 Good morning everyone. My name is Samantha Charles from the Ministry of Tourism. I wish to apologize first of all for the late start and we hope that you understand and bear with us. Honourable Herod Stanislaus, Parliamentary Representative of Forse Jacques Souffre, Paris Priest of Forse Jacques Souffre, Father Albert Smith, Mr. Alison Mathre, Executive Director of the Saint Lucia Social Development Fund, Mr. Clyde Nipolet, Project Manager of the Basic Needs Trust Fund, Mr. Marius Felix, Chairman of the Board of the Souffre Marine Management Association Incorporated and Board Members and Staff of the SMMA, Ms. Donalipiti, Representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Staff of the SSEF, Staff of the Ministry of Tourism and Special Recognition of our Junior Minister of Tourism, Ms. Shine Savery, Members of the Project Monitoring Committee, Members of the Souffre Youth Service Association SISER, invited guests, ladies and gentlemen, a pleasant good morning once again. Please join me in welcoming to the podium Ms. Donalipiti from the Ministry of Tourism who will deliver the feature welcome address. On behalf of the Ministry of Tourism Information Broadcasting Culture and Creative Industries, it is my deepest pleasure to be here. As somebody who has very deep roots and ties in Souffre and some of my colleagues as well, it is it gives me very great pleasure to be here. So on behalf of the Ministry, the Minister, as well as my colleagues and those who tirelessly Samantha and especially Beverly, the two of them to see this day happen with SSEF and the other stakeholders, I say a very good Souffre welcome to you all. For us at the Ministry, it's always our focus to see how we can engender development within the sector. With our operational environment, it's quite impossible for us to do so on our own. And so we have forged very close ties with Slasper Marine Police, SMMA, SSDF and some other agencies. We have here in the person of Mr. Alexander, Mr. Cohen, John and the representatives from the Marine Police. I just really wanted to single them out, but my memory is failing because they have really been pivotal to what is happening today. A couple of years ago, we had what we consider to be the last break, yacht breaking in Souffre. And this really sparked for us the need to have focus attention on Souffre and the Bay in particular because of the yachting significance to Souffre as a destination. And all of those agencies that I mentioned, plus many more, came together right here in Souffre and made it their focus to see what interventions could be in put in place to really halt the yacht breakings and more so to cause, you know, more of a spark of attention and Souffre. As a result of doing so, the SMMA and the police were very tirelessly and today we still have ongoing nightly and daily patrols on the water. So let's just put our hands together for SMMA and the Marine Police and the Slasper. This is a marked, marked improvement with the trajectory of yacht crimes and breakings, not just in Souffre, but around the Caribbean. And we really want to commend the so-called boat boys but looking at them as young entrepreneurs on the water for working towards this objective. Further to the establishment of the patrols on the water, we also had the intervention of looking to see what the various agencies could have done to raise the profile of the yacht sector in Souffre and to focus the development on the young men who are getting a livelihood out of flying and for hire, offering tours, offering the seal of ice, offering dinner packages, and as well as time put in contact. We know in terms of the modality as far as the operations of CISAR that they're now called Souffre Yacht Services Association, it wasn't the best and so they have been very cooperative and we commend them to the point where today we have a registered community organization with a constitution actively involved and they have started training to improve their livelihood and technical skills. So let's applaud them but this is a mild stroke. We don't want a very silent audience, we want audience that already feel the passion that we have to communicate and what the boys, the gentlemen sorry, have to offer. So we have been able to secure this project under the BNTF basic needs trust fund funded by the CDB to the tune of 125,000 dollars, not including US dollars sorry, not including the contribution that the other stakeholders like Slasper Marine Police, Land-based Police and the Ministry ourselves are giving in kind an SMMA. So we commend the various agencies to stick with us as we enroll and enroll on this project and more so we ask the cooperation of the direct beneficiaries to remain focused, to continue to lift the veil, to continue to fly the flag of Souffre and to call positive attention on our yachting sector within the beam. In terms of our way forward for the project, we anticipate after it's come by the time it's completed, the SISA group will have a very integrated product to offer within the village as well as to go directly with the SMMA going forward. Just on this backdrop of where the project was and where it's going, I urge you to continue working with us to being there for the gentlemen, they look very, very smart and I think they should also be commended on that this morning, they really need to be commended on that and we just want to ensure that this position continues beyond the project