 Mr. Speaker, it's a very sad day in our Parliament when people are called upon to make representation on behalf of the people who elected them through the democratic process, will come in, make a contribution void of content, just parading void of content, void of substance, parading on an ego, Mr. Speaker, then leave the chamber and not here to listen to the refusal of what one can safely say will a series of misinformation. Mr. Speaker, today the Prime Minister has tabled a motion to borrow some $202 million for, among other things, the completion of St. June. Mr. Speaker, St. June is very dear to me. For those who don't know, I hail from the eastern village of Miku in this country. My daughter, who has now occupied international chairs and has been seen globally on CNN and other media network was born at St. June. So St. June is very dear to my heart. And so today, without an aorta of doubt, without any dint of apprehension, I wholeheartedly, Mr. Speaker, support the motion for the borrowing of this money for the completion of St. June, among other things. Mr. Speaker, I first want to, ah, thanks. I first want to, Mr. Speaker, of course, I'm a little confused now. I'm not sure that I'm infected if John this, but I know I'm seen correctly, yes. Mr. Speaker, I first want to visit the terms and conditions of the loan. A 20-year loan, 20 years, five years' grace, five years' grace, yes. That means less less. Interest rate at 2%. And I will deal with interest rates, Mr. Speaker. My zeal has now returned instantaneously because today this house is witnessing borrowing at 2% per annum. But yet, on the eve of an election, a prime minister had the audacity to forward for signature an agreement with a penalty clause of 1% per day. But I'll get there. 1% per day. And if this is not a financial atrocity against the state, it amounts to treason in my books. Because if you care about these people and the people of this country, you do what Philip J. Pierre, the, oh, sorry, Mr. Speaker, I call this leave. The member for Casteries East did negotiate a loan at 2% per annum on a reducing balance. That is a master's true, totally unprecedented. Not giving DFCs at 8% per annum, or doing the airport at a total combined interest rate of 15%. But I'll get there. I'll get there. So yes, Mr. Speaker, 20 years, five years' grace, 2% per annum on a reducing balance, and Mr. Speaker, I challenge anyone, anyone of the technocrats, politicians, or otherwise, to give me any comparable loan with those terms. Tell me, when last in the history of this country of ours have we borrowed money on those terms? I want somebody to tell me. I want somebody to tell me. Mr. Speaker, I see a light on you. And the point of order, Mr. Speaker, in fact, the money that we borrowed from the World Bank was 40-year money, 10-year moratorium at a half a percent. Mr. Speaker, you know, when one has habitually cultivated the habit of speaking on truths, whatever he or she says, you take it with a grain of salt. And unless I can see documentation in substantiation of anything said by the leader of the opposition, I will take it with a grain of salt and totally disregard it. Because if I were to ask him for the 23 islands he promised to build, I cannot see them yet. If I were to ask him for the 840s, I will not see them yet. If I were to ask him, didn't he say Grenada raised the gas by $11? And in less than five seconds, he said, he never said that. You would understand why I am totally apprehensive about believing anything he says. So, Mr. Speaker, as I said, I challenge anyone and I'm not talking about the COVID loans, you know. I am not talking about COVID loans when the ECCB are totally different. I'm not talking about, there was a crisis, Mr. Speaker. And this world crisis caused all organizations, domestic, international, and otherwise, lenders and donors to do things in a manner they had never done before, basically to militant against what was happening. So, Mr. Speaker, even with this loan, you have a disaster clause. A disaster clause which essentially means that if there is something like a hurricane, what happened in Morocco, what happened in Turkey, any of those natural calamities that militant against your ability to pay will be factored into the conditions of the loan and adjustments can be made accordingly. Where else has that been done in this country? Nowhere. And it had to take the financial maneuverings of an astute Prime Minister, Philip J. Pierre. And if anything like his predecessor would have gone down the dull drums of financial calamity, if you want to call it that. But, Mr. Speaker, I first want to come to in my contribution that would be relatively short. I first want to come to things that the leader of the opposition said. And you know, when you listen, Mr. Speaker, you wonder if you're hearing what actually comes from the mouth of certain persons. He came here and he indicated that he heard stories. He heard a story from the Prime Minister and another story for the member for Viewfort North. And the facts do not match the stories. I had to ask myself, excuse me, am I really listening to the leader of the opposition? In fact, Mr. Speaker, I got a clip. I got a clip with the very individual claiming that they lie. And I'm wondering whether he was looking himself in the mirror because I could not believe that the leader of the opposition on this motion would have the audacity to refer to persons as giving stories that do not match facts. Something he knows how to do very well. He probably has his PhD in it now. Mr. Speaker, he said St. Jude is 80 years old. Mind you. Mind you. In the same breath that he said St. Jude is 80 years old, he does not say the site is 80 years old, you know. He said St. Jude is 80 years old and we cannot use those buildings. Yet he goes on to say that the buildings will get it. He said what we are using are 80 year old buildings. But he says in the same breath the buildings will get it. Let's at least see it. So see 80 years old building. You see and sometimes Mr. Speaker, when persons are stranger to the truth, although I say that with caution because I just remember a certain person in this August chamber said the truth is what you believe. So how can you gut an 80 year old building and go into an 80 year old building at the same time? The two don't mesh Mr. Speaker. Ex-executive man, yes I like. No, I'm not taking a buy-out of building state of the art. La Pani Pierce Building St. Jude, Acholma, Kitefet 80 years ago. To via building a quasi, a via rebuild. And it is that kind of misconception that perpetuates the minds of the gullible Mr. Speaker and cause them to have this one-track mind. But you see, had there been financial prudence Mr. Speaker, the need to be borrowing this money here today would have probably been something that was totally unnecessary because we suffered wastage in this country. Millions and millions and I'll give a few examples in a bit Mr. Speaker. If those monies were readily available, the Saudi would have probably lent us money to do some DFCs. Yes, you know, and even the DFCs, today they ask you for roads. Mr. Speaker, there is one example where a contractor signed a DFC and even before he qualified for payment, he assigned interest payment to a third party who was collecting it at the treasury before he became entitled. That is what was going on in this country. I'll say it again. I will say it again. Mr. Speaker, there were DFCs given to Freistat and I speak from a standpoint of authority because I know I have the documentation to substantiate. Freistat assigned the interest payments to Timothy Mangal that had not even become entitled to payment yet of the principal because they had not executed works to any great significant tune. But guess what? They were collecting $218,000 in interest every month. You know, that is what this country was going through. How do you mean? You know, Mr. Speaker, those things are hurtful, you know. They are hurtful because today I stand there to support borrowing because we did St. June. But all that squandering, all that lagesse, all the money for the FFS had we just been more financially prudent, we would have been in a better situation, and if we needed to borrow, probably we would have had to borrow less. But you give DFCs. Let us say you give DFCs and you put in an interest component in the agreement and you say that on completion, you are entitled to X amount of interest, you have not done one-third of the rule which makes you entitled to any significant sum within the contractual arrangement, but you are already drawing interest payments on the entire amount. You know, and today all those documents that were being hidden and in a separate, surreptitious way, I was able to secure them. Today, the very individual has the audacity to speak to accountability and transparency and say if he becomes Prime Minister again, he will publish all contracts. He will publish all contracts. But Mr. Speaker, there is one I know he will never publish. There is one I know he will never publish, Mr. Speaker. And it is dated July 15, 2021, 11 days before the elections. 11 days before the elections and today we have to be borrowing money. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, the kind of financial atrocities contained in this document is a blatant disrespect, disregard to the little resources we have in this country. We are not Canada, Mr. Speaker. We are not Canada. We are not Cabot. We are not. We don't have the resources to just quander the little that we have. You know, and thank God the Prime Minister has economics in his DNA. But tell me, Mr. Speaker, build and finance agreement. Those are the kinds of things that cause us to be borrowing money here today. And it is a direct award, a direct award, Mr. Speaker, for some $75 million. You know, I'll just read. And if they wanted to be made a document of the House, I will make it. I will never do like the Shanta Kings report that was hidden for five and a half years. And today all of a sudden it becomes a document of convenience from which you can quote. No. I remember as well, Mr. Speaker, when I brought out the DSH agreement, DSH agreement, oh, it's fake. It's fake. Today, Mr. Speaker, it remains the document that may just cost the people of this country hundreds of millions of dollars. Because what? In an effort to show that I am a big Prime Minister, I can do what I want. The resources of the country, you know, a rope was placed around the neck of the resources of this country. And trust me, the resources were mooted, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just want to read a few excerpts from this 28-page bill and finance contract between the government of St. Lucia and the Frester Construction Company Limited for the construction and finance of St. Jude, the very St. Jude, 75 million, 11 days before elections. You know, I sit here and I'm proud. You know, I am proud, Mr. Speaker. I am proud that today I can make a contribution in this other's chamber, in the company of four ex... No, I was about saying four, but three and a half Prime Ministers. You know, three ex-Prime Ministers and a current Prime Minister. I am happy about that. And I will show you, Mr. Speaker, how like minds can overwhelm for the benefit of this country, three of the four Prime Ministers deciding to go in one direction, one Prime Minister, all they have decided to go in a separate way. And today, today, the coffers of this country have to suffer the consequences of some bad financial decisions made by the ex-Prime Minister. But Mr. Speaker, back to this on the same St. Jude Project, Mr. Speaker, I want to first, firstly go to the amount, the amount it speaks to the works and everything else. Let's deal with the amounts, Mr. Speaker. And I quote Mr. Speaker, the fourth schedule of the agreement, page 25 of 28. Here this, Mr. Speaker, the client, which is the government, agrees to enter into a payment plan and settle the financial obligations within one year. What are the financial obligations, Mr. Speaker, seventy million, seven hundred and fifty three thousand, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents. Let this year, we will have an election, government will have an agreement to swasser this million dollar at Pugueve Mape Adayulani. Here this, here this well, Mr. Speaker, finance course. The total is, I would like to listen to this, you know, the total of the agreement is sixty-four million. They have built interest into the total, so it now jumps from sixty-four to seventy. Finance course is six point six million, ten percent. One year, ten percent, let this year, we will have an election, government must essay by prestato contract for seventy-four million dollars. Six million dollars is equivalent, Mr. Speaker, to ten for one year. We are borrowing money today at two percent. At two percent. But if you think that it's bad, Mr. Speaker, if you think that is bad, that Mr. Speaker is rosy when you juxtapose it to the penalty clauses and I don't know why. I don't know how. Any body with a good conscience, anyone who loves this country, anyone who's responsible for the finances of this country could ever look at that far less participate in its operation. Hear this well, Mr. Speaker. The payment will be carried out over a year in the following manner. That is a direct award for the very Senju, the box. And I've come to the other buildings in a while. First and foremost, a 10% built into the contract. Within the first three months of signing the agreement, 26,882,000. Let's at least say 10,000,000 is helpful, Mr. Speaker. That amount, that payment is not tied in with the percentage completion. There is no collaboration. There is no nexus. There is no connectivity insofar as the agreement is concerned between paying one third of the money, one quarter of the money, three months after and the performance of the contract. Nothing at all. So, after three months we paid them 26,000,000. After the second quarter, 10,000,000. The third quarter, 18,000,000. And the last quarter, 14,778,000. Now, hear this, Mr. Speaker. Hear this well. See how the atrocities against this country are compounded. Compounded, Mr. Speaker. Having built in a 10% interest into the contract, it says here, in case of late payment of any invoice submitted by the company, the client shall pay. Jesus, man. The client shall pay interest of 1% per day. So, Mr. Speaker, you have the 60 something million that the contract was worth. They added interest into it. And if they send an invoice that includes interest already, you now have to pay 1% interest per day on the interest already calculated within the amount. I see our accountant general here and I know his heart is being torn apart because you cannot believe anybody would do that. I know that. I know that. It's torn apart. Pines can think of that. 1% per day. 1% per day. No. I'll make it a document of the house. What were you when that was abandoned? 11 days before election. Good. You already blew. You are topping on them already. No, they are topping on you already. So, Mr. Speaker, hear this well. Hear this well, Mr. Speaker. We have a $64 million contract. Man, this is an atrocity. You have a $64 million contract. You built 10% into it already. After three months, I have to pay you $26 million, which invariably means I'm already paying you interest. And hear this. Every day that that invoice is lit, I have to pay you another $20, $260,000 per day. You know, and you want to come here and parade on the altar of being Mr. What? What guru? No, there cannot be a point of order. There can only be a point of disorder. I mean, Mr. Speaker, this is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. You have a DFC. You have a DFC where people are collecting interest payments before they are entitled to anything. You have another contract sent to the attorney general, and I suspect the attorney general at the time. He felt this thing was so hot. He dropped it like a hot potato. Let's at least see a letter to the general as you want to see it eventually. You know, you built 10% interest into a contract and you are now saying you are now saying that if an invoice is lit 1% per day. So on the first invoice, Mr. Speaker, if the payment was led by one day, $268,800 a day, 1% a day. So if that Mr. Speaker, that invoice is 10 days late, another $2.6 million for lateness, and we are paying interest on interest, you know. Why you do that to the country, man? Why? You know, Mr. Speaker, it's time we're enact legislation crimes against the state because I cannot fathom how anybody with a right mind, anyone whose interest is this country, anyone whose interest is the upliftment of the standard of living of the people of this country who do something like that. How can you? And today, we have to borrow, Mr. Speaker. We have to borrow. Now, you know, you have to start building their own walls on every highway now because there is money, there is money. You know, Mr. Speaker, even the leader of the opposition, after he said the buildings are 80 years old, then he turned around and said they were gutted. He even said, and I quote, their layout was reconfigured. Can you reconfigure? Buildings already existed. In other words, Mr. Speaker, the emphatic point I want to make is that the leader of the opposition wants it and grinding the minds of solutions that the original St. Jude, 80 year old buildings, let's set this up halfway. Two say building, Nakila say building, and another thing he said and the answer will prove they are 28 buildings. They are not 28 buildings. They are 14 buildings. They are 14 buildings. Yeah, wait, but he was demolishing everything here. And when you tell me, Mr. Speaker, 14 buildings, we are a country of scarce resources. We have no oil. We have no gold. One would believe that a prudent prime minister would do whatever is necessary within the realms of possibility to ensure that he safeguards the expenditure that is born by the taxpayers of this country. So when you put up two buildings, and you figure those two buildings that cost us may as seven million dollars, you could put an excavator in it with total impunity. God is going to punish you at some point politically or otherwise. You take an excavator and you put into two newly constructed buildings. God will punish you. We don't have an abundance of resources, Mr. Speaker. We don't have an abundance of resources. We don't have gold. We are not Canadians. We are not cabotians. We are only Saint Lucians. And all of us owe each other responsibility to watch our backs and watch the backs of the people who elected us to ensure we do what is best and what is in their interest. Not take seven million dollars and put an excavator in it. You know, and that reminds me and everything I think of, Mr. Speaker, there's a whole trail, a whole trail. And today we have to borrow money, seven million dollars down the drain. And today we have to borrow. Only yesterday, Mr. Speaker, I believe the contract for custody suites was finalized. You know, we now have to go and borrow some four or five million dollars to rebuild the custody suites that I, your humble servant commissioned and executed under the prime ministership on Stevenson King, member for castries north. What happened to it? They put an excavator in it. The father of the leader of the opposition, I was there. I was almost in tears. Yeah, two days after he put the same excavator in the old prisons and then he put it in police headquarters and sent the police man to rent somewhere. You know, and want to talk about having any kind of, you know, Jesus man, you know, the largest prisoner holding facility in the OICS, the largest prisoner holding facility. I remember when those police officers came to me as an ex-police, they said, Mr. Minister, you are police officer. You know the difficulties we had in holding prisoners. We need somewhere. They were the ones, the police were the ones who identified the location with me for me rather. And then I approached the member for castries north, who was then prime minister. He asked me how much money I needed. And at the time it was about $900,000. And that was executed like Speedy Gonzalez. And we're properly done, Mr. Speaker. And then I saw this 80-year-old man supervising an excavator as he egregiously placed its bits, its