 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when I presented the bill and I asked the horrible Minister of Tourism to lead the discussion and Mr. Speaker, I never intended that discussion to be a treatise on tourism management or tourism history, Mr. Speaker. But, Mr. Speaker, it's incumbent on me that I, for the sake of history, for the sake of ensuring that the records of this horrible house and the young people, Mr. Speaker, let me just dive in a little bit to tell you why the young people in San Lucia need to know their history. Just give me two seconds, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you have a nice collage of pictures out there. And, Mr. Speaker, I think they should not be there. I think they should be framed and put in a proper place, because that's what Mr. Speaker is doing. And, Mr. Speaker, there are some bright young people who, I get about quiz, and they do, if they had to go for an exam, you see how all them pass the exam on the high. And, Mr. Speaker, it just shows me, Mr. Speaker, how the history of San Lucia, the young people in San Lucia, they get their history from sources that do not give them the facts. So, this is why it's very important when the leader of the opposition stands up and speaks the words that he speaks, I must clarify with you, Mr. Speaker. I have to. I feel duty-bound, Mr. Speaker. So, very quickly, Mr. Speaker, I will mention the idea that he says the Labour Party was against tourism. I remember, in 1998, the member for New Ford South was the Minister of Finance. And, in a budget address, he said the economy is in transition. It was transitioning from an agricultural-based economy to a service industry led by tourism and its national financial services. Mr. Speaker, the opposition castigated him, castigated him. You understand? He, I mean, they thought he was saying, they said he had an abundant idiotrae fig, the bile coupé, all kinds of things, Mr. Speaker. You know, that's the history. When he said the economy was in transition, but he stands, sits and says the Labour Party never understood tourism or condemned tourism. He says that we bought a racism to come into solution and censure poison tourism. Who was the first politician who went on public media and accused people in his Honourable House, specifically the member for New Ford South, about being a massacre? Who was, who did it? Who did that? Who accused him of being a slave owner? And only recently, one of his senators, one of his senators, did the same thing, one of his senators, and as usual, he did not condemn it, but he speaks about, we bought the racism, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, any time you use some votes in solution, they crowd it. You have about black Americans, you have about Afrocentric Americans, but if you say black solutions, you bring racism. Where are we heading to? Where are we heading to this country? So we are the ones who bought the racism in the politics. Who started this? Who started it, Mr. Speaker? Who started, who started saying whose lineage is in slavery, who is a master? Who started, Mr. Speaker? Then he goes and he says about we don't understand the benefits of tourism. In 1997, which government removed taxes on tips and service charge to benefit the workers of the tourism industry? Which government removed taxes so hotel workers got their taxes, got their tips and service charge free of taxes? Which government moved with the labor code to stop the shift, the double shift system in the hotels? Which government, Mr. Speaker, which government spoke about or implemented the tourism stimulus bill after 9-11 to almost double the incentives for hotel investments in the country? Which government and, Mr. Speaker, then the village tourism, the member of the leaders of income that speaks about what he called village tourism. Village tourism was a completely new idea that came from the genius of the leader of the opposition and he thought that village tourism would have benefited Lucia as long before under the member of you, there was something called the nature heritage tourism program where we sought to improve local hotel sites, waterfalls etc. Who started the Ansari fish fry? Who started the Mrs. Speaker? So, I mean, this is historical murder that's taken place in this horrible house, Mr. Speaker. Who did it? Who built the road to win jammer on a nature heritage tourism program? Who decided that we should we would have insurances for waterfalls and rivers and then the flower place in Miku? We developed it as a tourism place to bring tourists to the hinterland of the country. Which government, Manico Gardens, thank you. Which government, we have them in the insurance and keeping the area so tourists could come? Which government decided that point seraphim, that there was a gate at point seraphim that was closed? I mean, listen to me, that tourists had to come, had to go right around and did not come to the arcade. Who opened that gate for tourists to come through before 9-11 and the store after 9-11? Who did that? Which government? Which government builds the at month at the month next government house? Which government build the lookout in that area? Which government build the lookout in January? Which government? Yes, in my daily, which government? I talk about we don't know about tourism. I mean, never supported tourism. Which government? Which government? Mr. Speaker, the member for Miku South speaks about hotel development and trying to be sarcastic. He said, oh, I'm glad you all come together with me. When he came into government, he found range developers building a hotel. We came here and we begged him not to change the model. He changed the model. Range developers left the country and he had to pay them millions of dollars and they went to Dominica and they built Dominica's first six-star hotel. Which government, Mr. Speaker, which government decided that jazz would have to have to have the economic effects in the country? Have to create it? And we had the jazz and arts festival. We added an arts component to the jazz festival, Mr. Speaker. Which government? Who condemned it? Which government decided that Darren Sammy was somebody that had to be used to promote Saint Lucia? Which government decided to give him his first set of cricket gear and his first and his trips to play cricket in England? Which government? So, Mr. Speaker, the leader of the opposition comes to his honorable house and this time his advisor asked him to change the style. He said, I am happy that you are embracing. We don't need his happiness because we always understood the benefit of tourism. He was the one who started the idea of transition from agricultural tourism. I was the minister of international services. We started the offshore industry in the country. The same way we started a CIP, we only started it and how did we start it? We started it with a group that the member of view for us was ensured that members of the opposition were in that group that began exploring the benefits of CIP for Saint Lucia. Which government? When it came to change the model, which government, Mr. Speaker? So, you know, Mr. Speaker is very, very important. It's very important that I make these points for the young people of Saint Lucia to understand the history because, Mr. Speaker, this population, more than half of it are people below the age of 25 years old. And these people listen to that kind of thing and believe it. They listen to that misinformation, especially when it's done in a nice, you know, when it's packaged properly in social media. And they believe it, Mr. Speaker. So, I have to clear that career, not for my benefit and my way out, for the benefit of the young people of Saint Lucia, for the benefit of the future institution. I'm sure the member from Miku North, if I bring him out, they're here to stand in front of that table there. I'm sure he doesn't know some of the people outside there. They're a member for Miku North and he's a member parliament. Because, Mr. Speaker, the history of this country has not been written away where we can celebrate our heroes and know the truth. So, we listen to the truth on talk shows. We listen to our history on talk shows. We listen to our history on things we write three minutes on TikTok. Nothing wrong in that. But that's where we learn our history. So, we have to find a way. And this Honorable House should be a way, should be a place where the young people of Saint Lucia should know the history of Saint Lucia, Mr. Speaker. How many young people know about the liberalization of the telephone industry in Saint Lucia led by the member for Vufa South and colleagues George? How many people know that, Mr. Speaker? How many people know about going to secondary school? Sixty or fifty people out of two thousand could own into the secondary school in Saint Lucia. Some people didn't even know that they needed tax clearance to travel to Saint Lucia. So, when they made a big fuss about peer, when they tell people they can't travel, because they owe taxes, because right down that building, there was a little hut, a little cubicle, where you had to go for tax clearance. You had to pay five dollars for it. Who removed it? The member for Vufa South. He's the one who removed it. So, when you hear that, he comes and gives this confluted view of history and appears as if he's a kuru and he did tourism. The guy was a minister of tourism for five years and prime minister for five years. But he pretends as if he don't have number one and he's happy that we have embraced tourism. Thank you for your happiness. We don't have to embrace neither. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to support this. Finally, Mr. Speaker, who started the Rangers and the Hostess program? In Saint Lucia, there dismantled it when many came there. We had employed Rangers and Hostesses. They dismantled it. And now we're going to bring it back. We dismantled the nature heritage tourism program. They stopped it. And now they came. They come back for village tourism. Pretend as if it's the first time that's come in this country. So, Mr. Speaker, I thought I would do that because of the way in which these people fashion Saint Lucia and try to place a little party in a position where we would never work. Mr. Speaker, what the Labour Party stands for is Saint Lucia first. We're not against foreign direct investment. The most lucrative slope, the most lucrative set of foreign investment legislation was passed by the Sinusha Labour Party. The most lucrative, the most lucrative. We have a, we're talking about taxation. The next motion is going to be about taxation, Mr. Speaker. And you will see the history of taxation in Saint Lucia. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to support this motion on the tourism environment fund. And I thought it necessary that we give, we go back a little in time. And I know the member shows he knows that too. He knows about that too. He knows about some of the misinformation that comes from inside. But one thing of him, he does not repeat it. He doesn't, he doesn't repeat it, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, history, history, history. Let me make it history, Mr. Speaker. Because you know, these days we drop in documented house, talk about investment and who stopped investment. The range investment, Mr. Speaker, that came into Saint Lucia started with us. And he speaks about CIP and hotels. The range investment, Mr. Speaker. The range investment. We begged him. We begged the member for Microsoft to not to interfere in how the range development was progressing. We begged him. I sat here and although they said that we have lost our right to speak, I sat here and I begged him. I remember the member for Microsoft begging him to not interfere with that, let it go. But he is speaking about because we started