 The permanent secretary in the Department of Economic Development, Mr Claudius Emmanuel, has given the assurance that contracts for all enumerators and their supervisors involved in the 2022 National Census have been prepared and finalised. There was a slight delay in processing the contract documents for hundreds of enumerators and their supervisors. As one would imagine, we have quite a large number of enumerators, in fact some 670. And so it means that to be able to provide the necessary documentation on a contractual basis, a number of copies of those contracts need to be signed. There were prescribed procedures and accountability guidelines that had to be followed in preparing over 2,600 contracts for signature. Our financial management rules indicate that we need to do for each contract six copies. Further, four of those copies need to be original signatures. And so one can imagine the significant workload for the permanent secretary who is the person who is designated to sign those contracts as the accounting officer. And so you are looking at 670 multiplied by 4. That is 2,680 contracts that has to be physically signed by the permanent secretary. In the meantime, the Central Statistical Office has been busy preparing kits for distribution to hundreds of enumerators who have completed training and are about to visit homes across St Lucia. The kit contains recommended personal protection items, including hand sanitisers, surgical gloves, masks, face shields, and digital thermometers, all needed to ensure that the enumerators adhere to all COVID-19 protocols. These were detailed in a document completed by the Central Statistical Office. That document details and guides what the enumerator should do in conducting the interview in approaching a respondent. And it's very detailed and it's a document that has that we have used to inform and guide our preparation thus far. On Saturday, enumerators were presented with the kits, maps, and specially designed tablets, all containing tracking devices in case they were lost or stolen. Each enumerator has been issued with an ID card which must be presented prior to engaging a respondent. The 2022 National Population and Housing Census is the first paperless census to be conducted in St Lucia. The census runs from May to October 2022. The public is asked to cooperate with the enumerators.