. But I'm sure Mr Speaker, during the life of this parliament, there will be other opportunities to speak about those things. And so I want to say Mr Speaker, that this is your new Japan government. I would like to say that we have reached a previous council. It was a very short meeting during the last hearing of the session two days ago, I decided that the session is to continue, I also want to say that we have reached a lot of levels that we have had in its previous debate on whether it is appropriate to engage in this type of held trial, it is possible to leave England for the very first time. justice. Je seplissi kai tabek koi o de posisi o ekre situasio ko si yo kwe decision yo juen al odias padwet yo nia opportunitie Mr. Speaker po apil ek yo sa fes sa adan sanokakwi in final court ko kipa lwoyo ek ki isi a mem seplissi Mr. Speaker. Ek sa se yon se pli go la ventai, ki en whole discussion sa konokatie po meti CCJ. Mr. Speaker. We have achieved a lot as a people and we should never let political opportunities, people looking to score political points to cause us to second guess ourselves and what we can achieve as a people. I have full confidence Mr. Speaker in the process. I have full confidence in the CCJ and I am certain that when the vote is put to this chamber, this afternoon Mr. Speaker and St. Lucia would have embraced the CCJ that our country and our people would be much better off as a result of the intervention of this government. So Mr. Speaker on behalf of the people of Denrenov, I pledge my full support to the move where we replace the Privy Council with the CCJ as the final appellate court of our jurisdiction. Thank you Mr. Speaker.