As the world is recog­nis­ing "Mi­cro-, Small, and Medi­um-sized En­ter­pris­es Day” (MSMEs), Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Don­na Cox has of­fered words of ad­vice and en­cour­age­ment to the own­er of a new spa.

Min­is­ter Cox spoke dur­ing the of­fi­cial open­ing of Ex­ot­ic Body Spa at Or­chid Dri­ve Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

“Open­ing a Spa goes be­yond just start­ing a busi­ness – it is about es­tab­lish­ing an en­vi­ron­ment that fos­ters health and well-be­ing. Thank you for cre­at­ing an in­clu­sive space that pro­motes well­ness in every as­pect; it is a valu­able re­minder to pri­or­i­tize self-care in a so­ci­ety that of­ten em­pha­sizes pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and suc­cess," she said.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Min­istry, the event, was quite time­ly as it oc­curred on the cusp of “Mi­cro-, Small, and Medi­um­sized En­ter­pris­es Day” which is com­mem­o­rat­ed an­nu­al­ly on June 27th, to raise aware­ness of the in­valu­able con­tri­bu­tions of mi­cro-, small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (MSMEs) to the achieve­ment of the Unit­ed Na­tions Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDGs).

The Min­istry said busi­ness own­er, Althea Robin­son-Williams told those present at the brief cer­e­mo­ny, that she at­trib­ut­es dis­ci­pline, de­ter­mi­na­tion and hard work to the re­al­i­sa­tion of her dream and

looks for­ward to the many lives she will be able to in­spire as she pro­vides men­tal and phys­i­cal care as well as over­all well-be­ing to new and ex­ist­ing cus­tomers.

Min­is­ter Cox, re­mind­ed the new busi­ness own­er that the en­tre­pre­neur­ship jour­ney is not easy; as it takes courage, de­ter­mi­na­tion, and per­se­ver­ance to make a dream a re­al­i­ty.

She con­grat­u­lat­ed Robin­son-Williams on the new en­deav­our and en­cour­aged her to set stan­dards of ex­cep­tion­al ser­vice so that her busi­ness con­tin­ues to flour­ish.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices said it was pleased to be as­so­ci­at­ed with this event par­tic­u­lar­ly since it of­fers a spe­cial SEED Grant for per­sons in­ter­est­ed in start­ing and grow­ing their small busi­ness.

Train­ing in var­i­ous as­pects of a small busi­ness is al­so avail­able un­der the Pro­gramme.

"For more in­for­ma­tion on the SEED Grant, per­sons may con­tact the Na­tion­al So­cial De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (NS­DP) at 623 – 2608; Ext 1501 to set up an ap­point­ment."