 Significant investment is being made to improve the service delivery in the quality of care and education metered out to children in the communities of Barbono and Entripo. The Barbono Primary Roman Catholic School will receive retrofitting of a pre-K classroom while upgrades will be made to the Entripo Early Childhood Development Centre. We realize the great importance of early childhood education, early years learning as all the research shows us that those years are the foundation years. It's at the point in time where we either make them or break them. The Barbono project is estimated at EC$179,000, with grand funding made possible for the Caribbean Development Bank, CDB, and additional contributions by the government of St. Lucia. While thanking all agencies involved in the development of the pre-K classroom, parliamentary representative for Barbono, Honourable Virginia Albert Poyote, noted the institution was where she received her start to her education many years ago. I'm very grateful for the CDB for giving us that grant to implement this project. I want to thank BNTF for giving consideration to this project. I want to thank the SSDF for agreeing to undertake this project and the Early Childhood Department in the Ministry of Education for having done and worked with BNTF and SSDF to identify this school here as one of your pilot projects. The basic needs trust fund BNTF is also adding major upgrades to educational institutions in Entripo. Deputy project manager Brandon Antoine said the transformation of Entripo Early Childhood Development Center will be funded at a cost of EC$249,000 via collaboration with the CDB and the government of St. Lucia. Encouraged by the ongoing projects in Early Childhood Education, Minister for Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment Honourable Joachim Henry articulated at the signing the need for continuous development of citizens at a tender age. We climbed trees when we were small, but we do not give our children opportunities to climb trees. The playground must facilitate these skills, you know, and not just... I love the swing. I love the swing, especially when it's a tire with a cement rope in a guava tree. I love it, but we do a lot more than swinging when we were kids. Our children, for them to develop their motor skills, for us to be able to produce the Love and Spencer and the Julian Alfred and the Darren Summie, there are a lot of things that we need to put together that develop that capability. The Entripo Center will receive upgrades to the partitioning, kitchen, bathroom, tiling and playground area, all in an effort to make the environment safer and more conducive for children. The basic needs trust fund, which was established under the regional CDB initiative in 1979, has among its key objectives, improvement in health and education facilities in the private communities, hence the project's contributions to the realization of the BNTF strategic objectives for this financial year. Marvin St. Louis reporting from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment.