 14 Form 5 students of the St Lucia Sports Academy are now certified after successfully completing the Caribbean Coaching Certification Program. The students received their certificates at a short ceremony held at the school on Monday, June 7, 2021. Assistant Program Director at the St Lucia Sports Academy, Andy Bale, explained the certification provides the students with the knowledge of fundamental coaching theory that can be utilized to become valuable citizens in the sporting arena. Specifically, this program is the Caribbean Coaching Certification Program. This has really been spearheaded by the St Lucia Olympic Committee in late 2019. We brought in Dave Farmer from Barbados. He worked with a group of our trainers here in St Lucia through the Olympic Committee and over the next year, so 113 coaches in St Lucia have gone through this foundational theory course in coaching. The C highlighted supports the national sports ecosystem in St Lucia as the Caribbean Coaching Certification Program is also available to infant and primary school physical education teachers. Yeah, well, when it comes to kind of the impact of this program, we've also focused at the Olympic at the Olympic Committee is also focused on getting especially primary school and then secondary school PE teachers involved. So I think we've done almost half of the primary school PE teachers on the island have gone through this program as well. So when we look at the kids coming through not just this group, but subsequent groups, we really are feeding a pipeline into the future of young coaches who at least have a theory background that they can take into their local clubs. They can take if they become PE teachers later on. That's another skill set that our current group of PE teachers on the island is building up as well. So it really is preparing them with a first step in the coaching realm. Andy Bailey informed the students of the importance of utilizing the certification for their personal and professional development. The program is supported by the St Lucia Olympic Committee Inc. and is recognized by Olympic committees around the region. From the Government Information Service, I'm Hermadi Mark reporting.