 Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information, Hon. Dr. Ernest Hele and Parliamentary Secretary Hon. Ghibion Ferdinand, along with Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Donna Lynn Vitey have been meeting with entities under the investment portfolio to chart the way forward for St Lucia. Friday, 13 August 2021, the team met with investing Lucia to familiarize themselves with the work and processes of the agency. It is really to get an update on the work program of the various agencies, to get an understanding of what they've been doing, to also get an understanding of how they see their work program evolving over the next five years. With a new government in place, there's a new mandate, there are new visions, there's a new vision. The idea is that we would want to ensure that the agencies understand our priorities for us and to have that interaction so they understand where we want to head. Some of the agencies have been very proactive in reading the manifesto and already starting to suggest how they can incorporate the promises made in the manifesto within their work program. So I think for us it has been a very productive week. Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information Honour Bill Gibyan-Fildinen indicated that some of the initiatives of investing Lucia are in alignment with the government's vision for the country. We noticed that there's a boost program that is aligned with the idea of the youth economy that the Prime Minister had been very articulate about in our campaign and we were able to get a sense of what is happening in the investment Lucia with other major developments such as the land rationalization in the North and South and I think that gives us an idea of what programs investment Lucia has that can help us achieve the objectives that our government has set. Chief Executive Officer of Invested Saint Lucia, Roger Cherry says Invested Saint Lucia and the Government of Saint Lucia have a similar objective to put Saint Lucia and Saint Lucia first. One initiative being undertaken by the agency that speaks to this vision is land rationalization. Part of our strategic initiatives has been to give Saint Lucia ownership of Saint Lucia and one of the main initiatives that we've done towards that is to facilitate land ownership by two strategic initiatives. One is land developments, land that investment Lucia owns have been developed and sold primarily if not 100 percent to Saint Lucia's. The other aspect of that is land development as well but what we call land rationalization. In that case the individual Saint Lucia's who have lived on lands owned by the state or by invest Saint Lucia for a number of years and the aim really is to provide the basic infrastructure at least and in some cases very extensive infrastructure and sell those lands at reasonable rates way below market rates to two solutions. The minister and his team will continue to meet with key agencies under his portfolio as he charts the way forward. From the Government Information Service, Humayde Makh reporting.