 Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, let me thank members, I know the members of Euphort North will speak on the other resolution and he'll, I'm sorry if I, if you saw my light first, the members of Euphort North will speak on the other resolution. Mr. Speaker, you know, when you run in a country Mr. Speaker, you have to decide what you take on or what you do not take on. And the members of Euphort South always used to tell us that in my youthful exuberance sometimes when I thought we should go after everything and tea, meat, tea and things like that. And he always used to say, let these things go because you have to concentrate on running the country Mr. Speaker. So Mr. Speaker, I have not come back and read letters and show emails and show documents that the members of Euphort North got involved in. But Mr. Speaker, today I'm going to do something to show you how the members of Euphort South deliberately and intentionally seeks to mislead the people of Euphort South. In his failure to understand that he has been rejected and he calls the seat of Sir John Compton to be lost because of his ineptitude. And because of his ineptitude and because of the calibre of candidates we run against Kigain Uniasa. He must cover his shame by coming in this Honourable House and just talk loud and go in public and say, I'm a St. Lucian, look at me, I'm born in St. Lucia. I'm a St. Lucian, when your passport say you born in Matnik and cover up all the things he has done to the people of St. Lucia and cover up the fact that he left St. Lucia after Covid with the sixth highest rate of depression in the world than any other Oasis country Because of his mismanagement of the economy, he comes and he reads things that he knows are not true. He knows that. He had an extract from a social economic review talking about the CSO and the central city's official speaker, something we have debated in this House. Mr. Speaker, the matter of view for itself, when we got documents from civil servants, always said to us that these are the facts as seen by the civil servants, do not interfere with them. We never, I have never asked to see a copy of the social economic review before it goes into public. That's not my style. I don't do that. I don't call civil servants and tell them, Mr. Speaker, he opened the door about CIP and what he's going to say. Mr. Speaker, I am going to tell you what they did, you see, I pay money, kept myself concentrated, keeping focus, Mr. Speaker. But today I am going to deal with the issue he spoke about training students for work in the hospitality industry, Mr. Speaker. And I am going to show you how this hypocrisy and these lies put him where he is today. And he comes here and he says, and when you answer him, some civil servants inside say, concentrate on the thing, leave the man alone, leave the man alone. Every day on United Park, they lie. Every on some radio stations, they lie. Every day on some WhatsApp groups, they lie. Every day, Mr. Speaker, and you mustn't answer. When you answer, they tell you, concentrate on what you are doing and leave the man alone, Mr. Speaker. But today, Mr. Speaker, I am going to read for you part of the mess, the member for Microsoft left this country when he talks about training students in hospitality, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I not like to do it, but I will do it. I will do it, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, listen to what the member for Microsoft when he was in government, part of the things he left for Seleucia. Seleucia, his legacy, he talk about training, Mr. Speaker. There was an agreement, whatever the discussion, and I think it's something that we may have started. I'm not sure. I'm not going to go down that way. But I know we are speaking tomorrow college also. But I'm not going to go down that way. I'm not going to categorically say it was happening Saturday. The member for Microsoft will be able to tell me. I'm not sure. But what I can tell you that, Mr. Speaker, is that the Minister of Finance, Mr. Speaker, after making an agreement with Monroe College in 2018, the member for Microsoft, the member for Microsoft when he was Minister of Finance, he was Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2021, meant for providing this program to 128 students who began in autumn 2019. The bank has not released the $384,000 due to Monroe, which reflects the government's guarantee toward program costs. Until that payment is received, we are unable to confirm the completion certificate for this cohort, which delays their ability to gain employment in the hospitality sector. They trained so hard to join. I said again for you, Mr. Speaker, this is the member for Microsoft, you know, coming in solely, Mr. Speaker. This program to the students who began in autumn 2019, the bank has not released $384,000, $384,000 due to Monroe, which reflects the government's guarantee towards program costs. Until that payment is received, we are unable to confirm the completion certificate for this cohort, which delays their ability to gain employment in the hospitality sector. They trained so hard to join. Go and follow me, Mr. Speaker. In January 2024-2023, when this member for Microsoft, here is how I had to deliver that. I write as directed by the prime minister to acknowledge your missive dated October 27, 2022, regarding discussions for payment by the government of St. Lucia of the outstanding balance due to Monroe College for hospitality training for more than 100 young St. Lucia. I wish to confirm the prime minister's commitment that the government of St. Lucia will honour its obligation to settle the amount of $429,000 in that regard in keeping with the understanding of making payments under great period of time with an initial payment of $100,000 will be paid during the fourth quarter of the 2020-2020 financial year ending March 2023. Mr. Speaker, that is history. So the 100 students you are speaking about compared to what you said under the label? Isn't that right, Mr. Speaker? And the members have made a point about call centre. Let's talk about working in the cruise industry, Mr. Speaker. We guarantee the member for Microsoft, you say your memory bird and mine. That's right. You may try to correct me or you may try to clarify. We were the ones who went into agreement with the cruise industry and some private service providers, Mampa and others to put cruise, to put solutions to employment in the cruise industry. And we guarantee the whole SLDB of $3,000 per applicant of $3,000 per applicant so they could get the necessary requirements to go on the cruise to go to the cruise ship. And we used to joke with him in cabinet and say when time come to vote, all of you will be on cruise ship. We used to have that joke, Mr. Speaker. And when he came, he stopped it. And he went into that agreement and he ended up not paying the people for that agreement. That is his record. That's his record, Mr. Speaker. He stopped it and he ended up not paying the people, Mr. Speaker. So that's his record. That's his record, Mr. Speaker. And as I promised the last time I was there, from now on Mr. Speaker, from now on, we are going because, you know, he always comes and he threatens us. And he says, he stole my call, he's a bit of a means. I'm sure he's very happy, very happy, Mr. Speaker. Because he wants, because he believes that because of his propaganda machine, he can get away like no one's listening to him. But from now on, we, while he's remaining focused, Mr. Speaker, we have to debunk these lies and these misconceptions. Second, Mr. Speaker. Second, Mr. Speaker. The member for V4 South talks about old buildings, 80 old business speakers. Mr. Speaker, I want you to ask the member for, where are you from? Mikusol. It's like 40 years from Canada. I want to ask him, Mr. Speaker. I want to ask Mr. Speaker. Where in the box was there any place for the kitchen? Where in the box was there any place for the laundry? Where in the box was there any place for the offices? Where in the box was the mug? Where in the box was the warehouses? Where in the box was the space for these things, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Speaker, they intended to use the same buildings to add to the box, Mr. Speaker. The hospital could not function without using the buildings in face wall, Mr. Speaker. Exactly. And to make it worse, Mr. Speaker, they destroyed two buildings costing between $7 and $9 million for no reason at all, Mr. Speaker. But I'm happy to tell you much to the chagrin. Because what they want, they want bad for Sir Lucia. They want Sir Lucia to suffer because Sir Lucia voted against them. They want us to suffer. So they, hopefully, and they pray in every day, Lord give us more crime. They pray in every day, Lord, Lord, make the roads get worse. They pray in every day, Lord, may the hospital not happen. They pray in every day for damnation to fall upon Sir Lucia because of their sins, Mr. Speaker. But I want to tell you something. Mr. Speaker, the dialysis ward and the physiotherapy ward are going to be completed this year. They are going to be completed this year, Mr. Speaker. This year, they're going to be completed. And, Mr. Speaker, work on the other buildings will continue later this year, Mr. Speaker. That's what they don't want to see, Mr. Speaker. They pray for doom and gloom to befall the people of Sir Lucia. This, the member from Mikusau says we have no plan for education. This is a government education. We were the ones who got university primary school education and many people in this room would never know what it meant to go on a shift system. When we talk about youth entrepreneurship, many young people will never know what it meant to go to school from 80 to 12. And part of the reason why we may have problems in this country is because of these children who only spent a few hours in school, Mr. Speaker, and they spent the rest of their time on supervise. This got the little parties that want to change that with the construction of a dimple at Lucia school. We don't want you, Mr. Speaker. You might know that. Going to school half-day. You want to school half-day, Mr. Speaker? You probably too old for that. But, Mr. Speaker, I'm sure there are many people in this room who know nothing about going to school half-day. Nothing, Mr. Speaker. We were the ones, Mr. Speaker, when there was something called common entrance, when Mr. Speaker, you know when I went to college, only about a hundred of us could have gone. Further, after my time, Mr. Speaker, there was a time and the men for Cassius North can testify to that. The Russian, the pressure was to get to college, get a second year's school. That's why they had to build the same days academy and the other school further. Because of the pressure, there was no space, Mr. Speaker. He