 I always looked to him for guidance, from very early on I admired my father tremendously, so everything that I did was to follow in his footsteps. So there are a lot of things that I remember about my dad. My dad never really came to watch me play cricket or football or anything like that, but any time there was cricket he would purchase a little transistor so that he could listen to the games. And as soon as the games were finished he would put it down and the next day he'd have to buy another one because somebody would have taken the transistor. And that was a really feature of his life and I think what he did to us is to instill a lot of discipline in us. Even when we came to our education he actually told us that the police has a police scholarship and we should work hard enough to get a police scholarship to go to St. Mary's College and every one of us did that. I would describe my father as being very jovial but tough, a gentleman who loved what he did as a police officer and somebody who had a tremendous love and respect for his wife, for the 50 or 60 years that they were together as the only person she knew. So he had this special love for my mom and in his latter days I mean he really relied on being around her and when she was gone I realized that it really took a big toll on him. Although it was difficult for him to take care of her while she was alive but not having her wrong you could actually sense that he was missing her tremendously and so we had already told him that we were going to give him 100 years because he was strong, he was walking every morning but realized that the loss of my mother took a toll on him and we were not so surprised when he left. Yeah, funny enough my first daughter was born while I was at the training school in Barbados, I joined the police force and immediately I didn't spend more than two months in the police force and I was sent to Barbados and while I was in Barbados my girlfriend called me and told me that she was pregnant and so on and she gave both even before I came back to San Lucia. So I think I was extremely happy and reflected in what I did in Barbados, I mean I got the most marks a recruit has ever got named Barbados up to a day like today, full solution to get best recruit and I think it's because I was so happy that I had a daughter that it helped me study very easily and so it was a good feeling and when I came back again I said people said that when a man has his first child is a girl that he's blessed and I think I'm still blessed because La La La has given me long life and he has given me opportunities to serve my people and to be able to do things with my other kids and other persons who I meet on a daily basis. Well I want my children to understand that you have to be firm in your beliefs, you have to be honest, you have to be dedicated to what you want to do and you have to work hard for anything that you want to achieve. Life is not easy, you're going to get bumps in the road, persons are going to criticize you when you make certain decisions but if in your own mind you recognize that the decision that you have taken is the correct one then you go for it. So my children are go-getters, I remember my young son Junior, at fourteen years he was the national table tennis job, both junior and senior at the same time, fourteen years old and I only taught him to play table tennis on our living dining table in the living room and every year he would just go and beat everybody because he knew his dad was a superstar when he came to sports so he emulated me and I think that's what fathers must do, is to instill good values in your children. My children have taught me a lot in that some of them are very demanding, some of them want extra attention from you and that is not always possible but you try your very best to do the best for them. What has happened to some of my children is that they have excelled in education and they have shown me that maybe had I taken my schoolwork a little more seriously when I was younger instead of playing all the sports football cricket and table tennis and studied maybe I would have gone further but I'm happy that they have recognized the importance of education and they are now pursuing their degrees in Taiwan. Well I think that's the greatest gift a man has is his children and he has to spend a lot of time as possible with them. He has to dedicate his life to his children to make sure that they achieve what he did and so sometimes like I said it's a big sacrifice, you don't have the sufficient funds and so on but you make that sacrifice to make sure that they are taken care of and it doesn't take much. Just a hello, hi and so on you visit them and I think that works tremendously well. Unfortunately for me none of my kids are in St. Lucia presently they are overseas, four of them are in New York and two in Taiwan but we do speak, I'm part of the family group chat and so I know what is happening with all of them. I want to wish all fathers a very happy and enjoyable father's day, especially the fathers in before the south, the constituency in which I want to represent it after the next general election. Like I said it's a joy and a privilege to be a father. This is a gift that we have gotten from God and I think we need to make the most of it. Like I said it's not going to be easy, sometimes it's very difficult, we get children who have different personalities but we have to persevere and when we do persevere and we see that they are doing exceptionally well we get the pride and joy that we want. Even those who are not doing that well we cannot forget them, we have to be able to try to instill in them some discipline. Young people especially now will make mistakes, do not allow your children to go astray, do not give up on them and every opportunity try to be there for them and give them a happy life. Happy Father's Day to all fathers in the world in St. Lucia and especially G4 South.