bucket, you know, into the prison. And then you want to talk about crime. And then you want to talk about crime. You know, some of you have no shame. And then we have to borrow money now. We have to borrow to build a new custody suites. Yes. Borrow to build a new custody suites, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, which country? You know, governance has a concept of continuity. Governance, good governance rather, does not see political color. Good governance sees benefits being bestowed on the citizenry of this country. That's what good governance is. You have here, Mr. Speaker, like I said, two former prime, three, two and a half former prime ministers and a current prime minister. St. Jude started under the leadership of the member for castries north. Schoolchildren, Mr. Speaker, made contributions of their lunch in monies. That is the quest and the magnitude of participation across the political divide and across the country. Pre-schoolers gave money, persons from the diaspora, everybody contributed and so it started under the stewardship of the member for castries north. The elections were lost. Guess what the member for Vuford South did? He didn't demolish, he didn't stop, he continued right away. And today I say I want to give the member for Vuford South a round of applause for me, please. He deserves it. And in addition to continuing it, Mr. Speaker, he sought financing, he sought financing to complete it. And then you have, then you have the cheese, the cheese, who did all in his power to ensure that it did not complete. But you know, Mr. Speaker, there is an old saying in law, you cry of distress is a summons for help. When you are cashless, you look for a cash cow. And so a cash cow was desperately needed and it was found in the box, in the box, the foundation. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine, you know, can you imagine they want to be prime minister again in this country? Mr. Speaker, the foundation of that box was estimated to have costed just over $3 million. It ended at over 300% increase, $9 million. Direct award to Frester. In fact, Mr. Speaker, in fact, $180 million, $180 million was spent on the box, not one contract, not half a contract, not quarter of a contract was awarded through the tendering process. Let's set this year, let's set this year, government will be able to spend $1 million. Mr. Speaker, the member is misleading the House. He knows very well that the contract for the hospital, the new building, was given to OECC and OECC subcontracted the $3 million that he's making reference to, yes, was for the ground foundation, but the $12 million included all of the structures up at the top, the frame of the building. So again, Mr. Speaker, you know, I like the antics and I like the passion, but at the end of the day, I could have stood on many occasions. I'm asking the member to try to stay in the framework of some truth of what he is saying, just some. Mr. Speaker, I still, I wonder, I was expecting a refuter. Let me repeat exactly what I said. The member for Mikusol has indicated that contrary to your assertion that no contract was awarded, that one was in fact awarded, and that contractor subcontracted. Mr. Speaker, all I said, not one contract, not half a contract, not quarter of a contract was awarded through the tendering process. That is what I said. That is correct. Yes. So document tell me it was awarded to that one, and that one, give that one, and that one. I am no business with that, like the Jamaican see. All I'm saying, the youth sum, the largest project in the history of this country in so far as expenditure from the government coffers are concerned, there was absolutely no tendering. That's what I said. All right, further say, Mr. Member for Mikusol. Yes, again, Mr. Speaker, the member is misleading now. So if in fact he wants to make that allegation, then go back to the beginning. And I want to know at any time when all the monies were spent, $130 million previously, were there any of those contracts? Member for Mikusol, that's your argument, that free cars are parked on a no parking zone, and the police give one a ticket, and the other two didn't get a ticket or something. That's not, I mean, how does that address what the member for Cassie Central said? The member said this is the largest project, and in the history of San Lucia, and spending government money, and no tender was put. I just want to make the point that he is wrong, because in the first part of the project, which actually spending more money than the Member for Mikusol, if all due respect, how does that answer the question he's asked? It doesn't, I'm just asking, as I said, Mr. Speaker, that he's misleading the house. He's making it out to believe that in fact that the only part of the building that did not go out to tender was that part. So I guess... He never suggested that, he's dealing with... So I'm asking for a point of clarity, not a point of clarity, but he's misleading the house because... How is he misleading the house? Because he said that this was the largest project in the history of San Lucia, using government monies that did not go out to tender, and I'm saying to you, Mr. Speaker, that the first part of the project was larger, and it also did not go out to tender. The first part. Mr. Speaker, I am not here to divide the projects into parts, and to award a price tag on each part, set a whole comprises of several parts, and when you put the parts together, you get a whole. You understand that now? Good. So Mr. Speaker, I was about showing him the one for the 11 days before elections again, $70 million no tendering. And that's a part. That's one part. The other part is the foundation. And the other part, I didn't ask you about parts. When you go and buy chicken, if you buy a whole chicken, you buy a whole chicken. If you want wings, you ask for wings. If you want legs, you ask for legs. If you want backs, you ask for backs. Make you ask for neck. I does it decent. So you go and buy, I'm telling you about the whole chicken, you can't even buy a chicken bank. Say, I didn't ask you about chicken parts. I spoke about a contract, a whole chicken. I didn't tell you about the legs, and the wings, and the backs, and the legs, and the gizzards. But then again, you know, not everybody understands. So Mr. Speaker, the largest contract in the history of this country that is paid for by the coffers of government never saw any tendering. In any regard, none. And the last one which the Attorney General felt was a little too hot for him. He dropped it, there's a calypso Mr. Speaker. I don't know if you, drop it like it hot. Drop it like it hot. Well, he dropped it. It was hot. Now Mr. Speaker, very quickly, you know, the box, the guys... Never cast recenturia, 15 minutes left for your short contribution. Mr. Speaker, there was no need to use the adjective of short. I will, I, 15 will be okay. Mr. Speaker, here this, here this, here this. You know, the guys built a box. And one of the things they refused to tell St. Lucian's is that the box could have never stood alone as a hospital. Let me repeat that. They certainly see it. Let's not put Kadi, a man put Miku south, a man who was state of the art hospital. Okay. So it could not have stood alone. But you see he has engranding our people is either the box or the buildings. You hear this? It's like the spinal cord of any human being. So the box could have never subsisted alone as a hospital. You know, and yet you come here attempting to justify the box. Mr. Speaker, you know, I have so much wastage and how wide now we have to borrow. But before I touch it in within the 15 minutes, let me tell you how much the member for Miku south was warned. Okay. So you have here, Mr. Speaker, three and a half prime ministers, four prime ministers. X or otherwise, they are X, Y and current. Now, this prime minister went for the original St. Jude. This prime minister quite wisely continued the original St. Jude. This prime minister said yes, original St. Jude. All of them. One man stood alone. But not even that, Mr. Speaker. His supporters were wiser than him. His supporters on the 21st of September, 2018 wrote him a letter. 2018 September. And I could make it a document of the house if I have to, Mr. Speaker. Signed by over 20 something supporters begging him, blitz, the original St. Jude. And I will read excerpts of it very quickly. But then again, what did he say? I don't listen. I let the Jack ass his brain. That's what he said. And prime minister is wrong. This ex-prime minister is wrong. This ex-prime minister is wrong. His supporters are wrong. He alone is right. Let me tell you what his supporters said, Mr. Speaker. Like I said, I could make it a document of the cabinet of ministers. 21st of September, 2018. Dear honorable ministers, we do understand a small group of your core UWP supporters from the two prime forces have constituency who want to ensure that the UWP is victorious at the next general election. The victory will give. The victory will give our government a further five years to fully implement its development plans and policies. Good. It was the UWP government that was written to the UWP government headed by the member for Miku South. It says it is evident that two issues are being exploited vigorously by labor in Souffre, St. Jude Hospital and the Town Square. Both of which they stopped. Both of which they stopped. Because they believe. You know. You know. You know. St. Jude Hospital and the Town Square. You know, they're rallying cries that the UWP does not do anything that the Labor Party started. Hear what Flambeau are saying to this gentleman. That UWP does not want to continue anything Labor started. And that's a fact. Stop the square. Stop the airport. Stop hospital. Stop the Wasco building. The administrative building. It stopped, stopped, stopped. This man paraded one day and he was on a stoppage exercise. He just got to the Souffre Square. All of you stop. And then he fired a contractor. You know. Yeah. The same one dressed as a priest. Yes. Here they say Mr. Speaker. Imagine the political firestorm the government would face if for example this year we were hit by a category four hurricane. And it would cause extensive damage to George Orlam Stadium, injuring or killing patients or staff or serious accidents at your accident. Sorry. At the Renault Airport, which would require swift and urgent medical care for several dozen pluses. Honorable ministers, we cannot go into the next year with this lingering issues. We cannot afford any missteps. We must not allow these ails to deteriorate any further. There are storm clouds gathering over the distant political horizon, including the blue wave. And we must avoid complacency. 