 The mayor and councillors of the Castery City Council conducted a tour of the facilities and areas that are the responsibility of the Castery City Council. The tour spanned a period of two weeks and provided the council an opportunity to assess and identify key areas that require immediate attention. The final leg of the facilities assessment tour was conducted in Castery South. The Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information and the Parliamentary Representative for Castery South, honourable Dr Ernest Helaire, joined the CCC team in touring the community. He commended the mayor and the councillors for undertaking the initiative. The playing fields that they have to maintain, the community centres that they have to maintain, the clearing of certain drains that they have to maintain. So we visited a number of products. We started by the Old Cemetery Hospital Road, about the clearing of that Old Cemetery, removing a lot of debris that have accumulated over the years. We did four shows of the drains, burn and play in field. We did a few other areas, ended up in passages. We have to look at the incompleted community centre, Marigo, the playing field and different areas throughout the constituency. We stopped them to take a look at it. The hope is that the Castery City Council will have an assessment of the work that they need to do in the constituency. They can then prepare their work programme, they can do their budget and they can seek the financing from central government to fulfil their mandate. The Mayor of Castery's her worship Geraldine Lendor Gabriel indicated that an important component of the tour was consultation with various community groups. This she said ensures that the CCC's addressing the needs of the community. She lauded the communities in the Castery's area for their positive response. We found that generally the communities were very welcoming, the persons in the communities were welcoming and not very demanding. I think the things that they were asking for are very basic things that need to happen and so it requires that we address those needs quite quickly. Some of them are a little more challenging than others but there are some, what I would call, some very low-hanging fruits that we can actually address quite quickly and we are committed to ensuring that we do so. The Mayor further outlined the way forward now that the problem areas have been identified. As we speak, when we went in last week we've actually gone into the Human Resource Development Centre at Entrypo. We've already begun discussions with the group so we have a meeting quite soon. As I've indicated, we're not going to just go in there. We need to know what is happening, we need to speak to the people who have had oversight for some of those facilities and work with them. So we are going to be rolling out, the next four weeks would be meeting with those groups and for us to identify what is considered to be the most important to them because again it requires budget allocations, allocating the resources in the best way because we do not have everything. But once we do that I think it's going to allow us to be very strategic about closing those various gaps over time. The final leg of the Castery City Council's Facilities Assessment Tour took place on Sunday 16 January 2022. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting.