 Thank you, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good morning to you, Mr. Speaker and greetings to all parliamentarians present here today. Mr. Speaker, it looks like I arrived just in time for the passage of this motion. And of course, like the speaker before me, I do welcome the presentation of this motion to the House this morning. So Mr. Speaker, I will of necessity be brief, but just to raise a few issues concerning the recent passage of the storm. Mr. Speaker, it is perhaps better known now that the storm inflicted the most significant damage on the constituency of Ufort during its passage. This is mainly due to the fact that the center of the storm passed between St. Vincent and St. Lucia. But it is astounding still that the damage of such severity occurred. As you heard from the member for Henry North and Minister of Education, both the primary school and of course the post secondary school suffered severe damage to the roof, to their roofs rather. And in addition to this, we also suffered some damage to the St. Jude preschool on the field itself. Happy, Mr. Speaker, I am in discussions with the Minister for Finance over possible assistance to the managers of the preschool to undertake some repairs. This would be very, very urgent in time for the reopening in September. As you know, with preschools is not just having the children in the building, but of course providing extended assistance to the parents of the children who are normally employed and need to find a place for their children during the day. The St. Jude preschool has been in existence for so many years and there's no question that they have provided a badly needed service. So I am exceedingly happy by the prospect that they can get some assistance to redo the entire roof of the building which was blown away by the storm. Mr. Speaker, I am sorry that the member for Grosley and the Minister of Youth is not present with us today because my concern also has to do... I know he's in parliament, I think. Oh, he's just in somewhere. All right. Well, that's good. My concern has to do with the Philip Maslin Pavilion. This building, the main building, also suffered considerable damage. The roof was also torn away. And perhaps this was made easier by the fact that the roof of that building had deteriorated significantly over the last few years and no remedial works were ever conducted to the roof now for the last 10 years. So it was a very easy victim of the storm itself. But I accept that there's more involved in the repairs to the roof. But I have to emphasize that the repairs really need to be treated as necessary and as urgent. If only because, you see, Mr. Speaker, before, South has suffered immeasurably in the last year because of the absence of serious activity in the community, allegedly because of the crime situation in the community. I myself have had reason to take umbrage at some decisions of somebodies, including the Black Heart organizers last year because I did feel irrespective of what the police said, that the decision to relocate or reassign Black Heart games elsewhere was not the wisest decision because no community should have to face that degree of marginalization and disregard as the people of you thought had to endure as a result of these decisions. I don't think decisions like that necessarily help fight against crime because what you're really doing is to just punish ordinary people and that's really not the best thing to win their support. But if you thought carries this crosses, Mr. Speaker, and I'm certain, however, that a more enlightened approach will emerge after this experience. All of this is to say, Mr. Speaker, that I do hope that attention would be paid to the pavilion. I'm sorry I missed the presentation of the Minister of Finance. So you have to forgive me for what he may have said that I'm now covering or this is all done in good faith because of my concern for these things. But there is the wider issue that I want you to focus on. I have in the past repeatedly addressed this House about the peculiar vulnerability of V4 South because of the sea level. And the time has really come for a more constructive approach to be taken to protecting V4 South and the community of V4 South. The warnings about the rise of sea level and of course the rise in temperatures need to be taken very seriously in all of these islands and especially in those islands where geography compels us to take those warnings very, very seriously. Mr. Speaker, the first area that I want to mention and ask the Ministry of Infrastructure to begin to examine seriously is the northern part of the airport, the northern part of the runway, abouting very close to the sea above Sandy Beach. Years ago the Ministry had done some very good work to construct huge boulders. But if anyone visits there you will notice that the power of the ocean, the constant, consistent assaults by heavy seas have displaced some of those very, very heavy rocks. And I am certain that I am seeing even greater incursion onto the highway although as I said some remedial work has been done. It really does mean that more resources have to be put to protect that northern boundary of the airport but also to ensure that the disposal of water, particularly coming from the drain leading from the airport has to be taken far more seriously than has been the case in the past. I should not have to be taking resources from my CDPs funds to be cleaning the main drain alongside the V4 fence. This should be seen as a drain belonging to the state that ought to be cleaned regularly by the Ministry of Infrastructure. It's basically unfair for the parliamentary rep to have to utilize resources meant for use of the community and it's time the Ministry of Finance changes its attitude to these matters. It's unacceptable that a major drain like this is left without appropriate disiliting measures. But it goes back to this broader issue. That's correct. I've just spent $25,000 to clean that main drain. I think it's $25,000 or $22,000 thereabouts. So that's a fact. But you know, Mr. Speaker, Minister of Finance to make the money available to infrastructure or directly to the constituency infrastructure is a problem. That having me said, Mr. Speaker, my deeper concern has to do with the issue of sea level in that stretch of road from Sandy Beach going to Bruceville and the time has come really to conduct a very serious study to determine what mitigation measures can be taken in that area to protect that area. We have a fundamental issue that there's no question that it is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the country and I think testimony bears out the popularity of that area because on every holiday or weekends, hundreds of solutions go down to Sandy Beach to enjoy the beach. Although my thinking is that the time has come to put a levy on all outsiders to raise some money in the beach. But that's another matter. Yes, we need to protect our part of money since it does not protect it for us. But jokes aside, Mr. Speaker, I think we do need a serious assessment to indicating to helping us to decide what mitigation measures are necessary because you could see the erosion and the damage now taking place very, very, very rapidly. So Mr. Speaker, let this just be a little wake-up call for all of us. Nobody expects things to be done overnight. But we have enough signals to suggest that the preparation should be on the way and we have to take mitigation very seriously. Of course, if the sea level rises to the levels forecasted by those who are charged with the responsibility to monitor the changes in the climate, then it means that that area will be in very serious trouble and so too will be the international airport. So we need to really take responsibility. And I fear that SLASPA will not take that responsibility. It is not usual that SLASPA has interest in these matters. If they had, they wouldn't be putting terminals so close to a river as has happened in the last few months with the construction of this new terminal building. So it's a serious matter that has to be looked at but we need to prepare to decide what kind of mitigation measures. So Mr. Speaker, I welcome this resolution. I hope that the repairs could be done very quickly so that the children can return to school in good time. And of course, I want to plead in particular for this Philip Masler pavilion and I made comment about Blackheart a while ago because I'm aware that the Blackheart organizers want to locate some of their matches in before this year. I don't know whether we'll have the time to do so but I am hoping that if we can get that main pavilion attended to, that would be possible. I wouldn't want them to use the building as another excuse after what happened to the viewport south in the previous year. So Mr. Speaker, I'm grateful for this. I welcome this and certainly it is a step in the right direction. So it certainly draws this resolution or motion certainly wins my fullest support and my blessing. Thank you Mr. Speaker.