 The contract signed in the Office of the Education Minister will be for a duration of nine months and will be executed at a cost of 3.5 million East Caribbean dollars under the Education Quality Improvement Project Equip. The current building, housing the Southern Division of the Soathalouis Community College, will as a result be renovated and will receive an extension to the existing structure. The Southern extension of the SALCC caters to students residing in the island south, desirous of pursuing tertiary studies with the college. Education Minister Hon. Sean Edward says the construction work is aimed at making the existing building more resilient, to create a more conducive environment for learning and increased capacity of the college to offer more programs to citizens in the south of the island. But we are now realizing that given the demands for enrollment at the Soathalouis Community College, particularly in the south, the need has a reason for us to expand the existing facility down there with a view to having greater intake and to also provide a more comfortable learning environment than what obtains at the moment. The Minister expressed his thanks to the Caribbean Development Bank for funding this project under the Education Quality Improvement Project Equip. He also expressed satisfaction in the tendering process, as well as his confidence in the contractor who has been awarded the project. The contractor is not new to the government of Saint-Russia. Ubi Sadu is well-known to a number of government agencies having worked with us in the area of healthcare, road infrastructure, just name it. And I have every confidence that when we take a tour of Ufort where we examine very closely the finished product in relation to the expansion of the Soathalouis Community College facility, that this would be another moment of indication for a company, as I said, which has more or less distinguished itself on the local market. The upgraded facility will also be fitted with external area drainage, wheelchair and pedestrian access, and a rainwater harvesting system. Permanent Secretary in the Department of Education, Innovation and Vocational Training Michelle Charles also expressed her confidence in the contractor's ability to deliver. Ubi Sadu is no stranger to education having worked on the Choiselle Secondary School and the Dennery Infant School. So we're quite familiar with the quality of work, and so the expectation, the bar has been raised very high by himself, so we don't expect it to be any different, you know, moving into this sort of extension. The just concluded signing of works to the southern extension of the Soathalouis Community College is the final major infrastructural component under the ECRIP project, with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank, the CDB. The ECRIP team has also been responsible for the reconstruction of the Laguer Primary School and the construction of new wings at the Gordon and Walcott Methodist and the Vidbutai Primary Schools. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.