it, he stopped it. There are a number of things that we started that we stopped, Mr. Speaker. And one day I was talking to a friend of mine and I said to them in 2016, when we lost the election, Mr. Speaker, let me tell you the projects that were on the table. Rosalie Highway, St. Jude Hospital, PPP Fund for the airport, Millennium Highway, Lysus Health Center, and OKU Hospital was complete. If they had just sat down, just sat and allowed these projects to continue, we would not be in government. But they changed, they talked about changing things. They changed everything including the range hotel. And you don't know what it cost us to change the further, further, hence what it cost us. Requests for advance, settlement agreement, government of St. Lucia and range developers. The Department of Finance requests that the Minister of Finance grant approval of an advance to the Department of Finance to finance obligations for settlement agreement arising out of a dispute. In relation to the development agreement for the development of a hotel resort in St. Lucia, range development St. Lucia in the amount of $5,200,000 United States dollars, talking about wasting money and who was the government treasury and who doesn't know how to handle money. The approach on May 41, 2016, and you know, Mr. Speaker, they have always threatened me, been the evidence, been the evidence. But you know, Mr. Speaker, I have a country to run. I have a country to run. I have to see about the young people, I have to get employment for them, I have to deliver the investors that will, that will push their way from St. Lucia. I have to deliver them. So I don't have time to go into come every time and read documents and pull up things, pull up that. But if we're in the business of winning documents, for those that they did not discard, I'll bring some, some of them that will not discard it. I'll bring some, Mr. Speaker, because we want to challenge and threaten people. You know, on May 44, the government St. Lucia entered an agreement for the developer, RDSL, to develop a resort district of Black Bay, St. Lucia. This agreement was amended on May 15, 2017. Following a period of negotiations, the parties have agreed to terminate these arrangements and have now entered into a settlement agreement on August 18, 2018. So you terminate what's there and now you enter into a new one. While provisions have not been made in the 2018-2019 estimates of expenditure for financing the expenditure, the Department of Finance proposes that revenue raised from the proceeds of the citizens investment program be utilized to finance, be utilized to finance expenditure. It should be noted that this expenditure will be part of the supplementary estimates in 2018-2019. Talk about use of funds and how we're using CIP funds. We have that discussion. We have that discussion. Why are you the CIP funds? Why is CIP money going? We have that discussion. We have that discussion. The Department of Finance requests that the Minister of Finance approves and advances to the Department of Finance for a settlement agreement arising out of a dispute in relation to a development agreement for the development of a hotel resort in St. Lucia to range developer's solution limited in the amount of $5,200,000 United States Dollars. That is the history, the issue of who's stopping projects, the issue of who's using CIP funds. That's the history. That's the history. That's the facts. Who is stopping projects, who found projects and they let it continue? This government has never had to pay anybody to stop any project. This government has not had to pay anybody for stopping any project. This government has not had to pay anybody compensation to anybody for stopping any project. So all these threats and these as if they have a secret, this government has no secrets. This government has no secrets. We are open. We are open to even sovereigns. We know everything. We have no secrets. I have no secrets. I call in no investor. Let's not go there. Let's not go there now. Let's not go there now. But you know, we have no secrets. None. Let's not open government. And that's why you criticized a while ago because you say that I said I don't know certain things. I'm not a god. I don't know. I don't know many things and I wouldn't pretend that I know. I wouldn't pretend that I know things that I don't know and bluff my way around and when they catch me lying, come back and say that's not what I said. I wouldn't do that. So Mr. Speaker, when they try to pollute the history about our record in tourism, Mrs. Speaker, the history is clear. Now let me give you a few facts. I, under the guidance of the millions for view votes of, build the most hotels in solution history for now. If you want to go for facts, built, operating. If you want to, let's go facts now. Let's be factual. We had, when we were in government, we had and in a record the highest number of silver visitors ever in solution for the time that you speak about on the millions of tourism. Let's do the facts. Let's do the facts. I'm the one who got the point serving port configured so it could take heavy, the largest ships of the industry. Facts, mega ships, facts. You want to talk about facts and who did what for tourism? Let's talk about it. When you come here and you mixed up the history, you just think that didn't exist. You take things in one place and put it in another place and you pretend as if you are such a tourism guru and you did so much for tourism. And because of you, who brought Virgin Airlines? Who started the expansion of Virgin Airlines of airline services to solution? Who started joint marketing or continue joint marketing when we traveled with members of the private sector and members of the Ministry of the Ministry of Tourism and members of the the National Tourism Board? Who expanded the Ministry of Tourism? When I came to government in 1997, the member of UFO itself allowed me to do a consultation with a fellow called Scantabari on the structure of the Ministry of Tourism. Who started that? It was, it was a sham with the Honorable Romanus Lansico, a fellow called Pedro Toussaint, Percival McDonald, a cleaner and a messenger. That's why it was, so don't come and talk about, we only know we begin to accept tourism and you have this hypocritical thing. I'm happy, keep your happiness. Yes, I'm happy and I'll say you turn investors to invest in television. These guys don't know what they're doing. These guys are corrupt. You, you stop in all kinds of things, trying to, trying to, we are beginning to expand. We are beginning to some work on the, on the port. You tried your best to destabilize it and you several occasions, you went and you cut a ribbon that didn't exist in the viewport. And so you opened some big mega port in Tenlusha. You, you spoke to several shipping companies to tell them to develop points or something. None of it working. None of it came to, came to pass. We're doing it now and you complaining and you complaining. You complaining. Mr Speaker, you, you try your best to stop GPH. You, you did whatever you could do because you did not want it to happen because you did not want it to have, after you tried it because you didn't want to have the benefit that comes to Tenlusha. You came into documents and you found an agreement to build an airport. You went to the IHC with a member for Cassius Knopf. But people begged you. They said, do not do that Prime Minister. Please continue. Do not change that model. They begged you. There are hundreds of airports around the world who are built like that. They begged you. You as usual, you discarded them because when you went to meetings, you are God, you're just shut up. That's how they say you cheated them. And then, and we had to pay the IHC for you. You come talk about it. And up to now, and you, you, this airport deal that, that you, you, you, you speaking about this airport deal, that's the first deal that is tied to a contractor. First loan tied to a contractor. And you instructed Slasper to employ that, that contractor. And you paying 5% interest plus 8% fees on top of the 5% interest. So you paying 13% interest for that airport deal. And you want me to continue that? You think about good conscience. I will pay 13%. 5% interest and 8% for every transaction. 13%. And you want me to continue that. You had a project, the airport went on a, as you bill project, no plans, no bill of quantities, as you bill, no bill of quantities for the terminal building, no bill of quantities, you billed it as if it is a, of our cage of billing. Do that now. I pay you. Do that now. I pay you. And airports, you had no bill of quantities. I am the one now who has, who have instructed that Slasper to repair a bill of quantities and a consultant who was, was selected. Just last week to do that. How in your good conscience, you think I could continue building a terminal building and you have no bill of quantities, no final design as you go, as you go, bill it as you go, of our cage of billing. And you, you speak about you, this big, you know, and you've got away that all the time and talk about prudent financial management. You have no bill of quantities for the largest investment project in the country. In the history of this country, you have no bill of quantities. You tie the loan to the contractor and you select the contractor by direct award. This bill, it hurts me. When I see this, this, this is masquerading as financing and try to denigrate us. And this, and the sad thing is that the way he tries to denigrate us and, and call us all kind of names, as if we don't know what we're doing, we are fools, test people all over the world that these guys don't know what, I don't know what I'm doing. And, and say, Lucia is in a mess. Predicting, predicting. And further, I also have something to say. I won't say now about the crime in Saint Lucia. I'll say that some point. And you all may have to deal with me because I know, I know what's happening behind the scenes. I know, I know all that pretends about crime and who's pushing crime. I know what's happening behind the scene. I'm starting behind the scene. I know. You see, Mr. Speaker, when, when you are in a hit, when you do not want, when you do not want to accept the will of the people and you believe that you have a divine rights. You understand, Mr. Speaker? That's what happens. Always threatening people. Try your best. Trying your best, Mr. Speaker, to denigrate people. You understand, Mr. Speaker? So, Mr. Speaker, I thought that I would speak about these things because of the way that the member from Microsoft speaks about us and speaks about this track record and speaks about tourism and to the financial management of the economy. All kinds of things, Mr. Speaker. So he has already started to attack the estimates that you will get tomorrow. He starts already. He begins to attack it. Begins. Because in his mind, he knows. Because these things are not secret. I don't, I don't call my technocrats and say this. We, we work as a team. So he may know already what's in the book. He may see that the progress of financial situation in paper, he may see what happens. He'll feel, he'll understand where unemployment is. He will know what are the growth projections. So he already started to denigrate it. To discredit it. He started already, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, and we're going to be talking about a tax bill in a while. And I'm going to show the public again. And I hope he stays and listen. Which government has done the most for tax reduction and tax relief and pollution? I hope he stays and listen to that. Because the history is there. The history is there. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to support this motion, Mr. Speaker, and I want to ask members to please support the motion. I thank you, Mr. Speaker.