life. So with that, I say to you good morning and welcome to the town of Souffre and welcome to the unveiling of the SISA project with BNTF funded by CDB. At this point, we invite to the podium Ms. Jackie Alley, project officer for the San Wichita Social Development Fund, SSDF, who will provide an overview of the project. The maritime training for yachting sector targeted at Souffre Youth, formerly known as the boat boys, aim to build and expand the capacity of the Souffre Youth, the Souffre, sorry, yacht services association which is SISA, to generate financial benefits for themselves through education and skills training. This group of young men which we knew as the boat boys, you heard Ms. Vite say a while ago, now the Souffre Yachting Services Association was unorganized, unstructured and perceived as aggressive and threatening, as I said, they were perceived as aggressive and threatening to our visitors. As a result, the Souffre received a lot of bad press on social media and I think we went through that, we have an idea of that and a lot of bad publicity. So persons visiting the community would encourage other persons not to come to Souffre or not to visit our shores. Recognizing this problem, a proposal was submitted to the basic needs trust fund through the SSDF for the training and formalization of the group. With the collaboration of a diverse group of stakeholders, the beneficiaries of SISA will receive both soft skills and underwater training in areas such as maritime law and technology, basic navigation, radio voice, procedure, safety, anchoring, etc. I can go through all the areas. The community tourism training is CVQ level one certified and will cover topics such as customer service, personal entrepreneurial strategies and dealing with persons of various and diverse cultures, etc. This training when completed will assist SISA with the marketing of their services and in extension the community of Souffre. First aid training will also be facilitated and it's a certified training I believe for a period of two years and you would be the members of SISA would be expected to to upgrade or renew following the two years. Upon completion or successful completion of the maritime training, beneficiaries will be assessed on what they have learned and will be issued licenses and that will be done by SLASPA. This project is 95% funded by the Caribbean Development Bank through the basic needs trust fund 9th program under the education and human resource development sectors and 5% funded by the government of Saint Lucia. The project comes at an approximate cost of US $125,000 and Ms. Bete mentioned it earlier which is equivalent to $336,862 East Caribbean dollars, EC dollars. So we're looking at an investment of approximately $8,340 per beneficiary and by beneficiary I mean the members of SISA and to us that is significant. Initially the project targeted 30 beneficiaries however since training started in August or on August 19th we surpassed that number and have reached at least 45 persons attending the training. Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality that is a theme chosen for the 2019 Sustainable Development Goals to be implemented in the Caribbean. The SDGs has a focus on skill acquisition which addresses skills training and education through certification and the basic needs trust fund through the Caribbean Development Bank is bringing us closer to meeting our 2030 agenda with projects such as this one which focuses on two goals well more than two but mainly two goals and that is goal number four and goal number eight which is quality education and decent work and economic growth respectively. Just for the benefit of this launch I just want to highlight two key areas critical areas that I believe would aid in the success of this program. Commitment and I speak specifically to the members of SISA. I think we all understand that it cannot be business as usual as a significant investment has been made towards your own personal upliftment and livelihood enhancement. So it is in your best interest to use the tools given you to not just change the perception of what was but to create a new impression of SISA as a professional entity working towards the overall sustainability of your livelihoods and that of your family and in extension the community of Souffre. The other critical area I believe is collaboration when I speak of collaboration I speak of persons like myself the division of tourism etc. We all have us taking this project and to see it be successful and for this to happen the SMMA the BNTF the SSDF the division of tourism the project monitoring committee which comprises of persons from SLASPA, NSDC, maritime police and other stakeholders and SMMA to for us to as enforcement agencies and monitoring agencies to assist SISA in working alongside them alongside them I'm sorry and assisting them in in getting to where they need to go and to become a success. Finally I cannot speak of sustainable development goals and not point out the gender imbalance in our project and I have a responsibility as a staff and not just a female staff but a staff of the SSDF to point that out and I don't say it in a negative way it is something that CDB is likes to see balance so we have a group of members of SISA and as you can see they're all male if there are any females from what I understand they may be not necessarily in the they might be in maybe a more administrative position but as far as I know and I believe that's the information that we have all the water members and the members that work out a male so for me to speak of sustainable development goals we have to discuss that so however not discussed mentioned it moving forward I challenge our men of SISA to promote the inclusion of females or women in this business so that they too can have the opportunity to benefit equally as the ultimate goal is for us to achieve gender equality. Let me leave you I like to leave you with a very simple quote or just some food for thought it's the the it's a well known there's a well-known Indian economist I I I pronounce his name as a Mathias Sen some people may say differently that's how I know it he's an economist and he's also known to produce many books on justice and equality and he got a Nobel Prize for producing or for coming up with practical solutions when dealing with the effects of farming in in poor countries and the quote says economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable and unethical and with that I thank you. Thank you Ms. Allen for that very in-depth overview on the SISA project. At this point I invite you to help me welcome to the podium Mrs. Helena René Emmanuel representative of the Souffre Marine Management Association Incorporated will deliver remarks on behalf of the organization. The SPMA is an organization which was formed more than 20 years ago with the aid of helping and resolving conflicts between official folks the yachties the table chatters and recreational users and this gives us the well actually the government gave us the mandate to do this and also to conserve our coral reefs and marine reserves. This conflict has been going on for years and it's still going on in fact we have even worn out now we have jet skis coming into the picture where the last 20 years we super SMA didn't have to deal with jet skis but this is a new phenomenon and that's one more conflict that SMA has to help resolve it. The SISA group which was formed spaded by the Department of Tourism was a good initiative I don't have to go into details because I know it has been said and I think SMA we think SMA has an integral role in helping the young men develop themselves and grow because what happened is it does affect SMA directly. We have helped in instrumentalizing the good boys SISA now as they call and we are going to continue to help. We foster a good relationship with them and hopefully SMA and SISA would continue as it benefits everybody. The Community Apparance Tribe would put the SISA members themselves suffering SMA essential as a whole. We need to actually talk to the young I we need to talk to the young guys and to make them aware of all the efforts and the money that has been spent to develop them and to have them help build the young sector. In fact young men the sector has been placed in your hands because if you do a bad job or a good job whatever that you do your actions your inactions can actually spell good for us or bad for us and we know the history of the bad ones so now we want to change that around and help suffer the young sector grow to what we expected to be. We have the natural beauty here everybody wants to come here so let's get our way back to suffering and we can only do that through our help. You are the first set of people at the UOTC. You are the ones to welcome them. You are the face of the UOTC. Let's get good news going again. We have realized the past year it's been very good because the slow season has been a past season for us this year and I think it's all because of your efforts into making a positive impact on what the UOTC is. So on behalf of the SMA, the world directors we are going to tell you that we are going to continue to monitor the members. We are going to help mentoring and helping the organization get where you want it to be. Thank you. One of the things that we aim to do in the project is to possibly see how there could be linkages formed with the sector members and hotels within Souffre. So speaking of Hotel Chocolat, Ladera, Anshasne, Jane Mountain, Sugar Beach, etc. How do we work with the boys to at some point provide services to the guests of these hotels? They perform a myriad of services but let's see how in the future these hotels can form some type of partnership with our sector members and expand the range of products and services to the hotels and we have all of our high-end hotels in Souffre. So obviously that would be a very good partnership if we can only work together in that type of commitment. So I just wanted to plug that in before we move forward. At this point please help me welcome to the mic Mr. Alison Mathre, the Executive Director of the Saint-Michel Social Development Fund, who is here for us. I would like to claim also to Souffre because my father's family is from Souffre and my mother's family is from Trouser. So I'm happy to be here and be shared if it was like this. So I'm very happy to be here. I would also like to adopt the protocol that has already been established because it is extensive. However, I would like to say hello to the representative of Souffre for Seja, as well as the staff from the various agencies and ministries, Marine Police, our project officer, Jacqui Moussaleh, and the template, the project manager for the B-Signage Trust Fund, the co-engineer Darren and Brandon, the monitoring evaluation officer. This is a very, very