 Newly appointed director of sports, Jim Xavier says that the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports will work collaboratively with the local Athletics Association and other interest groups to ensure track athlete Julian Alfred receives all the support she needs to continue excelling on the track. Alfred has had a string of strong performances for Texas Longhorns on the US Collegiate Circuit and recently improved on her personal best, the national record running 11.07 seconds in the 100 meters. Julian has the potential to excel and to excel at the highest level and she needs at this point in time all the support that is necessary so that she could continue to perform at the highest level and so I am very happy that I am back in the Department of Youth Development and Sports as the director of sports to provide that level of assistance that was started off back in my time in assisting Ms. Alfred. Alfred's local coach, Corbett Modes, who is also Athletics Coach at the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports says they have been targeting sub-11 seconds for the year and is proud of her achievements to date. I'm very happy she won the 11.07 which she break a whole national record and she qualified for Worlds, Commonwealth and Caribbean Games. But in the 200, she qualified for Caribbean Games and Commonwealth Games. Modes says the athlete is focused on her goals and is structured in her decision making. We always talk and say what we want to see, what we have to achieve, you know? And everything she have to say, you know, she have to tell me that, you know, because don't make a good decision, don't come and make a decision by oneself. We decide what we want to see and what we want to do. And the coach have been working with me from times, you know, anything he wants from Julian or he wants Julian to do, he does contact me. So I feel very pleased with her staff up in Texas Longhorns. As for the director of sports, he is confident Alfred's success will inspire other athletes to give up their best. Especially now that sporting activities have been reopening following restrictions due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am very happy that the sporting culture is the divine and that we could do it in the sporting environment. From the Ministry of Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.