 Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. Government continues to push the juvenile justice reform agenda with a development training program. St Lucia continues to be of interest to the international investor community. The National Conservation Authority takes another tangible step in its environmental awareness campaign. All that plus the latest in youth development sports and the NTN Luvel Aquaeon. Following the passage of the Child Justice and Child Care Protection and Adoption bills in the Parliament of St Lucia, government is continuing to push the juvenile justice reform agenda. St Lucia is party to the juvenile justice reform project, the JJRP Phase 2, a collaborative effort between the OECS and the United States Agenda for International Development. The main goal is to help youth in conflict with the law rehabilitate. On Thursday, the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment launched a child adolescent development training program for child protection and child justice practitioners. More from Anicia Antwine. In St Lucia, the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment has partnered with UNICEF to conduct a two-day training exercise which seeks to understand positive youth development and how the adolescent brain works. Gloria Augustus is the Juvenile Justice Reform Project Specialist with the OECS Commission. I was reading something where law is being changed in the US. I was reading about a federal bill authorizing and strengthening the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act to set new standards to treat youth in a way appropriate to their age among other areas. And one of the new standards mentioned to treat youth in an age-appropriate way is that each state must submit a three-year plan to be eligible for federal funding under the law and these plans must now demonstrate that they are guided by scientific knowledge about adolescent brain development and behavior. According to the Permanent Secretary and the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment the recent launch of the Adolescent Well-Being and Equity report will provide policymakers with a true snapshot into the real world of adolescents and provide an avenue to assist them during the transition period. Following up on the social reform agenda and reflecting on the commitment of the Government of St Lucia and by extension the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment we have embarked on a number of initiatives that address the needs of our children and adolescents in St Lucia with financial and technical support under the OACS Juvenile Justice Reform Project Phase II. Hence it is critical that over the next two days of training that you, the participants, get well acquainted with positive youth development and how the adolescent brain works. St Lucia recently enacted the Child Justice and Child Care Protection and Adoption Bills which speak loudly to the use of therapeutic interventions for youth to help overcome the many challenges which they may encounter throughout life. The research has shown that the period between 11 to 19 which is referred to as the second decade is probably the most vulnerable time in the life cycle of an individual and must be managed carefully by first understanding that many of the behavioural patterns exhibited by our youth are actually developmental that is, it's part of the natural growing process. Phase II of the Juvenile Justice Reform Project is expected to be complete by September 2020. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisha Antoine reporting. Science in schools is continuing to receive a boost from activities being held to promote its importance among students on the island. Quitsatney reports on the upcoming National Science Fair and recently concluded National Science Quiz. It was an all girls finish for the 2019 edition of the National Science Quiz. The St Joseph's Convent and the Ave Maria Girls Primary walked away with the top prizes for their respective competitions. The quiz, like its counterpart the National Science Fair, is used as a tool to inspire greater interest from students in science subjects. Curriculum Officer for National Sciences and Technology, Janet E George expressed her department satisfaction with this year's contest congratulating the winning teams. Another exciting year in the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics stem in St Lucia. There is no doubt that science is alive in St Lucia and it's alive and well among our students. In the primary school division, Ave Maria Girls who walked away with the top prize was followed by T. Roche Combined Miku in second and P.I. Combined in third. In the secondary schools category, St. Joseph's Convent beat out St. Mary's College for the top prize whilst being field comprehensive came in third. The experience was really good. I mean the practices were constant. Every time at lunchtime we were practicing and the feeling of achieving this is amazing because we knew what we could do and we actually did it. I did not want to do this competition at first. Like at all, at all. And eventually I was kind of dragged into it but it's one thing that I was really glad to be dragged into. Being able to go the extra mile and do research other than what we have done at school it wasn't so much about the competition, the preparation was for me. It was more about learning more about science. It feels like I've just won a marathon, a long race, a very long race. I feel like I've just won something amazing because it makes us feel smart and good about ourselves. The National Science Quiz always precedes the National Science Fair which has been scheduled for March 27th to the 29th at the Derrick Walcott Square in Castries. Ms. George has called on members of the public to support the activity. I can see that we are interested in them especially when they are taking part in such a positive activity and it will be at the Derrick Walcott Square. It's going to be free. There's no fee to pay coming, coming support the students. The science activities are being conducted to the theme Building Resilience for a Sustainable Future through Science and Technology. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development I am Chris Satney reporting. St. Lucia continues to be of interest to the international investor community. His Excellency Anton Edmund, St. Lucia's Ambassador to the United States of America was one of five presenters at a February 28th, 2019 symposium organized by the Minority Business Development Agency Business Center in collaboration with Export Bank of the United States. The symposium which was held under the theme Export Essentials provided participants with pertinent information on the avenues available to assist small businesses in exporting their products and services to international markets. Ambassador Edmund's presentation focused on St. Lucia as a prime destination, a hub for doing business in the Caribbean. In addition to providing an economic profile of St. Lucia, the presentation focused on some of the specific opportunities that exist for potential investors in the country and highlighted the role of Invest St. Lucia as the primary agency that investors should liaise with vis-à-vis their interests. As the island celebrates 40 years as an independent nation, citizens are being encouraged to embrace more fully the concept of charity and volunteerism against that backdrop of national movement for participation in Good Deeds Day has been launched. Volunteer St. Lucia in collaboration with the National Youth Council officially launched Good Deeds Day on Wednesday. It's an annual tradition where individuals and organisations the world over choose to volunteer and help others. Volunteer St. Lucia promises an array of activities as part of the celebration of Good Deeds Day. The National Coordinator for Volunteers St. Lucia, Diane Phyllis here, called on the public to come out in full support and to play its part. This year, Volunteer St. Lucia is happy to bring the campaign to the entire island through a calendar of activities, scheduled for participation by all chapters, including Zumba, etc., from UK. This local campaign is taking place in collaboration with Given Tuesday, Eastern Caribbean, a charitable initiative by Writing Legends and forms part of a wider regional Good Deeds Day Caribbean campaign together with Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Curacao, Dominica, Haiti, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana and Jamaica. We invite everyone to join us in this global day of doing good. Commanding Officer of the Salvation Army, Major Derek Mitchell, indicated that it should be put into practice the idea that everyone can do something good, no matter how big or small, to support their peers and positively influence their environment. Major Mitchell also highlighted a strong youth involvement in helping the less fortunate. What I like about St. Lucia is that there is a social consciousness that's alive and well here, and it is especially coming out amongst the young people. I won't use the word inundated because that's too heavy, but we get quite a lot of people calling in from schools, from organizations, predominantly young people, who want to come out to the Salvation Army. They ask about the programs that we operate, and they want to come out and they want to assist us in operating these programs. Lead of Logistics for Good Deeds Day, Macalester Hunt highlighted some of the events to be held as part of activities for Good Deeds Day. I can definitely say as the Major of the Salvation Army mentioned, there's a very alive and thriving social consciousness amongst the youth in St. Lucia when it comes to giving back and contributing and working towards the development of our communities. That being said, I can definitely tell you that the Good Deeds Day activities coming up within the month of April will definitely be all out, all in, given the number of persons who will be involved. You can look forward to activities like the Day of the Pampering for elderly, which means take your grandmother, take your grandfather, bring them out, get a pressure cut, maybe a little makeover, right? We have a nationwide food drive on the 5th of April, and our community activity will be on April 7th at the Kulemaster Grounds in V4. We want to have a big showcase. All the volunteers are going to come out and show the public that we have a lot more to offer than just our time. Good Deeds Day will take place on the 7th of April 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. And this is the NTN Nightly coming up. The latest happenings in youth and sports with Ryan O'Brien. Imagine being away from home, surrounded by danger and hostility, unable to escape or speak the language, and being exploited. It might sound like fiction, but for 40 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, it is a reality. Innocent people enticed by the promise of a new life, then enslaved into forced labour or sex trafficking. Human trafficking happens in plain sight. Know the signs, see it, report it. To report suspected cases of human trafficking, call the TIP Hawk Live at 847. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Hello once again. I'm Ryan O'Brien with your update on the initial youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. One more match was completed as the 2019 Mass United Insurance 50 over under 19 schools cricket tournament continued on Wednesday, March 6. At the Wend Plain Field in Monipo, Montreal Secondary continued their unbeaten run in the tournament, defeating Granivier Secondary by five wickets. Granivier batting first in a match reduced to 45 overs a side, with 411 in 35 overs, with Jaquane Deschamps making 22 and Janille Immanuel 14. Bowling for Archipel Secondary, female player Zedah James, 3 for 28, Jemric Alexander with identical figures of 3 for 28, and Royce Paul, 2 for 13. Archipel, in reply, finished on 115 for 5 in 20.3 overs, with Captain Denzel Roberts leading the way in unbeaten knockup 27. Olarie Alfred 18, Samuel Cadet 16 made useful contributions. The chief wicket taker for Granivier