special occasion. I want to really single out and thank the Caribbean Development Bank for this initiative. The Caribbean Development Bank through the B-Signage Trust Fund has provided assistance to Saint-Michel Social Development Fund for 40 years now. And I will say this, they've provided assistance in a number of sectors, but I still believe that one of the most important forms of assistance that can be provided is through capacity building and training of young people. And so I am especially fond of these training initiatives that are provided by the soft-skill sector of the Caribbean Development Bank CDB. It was mentioned that for the beneficiaries, and let me just say this with regard to the beneficiaries. We think of beneficiaries as the recipients of the training, but I think we can all agree that it is an expanded, really an expanded term because it was mentioned earlier that the first point of contact are the treaties. The very first point of contact are what we used to call the boat boys. And that is significant because there was also mention of the perception of harassment and whatever. And what I will say to you on that is we can dispel all the perceptions and we can make it concrete. Not only, not only do these young men have a very important role to play in terms of the way they conduct themselves, but certainly in terms of building relationships and encouraging the arts and to come back to Saint-Michel. So to that extent, the beneficiaries really are the widest in Lucia because every ambassador, every ambassador in Saint Lucia in terms of tourism, every ambassador contributes to the income of our country by spreading the good word about Saint Lucia when they go back to their homelands and what have you. And if they say only positive things about us, more people will come. And then there will be no question about whether there is a perception of harassment and stuff because these young individuals will be well trained. They will know how to approach people and how they're interpersonal skills and how they relate to them. So that is very, very, very significant. And it is for that reason that I see the beneficiaries as being much more than 52 recipients of training. The other thing is that my attraction for the capacity building training is that it empowers young people to be able to have sustainable livelihoods. It keeps them engaged because if, especially young men, if they are not constructively engaged in meaningful activities, a lot of times they end up getting into the things that we do not want them to get into. And so these initiatives enable them to be able to take care of themselves and their families. And they are not dependent on any type of governmental assistance and what have you. They are able to take care of themselves. They are young entrepreneurs, which is what they really are. So for them, for the young men here, I hope you understand your critical position in putting out a good word for St. Lucia, but also in developing your own whatever skill that you've learned there and using it to help you to be able to take care of yourselves and your families as you move on. So with that in mind, I want to say again thanks to the Caribbean Development Bank, the Ministry of Tourism, the Marine Police, CISA. And I must say also it's really nice to know that, you know, this organization came together and they've been doing, trying to do their thing with regard to tourism and yachting. And so this is very, very important, not just for suffering. I will also say to you that in a lot of ways the success of this program will, I hope, be down to even more investment in that sort of initiative because the yachting industry, I'm told in 2016 that about, what, 60 something thousand yachts, 69 also came to St. Lucia and that they right now about 49% of GDP. That is very significant. And so there are a lot of opportunities, a number of opportunities for training in that sector. And I think we're just starting to do it and I hope that that can be replicated so that we have trained, trained boat boys if you want to call them. We have trained people that are trained, not just in Souffre, but we can do that in Ansari and in Canaries. And we can do that in Rosalie and everywhere, Laverie, everywhere we have yachts going that come to St. Lucia on a regular basis so that we can have provided quality service from St. Lucia. Your success will certainly help to ensure that more of these initiatives are undertaken not just by the Caribbean Development Bank, but even by pro agencies like the SSDF and the ministry. And thank you. Our final set of remarks and probably I don't want to say the most important, but the one that may probably resonate the most with our SISER members is our remastered honourable hero, Staslas, parliamentary representative for Souffre and Boscia. It gives me great pleasure to be here today to celebrate with you on the launching of this project, the Souffre and Yacht Services Association. Today I believe is a momentous occasion in the development of the tourism product in Souffre and St. Lucia in general. The launching of this association today, ladies and gentlemen, to me signifies empowerment, it signifies capacity building, it signifies progress and also opportunities. Opportunities, progress, empowerment for all of the people of Souffre, but specifically for you the members of SISER who have undergone the training. And let me take this time