Prime Minister the Right Honourable Sir John Compton has vowed to erect a home for the performing arts in St. Lucia. Sir John made the announcement after he was wowed by several cultural performances by students at the Annual National Schools Rally at the Vigie Sports Complex on Independence Day last week. The rally followed shortly after the National Independence Day Parade on the Vigie Playing Field.
“The Government will take the lead in this. I pledge to them that there will be one million dollars in this year’s budget to start the organisation of this. We cannot allow our flowers to blush unseen. We can’t allow our gems, our purest ray serene, not to be seen by the world. We are going to do it and we are going to start from today,” the Prime Minister said.
Speaking on secondary school placements and the issues that it poses in terms of location, the Prime Minister also vowed to reintroduce school subsidized transportation to help relieve parents of the financial burden.
“We shall transport the children to the schools to which they are assigned and take them back home safely. The loitering on roadsides will be a thing of the past,” said Sir John.
Excerpted from ‘Prime Minister Pledges One Million for National Theatre,’ published February 26, 2007, by the government of St. Lucia.