 Coming to you from RGIS Studios, I am Anisia Antoine and this is your Mayday News Brief. The new Larry Shoe's Road is approximately 95% complete with current paving of the finished surface as part of the final phase. The project consisted construction of 1.6km of road, dual carriageway construction, construction of drainage systems and utility transfer work. Federal experts from the Department of Infrastructure were on site recently for a first-hand update and assessment of progress. Permanent Secretary Mr. Ivor Daniel says from all indications, the newly completed paved surfaces as well as other aspects of construction appears to be up to standard. It is scheduled for completion within four weeks. Dialysis services offered to renal patients in the south of the island is expected to be enhanced as the St. Jude Hospital recently installed three new states of the at-dialysis machine. Chairman of the St. Jude Hospital Board, Wayne Harrow, says that he is very pleased that the dialysis machines will assist the hospital in facilitating kidney patients amid the increasing numbers. The St. Jude Hospital now has a total of nine dialysis machines available to the public. The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards has launched a committee to spare head and participate in work on the adoption of international standards for cannabis. This committee brings together representatives of educational and research institutions, states and non-state actors. Representative of the Cannabis Movement of St. Lucia, Randall Bain, said that the move provided comfort that there will be structure when St. Lucia is ready to get on board the cannabis train. The committee is expected to meet four times annually to review the standards for development that are under the work plan. The Department of Sustainable Development, through the increased St. Lucia's capacity to monitor multilateral environmental agreements, implementation and sustainable development project, continues to build the competence of the public and private sector to facilitate the coordination of environmental information. A training workshop recently concluded sought to further greater institutional, systemic and individual level understanding of environmental issues among non-governmental stakeholders. This has been your media news brief. Thank you for watching.