 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I'm happy you observed that I did more than putting on my lights off I stood because I wanted it to have visibility that I was prepared to speak. I recognize that Madam Clark was obscure in my vision. Hopefully we can. Thank you very much and good morning colleagues. Mr. Speaker I rise to support the motion that this honorable House of Assembly do adopt the report of the Standing Finance Committee on the estimates of revenue and expenditure of the financial year 2024-2025 in the sum of one billion eight hundred and ninety four million one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Mr. Speaker allow me just before my brief contribution to call out my dear cousin and I refer to as Auntie Rosella George of Turochet who is not doing too well but in prayer I am wishing her well and I ask her sons, her free sons, to take courage as our family as we we tarry as we go through life dealing with the ups and downs and challenges of this life. Mr. Speaker also I wish to convey my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Wavin Quas on the passing of Brother Morris who was known by many for his charity work in the community. I asked them to take courage and of course God will see us through. Mr. Speaker I cannot help but also want to recognize the presence of our the parliamentary representative who was here yesterday the Honorable Dr. Poyot and of course I was extremely pleased to have seen her. Please refer to her by her constituency. By the member for Babuno sorry Mr. Speaker the member for Babuno her presence here was and certainly had some thrills and I was extremely pleased and happy to see her in our meets and Mr. Speaker many of us from time to time go through what life has to offer but we are comfortable and we are confident in the fact that we know our own redeemer lives and that he will see us through life even in our difficult times. Mr. Speaker I wish to place on record this morning my profound admiration for our esteemed leader and Prime Minister the Honorable Philip Joseph Pierre. Sometimes Mr. Speaker I ask what will he think next? What more will he give to St. Lucian's? He never ceases to amaze me with his creativity in putting people first and of course I know his his health and his he receives support from my able friend from Anceleri countries and I cannot help not to reflect on the member from Anceleri countries because I know he is helping our leader our Prime Minister and he's in the Ministry of Finance assisting in putting together this really timely and an important estimates of expenditure and revenue. Mr. Speaker I listened intently as the Prime Minister introduced the budget. Uncoupled with my initial review of the estimates of revenue and expenditure I can only describe this budget as a CPR budget. CPR budget? Yes the member for St. Lucian's a CPR budget. I call it a CPR budget because it is a caring productive and a responsible budget that proposes to resuscitate life in terms of economic and social well-being of our St. Lucian's into this country. A budget that will inject the needed resources into the country through caring productive and responsible programs and initiatives. In a manner that demonstrate that the government is a caring a productive and a responsible one. A CPR budget. Mr. Speaker I rise to speak first to avoid the noise of who should speak first or last. Because in the good old book it says the first shall become the last and the last shall become the first. I am not here to respond but to project what is correct and true because in the presentation of the Prime Minister yesterday what was glaring in his presentation is this truthfulness his sincerity and it doesn't matter what the other side says or do or contrive to come up with truth can defend itself and therefore when you are about to speak truth you can speak first when you about to speak truth you can speak last when you are prepared to speak truth you could speak anytime. So I know the member for me could solve visitors is not present here and he's either not present on a phone brick or he's either running out away from the member from Central Castries or he's either for some reason or the other member from Central Castries he's usually out but most times running away from the presence of the member from Central Castries I notice being provocative here. But Mr. Speaker the budgeted estimates of expenditure for the Ministry of Equity is important in that regard. Social justice and empowered expenditure for 2020 for 2025 stand at 58 million nine hundred and fifty a thousand five hundred dollars. Mr. Speaker there is a decrease from last year and decrease from last year approximately 17 million dollars decrease. Mr. Speaker but you know I went through the estimates of expenditure and I remember that in the Bible there was a story of Lazarus and there is an artist who coined a song about this in a gospel song about the story of Lazarus and said that even if he was four days late he was still on time the Prime Minister somehow can reduce a ministry and still give you more and I will explain this. I will explain this. The member for Sozele is smiling. I can show you. It's amazing how can the Prime Minister reduce the amount in equity by 17 million and still give more. I will take some time to share with you. So Mr. Speaker there are two areas that led to the decrease in the estimates of expenditure for the Ministry of Equity. There was a significant project under the World Bank that came to an end by approximately 10 million the vertical and horizontal expansion of the support under the public assistance and there was also the transfer of the National Conservation