 Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Cardicom, her Excellency Carla Barnett, continued her three-day official visit to St. Lucia Tuesday with a visit to the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. The Secretary-General and her delegation were received by Youth Development and Sports Minister, the Honourable Kenson Kazimer, and other heads, including Permanent Secretary Caroline Eugene, Director of Youth Mary Wilfred, and Director of Sports, James Xavier. The meeting here at the Ministry of Youth and Sports has been very good. Youth are our leaders coming up, and so it's really been important for us to reach out and meet with young people. The discussions here at the Ministry have been very positive about the needs of young people, the youth policy that's being completed, that's going to be presented very soon and hopefully become official policy, and all of that conversation has been very important collaboration on sporting young people in sports and sporting events across the region, very important conversations that we've been having. So we're looking forward to continuing that conversation and making sure that things happen. Minister Kazimer described the visitors timely and relevant as a number of pertinent issues relating to the development of youth and sports in St. Lucia, workplace in the spotlight. The situations, the challenges that we face are not unique. Of course we spoke briefly on climate change and we know that climate change greatly affects the small islands and of course the need for alternative energy in terms of our lighting systems to ensure that we can enact programs beyond the hours of six and seven o'clock in the evenings, and so it was very important for us to have discussions on how we as a region move forward. Also in terms of youth development, how we deal, tackle unemployment and some of the social ills within our communities. Of course another, these are things that are not unique to just St. Lucia but the region. So having the Secretary-General of Carycom visitors today for us to pretty much exchange notes and ideas on how we move forward I think was very, very critical and of course moving forward we continue to dialogue in terms of how do we actually execute to the benefit of youth in St. Lucia and of course sports enthusiasts. While in St. Lucia the Excellency Carla Barnett also met with Prime Minister Philip J. Peer who is lead head of government for sustainable development in Carycom and updated the Cabinet of Ministers on current issues being addressed by the Carycom community. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.