 Meantime, governments' efforts are developing a home port in view for advancing. Nisha Charles reports that the project is among new initiatives. Agencies like Invest St. Lucia are facilitating. In recent times, there has been remarkable growth in foreign direct investment, FDI flows across the globe. Many countries, especially developing countries, see FDI as an important element in their overall strategy for economic development. With the help of Invest St. Lucia, St. Lucia is policing itself on the path of capturing its share of investment. To do that, however, Prime Minister Hon. Shastney says the country must be innovative. Who are our clients? And where are they coming from and what do they want? And so they want to know they can come to a country that's secure, so safety is very important. They want to know if they get sick, that they can be taken care of. So health is very important. If they have children, they want to know that they can put them into the education system that is comparable with anywhere else in the world. These are not aspirations. These are the things that we have to do. And the fact is, if we can grow our economy and grow our tax base in order to pay those things without having to raise the rate of our taxes, because if we raise the rate of the taxes, it's going to make us even less competitive. The Hon. Prime Minister says that Inverse St. Lucia has done a tremendous job at attracting investments to the country. He is particularly excited about an upcoming project at Sandy Beach. The idea of being able to buy a 20,000 square foot lot that already has water, electricity and sewage, and has a master plan that's put on it, on a prime piece of property. And the goal is that none of the hotels will be built on the beach. The concrete road will become a boardwalk, and that we're going to now, like we did with Grozallet and we've just completed with Souffreur, on building beach facilities at both tourists and locals can go enjoy the beach. Housing projects are airmarked for Beauchamp-Huifont, Schruzzel and Denry. Hon. Alan Shastney believes that the south of the island is where the greatest potential for growth exists. We're not even talking about the impact of what's going to happen when we have the cruise ship home port in view for it, and that's real. And so the idea of building a new airport terminal so that we can now convert the old terminal into our charter terminal because it was already built and it's ready to go. And the cruise ships fell in love with the idea because when people get off the plane they go to this new terminal and they're actually going to check into their cabins at that facility. Other areas of future investments include information technology and creative arts.