Authority from the Ministry of Equity to the rightly place of the Ministry of Tourism that led to its decrease but I will show you Mr. Speaker if you go to page 647 of the estimates of expenditure and Mr. Speaker since this debate is about the estimates of expenditure and revenue I would want for you to consult your document which was made available almost eight days earlier page 448 you know usually a church when when when a pastor is preaching you usually have your Bible and then you refer you to verses of scripture and you must get to your Bible so you have to get to the Bible this morning the Bible is the estimates of expenditure and you were given that to you that was given to you eight days ago so you have no reason after the presentation this morning to to construct your own arguments so if you look Mr. Speaker for 2024-2025 you would see salaries and salary allowances wages wages allowances rewards and incentives traveling training stationary but you would go down to the area of your consultancy services that was reduced but grants and contribution move from 16,982,148 to 13 million of course there represents the relocation of the National Conservation Authority from the Ministry of Equity to the Ministry of Tourism and Mr. Speaker very important you would look at the area of public assistance which was 26,488,047 dollars to 16,871,409 dollars these two areas contribute to the reduction in the estimates of expenditure what was given to the Ministry of Equity is 17,545,400 dollars to the Ministry that explains the reduction but Mr. Speaker and Spade 647 647 Mr. Speaker you would Mr. Speaker you would recognize the amount and I want to speak to these areas here the areas of capital community after school home care program nine million solution human capital resilience five million plus BNTF 4.6 million rehabilitation of human of the human resource centers 950,000 and I will spend some time there Mr. Speaker anticipatory action focus based financing 300,000 very important offenders reintegration pilot project 150,000 multiple indicator cluster survey the mix 1.1 million under the family care service you have the counseling the establishment of a counseling unit 183,000 the juvenile rehabilitation center 300,000 and of course shock responsive social protection project 200 and 992,635,000 and the COVID safety vulnerable response vulnerable persons response of 2.4 million dollars a total of 25 million dollars in the capital area Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker each one of those areas represent and these areas were not funded previously Mr. Speaker after school program why would the government at this time spend almost one million dollars in after school program Mr. Speaker a lot of this will be discussed in the policy statement when we come to discuss the policy of government or we have the debate on the policy of this government but suffice it to say Mr. Speaker we understand the nature of education we understand the inequity of our society we understand why persons will not always be able to attend school and you have the incidence of school dropouts you have the incidence of deviant behaviors in our society the times are just different and therefore you have an opportunity for redress in the after school program Mr. Speaker the home care program Mr. Speaker this initiative this idea coming from the Labour Party of home care program to provide support to persons at the home that started under the NICE program this is it have to take a care in it has to take a government that think beyond the mass scope of the rudiment government activities the construction of roads the construction of schools this government mind would have had to move beyond the normal activities of government to get into somebody's home and recognize there are persons that need assistance and provided Mr. Speaker one would ask who told the Prime Minister that there are senior people he's not a social worker but of course member of the castries south east your strain very close to policy statements very well and like I thank you Mr. Speaker like I said I will leave all of this but this is the justification this is the heart of the government by investing that amount for the elder care program Mr. Speaker Saint Lucia human capital resilience program Mr. Speaker another very important program the resilience of our population Mr. Speaker the BNTF program and under this program Mr. Speaker I will highlight that we have constructed roads in road in in castry south woodlands the member didn't probably didn't want me to say that but yeah there's a road in woodlands a concrete road in woodlands the rehabilitation Mr. Speaker the rehabilitation of a community center in Badni Mr. Speaker I do not want to speak a lot about this but this one is very important to me for many reasons Mr. Speaker I'm tempted to say a little but based on your guidance I will just say for now but the the the building is there for many many years Mr. Speaker in 2016 the former prime minister the member for view for the south for view for south he was the then prime minister asked that this building be renovated in 2016 and we placed a new roof on this building somehow the problem Mr. Speaker it seemed that if you do not want something to be done is for us to start it this building is in the heart of the fortress of where call supporters of the United Workers Party in the constituency of castry south face that receive nothing even with a brand new roof on the building but Mr. Speaker I'm happy and my extremely happy will see the completion of this building since 2016 and our deceased brother Fox was the one who established a new roof on the building and the land will be paid for Mr. Speaker under this provision was made to pay the person for the land because this building has been on some body's land but the plane plane area has been on some body's land since forever and of course that would be addressed and I'm happy that is allocated here Mr. Speaker when we have disaster of course allocation is made and that is and that is been funded under the world food world food program anticipatory action Mr. Speaker when there's a this when a disaster is approaching we do not like after the disaster to go and provide vulnerable people with support the Ministry of Equity through targeting if we announce that a hurricane is approaching we want to be for the hurricane approach to provide support to individuals and that Mr. Speaker and that Mr. Speaker we will do under this support right there Mr. Speaker the multiple indicator cluster that will happen Mr. Speaker that counseling unit there will be a counseling unit and Mr. Speaker counseling is needed in this country and a total of 183,609 dollars will be made available for this Mr. Speaker again last year we received three hundred and forty forty nine thousand dollars for the juvenile center and I love this one so dearly a juvenile center for St. Groucher Mr. Speaker an additional three hundred thousand dollars for to continue the work planning engineering architectural services and tomorrow is a very important meeting and site visit Mr. Speaker we cleared the site of the George Charles secondary school and again I need to commend the prime minister three hundred percent or five hundred percent why Mr. Speaker because the current site for the boys training center ridiculously we put up there's burglar bars at the entrance where they are those who are in conflict with the law and then they go through the roof which is easier to escape so they have scoundrels as they want to and we have a concrete structure two blocks three stories empty that's five times the size of the current site five times the size of the current boys training center and we need more space up then goes away this has become so happy about this because we will transform the George Charles secondary school into a juvenile center you become the best in the OECS or the Caribbean that I welcome Mr. Speaker and I cannot wait to celebrate the completion of this project and three hundred thousand dollars is made available for the continuation design of this juvenile center it is rehabilitation but it is a it is a is a relocation because sometime ago almost twenty million dollars was designed was arranged and the design of a project took place the juvenile center at next to Baudelaise or somewhere in casually then in January I do not see why you would want to use have a juvenile center next to a prison why would it is almost like automatic graduation you are suggesting but this government suggesting to put a juvenile center in a secondary a former secondary school the emphasis on the psyche of the juvenile center is education it is training these rehabilitation and this I'm happy to be associated with this Mr. Speaker we have developed there is an amount of ninety two thousand six hundred and forty five dollars shock response social protection project this is because this is so critical and of course the area shock response you would remember Mr. Speaker sometime last year there was a flood in in in a certain part of Norfolk the island that would have been in in Corinth and you have a hazard that is localized in a particular in this case is a middle class what this shock response initiative would allow for the multi-dime to apply the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty a very interesting proxy test that doesn't only look at poverty in terms of income poverty but look at certain deprivation so you could find out who is most we should prioritize when you have a disaster so you would run through your normal country poverty survey those who are below the poverty line but of course if there's a disaster in your country tomorrow how do you prioritize and therefore the shock response allow for for the assessment of persons who are most in need at the time of the crisis Mr. Speaker this twenty five million two hundred and forty one thousand dollars under the capital program the Ministry of Equity will go a long way in assisting the vulnerable population of this country Mr. Speaker this is the heart and soul of this government Mr. Speaker this is the heart and soul of why we put people first this is a heart and soul of why I refer to this budget as a caring productive and responsible budget Mr. Speaker the sincerity of the Prime Minister's presentation has led me to reflect on how does that impact castry South how such a budget can cause the transformation that we speak of in the Ministry of Equity how does that happen Mr. Speaker even before I highlight this if you highlight the under the grants and contribution of the Ministry of Equity you would see something very interesting on page 604 of the estimates of expenditure and Mr. Speaker you would notice that on the 2324 on the grants and contribution the Ministry of Equity received 14,948,348 dollars and this time around we received 12,118,388 dollars and of course like I said previously the 1.9 million for the National Conservation Authority is no longer there because it has been real relocated but Mr. Speaker there is an agency that is now under the grants and contribution of the Ministry of Equity and Social Justice it is referred to advocate linking resilience movement alarm they received just a meager 6,240,000 dollars Mr. Speaker I believe this is the most impactful significant contribution to me in this budget while the amount is bigger I'll explain to you why Mr. Speaker this organization was a yes 600, 240,000 dollars 6,000 sorry 240 but it's important mr. Speaker now give more details in the policy debate but mr. Speaker the alarm cannot help myself and I'll repeat it in you know members are telling me yeah the estimates debate is more about the figures but I cannot resist mr. Speaker and bear me mr. Speaker on this mr. Speaker this organization you would want to know why are they there who is this organization referred to advocate linking resilience movement who are they and why are they receiving a grant and I'm sure persons would want to know mr. Speaker when you based on what I've encountered in this on this island what I've encountered during my work for the past 20 years 15 years working at this and which are social development fund as you know dealing a property reduction on the yields of our society and the past few years in opposition mr. Speaker when you have a 25-year-old approaching you with a disabled child autistic she's trying to figure out how she wants to move on with her life but the child is ripping ripping off her hair and she has nowhere to place the child but she must have the child because the child has no place to have a such a disabled child alarm is responding to that single parents with children were extremely disabled can finally find a place to place the child and go to town and look for a job mr. Speaker the rest I will leave it because they are more gruesome examples of why we need that support mr. Speaker on the grants and contribution rice and Lucia ink would be receiving a grant and the sisters of a call quarter the member for country south which one is it yes would be receiving a grant because they are providing needed charitable philanthropic support mr. Speaker also mr. Speaker the when you have an increase to feed the poor ministry an increase to St. Lucia's home an increase in Adelaide's home the figures have now moved from 14 made has has been reduced because of course like I said national conservation authority has moved but we have seen an increase in the grants and contribution under the Ministry of Equity Social Justice and Empowerment mr. Speaker and the question is how how has this affect life how would the classroom South is constituency benefit from such interventions mr. Speaker I first want to reflect on the allocation made on the local government mr. Speaker the local government the castry South is council is very important to castry South East and mr. Mr. Speaker just as the city of castries the cast the city council is to the city of castries I believe so must all councils relate to the constituency and while it takes time I believe we must start now I do not think in castry South East we need constituency police although in maybe in the distant future if it becomes necessary so it must be but if we are to develop this country in the way that we want to our councils must be strengthened our councils must respond mr. Speaker what has happened under my stewardship and I'm proud to report mr. Speaker do I have humble about anything that I do that the castry South East council under the act established in 2012 mr. Speaker when I asked someone in castry South East what is it that a staff of 12 persons in the constituency have to be a council in castry South is the second largest constituency I was told they were one by one with ether and a few hand tools mr. Speaker my first action was that transportation is a constituency business and I did not want transportation to be politicized and therefore I provide a coaster the time when his ambassador prime minister allowed a coaster for castry South East I continue to increase the asset base of cast of the council in castry South East mr. Speaker not also not only that castry South East council had a coaster but castry South East now sits on the solid waste management board because dead brothers the waste the the field where they dump in garbage is in the constituency thank you thank you the minister of education and the member for for denry's denry north but that was allowed so castry South East constituency council is now sits on solid waste management board and you don't understand why mr. Speaker detail of it every vehicle that going to dump garbage is into castry South East they go and when the process of covering the garbage is not done well we are greeted by the house flies in the homes of they go back son also and I'm not happy about it I would tell you because I visit my constituents and I see what happens mr. Speaker there will be a new cemetery national cemetery and the new national cemetery will be in back so because god forbid or unfortunately we continue to die those of us who don't do except it and shot it's loaded I don't want to take away your constituent you will have your bed if they are but back so it has been identified has been 14 acres acres of land has been has been acquired so the new not a new shock the new back so burial ground will become the national place so like I said to the member for city council is assisting us but castry city will not come to back so to bury dead we shall bury our dead in back so and therefore the city council is now represented on a committee to ensure the business of burial takes place and if there's any benefit to it it shall reside in the constituency of castry South East making bread on the dead we didn't start it mr. Speck mr. Speaker that council is now represented on a committee that responsible for jazz in back so only that we are only that we are doing yes jazz in back so and of course next year we're going for the main stage event tell you no no we will not stand by and just be a spectator the