 Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, I would have like to just round up the debates on the six million dollar facility that we have borrowed Mr. Speaker. But Mr. Speaker, I cannot allow the minister, the member for Microsoft to get away with the things that he is saying. Mr. Speaker, the member for Microsoft speaks about borrowing at six percent to fix schools at the time when interest rates are rising globally. But as the same minister of finance, when interest rates, when the banks were asked when interest was actually at zero, when liquidity was high in the national market, that's the same member who borrowed to build roads at six percent over five years. The same minister, the same minister of finance finds it wrong to borrow now to fix schools, to fix schools at six percent at the time of rising interest rates globally. But as the same minister of finance, he declined alone at two point five percent for twenty years to build a grocery highway. I mean, this thing, you know, when the member for Microsoft began to speak as if he was never in government, he, there was a loan from the Q80s, twenty five years, two point five percent, five plus five years of interest free. Five years, five years, grace period, sorry, to moratorium, to complete, to build the grocery highway from shop to grocery and fill the roads in Mikunov, Viewford, North. He stopped it at two point five percent, he stopped it twenty five years and he went and he borrowed money at six percent. Who, he? He that just complained about it, DFC, DFC, after he had charged, after he had put a tax of a dollar fifty that he said would be in a lock box. And up to today, the economy car with taxes, when you put a tax of a dollar fifty said per gallon of gas, put it in a lock box. Up to today, we cannot find that lock box, but still left over two hundred million dollars of DFC loans to be. That's not true. That is a minister of finance. That's the guy, that's the gentleman who is speaking about handing the finance to this country. That's not true, that's not true. If it yourself. That is a minister of finance. That's a minister of finance. You don't worry if it? Because we borrowed money from the Taiwanese twenty years, five years more. You borrowed more from the Taiwanese. What about the money you borrowed? What about the DFCs? Where are the DFCs? Where are the DFCs? Covid and DFCs? What about the two? But there was no Covid and you declined the loan at twenty five percent. Why you did this? Why you did this? The loan was never approved. You said the loan was approved. When he came in, no loan was approved. No loan was approved. Remember this, I thought they must have been taking him and you don't tell us that. That's not true. And I went in for the loan. So that is minister, that is the member, the same member who declined a loan at two point five percent. But when to borrow, going to borrow after Covid at a time when interest rates were low because he thought he had done a poll. And the poll said roads would win the election. So he went and instead of going for the process of road building, he borrowed at six percent over five years to his favorite contractor and also borrowed from the Taiwanese also. So he had a double whammy and look at the roads that he builds and asked me for the returns on these roads and he left a bill of two hundred million dollars for which we have to pay every year. Two hundred million. Every year's funds and he said the dollar fifty was the dollar fifty was supposed to go in a lock box. The dollar fifty went into the consulate account Mr. Speaker. It's a consulate account Mr. Speaker and he comes and he speaks about roads Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, here is the minister, when he was minister of finance, the OKEU was ready. There was a transition team prepared, a consulate prepared to move into the OKEU. We had already dealt with the Martinicans, the French assistant to the OKEU. He fired the transition team and he left us with a bill with Cayman City for eleven million dollars which I had to pay. That is the member from Microsoft who is talking about OKEU hospital. And when Covid struck he was forced to use the same team of people he had fired to move from Vidro to Covid. How much you had to pay Cayman City? Eleven million dollars. We took a loan to pay it. And you know, so I suspect the member from Microsoft doesn't remember he was in government. He doesn't remember. So he comes and he speaks as if that's the same member. The same member who left payables of 184 million dollars owed to local suppliers and NIC. 184 million dollars of local payables. That's the same minister of finance. Mr. Speaker, that is the same minister when he was minister of finance. Saint Lucia borrowed the most in the entire OECS for Covid. Saint Lucia borrowed the most. All the countries borrowed. Saint Lucia borrowed the most because the Saint Lucia economy was the worst. And he comes and he boasts about management of the economy. Saint Lucia borrowed the most. All countries, all countries suffered from Covid. But he borrowed the most, Mr. Speaker. That's what he did. He, Mr. Speaker, that is the same minister, the same man when he was minister of finance. That was the same man he was minister of finance, Mr. Speaker. He said a few minutes ago, how will you finance health? How will you finance health care in this country? Go ahead now, talk. When you finish your talk. What do you want to do? You want people not to hear what I say, so you talk