 The 15th annual Taiwan-St. Lucia Partnership Trade Show serves as a commercial breeding ground for aspiring and established entrepreneurs and business leaders. This year, the trade show, which runs from November 2 to the 4, attracted interest from numerous local businesses. Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre remains committed to supporting initiatives and implementing policies that will support the local MSME sector. Hon. Pierre delivered the feature address at the official opening ceremony on November 2. If our economies to grow, if our people are to prosper, then the economic growth must be rooted in a vibrant local business sector. While we welcome and encourage foreign investment, and I must tell you, the prospects for foreign investment are immense. And you can see for yourself that foreign investment has returned to St. Lucia in the hotel industry. While we welcome foreign investment in our country, the foreign investor is not the cure for all our economic problems. This is our economy. This is our country. And it must resolve to be the masters of our economy so that we can push its advancement for the good of all the people. As I have said before, my aim and the aim of the government is to provide the framework that will allow our people to become creators of wealth in our own country. Our people must be prosperous and the private sector and the small business sector in particular must be given the opportunity so that they can create wealth and they can remove their families from the poverty that some of them inherited. The Taiwan-St. Lucia Partnership Trade Show is jointly sponsored by the St. Lucia and Taiwan governments. The Ministry of Commerce collaborates with Taiwan officials to organize the annual trade show and select the participants. The buses of this ratio are all carefully selected by the Ministry of Commerce and by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, TITRA, to showcase their best quality products to potential local and international buyers. And we are happy to know that many companies have been expressing their interest in participating in this trade show. Even this week, we are still receiving requests for registration, which shows the trade show has grown into one of the best value for introducing the best quality products of Taiwan and St. Lucia micro-small and medium enterprises. The 2022 Taiwan-St. Lucia Partnership Trade Show was held at the Harbour Club Hotel in Rodney Bay, Grosjele. The trade show affords the participants national publicity and international exposure and opportunities to grow their customer base, which could also lead to potentially lucrative investment opportunities. From the Office of the Prime Minister, Rihanny Isidore.