 10. Good night everybody, welcome to the capital of Cassuies, jazz is back and we're going to enjoy ourselves tonight, welcome everyone, enjoy yourselves and I want to declare the 2023 Jazz Festival open, welcome. 9. 8. For the first time ever, vendors in Souffre have banded to form an association to represent and bargain on their behalf. Member of parliament for Souffre François Jacques Emma Hippolit informing members that a sizeable donation would be made to the association. I get $45,500 from my CDP allocation and touch the lives and touch the homes of 91 vendors. 7. Last year for the first time, the Ministry of Education rolled out or introduced rather the CPE exam that's the Caribbean primary exit assessment which replaced the old common entrance exam as we knew it. This year 2023 we are witnessing the second rollout or we are having the exam administered for the second time in St. Lucia and today approximately 2,000 students or should I say 2015 to be precise took the exam at 22 examination centers across the length and breadth of this country. 6. A walk for peace in the north of St. Lucia on Sunday was the highlight of activities culminating youth month 2023. As a minister I was really encouraged to see young people coming out to say that we are united to have peace in our community, we are united against crime, we are united against some of the ills that befall our young people in some of the communities in St. Lucia. 5. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports partnered with the Rosso Valley Alliance to put on a youth expo which formed part of the calendar of events celebrating April as youth month in St. Lucia. We wanted to do something to bring together the young people who have small businesses to show our interest, our support to what they are doing and towards their goal as they are trying to improve their business and expand on it. 4. Of over US $400,000 was facilitated by the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project or DVRP towards the Materials Lab of the Department of Infrastructure, Port and Transport. The Materials Lab is a very vital, critical arm within the DIPP. It's not just an income generating department, sorry, section or unit, but it's a section that is vital as it relates to quality control in our construction for civil works, public works, both the public and private sector as well. 3. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority, FSRA, is responsible for the regulation and monitoring of the financial space in St. Lucia. This includes credit unions, international and domestic banks, international insurance companies and the money services business sector. The FSRA held a quality asset review workshop for credit unions in St. Lucia as part of what was termed a regulatory interface. The College Educational Campaign is quite necessary to ensure that we can partner with those that we regulate in ensuring that policyholders are protected, depositors are also protected. So that is our main aim and focus. 2. The Curriculum and Materials Development Unit, CAMDO, has been engaging teachers in training in the use of open education resources, OERs, which are free online resources that teachers can utilise and adapt to their lessons, making it easier for students to understand and learn. 1. The Ministry of Equity met with various stakeholders to plan the social component of the SUFRA 2040 Development Plan. We have the SMMA that should be dealing with our teachers in the holistic manner and the OSHA. We have the SRDF that has overall responsibility for the development of SUFRA. We now have the Forsajak Development Committee that has responsibility for the development of what is happening up there. How do we work holistically to do that?