Let's talk about AI or artificial intelligence. Now that idea or the recent news about it is striking fear into a lot of people's hearts and careers and view of the world and where it's going. And for others, it's bringing up a lot of excitement. Sort of like a long held dream of being able to finally have conversations with computers and possibly eventually sentient creations of ours. So, I hope that this video will be the start of a dialogue that you'll participate in. You can chat below the video or start your own writing about it or your own discussion about it because it's really, really important that each of us gets clearer and clearer about our stance regarding AI and how we will be working with it. And how we recommend the people in our lives interact with it. Just like, well, I'll give you this quote, which I don't think is hyperbole. Okay. Time magazine recently wrote this, this shift, the AI revolution marks the most important technological breakthrough since social media. And I would go farther to say that this is as significant as when the Internet was created. It's really that big. I am typically I'll just tell you a bit about my history with technology. I grew up at a pretty young age using computers grateful that my home was able to my family was able to afford that. And over the years I have tried a lot of new technology and then in the past 15 years or so, I've become more and more skeptical about new technology. New software platforms I see my friends and clients rush in, oh try this new tool and they tell me about it and I'm like, relax. Most of this is just going to go away. You know, how, how many software tools have you used that went out of business or got taken over by something else and then stop innovating. Too many to count. I mean, for me, I've tried so many so I am pretty intuitive about technology, because I've used it all my life and I've used it so much for business. I'm pretty good about choosing the right software to use because I have a sense of how these things work. And I've been really I was no I'm no longer an early adopter. If anything I'm more like a laggard by this point because I'm like, I sure you go ahead and use that new software for a year or two and if I if it's still around if I see lots of my colleagues using it, then I'll try then I'll actually use it, and then I'll maybe teach it that good. This is the first time in. Let's see since about 2000 and yeah I mean this is the first time since it started my business back in 2009 I started first time where I cannot wait to be an early adopter, because this is not going away. And this is the beginning of something really, really big. I was not notice I was, I was down about crypto, I still kind of am. And a tea craze, never jumped on board with that. You know, whatever, whatever it's like so many other platforms, I never jumped on because I could see that it wasn't going to last, or was kind of a deception was kind of a type, you know, I'm pretty sensitive about that stuff now but AI. This is not hype. This is not hype for real.  It's going to come and get you. It's it's coming for your job. It's coming for your business is coming for your work. And honestly, I'm not being this is this is not hype and I probably I really believe this. It's not replace human beings. But the humans who use AI will replace in terms of careers and businesses, the people who do not use AI. It's obvious to me, because it's well as the people who use computers versus the people who don't. They're going to have an easier time running their business. AI artificial intelligence is like this, the advent of the computer. It's that big. And you could decide, well, you know, and, and, and very importantly, it's growing and improving like 1000 times faster than the development of the computer. That's why I'm jumping on now because every month. The developments are happening ever since. I can't believe this but chat GPT only came as of this recording chat GPT only came out four months ago. And it's already feels like ancient history to most of us who are to are using it and seeing it develop. By the time you watch this. I don't know when you're watching this. Hello future people, but this is going to seem quaint probably in two or three months, this video. So, I am really interested to know what your reactions are about this right now. Because the future is really open wide, and it's going to depend on people like you and me to shape the development now we're not, you know, neither of us are working for open AI or Microsoft or or Amazon or most of us watching this or not but what we do in terms of how we use it and how we model its use to our colleagues and our friends and our family and our the children in our lives will shape how our community relates to it and uses it. So, I have a blog post as of this moment I haven't yet posted it but it'll be posted within the hour. About about this thing but essentially I'm going to, I'm going to riff a little bit around my thoughts on this and I again, I'm this video is meant to start a conversation so please do comment below. All right, so let me, let me talk about where I see this going and how I relate to the fears of the people around me around AI. Okay, so where