 Minister for Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, Honourable Dominic Fede, has been, among other things, overseeing the training of various sub-sectors in the tourism industry, enabling St. Lucia to continue on a path of growth. His dedication and commitment to growing St. Lucia's tourism industry have not gone unnoticed as he has been named under the Caribbean Travel Awards as Caribbean Tourism Minister for the Year. The minister is described as having helped steward a destination that is one of the hottest in the Caribbean and has become a haven for high-profile investment from Carbott's highly anticipated gold resort at the northern tip of the island to a major new cruise destination in the south. Honourable Fede was also commended for serving exemplary as chair of the Caribbean Tourism Organization and for doing an outstanding job as an ambassador for Caribbean tourism as a whole. The minister expressed gratitude for the recognition. I'm just really humbled by the whole thing. I just want to thank Caribbean Journal for recognizing the outstanding work that my team have been doing. I think it's testament of the work that an entire industry of people are doing. All 20,000 tourism and hospitality workers, that's their award. I would like to dedicate it to them because they show up every day and they work hard and they are the ones who meet the guests and they are the ones that ensure that St. Lucia's repetition is number one. So the award really belongs to them. Editor and publisher of the Caribbean Journal, Alexander Brittle, indicated that the sixth edition of the Caribbean Travel Awards honoured hotels, destinations, experiences, and most importantly, the people that make the Caribbean the greatest travel destination on the earth. Minister Fede highlighted a number of projects in the pipeline and some soon to come on stream. We are over 1.2 million visits a year in all of the different components of tourism. So the goal is to get that to around 2.5 million. That is where we're trying to get but most importantly is to yield as much as we can from the most profitable aspect of the industry which is the land-based side. So we've got over 2,000 rooms right now that are in the pipeline for development over the next 7 to 10 years and if this all comes true, it means that St. Lucia would have some exciting brands. We are breaking ground very soon in the Hyatt. We have just broke ground on a new golf course and on cupboard lodges as well and we're seeing a lot of investors are planning for development. This year's Caribbean Travel Awards included winners across 21 categories selected by Caribbean Journal's editorial staff and its network of contributors. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville.