 Following the successful staging of the Banana Festival in the city of Castries, May 6, the Central Constitution Park location will again come alive as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development stages Mango Festival 2022 on Friday, June 24. The festival will showcase everything related to one of the island's most bountiful fruits. And like the Banana Festival, the Mango Festival is intended to sensitize the population of the tremendous importance and impact of local crops and how they positively impact the nation's food security. Philip Sidney is the coordinator of the Mango Festival. We have a bumper mango crop this year. Time it changed I suppose, responsible and you would have heard many, many moons of people calling the radio stations and saying, oh, there are so many mangoes going to waste. What is government doing about that? So we saw it was fitting to organize a mango festival. So we collaborated with the Taiwan technical mission because they too had an idea they wanted to have a mango festival. But we figured that we should collaborate and do something together. So we had a meeting and that was discussed and we put the structure together with the assistance of, of course, the events committee. And we came up with a date, which is the 24th of June, which is Friday this week. And it's going to be held at the Constitutional Park in Castries. It starts at 10 o'clock and it ends at six o'clock. Approximately 27 participants ranging from schools to agro processors will exhibit their use of the mango and the mango recipe book will be presented during the festival. Mr Sidney is pleased with the planning process so far. The formula is not too different from the banana festival in terms of the physical setup. What we have said, we have a core committee and, of course, they're very vibrant. And the Taiwanese also, they are embodied because they are funding it. Okay. Everything's coming from the Taiwanese. We have some other assistance coming from SLDB and also from ICA. But Taiwan technical mission, they are the ones funding the entire festival. So, moving forward, we are on stream. Our ads are out and they're blazing the airways. I'm going to say thank you to Yadi for doing such a good job. Our flyers are coming out. We have entertainment on that day. We have string band. We have dancers, drummers. We have calypso, you know, and we have mango eating competition, which is very interesting. Patrons can also expect many giveaways during the festival and a wide variety of mangoes will be on display. From the information unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development, I'm Ryan O'Brien.