 Good day everyone, in the capacity of chief education officer for the beautiful nation of St. Lucia. I wish to express International Women's Day greetings to all of our women out there. In particular, we want to focus on our educators, our supports, our administrative staff at our various schools with educational institutions. We know that this has been a period of challenge, a period of limitations. But even within all of those situations we find ourselves, we continue to be a resilient people and resilient women. We want to say to everybody that as a nation we must continue to be vigilant, we must continue to be aware of the practices that are going to help us sustain ourselves and even improve a person of the areas. I want to applaud our various parents out there who are working with our educators, even with the challenges that you face, our people who are concerned about our young women in particular, what's happening to our young girls within this period of strife. But we continue to look together to pull our energies together and to say that we can and we will continue to excel. We want to just thank everybody who is pivotal to the education system and continue to wish our women all the best. The possibilities are there for us and so we must continue as a grouping to uplift each other, to be positive towards each other, to be our own sister's keeper. And so today we say to everybody, Happy International Women's Day from the Department of Education Innovation and Gender Relations. I thank you.