 Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. Increased support is being given to the nation's young entrepreneurs. The National Conservation Authority makes headway in tackling the sargass and seaweed. St. Lucia's nurses are recognized for their dedication. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle-Arcouillon. Increased support is being given to the nation's young entrepreneurs. Minister for Commerce, Industry, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs Hon. Bradley Felix says government is ensuring that assistance during all phases of a start-up is afforded. This, he noted, would have significant impact on the already declining youth unemployment rate. More from Janelle Nouvelle. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs and by extension the Government of St. Lucia has pledged its commitment to set the foundation for youth entrepreneurship. According to Minister for Commerce, Industry, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs Hon. Bradley Felix, one of the biggest challenges for the youth seeking to start their own businesses is financing. The challenge, he said, has become even more apparent given global trends. At Ministry's standpoint, we continue to look at ways to assist entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs, small entrepreneurs, our start-ups. We are looking at areas to be able to get grant funding for them because you know that's where the challenges lie. I mean the whole world now is under, well I should say we're more or less keeping a very close eye on what's happening with the trade war between China and the USA because there could be some repercussions to us down the line in small island developing states. The Minister also highlighted that there are several advantages to boosting youth entrepreneurship. One such benefit is the potential reduction in St. Lucia's unemployment rate. Overall, youth unemployment decreased from 38.5% in 2017 to 36.3% in 2018. From a country's perspective, my ministry is looking to ensure that we can build up our young business people because we truly believe that the way we can grow the country is to have more private business men and women involving their own affairs to take off the load from government as it relates to employment. So as long as we continue to help these areas, we believe we will see good results. The minister reiterated his confidence that the government's plans will yield positive results not only for the youth but for the country as a whole. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norville. Meantime, Export St Lucia is continuing to assist in the penetration of markets. Young entrepreneur and owner of Mangal Trading, Naila Mangal, has received assistance from Export St Lucia with exporting fresh produce. Here's a look at her experience. My name is Naila Mangal and I'm the owner of Mangal Trading. At Mangal Trading, we sought out fresh local produce to export it to international and regional countries. As a young person growing up in the agriculture field, there are many challenges that people face, especially with agriculture. Farmers normally plant so many local produce and they have no markets for them. With the help of Export St Lucia, we go to farmers, we purchase the produce and we have that market to send it overseas in a way that helps the majority of farmers. Every shipment, we normally work with about 50-60 farmers because we get to purchase soursop from that one, purchase cucumber, purchase plantain. Different produce, different farmers. You'll never go to one farmer and get all the produce. Export St Lucia helped me to export in the UK. And now we're working in trying to get a market in Antigua as well as America. The relationship I have built with them is that they helped me get the market one. Secondly, my business, I should say, is more profitable compared to before. The National Conservation Authority, NCA, is reporting success with its efforts at tackling the Sargassum Seaweed along the island's east coast. The undertaking is also providing employment opportunities for residents in communities affected by the seaweed influx. More from Chevroy Marios. The National Conservation Authority, NCA, has embarked upon an initiative to remove the troublesome Sargassum Seaweed from St Lucia's coastlines. Their exercise involved the handling and recycling of the seaweed from the densely covered seashores. To accomplish this mammoth task, the NCA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Office of the Prime Minister, hosted a two-day training workshop at Viewfort, Dennery and Praline from May 31st to June 3rd, 2019. Manager of the National Conservation Authority, Ms. Jessinta Lee, emphasized the need to keep our beaches clean. There's the need to clean the beaches. And as you know, and many people know, when you drive around, you know, by Praline and by Dennery, there is that stench, you know, and it's been there for a long time. This is a Sargassum project. And the first part of it is the training. And the second part is the implementation. And there are a number of agencies and entities involved. And one is the National Apprenticeship Program. Now there's also the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Agriculture. The program employs individuals from the various communities