 The biggest night in sports takes place this weekend as male and female athletes in St. Lucia will be celebrated during the 41st National Sports Awards at the Royal 10 Hotel. At the Office of the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, committee members are composing final preparations for the event. In this room, we found the director of sports, Jim Xavier, isolated as he ran through the nominees list and documents related to the awards night. Planets coming on pretty nicely. We have a committee in place from since last year, working assiduously to ensure that there's a very successful staging of the National Sports Awards. And so we've gone from number of phases. We've done the short list. We have done a number of side visits to the facility, the Royal 10 Hotel to ensure that everything is in order. We have identified some alternative or additional parking areas, the lot outside the landings, also the golf course. So we are ensuring that everything is in place. He also spoke to the nomination process for the athletes. Several months before the event, the ministry issues the nomination forms to the National Association that I really studied the ministry. And so any nomination coming to us would have been would come from the association and then you will take it from there. This will be the first award show and the minister Kensen Kazime stewardship since the COVID-19 pandemic postponed major sporting events. Minister Kazime is honoured to be a part of the reintroduction of the St. Lucian National Sports Awards. I'm very happy that we are finally as a ministry able to bring back the National Sports Awards as we know it has always been a central part of the sports calendar, recognising some of the best athletes, some of the best coaches, administrators, well-wishers, corporate sponsors. I think it's very important to tie in, have some sort of a reflection of what was achieved during the year in sports and I think the National Sports Awards is a very critical event for us to do that. I'm very happy about just looking back at some of the nominations. It gives you an opportunity to reflect on the hard work that was put in by our athletes throughout all the challenges. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports will host the St. Lucian National Sports Awards on Saturday, February 18th at the Royalton Hotel in Cap estate at 7pm. The event will be broadcast live on the national television network and the social media platforms of the government of St. Lucia, Marvin St. Louis reporting from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports.