 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm sure you'll admit after listening to speakers before me that there's not much I can say. I must tell you the member from Viewfort North was simply inspiring and he spoke about being excited about the future and he got me excited. I even forgot that I was the Minister of Tourism who had to speak on the motion. I was really caught up in his presentation and a member from Babuno, South-East, Cassius North, you know Denry. Even a member from Trousel raised a couple of very valuable points and I will touch on a couple of them. Even the Attorney General next to me wanted to stand up and speak, Mr. Speaker. I want to start off, Mr. Speaker, by first of all, thanking the Prime Minister and my colleagues for the support that they have given to this resolution and especially, Mr. Speaker, that they are all wedded in the idea that we have an opportunity in Saint Lucia to transform the tourism industry to bring greater benefits to Saint Lucia like never before. It is a journey, it is a vision that started many years ago and a lot of what I believe in and I reflect on actually started many years ago when the present Prime Minister was the Minister of Tourism and the member from Vuford South himself was Prime Minister. So many of those ideas and approaches came out of a very clear understanding of what tourism should represent to us as Saint Lucians and you've seen a manifestation of that dream and that vision, Mr. Speaker. But, Mr. Speaker, we need to step back a bit and reflect on some comments made by the opposition, Mr. Speaker, and especially the leader of the opposition because I really wish he would be here now to listen to the presentations made by the various members and for him to make his contribution and it was quite remarkable, Mr. Speaker, and disturbing at the same time, Mr. Speaker, that even when his attempt to play the cat and mouse game did not succeed and the Prime Minister might went on before his and the Speaker call on the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister had a graciousness to stand up and say, I'm going to yield and let you speak. But he did not even take up the offer, which tells me there was no sincerity in speaking to the issue that it was going to be a performance that's going to be drama and show and not substance, Mr. Speaker. And even when he was told, I am going to yield and the Speaker cautioned and sanctioned that he will not accept such behavior, you know, as a speaker. But the Prime Minister yielded to give him a chance to speak and the Prime Minister said clearly, I am letting you speak because I know I have a chance to answer you. So no matter what you say, I will be able to answer you. Why did he not speak? And I wanted him to present his own contribution on this motion, Mr. Speaker. And I'll tell you why. Because he said of by saying to us, none of us have ever been self-employed and we don't understand business and we don't know business in this in this chamber that, you know, we have no plan. We have no understanding. We don't know what we are about. And I sat there listening to him. This was the same member who came into this chamber and said that he's going to be a CEO Prime Minister. He's going to run the country like a business because he had the most business experience in the chamber. But watch what happened with the CEO Prime Minister. The company went bankrupt. The share value dropped significantly. And Mr. Speaker, watch where we found ourselves. And other members have already given, you know, an oversight of where he has taken this country. But this is the CEO Prime Minister. It is amazing how he thinks. He wants to convince us that he understands business. He knows the right model to do things. He's critical of the CIP and some of the changes we are making. But yet he was Prime Minister for the disastrous range issue. But how could you have been so wrong cause such a scandal of the range matter and still believe that your approach, your model is the right one and that you have the knowledge and you have the understanding. He still wants to convince us that DSH is right and the proper and is the model we should follow. He stands up there even today and wants to argue about all the glorious things about DSH. Where are the signs of any success at DSH? Where are they? Where are they? How do you want to convince us that you are such a success and that you know it all and we know nothing? Where are the signs? Where is it? And Mr Speaker, we can go on and on and each member can point out to you evidence of the failure of the last government. He wants to stand and to pontificate and arrogant upon himself the right to judge us and to say we know not what we're doing and that he knows what has to be done. You see, one of the things we said when I became Minister of Tourism is that we're not going to come every month and boast about numbers. That was a practice of the past. You'd recall every sitting of parliament in particular representative who sat across there would stand up and boast about numbers and numbers and arrivals and we said not that numbers are not important. Numbers are important because we want to bring visitors to the country. We want visitors to come in and spend in our country. But what's more important for us is how we structure this tourism industry that it can reflect the best of our people, the best of who we are and for us to ensure that solutions benefit from the tourism industry more than ever and we are very clear. We want more solutions to participate in the tourism industry and more solutions to own the tourism industry. And there's a simple logic for this. And I keep saying it every time I get an opportunity to speak. We want foreign investment. We want the present players to earn more than what they are earning. But we want the industry to get bigger so that more solutions can participate in it and earn as well. That is fundamental. Think about it. The mountains, the rivers, the trails, the beaches. That's a common heritage of St. Lucia. No hotel owns that. The people own it. All the warmth of our people that is so attractive and the member from Gifford North put it so well. We're not a people of violence. We are people of love. We know how to seduce people. We know how to show romance and love and be welcoming. That's who we are, Mr. Speaker, stop smiling. But that's exactly who we are. And therefore, these are the natural resources we have and who should enjoy the majority or the greater part of those natural resources but the people of the country. So we have to design a tourism industry where when investors come in and they invest their money, they get a fair return on their investment and they are satisfied with their business endeavours. But we must make sure that our people can boast that this tourism industry is delivering benefits to them. They can enjoy civilized standards of living and how they can see the children go to universities from their hard work. They can see opportunities for the children within the tourism industry. So, Mr. Speaker, next Tuesday, we'll come back to this house to present the Tourism Development Bill. And then, Mr. Speaker, we'll have a lot more to see about how we are restructuring this industry. But an essential component of this is what we are debating today, the Community Tourism Bill, Community Tourism Projects. This borrowing is about enhancing the capacity of solutions to benefit from the tourism industry. This is what it is about. And Mr. Speaker, the member from EcoSouth is not here. And the Prime Minister and my colleagues, we've always said, you know, that we want to stay focused on the task that the solution citizenry has given us, and that is to transform this country and to do away with the mess of the past. But if you want to speak about Community Tourism, you must start off, Mr. Speaker, as far back as 1997 with heritage tourism. And, Mr. Speaker, you must thank all those who came before us and contributed to shaping the landscape that exists now. You must say a special thank you to persons, the former Prime Minister, the former, the present Prime Minister, Mr. Felix Finis there, Nigel Michel, who passed so many individuals who contributed, the present PS in the ministry, so many individuals who contributed more than to introducing in St. Lucia the concept of heritage tourism, the concept of people's tourism, Mr. Speaker. It is not a new concept. It's not new. What we're seeing is an evolution of that. We are taking it to a different dimension, Mr. Speaker. But it is not entirely new. We won't pretend, Mr. Speaker, that we are the originators of all ideas and we know all things. We're not. We're not, Mr. Speaker. But let's go back, Mr. Speaker, a few years ago where the last government decided that they wanted to take further action, Mr. Speaker. Dr. Kenya Anthony, when he was Prime Minister and this morning he referred to the OR TCP, which was a regional tourism improvement project funded by the World Bank, together with a number of OECS countries. And part of that provided for increasing the product stock of community tourism. Part of it. And I'll come to some of it in a bit. But a decision was taken to advance the discussion on community tourism and, of course, to strengthen the institutional capacity. The last government decided to use five million dollars, EC, from the Republic of China and Taiwan, to fund community tourism projects. But rather than to do it the proper way. Same individual who says we have no plan. We don't know how to do things. We don't know how to execute. And the other ones that can execute, you know, they're still boasting about that. Decided to spend the money on ancillary, sulfuric, and grusily. But did not put in place the institution. Did not put in place the legislative framework. And did not put in place the policy framework to guide that development. But they spent the five million dollars. But we're not going to go back into all the details of it. At the appropriate time those matters can be dealt with by, you know, responsible agencies, Mr. Speaker. But five million was spent and they took a decision to also get a loan from the Caricom Development Fund for nine million dollars for on lending for persons who want to invest in community tourism. And, of course, a grant, Mr. Speaker, to help set up the institutions. Of course, one can always ask the question, why you want to spend money on projects when you have no institution, no staff, no oversight, no laws, no policy framework, nothing, but you spend in five million dollars already, Mr. Speaker. That was a decision taken then. We did it slightly differently. We ensured that we put in place the legislative framework. We ensured that we put in place the institution. We employed the staff. And then we are going to take off, Mr. Speaker. So what you are seeing, Mr. Speaker, is the first stage of that take off, Mr. Speaker, to get it right, to make sure that all the elements are in place and we are now going to be building the product stock that is needed, Mr. Speaker. So when you look at the borrowing, which is the second tranche of borrowing from the Caricom Development Fund, always bear in mind that we already took a loan of nine million dollars to provide loans to persons who want to invest in community tourism. But we decided very early, Mr. Speaker, that we are going to change the name from village tourism to community tourism. And I've dealt with this in this house before. When you speak of village tourism in Saint Lucia, in the context of Saint Lucia, what are you talking about? Somebody in Barbono wants to start a project and they will speak of a village tourism project in Barbono or in Lafag. And our view was that's not village, that's community. We're really talking about a commonality of identity, of purpose, and of, you know, of experience. The notion of village does not resonate with that. Village in the context of Saint Lucia, the historical context, and like the member from before North put it, everything really has, things get meaning because of the context in which they are located. And that's a powerful way of describing it. Maybe it's sociolinguistics we have to go into that phenomenon has no meaning if you don't understand the context in which they exist. So when you speak of village tourism in Peru, people cannot associate to that. But when you say community tourism, the people of Peru as a community can rally themselves around that. We were told that it was going to be franchises and that communities and projects would have franchises. When you speak of franchise tourism, you think of Kentucky and that's what a franchise is. We said it would be better to see a partnership. That's our cultural context. You form a partnership with the community. You're not selling a franchise to them. That's not what it is about. So we made changes in name for sure, for sure, like the member from Microsoft said. But it is more than just name. It has substance behind it because it creates an understanding of purpose. It creates an expectation of what it is we're going to deliver. So, Mr. Speaker, we did make some changes for sure. I'll admit that but I believe it's for the better mentor of the program, Mr. Speaker. So we also made a third fundamental change. In the previous configuration, there was going to be loans made to applicants and we thought we wanted to reflect on this. If you want communities, Mr. Speaker, you want individuals to benefit. Some of them cannot qualify for the kind of loans we're talking about. So we had to decide to have a very low interest rate to be able to make it attractive but also to give grants to individuals. So if you, in the case of the member from Castro Central, wants to start their project, that is $90,000. You can take a $60,000 loan and he can get a $40,000 grant because he may not be able to sustain a loan of, okay, well, all right, yeah, of $90,000, whatnot. So, Mr. Speaker, we then and the Prime Minister led on this to get monies from Central Government, from the National Economic Fund, to actually provide resources to the community tourism agency so applicants can get both grants and loans as well to be able to make it attractive for them because we want ordinary solutions who do not normally qualify for commercial loans but who has an exciting idea, an exciting experience to be able to be part of the tourism industry. We did not believe that community tourism because of its very nature, its very concept, should be restricted to only those who can qualify for commercial loans. So we introduced the grant and loan component, Mr. Speaker. So now we have all the elements in place but we had some challenges and some setbacks and again, Mr. Speaker, in our, you know, progress as we move forward, we learn and we adjusted. When we issued a call for ideas and for projects, we got so many exciting ideas and persons went to the agency with ideas that they wanted and submitted it and then when they asked them, do you own the land, you want to create the experience, they did not own the land. Do you have drawings? They did not have drawings. Did you have this year approval? They did not have this year approval. So so many solutions came forward with exciting ideas but at different stages of development. So again, now we had to recalibrate and for us to decide we had to start from scratch with most of the applications and then for us to develop the idea. And I must say, not everyone is as, how do you call it, as expeditious as the member from Castro Central because when he came up with an idea for Serenity Park, within a couple of months he had drawings, costings, submission to Disney and he's ready to go. But not everybody has the same capacity or the same speed that he has. So we've had, you know, slight delays in certain communities because the institution itself now has to provide greater support to individuals who have ideas and, you know, some really fantastic, you know, proposals on the table. So in the next few weeks we'll start launching some of the programs that we have approved. We have funded and have started and you will see, Mr. Speaker, just over a year after or just about a year after we started the institution, we can start formally and nonsense projects that solutions have come up with for community experiences. But that just starts because this borrowing that we discussed in is about the next rock of projects that will be implemented and we have another round coming and we'll have more coming, Mr. Speaker, because this is so important. This is about ensuring that when visitors come to St. Lucia every single dollar, more of that dollar must be spent in St. Lucia and stay in St. Lucia. We cannot allow the tourist dollar to leave St. Lucia. We have to make some of it stay in St. Lucia and be enjoyed by St. Lucia's. So the member from Castries East would have pointed out that in this borrowing we have four projects that have already been identified and approved by the Caricom Development Fund. The first one is the Denry Fish Fiesta and the member from Denry South spoke of the Denry Fish Fiesta and he spoke of the history of it and it's important to the community and therefore we know what happened under the last dispensation, the last government, the last parliamentary rep and that this experience was allowed to wallow and to disappear. But it is important for persons on the East Coast for