 In August 2022, the Pan-American Health Organization engaged adolescents from around the region within the framework of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. The Caribbean observes Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Week in October annually. Pauho Country Representative, Renal Ewitt, says for the 2022 observance, Pauho provided the platform for writers between the ages of 12 to 19 through the Adolescent Voice Contest to lend their voice to the topic. In this contest, we had over 200 creative pieces being submitted from 22 countries. The participants competed with original works created exclusively for the contest and selected from eight categories, comic, drawing, illustration, narrative, painting, poem, song and video. Mr Ewitt says the judging process was led by jurors from Pauho and youth for health groups. Six pieces were selected from two categories. The categories were separated into age groups 12 to 15 and 16 to 19. So on behalf of Dr Amalia Del Rigo, the Pauho Director of Barberas and the Eastern Caribbean, I take pleasure in recognizing her and congratulating her for her hard work in this category. Sian Alfred, a CXC student of the Viewfort Secondary School, is the second place winner of the Pauho Adolescent Voices Contest. Alfred presented her piece titled, When All is Said and Done, to the ceremonies attendees. I don't feel joy or anger, just an overwhelming amount of grief. I feel the urge to mourn the person I was nine months ago, to plan a somber funeral with a freshly primed wooden casket to harbor the lifeless body, a boy which won't appear. I am the lifeless body, a surreal phantom even, a real life zombie roaming the earth. But I also feel crippling guilt. I feel like an asteroid. You know the heavy weight which brings devastation and darkness only to vaporize into nothing. Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Honourable Moses Jabatis expressed much joy at Alfred's Accolade. He says the competition not just inspired creativity, but used a different means to inform on the topic. You cannot get the messages across only through lectures or through speeches by ministers or even doctors and nurses and so on. Sometimes you have to allow the creativity of the participants, the young people to come out. And I'm sure Sian will tell you in the whole process of writing poetry or writing stories, you change because you are crafting the message. And because you are crafting the message, you have to internalize it. And because you must internalize it, it will change you. It will cause you to think about teenage pregnancy in a different way. Prize giving ceremony was held at the Viewford Comprehensive Secondary School for the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs. I'm Sant Justin.