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68 GUARDIAN MEDIA LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIESINDEPENDENT AUDITOR%u2019S REPORTTO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF GUARDIAN MEDIA LIMITEDReport on the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)Auditor%u2019s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)%u2022 Plan and perform the group audit to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or business units within the Group as a basis for forming an opinion on the consolidated financial statements. We are responsible for the direction, supervision and review of the audit work performed for the purposes of the group audit. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.We communicate with the Audit and Risk Committee regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit. We also provide the Audit and Risk Committee with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, actions taken to eliminate threats or safeguards applied.From the matters communicated with the Audit and Risk Committee, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor%u2019s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication. The partner in charge of the audit resulting in this independent auditor%u2019s report is Mrs. Adrienne D%u2019Arcy.Port of Spain,TRINIDAD:18 March 2025