 The ministries of agriculture and health have increased the monitoring and surveillance of butchery practices to ensure conformity to public health guidelines and procedures. Upon request, owners or managers of the slaughterhouse must present to the inspector the original copy of the post-antimotum certificate that renders the animal fit to slaughter. All butchers must obtain a license or permit to slaughter from the police. Acting animal husbandry officer of the Department of Veterinary and Livestock Services, Columbus, Philippe informs any animal being transported from south to north must obtain a transfer permit from the servant livestock station. So someone desires of moving an animal from north, especially from south to north, you should visit the department, the veterinary services department before an officer will issue you with a certificate to move that animal, a permit to move that animal. This is in light of ambioma and this animal will be treated before it is moved and then when you move that animal then the animal will be trapped because it will it may need a second or more treatment at its new location. Senior environmental health officer, Ernie Pierre, encourages butchers and the wider public to adhere to the public health guidelines and procedures put in place by the Ministry of Health. We have seen traditionally when it is being sold that it almost appears to be like a mass crowd event. There is gathering of members of the public and everybody in all directions calling for what piece of meat they would like. They will have to have a queue. We will have to be observing the six feet distancing and the markers so on. Persons will have to have their mask butchers will have to be masked, they would have to be properly attired, they would have to make enough provisions in and around the slaughterhouses for hand washing and sanitization of the hands of them for of themselves, the helpers and members of the public not purchasing. So that is very very very important to ensure that whilst we facilitate the butchers in slaughtering and so on and we do what we are supposed to do we are not worsening things by creating a situation where persons can be exposed more to infections of COVID-19. To ensure operations are not hindered, persons are encouraged to visit or call the Environmental Health Officers in Buadawaj or Viewfort. From the communications unit of the Department of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine