 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker and just to briefly provide support for this motion to guarantee 80 million dollars from the First National Bank to the National to the National Lottery Authority to assist in financing youth and sport infrastructure program. I just need to while I support just bring to this house Mr. Speaker the importance of what is before us and I will do so Mr. Speaker by trying to explain how this is arranged in terms of what obtains in government and how this administration is thinking. Mr. Speaker I just wish to first establish that even before my time that this administration is responsible for the establishment of NIPRO the National Lottery Authority. NIPRO is one entity through NIC that was responsible for development. The National Lottery Authority agencies like Bell Fund, the Sandrusha Social Development Fund, the National Conservation Authority as special vehicles established towards the establishment of social interventions that ordinarily central government would not would find it difficult to participate in. And it's just not registering in the minds of the House and Lutions that these arrangements by this government the structures speaks to a broad risk a broad understanding of procurement responsibilities the arrangement of social goods and services and what best is able to advance and to promote them. So here in this important piece of legislation here the National Lottery Authority is being featured. Mr. Speaker of course so often we speak about the GDP of our country and of course it is the market value of all goods and services. In Sandrusha Small Island Development States there are not many assets but there are some significant ones that we can speak to. Our youth assets are significant and it's important that we maintain them because they contribute to our own to the value to the wealth of this country. We cannot allow them to depreciate. And Mr. Speaker there are some of them that are considered to be national in perspective because they're not constituency base. It doesn't belong to Grosily for example it's not the constituency of Grosily nor the George Ordlem Stadium is an asset to view for. These are national assets they contribute to the well-being of our entire society. And therefore Mr. Speaker when we consider establishing assets within communities the issue of maintenance is also very important. Very important because at this time we do have a vehicle in place to contribute to the maintenance of Darren Cricket. Darren Sammy Cricket Grounds. But Mr. Speaker I need to bring to your mind and if you're not aware that assuming the responsibility as parliament parliamentary representative for castries southeast I encounter the largest community center ever built in Sandrusha. Come in take your time. Largest. There is one in Otsa at about five million dollars and I know that I'm currently establishing a community center and I'll you will ask it at this time but just on the one million eight hundred thousand dollars but the one that was built the one I inherited in Otsa is what is about five million dollars and I thought this was the largest one built in castry south-east but Mr. Speaker do you know there's one in Bekso costing ten million dollars with 21 toilets six urinals and six washrooms electricity bill will cost the community five thousand dollars a month now 21 yes yes you could go there and count it it's not a hospital in fact there's more toilets in this community center than there's toilets in the waterfront building the Graham-Louise building in fact yes now I made this point I made this point in the context of wastage of resources as explained early on by the leader of opposition and the strategic use of resources a government who plans and take things into consideration this community center is not for a region it is not a national community center it is a center for the community of Bekso only Bekso mr. Speaker you must visit it for yourself to see the magnitude of a community center the largest community center ever built in St. Lucia and again I need to say to St. Lucia's the total number of toilets in that community center at a cost of 10 million in the Bekso River it has 21 toilets in it six urinals and six washrooms of course and there was I saw correspondence from DC a given 22 reasons why it was not approved but it was subsequently approved because it's a World Bank project mr. Speaker in the context of this debate I do not I don't understand what you're saying but mr. Speaker we need to be careful and we need to have an appreciation for what this government is doing and understand the strategic development of this country when this government conceptualize this this major assets and the importance of these assets to the development and the well-being of our population and of course today we can find the where we fall to arrange for its maintenance but not also to guarantee to maintain it but also to ensure that the vehicle put in place to facilitate maintenance on its upkeep can also pay for it that's what's important to me and I asked myself the question how will the Bekso community maintain a community center with 21 toilets how will it maintain it in fact its location requires two security guards because it's isolated how who will pay for its maintenance who will maintain for its upkeep and sometimes I feel troubled and when I speak about it my prime minister has to tell me you know minister calm down calm down calm down you know he has to calm me down because I am concerned because you want to organize your constituency you want to ensure that things are making sense the warning in also they have already broken up and they have taken a toilet and the pump new facilities so we spend five million to bill one in also ten million dollars to bill another in Bekso community centers and mr. Speaker you know it's it's in upon reflection if the dear Prime Minister give me ten million dollars now forecastry's office you know I would ensure that I have a community center in more than ten communities in more than ten adequate enough mr. Speaker it is located next to a school and upon accepting responsibility I did ask the ministry responsible to ensure that the cement blast that took place on the school nearby in also under the conditions of contract that they are responsible for meant for painting the school over and they did but they've left the one in Bekso in a state and there's almost parking for 200 vehicles 200 vehicles and I asked why would this price the former prime minister allow such to happen but then this today I am speaking of you know accountability and all of the rules of good governance that will protect such abuse of resources somebody was having a fieldy somebody was having a good time and the thing about it in speaking with the community they said they never asked for it nobody asked for it no one asked for it it was the World Bank it was known it was known you understand so I'm asking this question and I'm saying this in the context of of what is important no no so then I must conclude mr. Speaker that this government and I'm saying this briefly this government is on the right is on the right path in terms of how our prime minister our prime minister is leading how our prime minister is managing the affairs of the business of this country and I also need to point out to the leader of the opposition sometimes I sense as if he's suggesting that he's the authority on tourism whereas I know that our the current prime minister and the member for cast resist under his term as minister of terrorism did far much more mr. Speaker I asked the question why and there is a there is a pattern that one must pay attention to it's not so much the things we do when we empower as we had that important you know the things that we do not do is also important we have no conflict of interest so the former our current ministers of tourism and the former prime minister do not own a hotel so there's no conflict of interest none so when it comes for pushing the hotel business forward they push it will ever comes forward and is capable and is able and and is qualified we do this you understand mr. Speaker also in the context in the context of arranging how these things are done we have no interest and I recall the statement made by the minister the minister of the the member for for me could make itself when he has the question in this house he asked how many of us ever owned the business he asked that question have we ever been business owners I think it was the last sitting of parliament almost to suggest our qualification being here rest on we being business owners and I recall some years ago a member of his side stood up and said we've been said I know how to take money and make money make money suggesting that the members on the other side are not business individuals but what I've discovered in small island developing states the people who are likely to impact your country more positively are persons who are prepared to create business successful business of our citizens and not those who boast of being business persons themselves and that is why in a short space of time we have been able to achieve so much our passion is to ensure that our people are place first at every juncture our hoteliers get an opportunity and sorry if you have interpreted that the our posture towards tourism has been we do not believe in it which is far from the truth we are not interested in becoming hoteliers but being a hotelier does not make you a qualified minister of tourism and therefore we believe in our people who are the aspiration to become business individuals we believe in the local persons who want to be in the tourist business but mr. Speaker I challenge the former prime minister with the form that he has put on today that if he can allow under his watch such a wastage of resources that we must now try to arrange to find all sorts of all ways to try to make it make sense I visited the place with the the sporting people in the community and we now need to address to what section they can be responsible for how they can coexist I must now ask the council to move in to our presence there because I know as soon as this building is a is handed over it will be vandalized because of its location I do not think that we have space for 200 vehicle parking bush with all of the work done to create the parking because it's not paved bush will take over that place waste of resources and I do not believe a community center needs central air conditioning system that gonna cost five thousand dollars one that is not that's not good business for a community center so mr. Speaker if it was the indoor facility of grozily if you see the design of the indoor facility in grozily of course it can be used as an indoor facility the city in a rage arrangement to see the places there but this one has a massive play area but with no city no accommodation you cannot even have an activity or stage that you could even exploit it to do something it's almost a free place to just go and recreate and the cost of recreation becomes extremely high and you ask a question who will pay for it mr. Speaker there's a court a covered court inside of the facility but there's a court outside of the facility as well that could have been fixed so we have indoor outdoor and the one out there is not even being used much back so so I'm saying to the minister the minister the former minister of finance that he should consider that and when he's speaking of what is happening on this side I think he should reflect on some of the errors that he's made some of what has happened under his watch and not say that I'm happy but repent of what he has done and acknowledge that we stand in better because we've seen what's done and we trying to correct it you need to repent of this because this is not good you understand you'll follow my lead okay well you'll be on the safe side my brother you understand but you need to repent of this because this is not good I do not think this is sustainable and I think the if you follow what has happened what the Labour Party has put in place think of the vehicles for development NIPRO the National Lottery Authority the James Bell Grave Fund the St. Louis Social Development Fund the National Conservation Authority the government of the Labour Party has seen it fit to put structures and a range in place to facilitate social development where central government is unable to reach and therefore these mechanisms has made it possible for the National Lottery Authority today to be the recipient of a guarantee to advance and to facilitate youth development by contributing to the well-keeping of our youth infrastructure and other youth interventions thank you Mr. Speaker