I see this going is that increasing amount of human work is going to be replaced. It's faster than we thought I mean we thought Oh, no, there's no way computers can learn how to create art. And then of course computers create art that's better looking than any of us can do at this point it's already doing that. Oh, there's no way computers can create music come on artificial music it's not going to sound very good. It's already creating music with with a few words you can create songs like that that sound pretty damn good already. So, gone, art is already not gone but it's, it's taken. It's surprisingly fast how fast that took over right shocked. No, no, none of us thought that would happen. I mean, few of us anyway I didn't think it would happen but it already happened. Any kind of writing, drawing, okay, writing, drawing, photography, and soon acting.   We all have to learn how to write what we teach our kids how to write well. That's old school thinking people. You have no idea what's coming for you. I mean what's coming for society I should say raw creation skills of writing, drawing photography and acting are going to be old school, like, at this point, handwriting. Some, you know, do it's important for kids to learn how to write, hand write beautifully. It's old school it's kind of quaint it's like yeah it's nice if you can hand write letters to grandma or whatever. You know, but it's like, okay, if you want to teach your kids, learn how to hand write beautifully calligraphy or whatever, versus, learn how to type quickly and interact with computers which one is going to set your kid up better for their career. Right. You see what I mean, learn how to draw, right, learn how to draw figures and versus learn how to use the AI tools of drawing to instantly within a few words to envision a world that you want, and the kind of tone you want to set. And the characters within within a particular graphic, and then to be able to describe it and have the computer generated which one is more useful for the future. And drawing old school if I had kids and I just it's unbelievable to me that schools just a month or two ago we're trying to ban chat GPT. When I saw that happen immediately and lots of people like that's right we should ban chat GPT I'm like are you, you know, you're talking about banning computers that's, you're talking about banning like Wikipedia or a calculator, or Internet searches, you can ban it for three months but the people, the people are saying this is too good. This is too useful, it's too efficient. There's no way you can ban something that the people want. So, of course, the those old school teachers and administrators who try to ban chat GPT they're ridiculous because now the news is coming I just saw this news a few days ago that teachers are now finding chat GPT more even more useful than the students. Yeah, it's it came out in an article I'll put it in my blog was studies are now showing that teachers 80% of teachers who use chat GPT say it has been a beneficial effect for their lesson planning and their ability to teacher students well, and 79% of the students said that was kind of like slightly higher long teacher so now the administrators are like sorry, we were wrong. We need to, we need to set up banning technology we need to learn how to use it to prepare our students for the future. Like what are we doing banning technology this ridiculous. The people want it right and so writing drawing, not going to be needed anymore in the future, you can quote me on that, but writing drawing acting sorry, and photography as well, not needed in the future. What's more needed here. Here's where the world's going where here's where creativity is going. What's needed is more human than ever. We're not going to become, you know, robots and don't know how to, you know, connect with humans anymore. No, the people who win in the future in my in my view of creativity in the future are the ones who have the widest and deepest human experiences. The ones who have talked to the most numbers of human not just talk to more people, but the ability to reflect deeply on human experience. Those are going to be the most creative people why because and they don't need to learn how to, they don't even need to learn how to type anymore the future is coming where, well, now you don't even learn how to type like you just dictate into your phone right that's perfect, almost perfect dictation comes out who, you know, obviously we all type still but that's going to go away and probably 10 years, but it's like. Well, what we need for human beings to do is to experience a lot of life, and then reflect deeply and empathetically on life actually another interesting field that's that's going to be hard to replace is spiritual spiritual healing and spiritual, you know, is AI is not going to be able to connect to spirit guides, not yet maybe maybe before long who knows, but that kind of stuff it's like there's still a mystique around it that technology can't really connect to the divine source and all that right so so those of you who are who are able to do that have an advantage. So to get this, the creators of the authentic creators of the future have deeply are able to deeply and getting better deeply reflecting on the human experience. So therefore they have great empathy for humanity. And therefore, and also they have great imagination. They're able to say well gosh. Given this is how humanity relates to these situations, these challenges, these dreams that humanity has. I'm going to envision a scene of a movie of a web page I don't know web pages are going to be a thing in the future but I'm going to envision what this creation should be like to move my audience to a level of energy and emotions that I feel and would like to to evoke and and connect with my audience around so in other words, we are moving from raw creators people who have to type like dummies and learn how to write and learn how to draw and photography and and acting where that that's going to be old school that we don't need to do that anymore. What we even need to learn to do is go from, instead of being a writer or actor or draw, drawing person, you become a director. First you become a curator we've already been curators everything social media came out we were asked to become curators of interesting pieces of content. Oh, this link was interesting Oh this image Oh this video, you know and the people we follow who curate the most interesting things are. You know them right so we've already been practicing curation for 20 years right 1515 years or whenever social media about 15 to 20 years. Now we are asked to move from curation keep keep that every every skill is like layered on top of you, we're asked to move from curation to direction. I mean directors. It's like, I can envision this kind of art, this kind of piece of writing or this kind of software or this kind of program, or this kind of website will evoke these kinds of experiences in my fellow human beings the ones I want to connect with.  So let's set that aside for now. I tend to always talk about these things and then it happens like in the future and people like oh yeah George was right but but it doesn't matter. We can use our words to describe a scene, a website, a software we don't even need to learn by the way coding, learning how to program computers and code. That's going to be old school as well because now chat GPT can code, not, not perfectly obviously yet. It's only chat GPT 3.5 chat GPT for is supposed to be coming within the next month, and then imagine five and six are going to be beyond what we can imagine for is already supposed to be able to use words to create video. Yeah. Before long by the time so again, two or three months later so maybe you're watching this that's like ancient video that George is making right now. But before long, you'll just be able to use your words and go I want to make a movie. I want to make a movie that give me a three minute video, where this character goes through these emotions, because they're facing this challenge, and there's there's this there's a particular nuance over here. And this conversation is about this and that go and then within a minute or two will generate a video with probably at this point is probably more cartoonish, but give give it three five years it's going to be, you know, human humans that are so real with that already there's technology that that that makes video deep fakes right you've all you haven't seen this is one of the fascinating channel. Keanu Reeves deep fake YouTube channel. When I first saw it I'm like that's Keanu Reeves what do you mean that's not Keanu Reeves. That's no that's not Keanu Reeves that's a Keanu Reeves deep fake channel I couldn't tell the difference. So that's our technology is already available but in the next like one to three years it's going to be democratized. You know, a lot of us are freaked out about the politics of it because now politicians can be deep faked and, and you have to have technology to be able to be ironically technology to be able to detect the deep fakes so it's always going to be this war between, you know, the technology that creates human like experiences and the technology that says oh that was created by a robot. And it's good just going to be like this it's like spam has been right spam. People get clever about spam and they have spam detectors and they just forever for the rest of, you know, existence just continue to to try to one up each other so long story short. Okay, I'm going to end this video is getting too long here. It's already ancient news by the time I finished making this. We need to learn how to work with it rather than bury our heads in the sand. And it's not going to the genie is not going to go back in the bottle. And, oh, let me let me say one more thing to end in terms of spirituality. Okay, some people think Oh, AI is going to make us less human or less spiritual. I'm like baloney. No, what what are you talking about. Did did did. It's not about. I was going to say did the computer make you less spiritual. I don't know did it. That's a good question. Humanity will always adapt you I believe you will always adapt.  