 The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports is engaging partners as it seeks to explore alternative energy sources to power lighting and other amenities at sporting facilities in different parts of the island. Minister responsible for youth development and sports, the Honourable Kenson Kazeme, says the plan is to move away from fossil fuels and noted that the new lighting system at Corinth was part of a pilot project to meet that goal. What we've done is we've used solar energy to power the school and of course the lighting of the facility and we had good discussion on what other means we could use as it pertains to energies in community. Solar farms for instance in communities such as Moshi and Granivier for you know some of the wooden houses in terms of giving them relief so that they won't have to have exorbitant electricity bills. Paul Antel of Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency represents a group of companies from Canada that were on island to offer cooperation in a number of areas for national development. One of the companies called Associates is spreading the transition to solar energy. It focused on the blue and green economy but when we talk you know those include things like solar and and you know energy usage so you know working with with all that kind of falls broadly within youth and sport but it's really about about looking at how we can work with St. Lucian companies to to kind of further that kind of you know global warming climate change kind of action. A number of facilities on the island are airmarked for the transition to solar energy including larger grounds like the Darren Sammy Cricut Ground, the Sufra Mini Stadium and the Mindou Phillip Park. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports I'm Ryan O'Brien.