 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. So Speaker as I did on the last occasion I want to address this honorable house to express congratulations to the winners that we have present with us today. There's quite an honor on the last occasion to have the former Monarchs join us and of course today is a very special delight to have the junior Calypso Monarch with us and he tells me is going to form one in the next school year and we certainly look forward to him continuing to be part of this you know valuable art form of singing Calypso and I hope of course he also extends to other aspects of it including writing of Calypso and everything else and I suspect that he would excel at it and of course we have a first the maestro himself Alison Maki I did say to him that I have to keep a promise to invest in another pan side which happens to have as its leader somebody from Castro South and I also told him I know the prime minister is making determined efforts to get his pan side going so he will have some increased competition next year but if you know Alison well enough he will welcome that and he'll probably help them to get established to take part in the competition so they can be them because he's a consumer professional and somebody who knows him will tell you that I had the delight during the arts component of the Jazz and Arts Festival to head a big pan side that he led play in the square and it was the best pan music at Everhood in St. Lucia during that that event so you we all know Alison and what he produces and of course my dear friend Giovanni sent to me I must and I told him this morning when I saw his costume come on stage I actually got goosebumps yeah I have spent many many hours and nights in my scum building costumes and I'll tell you something he still keeps the old tradition of how he builds his costume he's not changed he's not moved away from his established method of building costumes and to see him come this year and win was a delight I can tell you working with him is no easy task many woods have been exchanged over the years was building costumes but he's a he's a professional he's a perfectionist and in somebody who puts his all he really really loves this art form and I can see to you I don't know why he keeps doing it but every year this man goes for days and nights to make sure he produces costumes and it's a real joy to see that he came back this year and win Mr. Speaker let me take the opportunity on behalf of you know all my colleagues in here to express our appreciation to the Royal Central Police Force for the example you know you know our primary concern was citizen safety and security for this carnival primary and I can see from all reports it was incident-free I saw the police out in the numbers I saw them very professional very diligent in what they did and we had a very good season and we must say a special thank you to all the police officers it had to be difficult on them to put in the amount of hours that they put in across all the private feds all the national events having juve as well as the parade and seeing the parade yesterday and the amount of people who are out you can imagine what the police went through Mr. Speaker so we have to express you know our thanks to the leadership and the officers of the Royal Central Police Force and the other emergency services that provided support Mr. Speaker you have to say thank you to the carnival planning management committee and the carnival music committee management committee for the work they did Tamara Gibson Claude Paul and all the team Mr. Speaker that really over saw the carnival season we have to say thank you to them the volunteers Mr. Speaker the social media workers we had the cameraman the videographers everyone who really made the last few days the phenomenal success it was of course you cannot have carnival without back and out so they had to have enough talk about the bamboo wall and the colors of the wall and everything else Mr. Speaker for me I have no difficulty in everybody expressing their views we must let all ideas content anyone can share their views their opinions of course we always as they do it in a respectful way but please send in your suggestions sending your criticisms of how we can make the product better already this morning I was really pleased to see on Facebook somebody was suggesting that we should paint it over as we prepare for junior Creole and to use the madras and images of Creole heritage and almost suggesting it doesn't have to remain a carnival wall somebody put forward that as an idea but the more ideas we get from solutions the more suggestions so how we can be better I think it would do us a lot good not every suggestion has to be a rural and a personal making it personal and you know and really becoming negative let us look to make some Lucia carnival the premier carnival in the Caribbean we may not be the biggest but we have some very iconic you know elements our carnival including the waterfront I mean the sites of the waterfront with the the yachts alongside the waterfront and the colors along the waterfront is a phenomenal site to behold mr. Speaker we have so much that the so much that we we so much that we we we we can you know we can really sell as Saint Lucia so let me as minister express my thanks to everyone who made carnival success mr. Speaker and you know my colleagues are reminding me about ccc mr. Speaker I want to thank them too for the contribution that they make mr. Speaker but I mr. Speaker we will have a lot more to talk about when we meet and we do our review as well different agencies can work better and to make sure that we really have the best setting for Saint Lucia carnival