 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Sometimes the haste with which one acts because I was downstairs Mr. Speaker when the member for Miku South referred to me as his good friend and he's sorry that I was absent. So I did Mr. Speaker to make myself present and I will make a contribution albeit extremely brief. Extremely brief Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker before he leaves ask him how many hotel rooms he built either when he was minister of tourism or prime minister. Ten years. In ten years. In ten years the leader of the opposition being in cabinet and in government together with your humble servant sees with the responsibility of overseeing tourism in this country how many hotels did he build and I can bring hands up to you Mr. Speaker on one occasion on one occasion he outlined 13 hotels that would be constructed under his watch as minister of tourism as prime minister is the same thing a lot of talk talk talk and I could tell you Mr. Speaker a summation of the period when he was minister of tourism and prime minister for the aggregate 10 years not one hotel room and Mr. Speaker you will not believe that during the period 2006 to 2011 when the leader of the opposition was minister of tourism his budget his budgetary allocation to ensure that he engineered new tourism practices to bring more people to our shores you would not believe was never under 45 million dollars let me repeat that let me repeat that for the five years he spent as minister of tourism his allocation was no less than 45 million dollars what did he take that money to do Mr. Speaker subsidize foreign airlines for subsidize foreign airlines boxed in paradise all sorts of activities that brought no return to this country today is a tourism guru today is a tourism guru mr. Speaker and you know what with all that money he subsidized all airlines apart from liat apart from liat because he does not believe in indigenous people or in yes he brought american eagle to compete with liat those are the deeds of this man so when you hear him speak today he praises village tourism which i like i love the concept the average tom they can hurry in every part of this country can make meaningful participation in the tourism industry and can earn a tourism dollar from their neck of the woods so you go to canry's where they have cassava it becomes it will become a a cassava heaven do it in there you go to library what what do you have in library the charm and everything you go get the library charm and slurry frish Friday gross delay so every area persons can capitalize on that mr. Speaker guess what they were doing it with jazz as well they were doing it with jazz as well what did he do with jazz he placed jazz at the hotels he plays jazz and the tourism dollar that was brought about through jazz in the hands of the elitist tourism industry people not for participation by locals mr. Speaker and today you want to come and talk that kind of foolishness mr. Speaker it's really unfair it's really really unfair mr. Speaker and then you hear him talk about the deputy speaker and the constitution says the man was in Trinidad where he opened his mouth and he said the opposition is part of government is part of government and i'm downstairs eating mr. Speaker i'm fuming so in Trinidad they are part of government because they want to form an association to approach all lending institutions but today the opposition is not part of government because it's convenient to speak from one side of his mouth at one point and the other side at a different point how can you trust anything this man says how can you trust oh we are part of government we need to be heard we are part of government but for the appointment of a deputy speaker it serves the narrative to say you are not part of government and then talk about you know you wrote the various agencies and disciplines and this and that about contemplating a bridge of the constitution this was the very man mr. Speaker when he was told he bridged the constitution by convening parliament in excess of 30 days after general election what was his response the constitution stipulates no sanctions so he can do as he please that's what he said that is what he said about a blatant breach of the constitution and today nobody has told you nobody have given you an iota of an idea that we will we will bridge your you're already writing in contemplation a man who blatantly bridged the country constitution with total impunity so mr. Speaker and then he went on talking about will against investors mr. Speaker i want to say this and i'm asking the honorable prime minister the member from from castries east to permit me at this point to breach cabinet secrecy the prime ministers always indicated to his ministers never ever ever blame the beneficiary of a good deal he has always said so he has said to us you don't blame anybody who got a good deal at the hands of a prime minister blame the person who facilitated it so nobody has been against cabot i have never for who has been against cabot never have been against the mechanisms that were used in my view to unjustly enrich cabot that is my position i have no difficulty absolutely none with a and he speaks of for it which of those people are foreign direct investors which of them are foreign direct investors persons come from canada we lend them our pensioners money to buy property in our country and you call them foreign direct investors how can they be and i'm not blaming cabot i'm blaming the facilitator mr. Speaker i can say this for jazz last year i met the owner of the diamal who bought it from government and he was bold enough to say to me mr. Richard you are businessman if he's you that get up why you would i take it too this is what he told me he referred to the deal as a boy member for casting central i do appreciate the history but i'm hoping at some point in time your contribution even slightly collides with the motion yes definitely mr. Speaker that is why initially i said that this bill is intended to bring reprieve the motion sorry is intended to bring reprieve to each and every person in this country i would no matter where you may find yourself and to partake in the distribution of the tourism dollar but you see mr. Speaker it was is the fact that the member from miku south made some allegations that are totally incorrect totally incorrect mr. Speaker and he talked about training he talked about training mr. Speaker yes we have to train our people to be prepared to embrace the tourism industry reluctantly and the tourism product i understand that but when you tell me that a minister of finance would put one school in his budget one school cht ti a private school finds itself in our national budget to be funded by taxpayers funded by taxpayers owned by the wife of a member of parliament and by the wife of the member of parliament but the funding is on our books the expense to be shouldered by us and then you talk about training mr. Speaker how can there be egalitarianism how can there be equality how can there be how can how would there not be conflict of interest and so one set of people will be in train and you know what mr. Speaker they still left the bills for this government to be if i'm correct they still left the bills for us to be not withstanding those persons who may have been trained for the hospitality hospitality industry were given tags of the political flavor and those are the realities mr. Speaker so mr. Speaker i just wanted to but he has run out obviously i i wanted to make the point that you know with all the expertise and experience as minister of tourism you did not build one room as prime minister you did not build one room you know you do absolutely nothing to enhance our tourism product and you cannot stand here and basically mr. Speaker you know the jazz jazz is a derivative of tourism or jazz essentially is a pivot around which tourism revolves when you take that and you centralize it what are you doing are you not taking the whole concept of village tourism away from the judge's activity mr. Speaker are you not but obviously when you have it in Marsha and Soufre and Ansleray and Canaries and there is so even in his constituency there was jazz there was jazz but under his watch he centralized it mr. Speaker so mr. Speaker this government in every policy that is rolled out one can see quite clearly quite blatantly the interest of the average solution being taken cognizance of and we are doing whatever we can to facilitate the growth of our people that have been said mr. Speaker i support the motion