 Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, I rise to make a brief contribution to this motion. I support the motion which will authorize the Minister for Finance to guarantee an amount of $80 million from the First National Bank, to the National Lottery Authority to assist with the financing of a youth and sports infrastructure programme. I support this motion, Mr Speaker, because we are two and a half years uncounting into the term of this government, and here again, Mr Speaker, this government demonstrates to the people of St. Lucia and in particular the young people of St. Lucia that this is the government which has the interest, Mr Speaker. When you look at the intentions of this motion, the youth and infrastructure programme, it is very clear, Mr Speaker, that the minister with responsibility for youth development and sports is on the right path, and it is very clear that he is working hard with his team to ensure that not only our youth and sports programmes succeed, but we have infrastructure which will support our youth and sports programmes. Earlier on, Mr Speaker, the member for Labry spoke about the Games at Sufre, the island champs, and it was another opportunity to showcase the possibilities for the development of youth and sports, albeit this time athletics. But Mr Speaker, what you saw there on Sunday in Sufre is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is possible. Not necessarily the tip of the iceberg, Mr Speaker, but also, Mr Speaker, the entrance to the forest. Mr Speaker, the member for Denrenoff is troubling me about my past sprinting days. I do not have many records at all. But yes, Mr Speaker, you can see the level of performance and also the enthusiasm of the athletes and the parents, and certainly, Mr Speaker, this motion which would eventually guarantee the borrowing of $80 million will assist this development. The people of VFW North, I am sure, Mr Speaker, look forward to the possible benefits of the programme which will be developed by the National Lottery's authority. Mr Speaker, I am sure they look forward to the developments on the Bellevue playing field, the Vijay playing field, developments on the Pierrot playing field, Lacklery, sorry, not Lacklery, but Opiko, Moncaen and so on, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, on Sunday we are also very proud to see what happened with some of our athletes from VFW North, Mr Speaker, and improved facilities will definitely benefit the athletes of VFW North, including footballers and netballers and those who use facilities in our communities. Mr Speaker, it was a joy to witness the performance of Naomi London, Mr Speaker, from Bellevue in VFW North. And Mr Speaker, I am absolutely certain, Mr Speaker, if our playing field was already developed, she could have used it for some training. And I am very pleased, Mr Speaker, that the Prime Minister has approved funds and we have seen the commencement of the rehabilitation of the Bellevue playing field. So in the future, others who are like Naomi and so on will at least have some grounds, some better facilities to do some training. Mr Speaker, you had Leven Jebatis from Grace, Mr Speaker. Reshaun Harris, Reynard Bernard, Ryan Kordisimion, Ricardo Mann, Kishmel Masle, Prudential Chalry, Darren Ogis, Elaine Polius, Seraphina William among others, Mr Speaker, all of them from VFW North and there are others who got gold medals, many of them gold medals, Mr Speaker. They welcome beat us on the track. And therefore, when our facilities are improved, Mr Speaker, I see Mikunov trying something there, Mr Speaker, the VFW North, the young people from VFW North are very talented. And so when our facilities are improved, I am sure we will see more Naomi London's and more Sheldon Emmanuel's, the former captain of the St. Lucia senior football team coming out of Grace. And there are many others, cricketers and many others from our community who will benefit from this. I think it is very important why we speak about youth development and infrastructure improvement to recognize as one of my colleagues did earlier the contribution of the First National Bank to the island champs. And I am hoping that other corporate citizens and other companies will come together to continue to assist our sports people. Many of them have done in the past but we begin to see our athletes moving and performing at a different level. I wish to congratulate on behalf of the people of VFW North Julianne Alfred in a very special way, Mr Speaker, for what she has done for St. Lucia, what she has done for St. Lucia, Mr Speaker. And when we speak of economic growth and economic development, Mr Speaker, I am sure most of us know what athletes and people in the creatives and so on. What they do for the country when they go out there in the world and they perform. I am absolutely, I am almost sure, Mr Speaker, that cars stopped, the bars were filled. Everybody stopped, Mr Speaker, on that day just to witness Julianne Alfred's history, the history making moment. So that's the kind of thing, just imagine you multiply Julianne Alfred by three by four all around the country. You saw what Usain Bolt and the Reggae Boys football team you saw, what they did for the country. And it is something you can't really put a value on. You can't say it is worth a million dollars or twenty million dollars. It's invaluable because what these things do, they move the conscience of a nation. And you never know at what moment a young lady or a young man who was going astray and just that moment when Julianne Alfred performed on the whole stage like this, it gave them an awakening and it caused them to realize, wow, this lady is from St. Lucia. She's from Cicero. I hope one day I'll say from Bellevue or from Grace or from somewhere. But yeah, from Cicero, an ordinary young lady and look at what she's doing to the soul and the conscience of our country. So I believe, Mr Speaker, that the investments in youth and infrastructure can only do good. Can only do good for us. Mr Speaker, the contributions of others at the Sufre event. I will not go into all of it because I'm sure at some point the Minister for Youth and Sports will detail it and also the Minister for Education. But I want at this point, Mr Speaker, as we debate this motion to recognize all of the workers in education and youth and sports who are led by Minister Kenson Kazimi and Minister Sean Edward. Their work in youth and sports and what happened on Sunday is a collaboration and amalgamation of effort. These things don't just happen. It's an amalgamation of effort at the ministerial and at the agency level, the education officers and the sports officers and the teachers. And I want to congratulate all the teachers who are there on Sunday, Mr Speaker. All the teachers, all of them, Mr Speaker. In a very big way, I want to say that. Because it was a Sunday and you know, Mr Speaker, they were there to encourage the students and I can guarantee you that not even this government will be able to stop what will happen to these island chumps in the future. Nobody will stop it. You see these island chumps, Mr Speaker? People are already ordering fabric to make their clothes to support their school. You see next, the next one. I don't know, Mr Speaker, what are we going to do? Because we know of you for comprehensive my alma mater. I mean, we're the boss, you know. But still, Mr Speaker, I'm hearing all the schools coming on a point of... We today, yes. You heard about, Mr Speaker? I know that other schools and the parents and the teachers are garing up next year. So this is wonderful. And the development of infrastructure, Mr Speaker, can only help all of this. Mr Speaker, I just want to tell you also that I'm always very interested in what youth and sports and the development of infrastructure can do for social capital in the country. And when we speak about crime and what is happening in St. Louis and in the Caribbean, we cannot divorce all of these programs from what is happening. Just imagine, Mr Speaker, every other weekend or weekday, you have activities for you to have successful semi-professional, a successful semi-professional league. You need organized teams. And for teams to be organized, they must go to meetings. And for them to go to meetings, they must come together and spend less time idling. So, I mean, you can look at all of the connections to the society and what we can do if we continue to improve the youth and infrastructure programs which this motion speaks to. The bonding social capital, the bridging social capital, linking social capital. So this is not just about building proper playing fields. This is about the community. This is about how we build St. Lucia and how we turn the tide and we can do it. And for example, this semi-professional league, Mr Speaker, I mean, we are not in the top. I mean, this is something else. Viewport North is not yet in the top, but Mr Speaker, I guarantee you that in the next year or so, we come in, Mr Speaker. Share learning manual and so on. We'll have to come back. And you know, we're coming for them, Mr Speaker. But I want to congratulate all those who are leading these things. All of these activities, Mr Speaker, and to tell them that this is the government for you, Mr Speaker. That's what it means to the young people, to St. Lucia. This is the government for you. Semi-professional league infrastructure improvement. This is the government which will take you into your future. This is the government for you. Not some people who are misleading you about everything, about taxes, about youth, about all kinds of things, Mr Speaker. This is the government for you, programs. So Mr Speaker, we're ready. Mr Speaker, we're ready. Today we're here to make a guarantee. The government hasn't been able to pay the money, but we're going to buy a guarantee of $420 million for national law trees. To pay the money to develop Grounds Bowl. We want to settle here. We woke up here and we're going to eat at Mindofili Park. We're going to eat Darren Semi and get ground. But we have a lot of programs that have been done. We have a parliament that started to eat Grounds Bowl Belvia at Mindofili Park. We are going to look at the others, we are going to eat at Pierot, at Opicon, at Moncaen and all these Grounds Bowl Salas, Mr Speaker. It's important because we want to encourage people from London to eat Belvia. Mrs Salakha was eating here, but she was eating at Pier Electrax. With that, we have a program like that. It's made in Charlotte, New York, London. With us, we have visited Julian Alfred to try to settle here. Because if you try to settle here, everyone will settle here because it's a house. Imagine if we were like Julian Alfred, like in New York, London, like Sheldon Emmanuel. We have a lot, a lot, a lot. We support this with, with, with love, for the development of the constituency of Mindofili, because before me, just talking about, Mrs Speaker, let me say, Mr. Shone individually, I don't speak for me or this sport, because of all the Grounds Bowl to be here in London, we do everything that needs to be done with Blé, Mrs Speaker. Mr. Speaker. Me le lo guverd ma veni, yo qwaze sa. Abwesan se yon grounds bowler vie for north, grounds bowler guasla, yo ka fae, evek nu ka fae at nu me ma vie for north pu fae lop mun ne toa e se le zotla. Program sa lah, me ka gade kai bai, principle, ko sa tut se grounds bowler kai juen assistance. I thank you Mr. Speaker, and I support the motion.