it across to me. Go ahead, talk. I want you to talk. I want you to talk. But you talk in. Go ahead and talk. What I'm saying to you. You finish? You finish talking? That is the same prime minister. The same when he was minister of finance, Mr. Speaker. When he was minister of finance, Mr. Speaker. He inflicted on the people of this country a 150, 150 cents tax for gas. He said that that money was in a black box. A black box, sorry. A black box, sorry. He said it was a black box. Up to today, no one can find that black box and where that money was. That money went, all you have to see is the money went into a concentrated fund. That's all you have to see. But no, he insists it went into a black box, Mr. Speaker. But while the money was in the black box to construct roads, he said. He just admitted he borrowed from the Taiwanese and he borrowed money at 6% for the FCs. 6% for the FCs over five years at a time of low interest rates. Compare these interest rates at the time with interest rates now in the global market. And it's a difference. But he sits there and he stands and he pretends he's almighty and a manager of the economy. Look at the state of the world economy now and the state of the world economy when you are in government. After COVID, there was actually deflation. Prices went down. There was deflation after COVID because the supply chain was blocked. There was deflation. Right now, inflation is at the highest it ever was for several decades. These are facts, simple facts, Mr. Speaker. We understand that the cost of food is going up. We understand that. We have taken steps and we continue to take steps. And we will continue to have discussions with the soul, the largest importer of food in the country. We will continue to have discussions with them. But the answer part of the answer to the increasing food prices is import substitution. And part of the answer is to grow local food. When I stood up and I said that we should move to consume more of our bananas. The puppy showed me. They laughed at me. They said I was a fool because I said we will use more of our local produce. I said that we must try to grow more of what we are eating. And for emphasis, I reversed it. For emphasis, they tried to publish me again. That was the cost. That was the part of the remedy to high food prices. Have your own kitchen garden. Grow your own food. Try to practice import substitution. I said so. Instead of the member for Mikusav, instead of the agreement and say to the government, let us work on some sort of serious import substitution to try to reduce the consumption of our local food. The puppy showed me. They played politics. The same thing that they are doing now with the reduction in that in sanitary products. Tomorrow, the prime minister of England will speak about poverty. But no, just for cheap political mileage. He refuses to accept this fact. Fact is, Mr Speaker, this pollution economy did worse than any economy in the OECS after COVID. That's a fact. That's a fact, Mr Speaker. And, Mr Speaker, let us get back to repairs to schools, Mr Speaker, and Hurricane Thomas. Mr Speaker, when the member for Viewfort South was Minister of Finance, he made the point that the economy was in transition. He said the economy was in transition. Again, the puppy showed him, Mr Speaker, who built under whose government the most hotels were built in this country. Under which government? Which government passed the Tourism Incentives Act? Which government passed the Tourism Incentives Act to supplement the old Tourism Incentives Act? A new one. Which government attracted the most hotel investment in this country? And you're speaking about we did not understand the benefits of tourism? Let me explain to you what I said about tourism because, you know, it's your habit. You see, you are fooling yourself. That's why you said 15 towards no majority. I was in London trying to do a promotion with the Minister of Tourism. He was there about after COVID. You were trying to do a promotion in London. And I said to the audience, I was Minister of Tourism and the record is clear. Compare my channel with your others. Let's compare. Let's look at your rivals. And you know, I don't want to come in and boast like you, you know. But facts. But sometimes I will have to state the facts. దిల్లికోత్రంటేనినంటుమింట్. హావికోనినింటకదికోత్త్నింట్టిని. గ్ణి millones 7.75 నిసిఆకి వరిలోÖ పువర఻్చి ‫ Shortly梁ిమాపికచ్కన్లా మోమాధ్టియనినిందా. పొటరర౮కీంట ToyismAcặt and MyT hosted management. Let's have the money you have. న్టారోచ్� FC 15 million andHey. . ఆవరాకి . 你 know what to them. 大 sake, that's your record, that's your record, for boxing and paralyzing. You build a tent, you buy a tent. You put a tent for 100000 dollars. That's what you did. So, let's talk about tourism, let's talk about tourism. Let's talk about who did the National Conservation Authority to clean the beaches in the country. Let's talk about tourism, you want to bring the tourism debate? I want to debate with you. Let's talk about tourism. Let's talk about your contribution to tourism. Let's talk about the money that you got to promote tourism and the money we got. And look at the returns. Look at the cost per visitor in my term and the cost of being there in your term. Let's do this maths. Let's do this maths because you know, you believe because you can talk because you believe.  enjoyment  pants   Golden ఇరాఫస extrater подход, లాప్నిర్నిండ పెచైంచి పెసోంపేనింజగంనింది పెయటకొటి పెస్రపేండె ఊఱఱిసినిని మాడి సంవటిని, మూడినింకింరికూనింనికిలి ఈదినివిసిాన౿నికూవికి. నికూకినికి వారికికటి.  cling Back进уди cheddar  cling ஆ ஆ And he is afraid. ஆ ஆ  squishсь x 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘀𝘬 𝘇𝘪 𝘊𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘤 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘰 𝘖𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘺 isoshop Lord let's through that zipper that's why oesh మర�క Tammy మభప఼Gameămcakes ఎవర్పౚకతౌ�ం ఆవాట్క్పయం మలేగాళంఎ మాయల్ౕనా స఩రేని ప౉ర్మష్ని and he can talk to international people because he supported that these theories but you don't know his history of investment he found a range hotel that he called the hotel not to be built and he had to pay the owner of the range that's his history we're going to go into history but you know because the member of Microsoft believes he can go out there with his surrogates and say whatever they want say whatever they want cause people to insult people on social media write all kinds of things that are not true and he will get away with it we agree that the cost of food is high we agree that the Minister of Commerce has taken several steps to reduce the price of food but he is also saying that we don't have enough money to fund school repairs and to fund healthcare he has never said how are we going to fund healthcare and health insurance never the health insurance and you know he said he never you want me to play the tip let me talk about health insurance you think that you should so the tips are wrong what you say is wrong what you say is wrong first of all he said he never spoke about public vlogging remember he didn't say that yes complains I want you to please I want you to please so let me explain to you what I said let me first of all please in the past in the south and what they are doing today yes they should be publicly flogged for what they are doing yes okay please flog they should be publicly flogged that's one you just said you never said anyone should what's that you just said you never said you never said you never said you want to do that two and a half percent has to go in April 2019 cabinet took a decision to form a National Health Insurance levy committee that's why I'm saying to all of you tonight I'm begging all of you all a favor we're going to have another march  groceries not atat Japan  spoke పాదరాని చివర్ంట్చా నివర్త్ని నివాలెరరం ఇనిమోషితింంటుపి Due మోధికికింటెటుకిసంటిపాడ్ంటిలికికికికిసి.  человечRa Working in the shift grease Metis beacca Heís only on He knows about health insurance The great United States Obamacare was health insurance Obamacare Ot to today They are still trying to decipher Obamacare There was never any concrete But they are criticizing our universal healthcare program. They criticizing it. As usual, they laugh. The maternal care. The universal healthcare. We said it will happen in stages. They laugh at the stages. They laugh. But the poor pregnant mothers. And you know, when you speak about these things, they tell you, you play in politics, they will say you've been racist. The poor pregnant mothers, when they were expecting a baby, they could not get any of the tests that were necessary before they prenatal care. Now under the universal healthcare, these mothers are getting that attention, which they deserve. And you cannot deny it. You cannot deny it, even though you try to papisho it. And papisho it and pay as if it doesn't exist. You can't deny it. You can't deny that we've removed that on Pampers. And you're saying that we did it for two years. We did it for two years in the first instance. But you did it for no years. You never did it. You never understood pre-apogaty. You never understood what it means. And there is something all over the world you cannot deny it. You never understood what it means for a young mother to have to make a choice between buying these products and feeding a child. You never understood it. We never put that on any... We removed that. We removed that on it. We removed that on sanitary napkins. We removed that on sanitary napkins. But you understand, but that is a problem. That's a problem. That's a problem. The problem is the delusion that he is feeling. The delusion. So, Mr. Speaker, we are moving on. Payables. $184 million of payables to local suppliers and the NIC. That's what he left. $104 million. $200 million of DFCs at 6% for roads when he could get the same roads built at 2.5%. That's what he left behind, Mr. Speaker. That's what he left behind. $11 million to Cayman City fired the transition team to move from Victoria Hospital to OKU. Fired the team of solutions. Fired them. And he had a big ceremonial capacity. And again the tip, what he said. What he said in the tip, Cayman City. No faith in the capability and the capacity of solutions. No faith. Same thing he said. He repeated that in other words, a while ago. No faith in solutions, Mr. Speaker. No faith. No faith in the speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, and again even though you see Mr. Speaker, he back on Slasper again. I will repeat because those who did not hear about Slasper and let us them tell him again about Slasper again because you know he want me to say it. I'll say it again. He opened the door. Slasper's has not changed in any significant way. The port operations the cargo operations will continue to be handled by Slasper. In 2019 82% of Slasper's revenue came from port operations. That will not change. In 2019 11% of Slasper's revenue came from port operations. That is going to change. The 11% is going to change. It will go to GPH to GPH for GPH to upgrade the crews the crews facilities in the country including the vendors again. In 2022 91% of Slasper's revenue came from the cargo operations. That will not change. In 2022 only 4% of Slasper's revenue came from crews. That will change. In 2020 if we to date 86% of Slasper's revenue came from cargo operations. Only 9% came from crews operations. 