It's a depends on what you value. Number one, and number two, it depends on your boundaries that you set with yourself and with technology. Social media didn't make you less social. I mean, most of you watching this and interacting with me on a day to day basis, I wouldn't have met, except through social media. Did it make me more or less social it made me way more social. I'm talking to people way more than I would have without social media at people that are much more interesting to me than my neighbors and the people I would have met just walking along this along the street. Social media made me more social. I'm touching flesh less often right hugging giving people real hugs less often you could say there's a problem there, but doesn't matter. Here's the bottom line. Technology will make you more spiritual if you allow it to it'll make you more soulful and connected to the divine source and be able to be saved into the soul, you know, into the merchant to divine source if you allow it. Just like social media didn't make you more or less social you answer that question because it's about your values, and about your own ability to keep boundaries with yourself and with technology. So, what will AI make us more or less creative, obviously I'm going to let it let it make me more creative because I'm going to become a director now, rather than Oh my God I have to find the right wording for this thing or I got to learn how to design design graphics now no I don't have to learn how to do any of that.  It will free up so much more brain power that went into learning how to type better and write and design and build a business. AI is going to do a lot of business coaching for you I'm going to be out of a job before long. So, so that's why I'm, I'm hurrying up, by the way, coaches, counselors, mentors, facilitators, beware. I'm not saying this as a fear mongering, honestly, I'm talking to myself to I already for my clients, I already have an AI that knows all of my books and they can ask questions for with the bot that has read and understood, not understood understand my all five of my books, they can already chat to it so I've I've already started building my own replacement. And before long I think within the year I'm going to have an AI that knows all my courses that has watched every single video I've ever produced in terms of my courses knows all and you could just chat with it. Oh, George, how do you, I'm stuck on this Facebook ad issue. What do you think George bot, and then George bot was Oh I got it you got to do this guy do that Oh the strategy is that you'll be able to chat with George bot and pop within two years. I'll license it out you'll pay what 75 bucks a month to track with George bot 24 seven you don't have to hire me or join my programs anymore. This is this is coming and so all of us, you know, therapists coaches like there's already bots that I've already been trying I'm like this is a really good therapist. This is a really good coach. I'm sorry I mean it's not perfect obviously it's not 100% you, but it's 80% good enough and it's way cheaper. Right. Like, why do I pay you and I could get something that's 80% good enough that's, you know, 10 times less cost. Why would people need us. That's why we need to become directors that's why we need to really get our act together and go Okay, this is coming. What are we going to do to prepare for it, because if we don't prepare for it. We're going to be, we're going to be, we're going to be surprised by it. And really the future for for coaches mentors counselors facilitators creators are going to be it's really the it's the future is in question right now to be honest with you. And I think, but I'll end with this, we are adaptable that I know. And so whatever next technology comes the next iteration of this comes. I will be here, hopefully, to tell to share with you what how I'm using it, and what I recommend how we use it to add even more value than what we used to do in the past sit with someone. And so I think that their problems, listen to their goals, talk to them to try to change their mind about something or try to walk them through an exercise or try to do some. Again, like I said, I think spiritual healing that's, that's the next level thing that AI can't reproduce yet. So, spiritual healers congratulations used to have something here before they figure out how to, but even so like, you know chat I don't have an astrology as far as I know I mean I don't have an astrology I can, but it's like chat to be or things like this will will understand the internet, and we'll be able to give you the kind of even spiritual guidance that basically is the amalgamation of all the experts and coaches out there. It's so it's like it's even though they might not be literally in tune with the guidance of the divine right channeling something. It will be, it will be there. It's an illusion. It's a magic trick. It is, but it's going to. It's the illusion is so real for the consumer for the client that they're like, Okay, this is 80% good enough. And instead of paying you, you know $200 an hour $100 an hour I'm paying, I'm paying this thing $30 a month. So, you know, it's, it's going to democratize it's going to democratize coaching and, you know, therapy and counseling and facilitation and personal development essentially, it's going to democratize it, which means we have to be the ones that put in that train, you know we become the directors and the trainers of the technology where the content of the technology where is it going to go. So, I think, basically, it this is either as scary as you want it is you want to believe. It's also as exciting as you want to believe. It's how you want to take it. So, I hope, I think it's better for your mental health, our mental health to believe that we are adaptable. And that, well, to understand that it's, it's, it's too convenient for it to go away just like social media, or just like, you know, the calculator, or the internet it's not going to go away. You know, it's, it's people people love it too much. It's the fastest chat GPT if you didn't know this has been has set the record as the fastest growing internet service ever faster than YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram ever group grew faster than that got more, got to 100 million users faster than any of those other services now it's at multiple probably a close to a billion already within a few months. So, it's not going away people it's too convenient it's too easy to use it's too magical and it creates the illusion that we think is real it's not real it's just predicting the next word very cleverly. It's based on this giant database that's all it's not there's as far as we know, we don't know that it's not sentient sentient. As far as we know, who knows. But it is certainly it creates the illusion that it is, and it's only the illusion is going to get ever ever harder to pierce through until at one point, there could you could at some point argue that it has a soul. So, I'm really interested in your thoughts, and I really I want to thank those who are already chatting. Shweta Erica tea. You know Rebecca, and Dina. Thank you all for your chats. There are probably more than I'm not seeing here. Those are the ones I'm able to see here. So, to your oh, thank you. So, I look forward to this conversation going forward. Let's, let's, let's become the masters of these tools, rather than letting up master us. I think we should do. So, alright, be well, and yeah, be well, be human. And remember your values and your boundaries and use the stuff wisely. Thanks for joining me.


Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am Genelle Norville. This edition stops stories. A major landslide on the Badlil reintroduces discussions on a north-south link road. The Ministry of Health and Wellness reassures the public that the risk associated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine remains low. And the St. Lucien diaspora continues to contribute to the homeland. The landslide, which occurred along the Badlil road, has reintroduced discussions about the north-south link road. Hermadi Mark has that story. A landslide that occurred on the East Coast on Thursday, April 29, has reignited conversation of the possibility of a north-south link road. Minister for Infrastructure, Hon. Stevenson King, at a recent media briefing, said the landslide and forces the need for a north-south highway and central bypass. Government is exploring the viability of this project. A road from the east to the west by passing the Badlil and utilizing more navigable terrain, it also enforces the point for the north-east highway, the north-east highway link road rather, which will take you from Grosley to the east coast. We are actively engaging in discussions and we are about to sign an agreement to allow for the necessary studies to be undertaken, the east-west link road and the north-south link road. The east-west link road and north-south link road are intended to relieve traffic from the east to the west and north to the south. Hon. Stevenson King says the link roads are also necessary as government continues to improve infrastructure to withstand climate change. As you rightly said, climate change brings about new phenomena and therefore it is for this reason that the government has been actively pursuing the idea of having a north-south link road and a east-west link road to bring relief and to remove people from the Badlil, which from time memorial has been an area of tremendous atmospheric events. And therefore this event here today speaks to the question and the need for us to speed up the initiative and get some alternative routes around the island north, south, east and west. That was Hon. Stevenson King, Minister with Responsibility for Infrastructure from the Government Information Service. I'm Hermione Mark. As of 4pm Friday, April 30, 2021, the Badlil Road had been reopened to all forms of vehicular traffic. A new lane has been constructed to safely take motorists around the landslide to their destinations. In the interest of public safety, the affected area has been cordoned off with caution tape, cones and traffic signs. Motorists advise to drive with caution and observe the warnings and guidance from traffic control personnel. The Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports Energy and Labor thanks the various stakeholders including the utility companies, private contractors, the Traffic Department of the Royals and Lucia Police Force, the National Emergency Management Organization, staff of the Forestry Department, engineers, technicians and other support personnel who worked tirelessly to reopen the