 The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports hosted representatives of USAID Youth Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment, WIREY. The WIREY project is a part of a family of programs supported by the USAID in the region. These programs form part of the USAID 2020 to 2025 Regional Development Cooperation Strategy and the priorities and objectives of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. We sat with the Chief of Party, Phelps Feely, of the USAID Youth Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment project. Charities are really around the public health approach, sharing knowledge, learning and adaption and sustainability and so those three programs are the OASIS project, which is around juvenile justice, the CARA Secure project and the WIREY project that talking about today. The Minister for Youth Development and Sports explained his deep concern for the crime situation in St. Lucia and workable solutions the Ministry can use to alleviate the problem. Thankfully we have partners such as USAID who are willing to provide some support to ensure that we can strategically and methodically identify what are the main issues pretty much causing the crime situation on the island and thereafter coming up with strategies to tackle the issues. The WIREY is youth-centered, system strengthening activity focused on youth between the ages of 10 to 29 in Guyana, St Lucia and Grenada, Marvin St. Louis reporting from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports.