 Well, today we join the rest of the world in celebrating Public Services Day. On this the 23rd of June, which is the day designated by the United Nations as the day when we celebrate and commemorate Public Service Day. The theme for this year's celebration is very apt, action today, impact tomorrow, innovating and transforming the public service and institutions to realize sustainable development goals. Of course, as we celebrate in St. Lucia, we do so at a time when the importance of the public service and the work of public servants have come to in sharp focus over the last few months. Within the COVID environment, it provided an opportunity for us to see public servants at work, dedicating themselves, sacrificing their families in service of the nation. I would like to take this opportunity even as we celebrate Public Service Day in St. Lucia to express my personal gratitude to our frontliners, our firemen, our police officers, our nurses, our customs officials, those who worked at various departments of government keeping the operations of government going at a time when the entire nation needed that level of dedication and commitment. Of course, in today's world, the public service is no longer seen as a place where someone comes in for a secured job and all of the associated benefits. But it calls for a level of commitment and dedication to service, service to people and community. And so in celebrating Public Service Day today, I want to congratulate all of our public servants for your hard work and dedication over the years. And in particular, I want to call on every public servant to remember that ours is an opportunity for service, an opportunity to make a difference. And so we look forward to your continued commitment and dedication, your continued professionalism as we lead by example in providing the level of service and customer service to our customers, the public of St. Lucia. Congratulations to all of you. And once again, I wish to express my gratitude to all the public servants in the Public Service of St. Lucia for your service and commitment over the years and encourage that we raise the standard, that we establish a performance standard at the highest level so that the public of St. Lucia will be satisfied with the services provided through our public servants. Thank you and may God bless you.