 Renowned restauranteurs, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Tretchin, owners of Faye Caraibs, have conceptualized and cooked up what they are calling the Faye Véfort or FVF club to serve up potential solutions to regulators and also support business development in the south. Our idea is because I meet all of you together, each investor in St. Lucia, at Véfort, and most of them have some questions about what's happened, what we're doing, I want to do that, and some few of us have no answer, but what's the people of France doing? Put everybody around the table because this is our best in France, cooking, drinking, and share friendliness. This is what we're doing tonight, and the purpose of that dinner is to share with the Honorable, Mr. First Minister, Mrs. Honorable, Mrs. M.I. Polit, and Mr. Keny, with the representative of Véfort, to our best thing we have in Véfort, but also what we have some questions, we have some interrogation of your amazing plan you have. But the confidence in St. Lucia is making a roaring return under the stewardship of Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre. Hon. Pierre gave his support to the emerging FVF club at its inaugural meeting, which was also attended by some of Véfort and St. Lucia's most prominent business leaders. We know you went through some very tough times through COVID. I want to thank all the businesses that stayed afloat during COVID, and I know it was rough. It was very rough, but you stayed afloat. I want to thank you for it. And now we see signs of progress. We see signs of improvement. Our tourism industry is improving. In fact, last week, last Sunday, we welcomed over 1,500 visitors to St. Lucia, which is the same number we have during the winter season, during January. So we did very well. And we believe that these figures remain until the end of September. So the signs are there, and we want to encourage it. We want to create the enabling environment to allow you to expand and to develop and to make the south what it can be and what it should be. Commerce Minister Hon. Emma Hippolett has welcomed the opportunity to interface and engage the FVF club to address areas of mutual concern. I'm pleased that we have this gathering here. I am hoping that it can be something that we can have periodically so that we can engage. It is important because the Prime Minister will tell you that as a government, we believe that the public sector is important for us. We know that you are going through significant struggles, but the government that you have is a government that has sat and committed to work with you. Member of Parliament for V4S and former Prime Minister Hon. Dr Kenny Anthony has expressed excitement over the burgeoning commercial expansion prospects on offer in his constituency. One of the things that has gladdened my heart over the years is the fact that we were accustomed in V4 for businesses to come from castries to V4 and establish in V4. Now it's a reverse. The fortunes are going up to the north to establish businesses and Louis of course has had a business in Colisec. One of the pioneers of development in Colisec thanks to the time to the fact that we have declared Colisec a special development area. So, you know, I mean, there are new possibilities. Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Trecin's FVVF club has extended an invitation to the island's southern-based businesses to consolidate ideas and efforts to continue nourishing the South's economic landscape. From the office of the Prime Minister, Rihani Isidou.