castry south is constituency and like I've said in warping croissant in forest here is endowed with able men that can form any cabinet we're good huh we could include who you want but even that will be subjected to elections yeah but I'm saying that we are able in castry south me so I do not want castry south is to be looked upon as if it were you know when you talk about Saint Lucia you leave castries and you skip castry south is and you start heading to denry no win it yeah you had to denry north denry south no win it and we must be counted so yes jazz in castry south is this is inspirational hills and valleys jazz it's here to stay and we've just put worse one foot in but I'm telling you we're going for pigeon point because we can't host the main event yes yes yes yes trust me we can turn our rivers into a lot more mr. speaker but there's something that's happening in castry south is and very soon you will see the opening of a bus shelter a bus shelter at the corner of belly and sarot it will be the first bench bus shelter in Saint Lucia that have washrooms it is the first best shelter in Saint Lucia with hairdressing solo it is the first bus shelter that will create employment it is the first bus shelter that have an attendant because visitors pass by and mr. speaker there is some at work taking place on that bus shelter when we well we need to be creative we need to and this bus shelter will be handed over to the council mr. speaker because the council will be the one collecting rents for the operations of two head two barbers and a hairdresser and you have the washrooms at the bottom and the best shelter on the side take a look at it mr. speaker this is innovation because castry south is we got it got it we have it we have it locked down the perfect south twesad is on you understand mr. speaker absolutely innovative compensation and we're not doing it just for castry south is we are saying to the rest of the constituents our ladies should not have to run to the bush or go to behind the vehicle when they want to go around the islands and enjoy you know the weekend is coming Saint Lucia's want to go on an island tour it's why is it that they haven't got washrooms at strategic points that people should stop and use washrooms why is it only visitors we considering i personally have a problem with that so i am not arguing with everybody else i am putting it in castry south is very soon when you pass through castry south is if you want to stop you'll get a stop and relax enjoy yourself get a restroom before you move out of castry south is because that's where it will be putting one at the corner of bexon one by mark one by therefore i believe we need to provide for people and we're doing that but i'm leaving all of this for policy this debate mr. speaker i'm leaving that i'll repeat it mr. speaker this year castry south is we receive a truck and a pickup not a constituency of will barrows castry south is council and i'm just talking about expenditure we will receive a truck and a will barrow because we have to keep our constituency clean but mr. speaker let me move on from the council because when you talk about cpr when you talk about caring productive when you talking about you know responsibility it's an imagination that persons who want to grow and develop the people develop the place that these are the characteristics you want to look for and that is why this budget as best as i can describe it is a cpr budget caring productive and responsible stop this boring thing mr. speaker let's move into how this means how the budget will impact infrastructure and castry south is mr. speaker the ongoing works west coast redevelopment mr. speaker very early and of course i've learned from all the parliamentarians have served and i'm maybe one of the few parliamentarians in here who have served as the executive director to two of those parliamentarians will sit here a blue wave and the member for view for itself blue wave is not a parliamentary term mr. speaker so i remember i prefer saying the member for for castries north and the member for view for south i was the executive director of the central social development fund and i was able to serve both prime ministers mr. speaker and i learned from the two as i've had the opportunity to interact with them directly not on any political issue but more on developmental people focus because that was what i was responsible for mr. speaker you seize the opportunity when something is happening to see how you can affect or bring the best out of it design of projects infrastructure project is not left for an engineer but the community the parliamentarians must all participate to bring out the best out of the design so upon winning the election at the appointed time july i rushed to the office where there was a consultant and i said let me see the design of the west coast road i said you're not going to complete it without providing sidewalks for the children leaving the marigold primary school into the community that is critical mr. speaker there was a design to rehabilitate west coast road mr. speaker you if you have to travel from lakwa to souffle you know you have to snake yourself through to souffle and the drains are deep because you are going down and climbing can you imagine living school and you heading home you are the mercy of vehicles speeding in one direction there are no speed bumps and on your sides are deep drains almost the height of a child i said that this project must include sidewalks or must be pedestrian friendly because there's a school on it and that is being accommodated mr. speaker also i had the opportunity to highlight and mr. speaker development in st lucha is an interesting one and keep me on time mr. speaker i do not want to take more than 45 minutes i'm almost there i'm 45 minutes 15 minutes mr. speaker i all i was just testing your curiosity on time mr. speaker i wanted the opportunity to correct a problem in kaldissa mr. speaker you could observe the land grab that's taking place in the kaldissa valley and thanks to the new term senior minister he have had to arrest that land grab that's taking place in the kaldissa valley right senior minister previously everybody want a piece of kaldissa hot grounds mr. speaker if you see the plethora of memos to cabinet who were taking a piece so marsy have a piece kentucky have a piece cpg have a piece and other persons accept the people accept the people i said to the developer who is doing the road work you will solve the problem in kaldissa for one sewage flooding mr. speaker there is a communal sewage system that's there since we were in the colonial days one septic tank and at the bottom there mr. speaker there are lots and one of the most mischievous thing of colonize colonization or after after the church provided people or gifts provided people with 2000 square foot of lot and those persons who know the average lot today is 4,000 or 5,000 can you imagine you have 2000 square foot of lot of land for yourself in kaldissa going to some communities 2000 square foot and there's a communal system where everybody sewage converge but it doesn't work so it backs up and when it rains the entire place floods i sell to the to the roadworks redwood to the contractor doing the works on this west coast do not complete it without solving your drainage problem and the sewage problem thank god the prime minister cpl provided $80,000 to wasco to solve the sewage problem mr. speaker and namalco will deal with the drainage problem and not only that will happen we've made funds available to deal with revitalization of the community center a community center that is used more than any other community center the one that is 10 million dollars in the bexel river you understand mr. speaker so yes that will happen infrastructure mr. speaker i'm hoping to see speed bumps and sidewalks in the community of bexel mr. speaker just within my two and a half years as parliamentarians as parliamentarian i have seen accidents that have claimed more than four lives more than four lives over two and a half years i cannot count what it was before we cannot allow bexel to continue that way if the professionals want to go down to bexel and prevent accidents to take lives i am fine with it until professionals and police go down to bexel slow down the traffic some technocrats say you must not put speed bumps but i love that under my watch mr. speaker two and a half years four deaths through accident and one must check the statistics to see whether we whether this is happening more frequently than other forms of of losing lives in it so i would love to see this address mr. speaker twap it on odd sum we must mr. speaker and of course i'm happy that mon belly cool it on bypass the senior minister said he would look at it the lack was also completion of the tech mark road mr. speaker on the flow sac road mr. speaker one of the vexing thing for me is to see that you start a project on the one i mean we will finish and i would love to see this thing finish ministry of health mr. speaker i would like to see the relocation of the lakwa health center the lakwa health center certainly this is in castry south because the road is the boundary but yes it's there it's there and i'm happy that we're considering this mr. speaker you cannot have a health center in that in that location lakwa health health center it's not accessible and if you have a wheelchair you cannot use it at all it's in castry south but the people who use it is they are from castry southeast so i'm not concerned whether project is i'm concerned about who using it once my constituents using it fix it it can be in matnik i will mr. speaker sports mr. speaker i'm happy that in a little whisper yesterday the minister of sports said i will get a multiple per scot and i say who re almost wanted to celebrate trapey turn cool it on we receive multiple per scots community centers mr. speaker remember you have 10 minutes left thank you so much mr. speaker that is modern enough time mr. speaker we will see the restoration of the badney community center and of course mr. speaker we will purchase the land and i know the people of belay not belay mr. speaker badney would be extremely happy for this mr. speaker the decision to have small community centers must be part of a policy discussion and i will have a conversation on this and i will lucidate on it when we have the policy statement mr. speaker mr. speaker ted mack road we are happy that we will get money to finish it therefore recreational facility mr. speaker if we are not able to have a facility there we will seek to acquire the land we will identify and acquire the land some lands have been identified to have a facility in there for mr. speaker agriculture not fertilizer the corporate is for the sunday fair farmers we must realize it the sunday fair farmers are very progressive and of course if there's one group that we must invest in is the farmers in sunday fair mr. speaker like i said we have capacity in castry south face we just need to listen and work with these individuals they are capable of holding positions in cabinet to they're just not politicians but when you have you know who but you manual or from a permanent secretary you have bunny manual or from a cab sec who's a farmer you have you says monrose you have so many able persons in the constituency when they sit down to plan it's almost like a little cabinet and they're not adventists they are farmers they are farmers you understand but i'm saying that we have capacity in the constituency and i would love to see the cooperative of the sunday fair farmers mr. speaker education in the constituency mr. speaker the wavin poise saw early childhood center will receive a comprehensive renovation yes and bella will receive a brand new early childhood center mr. speaker sadly the sarat early childhood center has closed its doors and the new early childhood center to be established in bella will respond to the demand for early childhood center in the cast in castry south face and that part of our society mr. speaker very importantly mr. speaker the becksaw primary school will be assessed for side suitability and structural integrity mr. speaker we are very unhappy i am not happy with the look of the becksaw primary school and i am not only the one saying that the minister the minister said to me we will look at it but again the prime minister through his cpl budget caring productive and responsible has asked that we look at this and assess it for its side suitability and structural integrity so we plan to do something about it mr. speaker i do not want to speak about social assistance for the island but the prime minister you know mr. speaker like i said i've worked with two i've served with two different prime ministers who are here but as a minister i've worked with prime minister philip joseph philip joseph yeah under stimulus mr. speaker do you know this year we impacted over 16 000 persons mr. speaker the most the numbers i knew of when we were doing numbers and we were beating our just for about 2005 possession but this year this prime minister under stimulus 16 000 over 16 000 persons benefited this is significant this is this is more than the population that are indigent i do not know what the response will be from the opposition but can you imagine in a year you had stimulus where you you you reached 16 000 persons remember you have five ministers thank you mr. speaker i'm going well mr. speaker social assistance mr. speaker in my constituency i could characterize what i do not by concrete and steel social assistance mr. speaker housing assistance house lots medical assistance educational assistance food support small business electrical and water connections sporting groups and other charity sponsorship faith-based support that has characterized what has done in castry south east more than anything else mr. speaker housing assistance is critical for the well-being of any community and especially a household mr. speaker many times when children are missing from their homes and you could see on social media that a child is missing it's associated with housing condition housing condition when a young child especially young lady is informed too and the housing condition is not well and some young man was no good intention whispering to her head into her ears sometime that leaves out of the house so when a mother comes to me and asks me to extend a room for her daughter mr. speaker i know what it is i know what i'm responding to so mr. speaker over 300 persons in castry south east have received housing assistance over 300 yes sir medical assistance to include i can dental care mr. speaker mr. speaker medical assistance i include i can dental care over 150 persons in castry south east have received medical assistance under my care and responsibility of the constituency mr. speaker and i do not find out who they are u w p s l p which p you are once you are solution and you are suffering and there's a deprivation and you need this and i have the means i will support mr. speaker there's a gentleman who said to me for water connection he has been going previously for three years and he was asking why didn't he get water connection i said but why didn't you get it is just sign i have to sign the letter he said he said he's not support but i said i don't understand why i should even sign a letter for you to get water and water and light because as far as i read the bible when god created it he said let there be light so who give the politicians the right to sign letters i said i'm not wasting time anybody who comes to me and you're from castry south east and you're on crown lands you can be red yellow black or white i just signed the letter get light because god did not use politics to give it i'm not using it mr. speaker small business support mr. speaker there are persons who just need five hundred dollars to pursue the bank to organize a loan of course the small loans are available but just five hundred dollars the prime ministers made funds available i support them don't ask for food support and mr. speaker while i speak i'm preparing three hundred humpers today to distribute to not hope i don't know because castry south east mr. speaker you need to take a site with a visit with me mr. speaker and i will tell you you will meet the constituents of castry south east we have our own struggles we are in the middle of the south of the island and the north where things are different mr. speaker and we do this mr. speaker for the betterment and to ensure mr. speaker i rather somebody fool me and get a bag of food than i didn't give them and they need it and therefore i take chances and make them that's my approach that's me but you cannot fool me my head is big but my heart is bigger mr. speaker crisis responses mr. speaker there are times a lady needs to live her home to run away from domestic violence and because she needs to live she needs transportation money she needs to move remember in the absence of the invocation of 32 8 and must ask you to take a seat