 Coming to you from RGIS Studios, I am Anicia Antoine and this is your media news brief. ITL-BPO Smart Solutions and Investing Lucia, ISL, signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday 29th January 2020 to begin operations in St. Lucia, making the island the fifth territory for the company. ISL is currently retrofitting a 20,000 sq. ft. factory shell in the Uranora Free Zone in preparation for ITL-BPO's opening in April 2020. Minister for Commerce, Industry Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs Honourable Bradley Felix, noting that ISL has brought on board an investment partner that appears to want to invest in the wider community as a responsible corporate citizen, said that this will be very beneficial to the country and employees of ITL-BPO. Chief Executive Officer of Investing Lucia, Roderick Sherry, explained that the BPO facility will house initially 150 employees in the global services sector with an aggressive growth plan to be undertaken by ITL-BPO. Following several engagements with residents of Viewfort, he said that the skillsets of the individuals there met other requirements of the company. ITL-BPO intends to hire some 200 people within the first six months. St. Lucia is inching closer to producing its own domestic violence bill. Recent consultations facilitated by Sisters for Change brought together a technical team including magistrates, lawyers and the police to discuss the current draft bill with a view to producing the most effective bill possible. Sisters for Change is an international, non-profit organisation working to combat discrimination and violence against women and girls. The organisation is part of the Equality and Justice Alliance, who is currently working on a pan-common wealth programme to reform laws that discriminate against women, girls and the LGBT community. As part of that programme, the organisation has been working with the Department of Gender Relations within the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development on technical assistance measures, including the Domestic Violence Bill. Sisters for Change has been conducting consultations on the existing draft Domestic Violence Bill of 2016 and allowing stakeholders and civil society to give their thoughts on the bill. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB, in collaboration with the organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, Commission and the World Bank, will be hosting the Fourth Growth and Resilience Dialogue with social partners on February 13th, 2020, at the ECCB headquarters in St. Kitts and Nivis. The annual Growth and Resilience Dialogue is designed to address issues that affect the lives of those within the Eastern Caribbean currency union, ECCU. The forum provides a unique opportunity for civil and social partners to interact with the ECCB Monetary Council on multiple matters, including growth, competitiveness and employment. This year, the Fourth Growth and Resilience Dialogue will be held under the theme Regional Transformation through Innovation and will focus on the renewable energy transformation, the digital economic transformation and the payment system transformation. This has been your media news brief. Thank you for watching.