 Prime Minister Honourable Philip J. Pierre has kept his word to St. Lucia's southern residence and on September 19th announced construction on the original St. Jude Hospital construction site will resume in November. Prime Minister Pierre first indicated the timeline to resume construction on the St. Jude Hospital in March. And I'm pleased to tell you that construction work on the original St. Jude's will commence in November this year. The first phase of the construction would be the fencing of the existing, the original site and external exterior works. So the exterior works are going to commence fencing and the exterior works are going to commence in November and full construction of the remaining buildings will continue in the new year. The ill-advised decision to abandon the original St. Jude Hospital construction site which was nearly 80% completed in 2016 has to date cost St. Lucia taxpayers more than $115 million. Work on the original St. Jude Hospital construction site was halted in 2017. Work was stopped on the hospital when by reports the hospital was about 80% completed. Work was stopped and work did not commence until three years later and in the process two buildings were demolished in the process of so-called construction of any hospital. Since that time a building was constructed at a cost over $100 million and it was said that this building would have been completed in six months and after six months the building would be completed and the completion would be for one floor. So we abandoned the hospital and we decided that we would build one floor. But the committee found that this was not right and this was not the most prudent way to go. Construction at a different site commenced in 2019. By 2021 less than two years later more than $89 million taxpayer dollars was expended. However St. Lucia's south was still no closer to having its own hospital. Concerned about the seemingly exorbitant construction expenses the Pierre administration formed a committee to undertake a review of the decades-delayed St. Jude Hospital reconstruction project. The committee's report has uncovered a maze of questionable transactions which Prime Minister Pierre Assange will be the subject of parliamentary debate in the House of Assembly. From the office of the Prime Minister, Rihanna Yazido.