to congratulate all the members of SISER for having the courage, the understanding to enroll in this program, this project and to be here today with us for the launching of SISER. I think it is very well known to all of us the contribution of tourism to the inclusion economy. Tourism contributes approximately 60% or sometimes even more to our annual GDP and our numbers have been increasing on a yearly basis. We have surpassed 1.2 million arrivals and that number is on the upward trajectory. Yachting plays a critical role with tourism development and it is for that reason that we as a people, as a society, as a country have to safeguard the yachting industry. And I am hoping that with the training that the young men received over the past days, the past weeks that would have given them some insight on the value of tourism and on the value of the yachting sector to the sustainable growth and development of the industry. So far we know, there is a critical role in tourism development in Saint Lucia. And if I am allowed to provide trumpet this morning, we can see that the promotion and marketing of tourism in Saint Lucia is not possible without Soofre. If you look at there to your left and my left, let me inspire you, the first thing you see is our victims. Any magazine, any pamphlets, any television and anything about Saint Lucia, it must be Soofre in the background. And for that we are proud people, we are proud of being from South City and contributing to the economic development of this country. Last I know, last one of our visits, I mean Miss Charles, we had over 2000 yacht calls to Soofre and I am very pleased that over the past two to three years, we have not had any major breakings of the yachts coming into this destination. So today we have an organization called CICER, which is well organized, well structured, it is managed, it is going to be monitored and evaluated so that the boat boys who are now CICER members can conduct their business on the waters in an orderly manner. For too long we have had complaints, issues of harassment, of foul language, of theft, pollution of the seas, of waters and a whole lot of negativity. And I am certain that they have understood the negative impact of this on their livelihoods and they are going to change the attitudes and the ways of conducting business on the way forward so that this sector, the nothing sector continues to bring economic benefits to Soofre and for Soofre. Your training will also bring great improvement to the level of service I believe that you are going to offer. Service that is going to maintain and keep to the standards required so that the industry, the tourism industry sector can continue to flourish in this country and in this town. Your approach to the boats, one of the speakers said earlier that you are at the first point of contact to the yachts and that is very true. We see your as ambassadors of Senbuja when you go out on the water there, you meet those yachts out there and bring them in. You are at the first point of contact in Senbuja and therefore your approach, your mannerism, your discipline plays a critical role in welcoming those business to our shores to enable them to stay in Soofre, stay at La Petite Bordeaux, stay at Magretout, stay at Anchaste Jarduzi so that they can spend the tourist dollar in Soofre so that they can circulate throughout the length and breadth of these hospitals. The yachting on the sensor plays a critical role to the sustainable livelihoods of our people and the dollar that you make from the yachties has a trickle down effect. If we have more yachts coming into Soofre it means that the SMMA is going to collect a lot more revenue from Anchorage. The SMMA can continue to hire more rangers. The SMMA can procure the right set of vessels, equipment to continue patrolling the waters and maintaining our marine reserve. If you do what is right, you have more yachts coming in over the over 2,000 yachts, it means that more visitors will be taken to our sites and attractions, more revenue for the super foundation to be able to spend into the town on to infrastructure, human and resource development of the people. It means that more people will be employed at those sites and attractions, more taxi drivers are going to benefit from the business that you bring on the shores, the restaurants, the bars, the cafes, the boutiques, the super markets. Every single person in this constituency is going to be positively impacted by CISA. The lives of the people of Soofre will be changed if you conduct your business in an orderly manner. This of course I believe will also allow for the tourism product development of St. Lucia and Soofre. Not every tourist comes by land and not every tourist wants to stay at the hotels on land. You are tourists who want to go on the water, even if they are not yachties, but they want to go on the water and explore. They want to snuggle, they want to dive, they want to fish, they want to go away watching and all of those water based activities. And I'm saying that to you members to give you the insights that you should not only see yourselves as your boys going together, you have to come in to talk and so on, but give you the insights so that you can start thinking creatively so that you can expand your yachting business into other sectors of the water based tourism because there are opportunities there for you to grow, develop and become even more successful as young entrepreneurs, but in the sound. I believe you all need some training on some human resource development training which is also very welcoming in customer relations that is very critical because you know your approach, the way you treat, you deal with the visitors can have a lasting impression that will determine whether they do business with you or not, or whether they come back to this country or whether they turn their backs on Zendushia for the rest of their lives. I also believe that you need some training in CPR first aid which is very good. You also need some training in small boat repairs and I think the coxswain, the boat masters training, all of these are very very good training that you did because those trainings can benefit you in the long run because they all tomorrow you decide to forget about being a yacht guy on the water and you want to go on the cruise ship to work, you want to go to the hotel to work at the dive center on the water sports, these certificates can help you very very much in getting a job in the long run, so that I believe is commendable, you have to be appreciative of it and keep those certificates in a very safe area, labinated so that you can use it in the future. I also want to let the members know that after today you should not look at going on the water as a hustle, just to go and make 200, 300 dollars, you come back online, you spend it tomorrow, let me go and make another 100, 200 dollars, you don't make it tomorrow and you find yourself in trouble. This is a business, you have now been trained, you have now been placed in an organization, in an association where you have now become young businessmen of super. So you have to have the notion that I want to be a successful businessman. When I go out there and I make the money, I have overheads, I have to pay my QL bill, I have to pay the taxi driver, I have to pay for the admissions, I have to pay the crew, I have to pay for the food, for the drinks, whatever it is that I have to pay for and I have to put money on the site because I'm operating a vessel, the engine can break down, the boat needs repairs, I have insurance, I have license to be at the end of the year, when that time comes, I don't have to go and pay or borrow money or ask somebody for help. Make provisions for that, treat it as a business and if you're able to do that, your business is going to continue growing without any difficulties and you may not think of any illegal activities to carry out underwater to affect the yachting sector and the tourism product that we have in Sufret and its inclusion. That is one of my advice to you. I am also advising to you that you become the policemen of the waters. The Marine Police, Port Police, SNNA will not always be there to police the Bay of Sufret. You, the members of PISA have to police the Bay and if a member is doing something wrong, you need to call on that person. If you see him speeding out there, creating weight around the yachts or there are sea babes, there are swimmen, snugglers, you need to call on him and say, Daniel, what are you doing there is wrong. That is affecting our business. Johnson, you should know better than that. What are you doing there is going to affect our business as members of PISA and you need to stop it. And if Johnson, Daniel, and anybody continues to do it, you know when to go and bring a report. You have the Marine Police, you have SACMA, you have SNMA to report that Johnson is breaking the laws of the seas is affecting our business. This is your livelihood. This is where you make the money to take care of yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors and you cannot allow anybody to come and destroy that. Because if you destroy the yachting sector, the yachting business in Sufret, I am telling you it is going to take a long time for it to recover, for it to get the yachts coming back to the shores of Sufret. They will go to Marigold, they will go to Rondie Bay, or if it is by Pakistan Ocean, and then straight north to Macbeth, to Guadalupe, Tipiq and Los Rezis, or go down to Los Enverso in the Great East. And we do not want that to happen. So I am begging for your cooperation, for your understanding and for you to become policemen of the waters, of your business, so that it can be sustainable and we can continue as a people, as a community in Sufret to enjoy the benefits from this sector. Because it helps a lot in the constituency. A lot of our people, a lot of our small businesses, rely on the success of tourism in Sufret in order to survive. And you all play a critical role in the success of all those businesses in Sufret and Los Rezis. I also want you to be aware of the marine environment, avoid the pollution, avoid the flow of garbage, if you get garbage from the yachts to come and throw on land, do not throw it out in the ocean. That is going to affect the marine environment, the plastics, the cans, the waters, bring it on shore and dispose of it. In the right place. Do not throw your oil, your engine oil in the waters. That could affect the fishes, the corals and so on. Do not throw anything you believe that this is going to cause harm to the marine environment. Because the yachts, they don't only come on conducive ocean to go to the sites, they swim, they snuggle, they dive, they even fish when the yachts are anchored. And if that environment, the marine environment, is polluted, then it gives them no reason to