 Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. A high-level EU delegation towards the OKEU Hospital ahead of its opening. The Government of St. Lucia's Crime Reduction Strategy is bolstered with a cohort of special reserve constables. The RSS is recognized for its contribution to rebuilding Dominica post-currican Maria. All that, bless the NTN, Nouvelle, Accuello. Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shastney is this week leading the St. Lucia delegation to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where climate change and small island developing states will be among the key issues. Prime Minister Shastney, who is also the current Carracom Chairman, addressed the Historic Climate Action Summit, an initiative of the UN Secretary General on Monday, September 23rd. During his statement, Prime Minister Shastney expounded on the establishment of a resilience fund as he highlighted the recent devastation in the Bahamas caused by the passage of Hurricane Dorian. The Prime Minister is expected to deliver his statement for the general debates of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 27th, 2019. During the Prime Minister's absence, Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation Hon. Guy Joseph serves as acting Prime Minister. And prior to Prime Minister Shastney's departure for the UN, he led a high-level delegation of European Union officials on a tour of the Owen King E.U. Hospital ahead of its official opening. Chenel Nouvelle has the details. Top officials from the European Union recently paid a visit to St. Lucia, where they, among other things, tour the Owen King E.U. Hospital. On the agenda for the officials was to follow up on the status of the hospital and discussions on how St. Lucia and the E.U. can further strengthen bilateral relations. European Commission's Director General of International Cooperation and Development, Sophanoman Servicy, indicated that the hospital is one of the E.U.'s biggest investments in the region and a concerted effort must be made to operationalize the hospital. My point is not to look backward. The point is to see with the Prime Minister or the authorities how this can start working and be effective in the interest of the people of St. Lucia. Health care is a big challenge. I discussed that with Prime Minister Goncalves, also in St. