Minister Speaker, thank you for this opportunity to provide an update on some education matters. The main areas of focus during our professional development sessions is physical literacy for all and critical literacy.  To promote physical literacy, Sports for Life Team and the BVI Olympic Committee graciously donated physical education equipment to the schools. I express my sincere appreciation to their generous donations.  In addition to the training that took place in August and November 2019, the final training is scheduled for 4^th – 15^th May, 2020. We also held our annual Excellence in Teaching workshops for teachers on Tortola and Virgin Gorda also as a part of on-going professional development.

Mister Speaker, my statement is titled. Thank you God.  Mister Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank God for keeping His guiding hands on this Government, the unconventional Government. In other words, we walk by faith and not by sight—this is what we mean by unconventional. God lead, we trust Him and follow!

Two local institutions in the Virgin Islands were gifted with gardening equipment and supplies as a result of their similar requests to an Honourable Member.

The Honourable Shereen D. Flax-Charles is advising the residents of Anegada that she will be visiting on Friday, 14th February, 2020.

The public is notified that effective Monday, January 27, Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development and Territorial At Large Representative, Honourable Shereen Flax-Charles will meet with persons at the following dates and times.

Members of the House of Assembly are featured as they met with officials of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to discuss the e-Government suite of legislation.

The 2020 Budget was passed at the Second Sitting of the Second Session of the Fourth House of Assembly to the tune of $414,008,611.00.

The public is advised that the continuation of the Second Sitting of the Fourth House of Assembly scheduled for today for the Budget Debate has been postponed until Friday, December 13 at 10:00 a.m.

A Special Sitting to pay tributes to former legislator and Member Emeritus, Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal. OBE is scheduled to be held on Tuesday December 3 while the House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands will be holding its Third Sitting of the Second Session.