Badlil, providing safe access to all commuters. The Ministry of Health and Wellness is encouraging members of the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Health officials during a panel discussion noted that the benefits associated with the vaccine far outweigh the risk. Details in this report. The risk associated with taking the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines remains considerably low. So said medical officer of health, Dr Glensford Joseph, during a panel discussion on Friday. While COVID-19 is associated with the formation of blood clots, Dr Joseph added that individuals without being infected with COVID-19 may be predisposed to several risk factors for the formation of blood clots. In addition to COVID-19, we do know that in the background, we have several other risk factors for formation of clots when you try to associate the AstraZeneca with blood clots such as obesity, advancing age, tobacco smoking, the use of contraceptive pills containing what we call the estrogen, persons who may have cancers, persons with immobility, persons with a family history of blood clots, and injuries, trauma. So all these are things in the background that can result in blood clots. And more so, if you look at some of the developed countries, all right, you have on average some 900,000 persons develop what we call venous tromboembolism that is clots in the vein. And this is without the introduction of the vaccine and some 100,000 or so die from blood clots each year in some territories. And so when you look at all this and the risk when it comes to the AstraZeneca is less than one in a million or even more so, the benefits of vaccinating far outweighs the risk. Assistant Principal Nursing Officer and National Immunization Manager, Tekla Shabbatist, indicated that as part of the National Immunization Program, a system for monitoring has been established. Shabbatist urged members of the public to report to a medical professional if any side effects are experienced after taking the vaccine. An individual will be asked to fill out an adverse event reporting form and the information is then passed on to relevant medical professionals, following which the situation is escalated where an investigation is then launched. The purpose of the investigation is really to determine, to analyze the data that we have collected, so we would collect as much detail as possible surrounding the event, the person, you know, drug history, medical history, etc. All of this is in an effort to determine causality, to see what exactly would have caused the event. Because even if you're experiencing something after you would have taken a vaccine, it does not necessarily mean that it is the vaccine that caused it. So, hence the reason why it is important for that detailed investigation and causality assessment. At the end of the day, if, whether it is linked to, whether we find that it is linked to the vaccine or not, that in itself is going, we provide feedback, so we will provide feedback to the client. Okay, we found X, Y, Z, it may, it, it, it, it seems that it, it, it was related to the vaccine that you took or not. Community pediatrician Dr. Uwen Lusi encouraged members of the public to get vaccinated as St. Lucia continues the fight against COVID-19. The, the benefit or the vaccination, where we are through, it's more than the risk that comes with it. And like we have said, we have so many things to benefit from getting vaccination than not getting vaccination. So, I am going to encourage every one of us to go and be vaccinated. The panel discussion was held on Friday 30th April 2021 by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in an effort to sensitize the public on the importance of vaccines as part of activities commemorating the 19th Vaccination Week. From the Government Information Service, I am Genelle Norvel. The Ministry of Health and Wellness informed the public that during the week of Monday, May 3, 2021 to Saturday, May 8, 2021, the COVID-19 vaccination drive will cater to the general population for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as those receiving the second dose of the vaccine. Individuals who receive the first dose of the vaccine during the week of March 8, 2021 to March 13, 2021, I encourage to visit the vaccination site nearest to them during the upcoming week to receive the second dose. Individuals who receive the first dose of the vaccine during the week of March 8, 2021 to March 13, 2021, are encouraged to visit the vaccination site nearest to them during the upcoming week to receive the second dose. Individuals receiving the second dose of the vaccine should also walk with the vaccination card which was given when the first dose of the vaccine was administered. People are asked to walk with a form of identification to facilitate the registration process. It is also recommended to come with a light snack and water, given the possibility of a waiting time to get vaccinated. The vaccination sites will be operational from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The schedule for the week of Monday, May 3, 2021 to Saturday, May 8, 2021 is as follows. Monday, May 3, 2021, Sufra Hospital Grounds, VG Sports Complex, Denry Mother's Pre-School. Tuesday, May 4, 2021, Philip Masler Grounds, Darren Sammy Cricket Grounds, Clarice's Denry Parish Hall, Jackmill Wellness Center, Cicero Wellness Center. Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Bellevue Wellness Center, Denry Mother's Pre-School, VG Sports Complex, Etang's Wellness Center. Thursday, May 6, 2021, Miku Multipurpose Center, Darren Sammy Cricket Grounds, Entrypo Human Resource Center, Anslery Parish Center. Friday, May 7, 2021, Philip Masler Grounds, Darren Sammy Cricket Grounds, VG Sports Complex, Barbono Multipurpose Center, Canry's Wellness Center, Sufra Hospital Grounds, Jackmill Wellness Center. Saturday, May 8, 2021, VG Sports Complex. For more information, please contact the Community Nursing Service at 468-532-1 or 468-5381. A sitting of the House of Assembly is scheduled for Tuesday, May 4, 2021, with papers to be laid by the Honourable Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and the Public Service, and the Honourable Minister for Commerce, Industry, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs. The House will also consider a motion for Parliament to further extend the state of emergency. The proposed extension is for an additional period of five months, commencing from the 17th day of May 2021 and ending on the 16th day of October 2021, in accordance with Section 176 of the Constitution of St. Lucia, Cap 1.01. St. Lucia has been under a state of emergency approved by Parliament that commends 11th February 2021 and ending 16th May 2021. A number of bills are also down for consideration, including counter-trafficking amendments and tourism stimulus and investment amendments. Tuesday's sitting is scheduled to commence at 10am. The sitting of Senate is scheduled for Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 10am. In keeping with protocols established for the management of COVID-19, members of the public will not be allowed in the chamber gallery during the sittings. The public can view the live proceedings on the National Television Network, NTN Channel 122, or the Government of St. Lucia, Facebook and YouTube. St. Lucia's in the diaspora are relentless in their charitable efforts for the homeland. Free barrels of children's clothing and toys were donated by the Grozile Community Association in the UK to go towards children's at the Achiever's Early Childhood Centre in Grand Riviere. Four barrels of clothing and household supplies were donated to the St. Lucia Social Development Fund, SSDF. Five eronic fair day of the St. Lucia Action Circle Resource Mobilization Officer at the SSDF, annual Edwin, accepted the barrels on behalf of the organisation. SSDF receives calls of persons on a daily basis and calls of calls, requests for assistance from the underprivileged in St. Lucia. And it is no secret that the pandemic is upon us and the situation has exacerbated in terms of the demand for assistance among the lesser privileged in St. Lucia. And persons right now who have lost their job or who have already been experiencing poverty, if they do have a dollar it will not be to purchase the extra play to put in the house or clothing to put on their back. So this donation from the St. Lucia Action Association of St. Croix and Ms. Veronica Fede and her team comes at a very timely opportune time so that we can hand these donations, these clothing items, to our lesser privileged persons that are not able to afford. Accepting the three barrels of children's clothing and toys on behalf of the achievers Early Childhood Centre is Representative Patricia Altenor Rosalie. Okay, on behalf of the underprivileged and also the children at the achievers Early Childhood Development Centre, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Rosalie St. Lucia Community Association in the UK for your generosity after over 45 years on counting. They continue to champion the cause. They continue to champion the cause. I wish to say thanks for this kind gesture. It is most welcome at this time, especially as we are going through a pandemic. I strongly believe that the contents of these barriers will go a long way in assisting not just the children, but their parents as well. Ambassador for that Spurrow Affairs expressed thanks to the St. Lucia's abroad who continued their humanitarian efforts for St. Lucia during the pandemic. I want to say to the Rosalie Association in the UK, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is not the first time you have, and I know you'll continue doing. So we just want to say thank you for your continued support, your loyalty and your patriotism to your country. The St. Lucia Action Circle of St. Croix, the President being Mrs. Veronica Fede, have decided that she will donate those four barrels to the SSDF so that they can distribute to the needy. Although they experience the challenges of the pandemic themselves, many have lost their jobs, yet they have not stopped. In fact, the contributions to St. Lucia has increased. As you have noticed, the traffic in your office and my office, it is relentless. They have not stopped donating, donating, donating. Ambassador for that Spurrow Affairs, her Excellency, Dr. Joyce Lynn Fletcher. The Casseteries Constituency Council recently concluded a consultative meeting with its tenants of the huts located on Jabati Street, Casseteries. The consultation was not the first and focused on the second component of the first phase of the Market Redevelopment Project, which will result in the relocation of tenants to the old Fire Service Headquarters site on Jeremy Street to facilitate the building of the Box Park. The Box Park is one of several components of the Casseteries Market Redevelopment and falls under the second phase of the Redevelopment Plan, aimed at modernizing the city's competitiveness. The project aims to improve the overall presentation and the quality of service offered by micro-entrepreneurs conducting business at this location. The Box Park will be a two-story rectangular structure designed with the intention of meeting the needs of tenants, offering a diverse range of services. The ground floor will feature the following. 16 convenient shops, 8 fish-vending shops, 6 mid-vending shops, 2 toilets with a closet for janitors. The first floor will feature a combination of 12 shops, bars and restaurants, male and female toilets, and dining and circulation spaces. It is important to note that the structure has been designed to resist lateral loads from seismic forces and hurricane-force winds. Members of the public and tenants will be updated regularly on the plans as construction of this component of the Casseteries Market Redevelopment advances. This is Ntn Nightly, up next, Primers Hutchinson with the Ntn Nouvelle Aquial. If you are in receipt of an abnormally high bill, it is highly possible that you have a leak. That leak may not always be visible. Before you contact Wasco, conduct a do-it-yourself test. 1. Record your meter reading. 2. Do not use water for 30 minutes to 1 hour. 3. Take another meter reading. If the reading changes, you have a leak. Contact a plumber to identify and fix the leak at the earliest.  Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the Ntn Nouvelle Aquial. I am pleased to welcome Mr. Desafé, the construction manager of ECTROAVO. Thank you to everyone who has assisted, especially these utilitarian companies, those who work in the private sector, such as the Department of Traffic, NIMO, the Department of Forestry, the engineers, technical workers, and all the others who support ECTROAVO. It is so great to be able to see and see Shimei Badlila. Let's talk about that. The second permanent minister of construction, ECTROAVO, I would like to give a full review of the plan to build a lot of wood shimei to facilitate the transportation of the old façade that is now being built in the country. I would like to thank the construction team who have helped me to build this building. I would like to emphasize the necessity to consider the construction of the wood shimei to be a good place to build. This is Daniel DiClauechi, the government. I have worked very hard to build this building. The Prime Minister has said that he will continue to talk. This is very important for the country. Badlila has been in service for a long time, but we have been able to meet him. We have been able to do our best to pay attention to the exams we have done. I am very proud to have been able to meet him like a prisoner who was here. I have to say goodbye to everyone here. I am very proud that the land, the wood shimei, the forest, the wood shimei are all here. So it should be a good place for examinations because you have to come here, like you have a pressure. Can you concede? Can you again change your lot session? Mady, the Cadizium Jew, I'm at May 2020, I give one session to the Prime Minister, to the Honourable Ellen Shastney, who also said that the minister was responsible for finance failure. And also, the minister said that it was the responsibility of the commerce industry to fulfill the costumers. He said that the paper was not needed to be addressed. The motion that was given by the Parliament, that was to concede, was for Parliament to be able to add another five months to pay for the rest of the restructuring. And it started on the 17th of May, and it ended on the 16th of October 2021. So it was done under the Constitution, which was given by the government to declare that it was time for support. So it was the first time for the period of four to ten days to start on the 11th of February, and end on the 16th of May 2021. Also, there are two bills to consider, and as the team, a consideration for the Constitution to manage the corona disease and to follow the protocol that the authorities of COVID management have already established. Even the public has no permission to assist sessions in Galilee, which are considered... So, it was the first session that was held in front of the public on the NTN television, on the Facebook page of the government, on YouTube. Sessions that were considered to start on the 10th of May, and on the 18th of May 2021, it was the first session that was held on the 16th of May 2021, which was started on the 10th of May 2021. That's all for now. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much for your invitation. If you have any questions, please contact us at Novel. If you have any questions, please contact us at Chanel. Thank you very much.