Secondary was Jaquane Deschamps with 3 for 40. News now from the Inter-Schools volleyball tournament. In the female category, Souffre Comprehensive Secondary won over Corrine Secondary two games to love, 25-8, 25-9. An immense competition, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College won the Souffre Comprehensive 25-17, 25-20, and Leon Hez Comprehensive won winners over John O'Lean Memorial 25-16, 25-19. The Ministry of Development and Sports today capacity building an institutional strengthening workshop ended at the Blue Car Mall conference room Thursday. Participants were exposed to insights on a number of subjects pertaining to youth development. Director of Sports Patrick Matre, a former president of the National Youth Council, gave some background on the evolution of the organization and its significance in bringing youth issues to national attention. We are a youth foundation and those of you who do demographics as you move on to demographics, you will see more and more that as you, the concept of population transition, you have a lot of older persons and then you have younger persons and then the band of younger persons stretch them. When we were formed in 85-9, we should say that 35% of the population of St. Lucia is below the age of 25 years. It is basically still a border. You have almost 40% of our population below the age of 25 years. That is significant. It is significant because when you look at those demographics, it means that you have a lot more to do but also it means that you have a very large dependent population and so it has implications for you as you focus and that's why I encourage you to know the statistics, know your island, know your country, know your history. With that song by it from Patrick Matre, we conclude our update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports today. I'm Ryan O'Brien, reminding you, April is Youth Month. Thanks Ryan. The initiatives spearheaded by the National Conservation Authority to increase environmental awareness amongst the youth took another tangible step on Thursday. The details in this report. The National Conservation Authority, in partnership with the St. Lucia National Trust and the Department of Fisheries, has invited conservation clubs from schools around the island to participate in a series of science experiments and activities related to beach ecosystems. The beach activity is part of the Protecting Paradise a beach education and action campaign, which aims to educate students on beach pollution and prevention and how it affects their daily lives. Curator Crooks Charles is the communications and advocacy officer for the St. Lucia National Trust. There's an NCA worker that students will be interacting with. They'll be going to each of the stations to get more information, whether it is about pollution of our marine ecosystem, water quality testing. The trust specifically speaking about how important our marine resources are to our heritage and how we can use these resources to improve various aspects of our lives, whether it's through job creation, recreation or health. And we're happy to be a part of this project because sometimes we see the ocean and how, you know, expansive, how big it is and we don't really understand what it does for us and the different aspects of our lives. Sarah Cheng is a Peace Corps attached to the NCA, responsible for creating the conservation clubs. The NCA has been working with conservation clubs for the past year and this is kind of a culmination project. We wanted to get the kids out into the environment rather than learning in the classroom. It's always better to learn out in the field and beach and coastal ecosystems are such a huge important part of the St. Lucia environment so we wanted to really focus on beach conservation. Yvonne Edwin, Fisheries Assistant, responsible for information and communication, educated the conservation club members on different aspects of beach profiling. At the department we monitor and ensure that the various ecosystems within the marine environment is adequately monitored and beach profiling is one of those activities that we do as part of our work program. So my responsibility here is to go through the beach profile training aspect, why we do beach profile training. It really is to understand the seasonal changes, the shape of the beach, effective management of the coast and so we give them an insight as to what we do, why we do it and beach profiling is one of the areas that we are focusing on this morning. For the second phase of the campaign, the conservation clubs will be provided with beach bins on which the club members will paint environmental messages and images. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. And stay with the NTN Nightly up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. There are four basic rules to developing and maintaining good oral health. Brushing after meals and before going to bed, flossing at least once for the day, eating the right foods and visiting the dentist regularly. Remember, you won't keep those smiles for these three years. A message from the dental department of the Ministry of Health and this station Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. To learn place the importance programme of protection for the people. Activities are to be organised by the Authority of National Conservation and National Trust. We are here at the school of Salah to participate and learn to diversify their lives, especially in the kitchen so that they can be affected and take care of the people. The director of the programme to adjust the development of the animal and the work. Please take part in the exercise. I would like to say that the environment is called Zodie, but the environment is called Thibet Bacteria. We are passing through the areas where we are affected and the inhabitants are affected. So I would like to add a test for the bacteria that will grow at the tip of the heart. Let's say the organization here called National Trust, which is a place where everyone can do their own work, who are affected by the