86% will not change. Slasper continues to be a statutory board with dual ministries on control infrastructure and finance. Slasper will continue. Slasper's staff will not be affected. Slasper was involved in the GPH agreement and the GPH what's happening at GPH. GPH already operates ports in Antigua ports in the Bahamas and if you go to the Bahamas you will see what ports GPH operates in the Bahamas. So GPH is not a company that's just came from nowhere. We are insisting that GPH delivers on the promises that they make to the people of St. Lucia and the minister of tourism is ensuring that the services are delivered to the speakers. The ports will not sold. The ports will not sold because more than 83% of the operations of the port will continue to be done by Slasper. So that is the story about Slasper and the ports. That is the reality of the situation. What we will not say is that the cruise operations are going to be upgraded the loan will be liquidated and Slasper will have increased capacity and better fiscal strength to deal with the cargo operations and in that case they can upgrade the cargo operations at the port that is the story of Slasper and speaking about PPP the member for Microsoft insists that the same minister who speaks about debt and grow the economy refuses to understand that PPPs do not increase the debt burden on the country and all international financial organizations are recommending that governments use PPPs to develop the infrastructure and reduce the debt burden. That's a fact. And these things are factual. They cannot be denied with rhetoric. These are factual. PPPs are the preferred way for commercial development. Roads in Jamaica now, roads major roads have been built PPPs major roads all over the developing world PPPs are the way you came into government and you found a PPP complete for international airport complete for international airport as we speak could have been finished determined to have been finished you cancelled it and you instructed Slasper there is a report that says you instructed Slasper I have never instructed Slasper and so you seem to forget that you are in government he is forgetting excuses for everything he did for everything he did the only man the only man the only party that we refer to as run for the only party the only party the only party will be able to defend himself he is a lawyer he is a lawyer Mr. Speaker you have the opportunity Mr. Speaker to look at what happened in the case of the land at Bannon and what happened with DSH in Vuford you can compare and you can contrast Mr. Speaker you can look at the size of the property you can look at the cost of the property and you look at DSH you understand Mr. Speaker that that is going to come at another stage Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker attacking journalists his habit he can help himself you can imagine he cannot help himself Mr. Speaker and he wants to talk about what I said to a journalist I said again the journalist asked me whether I had read a report I said to him that's not his business I didn't insult him I called him no names I said that is not your business because what I read or what I will read is my business I never threatened him I never said I never called him any names that's all I said but you want to use that I didn't call his editor you know Mr. Speaker I never call his editor you know how to know there are people here who call editors and complain to them that report are not in the right thing I've never called editor I've never called a radio station complain about news I've never done that I've allowed the press of free reign you want to make a fuss and say that's not your business that's not your business I didn't tell him to ask a question after I continue to answer the questions that he posed on me but what was not relevant was what I had read so Mr. Speaker we are very happy that we are born going to fix schools and the minister said he knows he's not enough of course he knows but it's a start he speaks about school repairs but he never remembers Hurricane Thomas in 2010 he's forgotten that he's forgotten Hurricane Thomas in 2010 not only damaged infrastructure but damaged many schools and what we inherited in 2010 was the bad hill the problems in the bad hill that we had to repair so we had stuff and that's why climate change is such a threat to the region Mrs. Speaker so Mrs. Speaker I'm very happy that the African expert bank has borrowed that money to us and as I said before we will remain focused on the work we have to do to improve this country the Ministry of Education is trying its best with limited resources of course we know the resources are limited but we try the best with what we have Mrs. Speaker and we will continue and if you outline the things we've done for education in the first two years since we're in government and the things that they did for education in the first two years that we're in government let's make a comparison so Mrs. Speaker I thank members for the support and I look forward to the construction and the repairs of these schools I thank Mrs. Speaker