the community of Denry and for so many solutions we enjoyed, you know, the Fish Fiesta and therefore provisions is made to bring it back and to restore it to its former glory. The Seymour's experience, if you just reflect on the success that the chocolate experience has had in St. Lucia, whether at Capo St. Lucie, whether at Hotel Chocolat or other places in St. Lucia, where we've now become so well known and those of you who have seen the CBS clipping of the boasting of St. Lucia and for its chocolate and for the celebration of Valentine's Day, you would understand how far reaching the reputation of St. Lucia for quality chocolates is and we believe and from what we know about Solution Seymour's, we have an equally attractive product that we can create a special experience for. And a member for Miku North boasts that the best Seymour's comes out of the Pralé B. I cannot comment on where the best Seymour's, I don't know whether it is from Savant's B, whether it is from Fodor or where it is from or, you know, other parts of St. Lucia. But we want to create, with the parliamentary rep, a special experience in the Pralé area, a Seymour's experience where one can witness from the sea what's done, you know, to grow the Seymour's all the way to the manufacture of the various byproducts of the Seymour's. And I know his team is working very hard to develop the concept that will that will come with this. And of course what makes it even more exciting in the Pralé area is we in advanced discussions and a developer has already submitted plans for the revival of the L'Oparé de Project Mr. Speaker. Once that project Mr. Speaker is revived and the Seymour's experience can be established, that course Mr. Speaker will once again become a hive of activity Mr. Speaker. Mention was made of the Mon Lébaille and a member from Cassius North reminded us of his boyhood this at the Mon Lébaille and he spoke of selling trinkets and other art pieces of art to visitors when they came in. He didn't tell us of the late nights watching the stars, you know, at the Mon Lébaille. Although the member from Cassius Central said he passed in many a times, you know, at the Mon Lébaille, but for those of you whom we have known him he was very adventurous as a young man so he knows the area very well Mr. Speaker. But the Mon Lébaille Mr. Speaker is a very, is very well known, is one of the first rest stops out of the city and just before you get to the city it's probably the most famous Lébaille in St. Lucia and we all know the last Lébaille was not structurally sung, we had to demolish it and a new one will be built and I can tell you Mr. Speaker a lot of effort has gone into designing the new Mon Lébaille and hopefully in the next month or so once the money's become available we will start to work on the Mon Lébaille to have it ready for the next cruel season in October because we have the vendors in the temporary area but we need to make arrangements for them to make sure that they can get back to their normal, you know, cost of business and the fourth project under this motion Mr. Speaker is the Matters Shrine and this is our first journey into religious tourism it's our first journey into that aspect and using that aspect of our heritage and our culture to show the best of St. Lucia and if you only reflect there are few churches in St. Lucia where Sir Derek Wall Dunston Saint-Tome actually painted you know the Madonna's and the reflections of ourselves in our spirituality the Jack Mell Moshe you know some of those churches even the cathedral these are representations of our spirituality and the church stands at the center of it Mr. Speaker we all knew we all remember what happened a few years ago outside the cathedral and the loss of life Mr. Speaker and we all regret what happened but it's an opportunity for us to be able Mr. Speaker to to build a shrine for the departed person to serve the Catholic church Mr. Speaker and who lost their lives because of their faith Mr. Speaker that you know we have an opportunity to build a remembrance of them but at the same time Mr. Speaker to say to visitors you can come and learn about an aspect of our history and you know what it has meant for the church and the impact it has had on the church so we've been working with the church the church submitted the idea to us and told us they had an interest in this project we wholeheartedly embraced it and supported it we believe it will add a very valuable you know component Mr. Speaker to our tourism product and our community tourism product that visitors can actually visit the shrine when it is completed I've seen the preliminary drawings and it is very excited very exciting Mr. Speaker what they are proposing so this resolution will provide the resources for those four main projects Mr. Speaker but already we are looking to the next strong Mr. Speaker of the projects that you know we have to consider and all in an attempt to build Mr. Speaker greater value in our Saint Lucianness Mr. Speaker to expose more of Saint Lucian Mr. Speaker and a member from the North spoke about the German festival something that he had worked on for many years had gone dormant and was revived last October Mr. Speaker and he and I have sat down and we have done some visioning of where we want the drumming festival to go and we're thinking of a drumming festival that will become the premier drumming festival in this part of of the Antilles Mr. Speaker the entire Mr. Speaker where we can attract drummers from Africa from South America from all over to come to Saint George come to Bellevue come to Pérot spend the weekend they spend a few days Mr. Speaker where they can do workshops and drumming and teach that aspect of our heritage and of course to have a full-scale German festival Mr. Speaker and just imagine that