law, who are affected by the law, who are affected by the police, fisheries, cafes, and other activities, like farming, farming, farming, farming, farming, and other activities, and other activities, but if we continue to do farming, we will continue to do it. Chief of the Autority Conservation National, Madame Jacinta Annius Lee, is going to play the role of the exercise, and declare that he is going to help her, and then volunteer, to destroy her students, to destroy her parents, so as not to hurt her mother. That's it. That's it. I'm going to work hard to implement my ways to address the situation of immigration problems that can be solved. I'm going to leave this country and go to other countries, such as Capecroyo, told Abyssal panic, NYLJ, to change, to leave There is a situation that is very sensitive to this. It is the people who are looking for support in other countries who have a way to address it effectively. According to him, it is the ones who follow the agreement in the United States that is a guide for all the countries that want to help. If we want to help, we must do the worst because it has already been done. I think it is the people who are looking for support that are coming to the country to help them with immigration, to help them with border control, and development. We have a lot of people who want to help them with the immigration. The people who are going to help them with border control, the people who are going to help them with border control, and we have to go pay for it. In a week, we will be able to watch television, and we will be able to pay for it in a different way. We will be able to watch the people who have come out, who have come out, who have come to pay for it in a certain condition. We will be able to accept it, to live in a certain way. So, we will be able to see the people who have come out. My name is Maqéki. The security system of these countries is not available to film these people who have come out to pay for it. So, we will be able to have a discussion on this issue. For those who may have found the opportunity to consult for the public, television is available to you. So, please come to the program. The volunteer organizations have come to the PEPC, and also the common business, to introduce the volunteer organizations to the PESC. The Special Session Bureau of the GIS, the representative of the Bureau of the Prime Minister, and the various volunteer organizations, the National National Association, the PESC, to have a consultation to explain to the public the significance of this initiative. The consultant of the Bureau of the Prime Minister, Diane Felicier, explains that the people who have come out to volunteer, it is not possible to say, it is not possible to do a lot of work to help people. Here, I am saying, there is no problem, there is no problem eating, there is no problem to be a good person, there is no problem to speak, and there is no problem to sleep, there is no problem to sleep. The contribution of the PEPC is something that has always existed in this initiative. It is not an initiative for us, but the SFC's initiative is to help everyone, the members of the government, the organization, to come and support us in trying to do well here. Okay, do you know how many problems are there in this setlist? Are you satisfied that the public has come to this episode? The public has come. They have come to us. They have supported us. But we don't need anyone to come to this setlist. They have come to this setlist to support us. When do you know that the public has come to this setlist? We have come to this setlist in April. We need to work really hard to socialize with these titles which could really help the public. We have also come to The Volunteer Chapter Setlist. We want to go public in this setlist to visit the communities We are not going to be able to do anything, we are not going to be able to do anything, we are not going to be comfortable. This is why we are here in the other countries that have observed the international women's day, that is, the youth mass, which is a theme that is so equal to the way it is going to be transformed. Celebration Lannisala has embraced the theme for the fourth anniversary of EDPDAS, which is that we all need to come to Turkey. In addition, the theme for International Women's Youth Observation is to work with the United States and the theme of EDPDAS, which is a suggestion to reflect on the importance of our cooperation with the United States. This is why we also work with other countries in the world to make our national vision, whether it is implementation or not, declaration of Beijing countries, actions to find consideration in this sixth session to address the situation of International Women's Youth Observation. You want international women's youth observations of the country, this is why we engage in a way to reflect on the progress I have made and also the transformation I have experienced in order to establish a commitment to address this. For the celebration of International Women's Youth Observation, Divisions, what is it for, to form a country that is in the service of the United States for the last eight months to celebrate a great Catholic cathedral in Wilcastruy. This is why we are bringing you new news that I would like to mention in time to keep in touch with you in the next 24 hours. Thank you very much, Prime Minister. And here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. An Atlantic high pressure system will maintain and moderate to brisk easterly wind flow across the eastern Caribbean region during the next few days. Weak, unstable conditions in the lower atmosphere over the lesser Antilles will bring a few scattered showers over the islands during the next 24 hours. The tide for Castries Harbor was high at 4.29pm and will be low at 10.31pm. The tide for V4 Bay was high at 5.36pm and will be low again at 11.58pm. The seas moderate to locally rough with waves and northerly swells 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Friday at 6.16am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.