 A small ceremony to announce the recommencement of the St. Jude Reconstruction Project was held on Tuesday, November 1st at the active construction site. Construction was last halted in 2021, while the committee reviewed the existing structures on the site in order to determine the best way forward. Following their findings, the government of St. Lucia took the decision to recommence infrastructural works under different terms. One of these tomes ensures the project is undertaken collaboratively with vital input of the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and LLE affairs in the oversight, planning, design, and communications of the project. I want to tell you also the management of this project is going to be different. No one or two men are going to be in charge. And it's going to be a collaboration between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the Ministry of Economic Development. The contractor responsible for the construction activities on the site during this phase is construction company CIE. We have started today with a phase one of the St. Jude hospital rehabilitation project. Phase one includes the cleaning of the entire site including all the buildings. It also includes the fumigation and anti-termite treatment that needs to be carried out because of the time that has elapsed since the buildings were not used. Four buildings were set to be attended to from Tuesday by seven subcontractors with a total of 42 workers. The first phase is expected to be completed in four months where phase two will begin. Pomenin's secretary in the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and LLA affairs, Jenny Daniel says the ministry has a vested interest in re-establishing and redeveloping hospital services to the south of the island. Though the St. Jude hospital has remained operational over the past 13 years, we are cognizant of the severe restrictions and limitations the institution and the staff members have faced during this time in the delivery of those services, sorry. In consideration of the foregoing and as directed by the cabinet of ministers, the Ministry of Health maintains oversight over this current project through the establishment of a project steering committee and the assignment of the requisite health planning services designed to provide technical planning support to the project management team as well as the management of the hospital in matters pertaining to service provision, design and transitioning of the hospital to its new premises. The Ministry of Health will also provide vital communication support to the project by ensuring the accurate and timely dissemination of information concerning the progress of the project to stakeholders and to the general public. The St. Jude hospital has been housed in the Viewfort Stadium for 13 years after fire gutted its surgical block in 2009. Reporting for the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Allerlie Affairs, I'm Sant Just.