happening in Viewfort North the growth of Airbnbs as persons who come down we'll want to look for accommodation Mr. Speaker and of course we all know Viewfort North is probably our most exciting cultural community Mr. Speaker with Bellevue and Cordrayle and all the other you know cultural you know cultural heritage Mr. Speaker order and therefore they the member from Viewfort North submitted a request to actually build amplifiers to amplifiers in the constituency that he can certainly add to to the cultural experiences that we offer as part of community tourism they needed because even last year for us to have the drumming festival we had to bring in infrastructure and infrastructure we had to bring in sometimes can be very sterile metal stages and you know it doesn't look like what we want they have an opportunity to design amplifiers that reflect the cultural heritage you know the member from Surazel was being tease about whether about building the bridge what not the one thing you can say at least on the bridge is they sought to have some reflection of the cultural you know heritage of the region in which a bridge was built and I think that's how we have to move as a country for us to have more reflections of ourselves in our surroundings and the member from Casual Central knows I always tell him about the murals that he's painted all over some parts of his constituency to continue to do so continue to to to paint ourselves let's look at ourselves on our walls on our bridges in our buildings I know the member from Viewfort South always used to have you know a big issue with this that too many ugly buildings have been built in the country and you have no character and you have no personality and he felt we should have buildings that that speak of who we are because architecture is part of the definition of self and who we are as a people so Mr. Speaker the Viewfort North has put forward proposals and we look in and I mean discussions with the member from Casual East about funding for for for for that project in Marsha the member from Casual East says we often forget him but there's an exciting proposal for an artisan village in the Marsha market to to redevelop and redesign the Marsha market and have an artisan village that will show the best of craft in St. Lucia in terms of letter work Mr. Speaker and you know I don't know how many of you all remember many many years ago maybe the member from Viewfort South might remember it and maybe Cassius North many many years ago in 1979 when the Labour Party won and this craft market was built was built in the Cassius city near the old marketing board in that area there a craft market was actually built there where you actually I remember as a young boy walking past that and you could actually see the craftsmen making sandals making belts you bought sandals there you remember that oh okay yeah no and you could actually go in there talk about 1979 under the Labour Party then where you could walk in and see the craftsmen making belts making bags making sandals and ride their drums riding the the lettercraft market where you might just come to think of it the member of Viewfort South probably was involved in that because I think he was a consultant advisor in the Ministry of Education and Culture at that time no so he probably would recall some of that but again that's what we want in Marsha to make it a centre for lettercraft and for artisan displays and of course I think the member from Caste East is looking for a place to house a silk hand side so we still think we're going to take that into consideration and that is another project that has been proposed you know what a hotel an Airbnb Mr Speaker yeah you know Mr Speaker if you think about it almost 300 000 persons leave Viewfort and drive up North to various hotels and Airbnb's and along that route sometimes they want a place to stop you know a place to take a drink you know to he said Falco and we need to start thinking of what are the stops along the route as you traverse around St. Lucia you know you have the lay-bys in January we need to upgrade it make sure it meets certain standards the more lay-bys but we had to think of ancillary we had to think of canneries and in Soufre overlooking the heritage the pitours the heritage site there's no look out there really there's no vending there are no toilets there is no place for somebody to buy something to eat so you drive by and you see persons parking their cars and taking photos even of the or you call it a plaque that is there but if somebody wants to use a restroom there are no no restrooms nearby there's no way you could buy a souvenir there's no way you could just decide let me just have a meal let me have some bits and other squash there's none of that and we are proposing around the island to identify strategic spots where we can build those same way you spoke about the bus stops and having the bus stops now becoming sites of commercial activity so we need to start thinking as you drive around the island what are the strategic spots so the moan and slurry there's talk of the Lacroix flats you know because there's a beautiful view of the valley the rosa valley from that area the Angiagap for example people stop to buy their corn I think somebody owns the land that area there Mr. Speaker and you know we can develop that that area if a proper stop Mr. Speaker so you can literally drive around St. Lucia right now the best bread you can get and visitors and have actually met visitors overseas who've boosted about the bread at Tomaso that they must have at Tomaso to eat hot local bread but we should have more of that around the island so as people move around they get cassava in canneries they get hot bread in Tomaso they might get something else you know in another community so creating