2018. Yes, I will. Then they went on. They went on Mr. Speaker to tell him. Send you to the hospital. We employ you not to even consider building a brand new hospital as has been discussed. Construction of the new structure would take you into election year. There will be a lot of dissent and anger from the electorate, owing to the fact that so much donated money was spent to build the existing structure, only to see the present administration choosing to abandon it, rather than exploring more cost-effective ways of remedying the foopa. There's a label right now, right? No. Flabo's writing it too. Flabo. Sabah flabo, well sabah flabo. Hey, y'all are hearing this? Y'all are hearing this? Yes, that's it. You know? Let's simply say supporters flabo take away government flabo, because stop moon methe lajapue, you buy lajapue, you earn lajapue from Lord Pei, you buy the job, Professor Jude. You know? And they left it. And then they said, we are confident if you honor the ministers, listen to our plea and heed our advice, and implement the aforementioned measures promptly. Residents and voters in Souffre, will immediately pay less attention to the opposition's noise and propaganda, and sign a small detail, but I will make it a document of the House. But when your own supporters can tell you, do not touch it, do not touch it, three prime ministers tell you do not touch it, your own report. And you know, Mr. Speaker, he read from his report. He read from the report, but he never said this. His own report that he paid a million dollars for said, we see, and I quote, we see a great value present in the works completed to date, and believe that the project is solvable and can be converted into a facility that can properly serve the needs of St. Lucian. So he disregarded three prime ministers, he disregarded his report, he disregarded his supporters, and it comes in this House attempting to justify. Now he said his box was 90% complete. Miss, I have never heard more nonsense than that. Mr. Speaker, he commissioned a report in June of 2021 before the elections. He said, Mr. Speaker, he has prime minister, the member of the South as prime minister, commissioned a report on the status of what they had done. And it was dated 29th of July, three days after the people unceremoniously dispensed with the unwanted matter. And so, Mr. Speaker, here's what it says here. Here's what it says. The report does not indicate the current state of completion. He said here that his box was 90% complete, or 80%. I'm almost there, Mr. Speaker. The member of the Cassidy Center, you have five minutes left. And would you provide the officer over the document? Yes, definitely. So, yes, Mr. Speaker, the report that he commissioned did not indicate the state of completion and percentage. But he stands in this House and gives us a percentage, and we don't know where it came from. But I'll read the findings of the committee that was placed by this government. It says here the new buildings, which is the old phase, what as they call it, is between 70% and 90% complete. And they went on to say the project as a whole, that is the box, remains less than 30%, remains less than 30% complete, Mr. Speaker. So, and you know, headers, between February 2019 and July 2021, in less than two years, Mr. Speaker, well just over two years, they had spent $118 million. Mr. Speaker, I could go on and on, but here is little piece. The committee did not agree with the stated expenditure figure of some of the activities or some of the activities in the contracts have not been executed. The contract awarded to Freistat in the sum of $25,687,818.98 and 53 cents for the internal architectural elements, architecture, less at least here, $25 million for architecture. I could go on and on, but I do believe that the good Lord has blessed me with an alternative platform and it is not new speed, Mr. Speaker. It is not new speed. The good Lord has blessed me with an alternative platform to do justice, to this motion today and as I said earlier, I have not in the history of this country seen any moon with such favorable terms, 2% five years grace and a clause 20 years to pay and a climate affected clause. That was very well negotiated and Mr. Speaker, whilst I do know my prime minister was instrumental and he was at the forefront to all those other civil servants who were at the bargaining table and who assisted implicitly or otherwise. I say thank you on behalf of the government and people of St. Lucia. I take my leave.