 10. In response, the Department of Infrastructure Ports and Transport activated its Emergency Response Plan immediately following the event, with the deployment of various zooner technical teams and cleanup crews. So today, another day of visiting some of the places hardest hit, so we visited the Impolet Louisi Primary School, House of the Current Secondary School. Spent time with those in the town in a place affectionately known as the Coco Pe and visited some of the other areas hit. 9. Preliminary assessments indicate that we have moved from a level 1 disaster to a level 2 disaster. The National Emergency Management Organization, NIMO, distributed drinking water daily to affected households, along with emergency food boxes, bedding and sanitizing agents. The Prime Minister, Hon. Philip J. Pierre, activated $200,000 both at food and sanitizing vouchers to be distributed to affected households through the National Emergency Organization, NIMO, and constituency offices which have had affected residents. The Prime Minister has also been in dialogue with international donor agencies as saying Lucia will require both technical and financial assistance to respond to this crisis. 8. I think the help need to be in time, so that's why we are doing this afternoon. We try to provide a small fund and I hope that this small fund will bring relief to the school. We want to invite other persons who are concerned to really show their concern by providing some form of assistance, monetary or in-kind. 7. And Lucia's Forensic Science Laboratory has officially been granted accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation. This makes our laboratory the only forensic laboratory within the OECS and one of two within Paracom to achieve this milestone. 6. The Royal Fishing Port was built by the Japanese government. In 2001, the Senusha government has spent the last two decades routinely conducting dredging operations to alleviate the sedimentation density at the port entrance. An effective post-COVID economic recovery strategy in this country requires the easing of the limitations on fiscal space. Men's grants, like the one that you have pledged to assist Senusha, will ease the dead burden of our country. I must also commend the nature of the cooperation grants, which demonstrates that our advocacy as seeds is not falling on deaf ears. I must commend the Ministry of Agriculture and its trust for promoting food security. Food security is something that we hear and speak about all the time. And when we speak of food security, most times people think of what we grow online. But we must also remember the blue economy, which is something I know that all governments are focusing on now. And with the facilities that we are going to be receiving from the Japanese government, it will make life a lot easier for our fishermen to promote and maybe get bigger catches and start longer because they know when they come in now, they will not have to go down into the water to cool their boots. Agriculture Minister Honourable Alfred Prosper had the opportunity to seek first hand, the shipment of small machinery brought in under the second phase of the Seven Crops project to reduce farmers' reliance on labour while increasing efficiency and optimizing land use, ultimately improving farmers' quality of life. Performance-based financing is a new financing mechanism being introduced by the World Bank. The project will be piloted in St. Lucia. The performance-based financing is a very important mechanism, financing mechanism that propels changes in provider behaviour and also quality of care. We are very proud to be engaged on that. This is running under the HUD system strengthening project. And the PPF is focusing on two diseases, namely hypertension and diabetes malitus. I want to send the United Nations office in Barbados in the eastern Caribbean for convening this meeting which brings together developmental partners in one room so that we can discuss the opportunities for the Government of St. Lucia and have a time to dialogue with multiple development organisations with a view to improve the delivery of developmental assistance to St. Lucia. Two, then seeking to reduce unemployment and to promote higher productivity among young people on the island. And this is an area that I have attempted to push as minister as much as I can. And I'm not doing it because TVET has become a fashionable term in the educational lexicon. I'm doing it because I understand that there is a meaningful and significant rule for TVET. Third San tuba symposium provided a platform that got together key stakeholders at national and international levels to foster, stimulate and support the improvement of tropical root crop production and utilisation.