14 | Invest Saint Lucia
started the process where we have actually
been zoning down on some key projects in
the sectors that I’ve mentioned – infrastruc-
ture, tourism, and smart manufacturing.
And the reason we say smart manufactur-
ing is because we want it to be technology-
driven, and we want it to be innovative. We
do not want the same manufacturing that
has happened in the past, because the value-
added does not happen there, it happens
when you innovate and when you find new
technology that you’ve applied science to it,
that you’ve come up with a new method of
doing it – that’s when the bit of value-added
actually happens. And that is where the in-
vestor will see his rate of return and also the
country will benefit from the higher quality
of employment. The other thing is tourism.
We know that Saint Lucia tourism led this
country, but we need to improve our tourism
product by having better and more high-end
branded hotels. We also need to improve our
quality of service a little, so we are looking
at branded hotels that have been tested else-
where, that somebody’s attracted to coming
into a hotel, because this hotel is the quality
standard and that’s what you get when you
go to this five-star resort.
We’re also looking at infrastructure be-
cause we know both the manufacturing sec-
tor and the tourism sector’s development is
predicated on the expanding of Saint Lucia’s
current infrastructure. Everything that we
do now has to be looked at within the con-