knows that, but he doesn't know that. Further, Mr. Speaker, do you know there was something called common entrance, Mr. Speaker? When little children, between the ages 11 and 12, the children used to be under stress, nervousness. The parents used to beat them and tell them because they did not get, they failed to go to secondary school. No stress on this children, Mr. Speaker. Then they move it to have a secondary college, junior secondary school to take on that cohort. There was the Rockall senior school, Mr. Speaker. And something beautiful is going to happen up there soon. That will make them more vex. There was the Rockall senior secondary school, that's what they call it, senior primary school. When we, the Labour Party going to government, we started something called, we built five new schools and started universal secondary education where every child got some place in a secondary school. It wasn't perfect, it wasn't perfect, but every child at least had a place in school, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if I guess that, there is no plan for education because probably young people who do not know that, don't make them in the dog misery. More talk. We are the ones, Mr. Speaker, we are the ones now and we're beginning this programme of one university, of one university graduate for household. We are the ones doing it. Tell me this, Mr. Speaker. When you had this member comes there and with his bluster and his sounding good, speaking at level of, on choice of the speaker, we have to the bucket, Mr. Speaker. We have to the bucket, Mr. Speaker. Talking about hotel workers, Mr. Speaker. I've heard the member for Kastru Salve speaking, let's see, on rememoration for hotel workers. We were the ones, Mr. Speaker, when he going to government, we will move taxes and service charge paid to hotel workers. We were the ones who did it. We were the ones who did it, Mr. Speaker. So, our record, Mr. Speaker, is clear. Our record on workers and education has not been perfect. Nothing is perfect, but our record is clear, Mr. Speaker. And finally, on this statistic thing, he comes back again every year, Mr. Speaker. It is clear. It is clear what happened where that is concerning me, Mr. Speaker. That was not written by us. We don't get involved in that writing. It is the same way they want me to get involved in police operation. I never get involved in police operation. No matter what they say, and no matter how they try to attack me, to criticize me, because they believe that being a policeman is not a profession that you must be proud of. That's what they believe. So, when they say, I say my father was a policeman, I say what I do, then I grate me, Mr. Speaker, what they are doing is they are then I grating all policemen in the system. That's what they doing. That's what they are doing. So, when they try to attack me, when I say my father was a policeman, they are attacking all policemen because being a policeman is an honorable profession, Mr. Speaker. And I'm proud to say that I went to school on policeman salary. I'm proud to say that. And I'll say it again. And the more they attack me, the more I'll say it, Mr. Speaker. I'm a teacher. So, Mr. Speaker, let's get back to the thing about, and I want to read Mr. Speaker the explanation that we have about the statistics, Mr. Speaker. How do you read it for you? During COVID-19, the central secretary's office made a decision to continue the conduct of the quarterly labor force survey. Notwithstanding the fact on the advice of the chief medical officer, all face-to-face interview should have been discontinued until further notification. Consequently, adaptations had to be made to the data collection methodology and I searched the results of the labor force survey during that period will stand alone and not comparable to the labor force survey results prior to COVID-19. However, from 2023 we resumed the application of the normal labor force data collection methodology. Hence, the 2023 labor force survey results can be compared with the results prior to COVID-19. That's the explanation, Mr. Speaker. Not for me because even though I did a little bit of statistics in school a long time ago I got plenty to be a many statistician. I know a plumber statistician. That's what he want me to do. Play him everything. That's what he did. He was an engineer. He said he had a mixed degree. Then he was all kind of things with Mr. Speaker. All kind of things. He's an economist. He's a financier. He's a hotelier. He's a guru in everything. You know about everything, Mr. Speaker. I don't know about everything. I don't know about everything, Mr. Speaker. What I know is I can listen to advice and I can listen to people who know more than me. Many people know more than me and look to do the best for the people of solution. Finally, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this resolution will help in the school shortages in the OECS, Mr. Speaker. That from the World Bank shows, Mr. Speaker, that 40% of all employers in St. Lucia indicated that skills and education of workers was a hinge once to the country's competitiveness. 61% of youth in the OECS faced challenges getting or earning a living with many reporting that academic qualifications did not fit the labour market. That's what the figures say, Mr. Speaker. And that is what this resolution and this borrowing seeks to cure. I thank you, Mr. Speaker.