 Members of the Craft and Dry Goods Vendors Association are participating in a training seminar on COVID-19 protocols. We get the details in this report by Rajvaro Lawrence. The Ministry of Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Health is facilitating a three-day COVID-19 protocol training for vendors of the arcade and craft market. Tourism Officer Samantha Charles explained that upon completion, vendors will receive a certificate of COVID compliance from the Ministry of Tourism. This enables vendors the ability to leverage their status as safe operators, as well as increased marketability as they will be listed on the Ministry's website where their status will be featured as well. The intention of the training is to really bring to the attention of the vendors the health and safety guidelines that has been set aside for the operations. And those guidelines came about by a number of site visits to both establishments in the Ministry and the Ministry of Health to determine the example where proper exit is required, social distancing, etc. So following those site visits, a COVID action plan was developed for the vendors arcade and that will be replicated for the craft market. And the protocols were developed out of that COVID action plan. So we're moving that at the end of the week. We have as many vendors as possible trained to meet our subsequent sessions. We expect them to cover their respective vendors and that they understand what is the operations and what they should do and should want to do and how they engage the clients or visitors and workers when they come to the craft market and the vendors coming in. Approximately 90 vendors will be trained at the 3-day workshop. President of the St. Lucia Craft and Dry Goods Vendors Association, Peter Isaac, highlighted that the training will allow vendors to be able to once again benefit from the tourism sector, especially with the cruise season having recently commenced. This exercise here now is to make sure that the vendors understand what they're called, understand how to behave and their approach and their regulations and their rules, so that they could behave as accordingly to our discipline. So we are pleased that this is our meaningful opportunity because we're sponsoring the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Tourism for the Vendors Association. And we are happy because we want the facilities that we have vendors there who are making out and living from the tourism industry to be a part of it, so to speak. If they come to the workshop and they are considered to be people who are trained and they are COVID-certified, then the facility with a few of them can be COVID-certified. That's the important thing for us because we think that we have been making a significant contribution to the development of tourism basically and that we would like to participate, we would like to be involved, especially with the cruise sector. The training is scheduled for the 2nd to the 4th of November 2021. From the Government Information Service, Rajvaro Lawrence reporting.