who are the entrain in the handling and disposal of the Sargassum Seaweed. You are going to get paid to clean up your own community. And those persons who have the interest in using the Sargassum for other uses, as Mr. Phil just explained, are also going to benefit. All right. And so in the course of the meeting, we'll discuss what is involved in employment for you. The things that you're going to expect, what we ourselves as the project leaders are expecting from you as well. Reported from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment, I am Shevre Marius. The Ambassador of Diaspora Affairs, her Excellency Dr. Joyce Lynn Clark Fletcher, will be travelling to the UK to meet with Diaspora in London, Birmingham and Manchester. The visits are due to commence from the 19th of June 2019. In attendance will be Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne and his Excellency Guy Meyers, St. Lucia's High Commissioner to the UK. The meeting will discuss the Diaspora policy, listen to Diaspora concerns and the way forward. Still in Diaspora Affairs, the St. Lucia Toronto Association Action Group, STAG, will be celebrating its 7th anniversary this month. The group advocates early awareness and detection of breast and prostate cancer. The group seeks supplies and consumables in Canada and ships them to the St. Jude's and Sufra hospitals as well as various polyclinics in St. Lucia. STAG has also partnered with Sick Kids Hospitals to forge avenues to assist St. Lucia. The skills and hard work of nurses around the island was recognised as the St. Lucia Nurses Association recently celebrated Nurses Week with a number of activities, more from Finnell Neptune. The St. Lucia Nurses Association recently celebrated Nurses Week with an educational conference at the Finance Administrative Building. In St. Lucia, Nurses Week was celebrated under the theme, Safe Staffing Saves Lives. President of the St. Lucia Nurses Association, Alicia Baptiste, spoke on the importance of safe staffing as to ensure the delivery of quality patient care. Nurses have an integral role in the healthcare system. State mandated, safe staffing ratios are necessary to ensure the safety of patients and nurses. Adequate nurse staffing is key to patient care and nurse retention. While inadequate staffing endangers patients and drives nurses from their profession. Minister for Health and Wellness, Senator the Honourable Mary Isa, commended the nurses for their dedication and hard work towards the career and patients. Even if you have the aptitude to do the sciences, it does not translate into safe nursing. It does not translate even into nursing. Nursing may not necessarily be the thing for you because the profession is an extremely important profession. You are taking care of people's lives and that is what makes it so important. Senator the Honourable Mary Isa also appealed to the nurses to continue providing the great service to St. Lucia. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fennel Neptune. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. I was in my neighborhood. It was a very dark night. I decided to go for a drink by a bar. On my way from the bar, I felt distinct to my right leg. When I looked back, I knew it was a footless snake. You happen to be in an area where there are snakes and you are bitten by a snake. This is what you do. You call for help and try to reach the Victoria Hospital within one or three hours. You will be seen immediately. My uncle at the time was a police officer called the Victoria Hospital and told them that we are coming down for a snake bite. It is the only facility on the island which has a protocol and a treatment plan where you can be treated adequately. We call them before you go there so they can prepare for you. Rest assured that there are adequate supplies of antivenom with doctors who have been trained in the treatment protocols of the snake bite. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Nisha. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Welcome to your weekend update on youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. More on the upcoming Inter-Primary and Secondary School Swim Championships said to be held at the Rodney Heights Aquatic Center June 21. The swimmers will swim in age groups as per FINA rules. Age as of December 31, 2018 will determine the age group in which swimmers participate. June 12 is a deadline for registration. Each school will enter no more than four swimmers per age group and six in individual events. However, only two swimmers per team will be allowed to score. Each school may enter up to two relay teams in the relay event. There shall be neither substitutes nor alternatives in individual events. Swimmers may enter a maximum of three events. Medals will be awarded for the first three places per event. Trophies for age group winners and the overall meat winner will be awarded at the annual school sports award ceremony put on by the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. The relays will not count towards points and are fun events only. Coring will be All events are time-finals and seated according to entry times or no time if none is available. The pool will be open one hour before the meet or warm-up. Lane assignments will be given upon arrival at the pool. Swimmers must wear uniforms in the March pass of the opening ceremony. Semi-final action in the schools and the 15-40-hours competition played Friday. Leon Hess assured themselves a place in the final of their competition, defeating Souffre Comprehensive by eight wickets at the Wendt playing field. Souffre Comprehensive batting first were bowled for 73 in 21.1 overs with Kevin Gassy hitting 33 and Caleb Jones 10. Lee John allowed standing figures of 5 for 26 and Captain Sean and Edward 3 for 14. In reply, Leon Hess achieved their target, finishing on 74 for 2 in 13.1 overs. Kan Elcock struck 30 and Lee John was 16 undefeated. Kevin Gassy picked up both wickets to fall for 25 runs. And as of news time, at the Gosele playing field, the Mary's College batting first again through their secondary got to 282 for 6 of their lotted overs. In their semi-final engagement, the final is set to be played on Wednesday, June 12. That's your update this week from your development and sports. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks Ryan. The OECS commission has signed an agreement with Facebook Caribbean that will allow access to Facebook's disaster maps in an effort to improve emergency response for OECS member states during times of disaster. Facebook's disaster maps are dynamic mapping resources with information about where populations are located, how they are moving, and where they are checking in safe during a natural disaster. Using this de-identified and aggregate information, relief agencies will be able to more efficiently respond to the needs of affected communities with appropriate services and supplies. The OECS commission is one such user seeking to use the technology to improve its disaster management strategy. Dr. Dedecos Jules is the director general of the OECS commission. Facebook is one of the most ubiquitous social media platforms globally. They are almost a trillion people I believe in on Facebook right now. And so it is in the Caribbean, it is also one of the most widely used social media. The agreement that we have signed with Facebook gives us a working partnership with them that will help us in terms of tremendously boosting our social media outreach. It would also give us access to some of the analytics and data that are made available through their platform. For example, with Signature today, we immediately have access to disaster maps for the OECS member states. This is going to be shared with the national disaster agencies and all of the OECS member states. And we will be an invaluable tool in any disaster response that needs to take place in the event of a hurricane. Facebook's public policy manager for the Caribbean, Claudia Girardo, says the disaster maps are aimed at providing disaster relief institutions and organizations with information that is critical to dealing with disasters efficiently. This will provide the OECS visibility as to the information that our users share with us voluntarily and like to share with other people with relation to their location and their location history. It tells these organizations where communities are and where they're moving to in moments of a disaster and it tells as well if they have access, for example, to electricity or to internet networks. This enables institutions to be able to provide services and support to communities live when they need it in moments where time counts. The agreement was signed on June 4, 2019. In other OECS-related news, the Global Green Growth Initiative, the GGGI, opened a new office in Castries to strengthen support for its work to further promote green growth in the Caribbean region and expand its partnership with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS. The GGGI and OECS joint program will accelerate the flow of climate finance to support energy sector resilience in OECS countries as well as support expansion and achievement of their nationally determined contributions, NDC goals under the Paris Agreement. The GGGI also plans to work with individual OECS countries to facilitate country-level implementation of OECS policy recommendations, especially in the areas of energy, sustainability, and climate adaptation. The new GGGI office is located at the OECS headquarters at Monfortune. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. The point is that all of this is done to save water. The water in the room is filled with a single pack of water. Also, the water in the pack is taken out of the water. If the toilet bowl is wet, the water will be filled with a bucket of toilet water. The toilet bowl will be wet if the toilet bowl is wet before the flush. The toilet bowl will be wet if the toilet bowl is wet before the flush. The toilet bowl will be wet if the toilet bowl is wet before the flush. The toilet bowl will be wet if the toilet bowl is wet when a bucket of water is wet. The toilet bowl will work as well as to exchange all the water and electricity. This is the Haudenosaunce Commission. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. Mr. Mdm, Department of West Coastal Ability and for information, the Government of G.I.S. and the National TV, M.T.N. and Prime Minister Hutchinson. I would like to ask the International Human Order to give me $115 million which I have started. 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