more experiences and more opportunities Mr. Speaker the member from Catherine's office spoke about the hike in trail Mr. Speaker how can we develop that to add even greater to our adventure offerings Mr. Speaker you know they quite a few other ideas Mr. Speaker in Souffre another part of the island where we are receiving proposals and ideas of take the Monsito in Barbono I believe there's a meeting recently in Barbono and the ministry team went there and they was boasting to me one of the best views you can ever get Mr. Speaker is from that from that area and that we should do a lookout point there and some people ask why lookout points or why you want to do lookout points just think of the shared photo the memories of somebody taking a photo in one of the most futuristic parts of this Oof Mr. Speaker that they will carry with them wherever they go and that photo that memories of St. Lucia so those areas and those photos and those opportunities we create are valuable Mr. Speaker so as we look forward Mr. Speaker in Trosell Mr. Speaker we actually no no I come into that one it's something we've been working on in Trosell we actually working on a a craft tour Mr. Speaker where we'll have a specific designated tour where we visit selected craftspersons who are making cold pots making baskets you know the basket weaving what not and actually have it as an official tour Mr. Speaker and and think of what that would create for those craft you know people Mr. Speaker and we we've already discussed it and it's something we're going to work on visiting various waterfalls around St. Lucia just imagine somebody getting a special prize an extra theater hotel or whatever if you visit how many waterfalls in St. Lucia so many beautiful and enchanting waterfalls we have in St. Lucia Mr. Speaker that St. Lucia don't even know about I'm sure the member from Trosell can tell you quite a few because one of his hobbies is chasing waterfalls in St. Lucia and Rivers Mr. Speaker and and all those you know experiences are community experiences they tell of who we are as a people and for this Mr. Speaker this borough is another step as we develop St. Lucia we develop the product landscape Mr. Speaker we offer greater opportunities for St. Lucia to own part of the tourism industry and to show off the best of St. Lucia you know the member from Castle South spoke about and he's right we shouldn't do it just because of the visitors we shouldn't do it just because of them we have to do it because it's necessary but at the same time if you know your visitors come to your home you make an extra effort to clean it up and to sort out your house and to make it look more presentable that's our nature too think about the beaches and that's why the point he made really struck with me because it is true but we cannot continue to have our people going to use the beaches and there are no facilities there no toilets there no lifeguards we cannot continue to do it so we're not doing it just for the tourists but we're doing it for our people also Mr. Speaker so I am pleased to say Mr. Speaker that Simple Spark in Grozile is progressing very nicely Mr. Speaker and hopefully in the next few months we'll be able to open Simple Spark in Grozile Mr. Speaker we are going to work on a facility at Rajri Beach Mr. Speaker it's probably the busiest beach in St. Lucia again you have no toilet facilities there it's overcrowded during the cruise season and you know it is a problem Mr. Speaker I know in the clear view for VG well VG we already have some toilets there we have to develop it in view for Mr. Speaker we have to do a lot of work Mr. Speaker and we'll have to engage with the parliamentary representative for his vision of what he wants Dongdae and how he wants it to develop but we've already started speaking to a couple of stakeholders on the views as to what we can do we will be Mr. Speaker and I want you to take note of it the Caribbean Jewels project Mr. Speaker this is at Mon Pimad we're actually going to build with the developer the developer is actually going to build for us a beach park for St. Lucia that use that beach because those of you who know that beach is a little secluded there are no facilities in there and we want to create a space for St. Lucia to be able to continue to enjoy the beach there but also to create economic activity for them so you will see facilities going up in Rijri Mr. Speaker in the Mon Pimad area you will see facilities going up in Asfair along Millennium Highway the Bacai beach park will be totally renovated and upgraded Mr. Speaker like I said don't view fault we need to do some work in the sandy beach area and to do some you know development in that area so there's a lot that's going to happen under community tourism and in the restructuring of the tourism industry the member from view fault North said he's excited about the future well we all uber excited about the future and the prospects that it hold for our people and I want to thank the member from castles is the prime minister for continuing that journey that started many years ago and many other ministers of tourism have contributed to ensuring that we please St. Lucia's at the center of the tourism industry to be the greatest beneficiaries of the tourism industry and this is our historic task now to take that journey a lot further than it has ever been before my colleagues Mr. Mr. Speaker who continue to share the vision and support it and promoted Mr. Speaker that we will restructure redesign reorient the tourism industry and put our people first in ensuring that they can benefit from it and our visitors who come here will have the most memorable experiences ones that they will tell for generations to come and that will be the foundation of success for our tourism industry thank you very much