stay in Sufret. They just go ahead and move out, go up on an allocation where they can enjoy those other amenities. So it's very important that we protect the marine environment. Because this is where your livelihood comes from. I want to commend the various government departments, SSEF on the BNTF program, the CDB for partnering with the government of Central Asia, Ministry of Tourism, TVET, SSEMMA, Marine Police, SASPA for coming together and initiating, conceptualizing, initiating and successful launching of this project today. This complements our tourism product in SSEMNOSHA and Sufret. I believe that Sufret is the only town on the island, the only place in SSEMNOSHA where you now have a yacht services association. And I hope that the success of this yacht association in Sufret can be modeled by other places where you have yachts coming in like Marigoby, Rodneyby, and I believe that some of us are now coming in to collaborate. So in this short time zone you all have your work done for you all to examine what is happening in the other districts to see how best you can model the Sufret yacht services association in those other consequences to bring economic and socioeconomic benefits to those places again for the development of SSEMNOSHA. It will be remit for me not to fund the SSEMMA for the leadership role that they have played with this project. I have no doubt in my mind the SSEMMA is going to do a good job at facilitating the smooth operations of this project. I know the SSEMMA have done it before. I remember there was a time when the World Taxi Association had issues and they could not even get the schedule done for them to operate at Sugar Beach and Shersley and it was the SSEMMA that had to intervene to bring some level of novelcy to the World Taxi Association and get the schedules done on a weekly basis for the members to operate at those two beaches and not to easy if I'm bearing the SSEMMA is still responsible for preparing the schedule for the World Taxi Association. So I have no doubt that the SSEMMA has the capacity, the ability, the interest of you, the young men of Sufret procedure to undertake the facilitation and overseeing of this project. And I want to assure the president of the SSEMMA, the manager who is not very personally Mr. Bob, Mr. René, officer in charge and accountant and the staff of the SSEMMA that you have my unwavering support in overseeing this project in ensuring that the young men of Sufret are able to cooperate by the rules, the regulations of the association. There is a constitution and that both voters will be able to conduct the business in a very, very cordial, well-managed, well-organized manner in the Sufret bee. The times when marine police have to be called on several occasions, I believe that must come to pass. We are grown men, we should be able to not conduct ourselves underwater, we've had the training and we must put that training into practice because it is for the good of all of us, it is for the good of the country, it is for the good of Sufret and as a parliamentary representative you have my support, you the voters, you the members of SISER, if you need to see me at any time, if you need my assistance in any way or other, I am there for you, I'm there to give you a listening ear and to do whatever I have to do, whatever it takes to ensure that SISER becomes a success, SISER is viable, SISER is out there and that the yachties will now start giving Sufret positive reviews and our arrivals of yachties in Sufret will surpass 2,000 into 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 and we, the people of Sufret, especially barons driving for many families, the young guys who are involved in the business can enjoy sustainable living and that their families can progress, develop and be very fruitful, productive citizens of this constituency and St. Lucia and together we can build that new St. Lucia and let St. Lucia and especially Sufret inspire us, I thank you very much. Thank you very much Minister Stanislas for your profound words of advice and encouragement to the SISER members, I am positive that they will take these words along with them, not just throughout the length of the project but as they continue working with SISER in improving the image of Sufret as it relates to the yachting sector. I wish to acknowledge three individuals but the Minister took part of one of my acknowledgements so just to piggyback on what he said as it relates to the SMMA's role and involvement in the execution of the project from the conceptualization phase up until this point on behalf of the ministry I really would like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Michael Bohm in the development of SISER. From inception, Mr. Bohm has been instrumental in providing the necessary feedback guidance recommendation on behalf of the SMMA to ensure that the project is executed in a proper manner, the young men see the benefits as the first hand recipients of the project etc so he's on vacation as we speak but I just wanted to acknowledge Mr. Bohm single-handedly for that. The next acknowledgement, I apologize, Ms. Shema Glasgow, the social transmission officer for Sufret who has also been part of the process in having the SISER members institutionalized registering their business with her organization so I would like to acknowledge Shema and from the Fish Risk Department Ms. Rita Strong who is representing the Chief Fish Results.