 Coming to you from our GIS studios, I am Davina Lee and this is your midday news brief. In the span of just two weeks, the Honourable Leonard Spiderman Chute, Member of Parliament for Grosselay, and Minister for Equity, Social Justice, Local Government, and Empowerment opened five ICT centres in the communities of Le Bon, De Rameau, La Faye, Riviera Mita, and Grand Riviera. According to the Minister, he looks forward to our youth utilizing those centres, not only for recreation, but also to access educational and entrepreneurial opportunities. St. Lucia has broken its 2017 tourism record, welcoming 1,218,294 visitors in 2018. Crews, yachting, and stay-over arrivals combined have contributed to a 10.2% increase in travellers to the destination. Crews increased by 13.6%, yachting is up 25.9%, and stay-over arrivals increased by 2.2%. On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, the Department of Infrastructure will officially sign contracts and launch the Millennium Highway and West Coast Roads Upgrading Project. This signals immediate commencement of work and will inject approximately $115 million into the local economy. Work will include the complete rehabilitation of the Millennium Highway, reconstruction of the West Coast Roads from Kaldisak to Souffre, design for the construction of the New Anseli Bridge, and a robust island-wide road safety programme. This work will be done with grant funding from the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund, UK CIF. The Honourable Herod Stanislas, Member of Parliament for Souffre and Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives, recently shed plans for the Souffre Farmers' Market. In accordance with the Government's policy of no sector left behind, a permanent sheltered facility on Old Trafford will be constructed to create a safer and less restrictive atmosphere for the town's produce vendors to conduct business. The facility will accommodate weekday and Saturday vendors. Construction will commence in the coming weeks. The Government of St. Lucia has tasked the National Integrated Planning and Program Unit, NIPP, in the Ministry of Finance, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS, to articulate a Casseteries' Vision 2030 redevelopment plan. Stakeholder consultations have been integral to the development of this plan with the aim of gathering suggestions from a wide cross-section of the Solution Society. The aim is to make Casseteries more resilient to climate change by aligning the city to some of the international conventions government has signed on to, dealing with sustainable cities and communities, compact mixed-use development, whilst making the city more socially inclusive. Honestly, the way that Casseteries is right now, it's not very conducive to pedestrians, there's a lot of traffic, it's very polluted, and there's no green spaces. I would honestly like to see more green spaces in Casseteries spaces where you can just sit because as it is right now, yes, we have new stores and new buildings coming up and it's been modernized in a way, but the way that they're doing it, it's not thinking about the people aspect. Well, shops and businesses seem more akin to that of a small town and a city. I think they are in areas like Grosile, they are bigger shops, bigger malls and things like that. At this point, they're looking like Grosile is more of a capital than Casseteries. The NIP director stated that as the planning phase moves ahead, consultations are scheduled to take place with residents and land owners from Casseteries to facilitate their direct feedback on the Casseteries Vision 2030 project. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Unit, Glenn Simon reporting. Thank you, Glenn, for that report. Join us later on NTN for Nation Beat, where we bring you today's top stories. Thanks for watching.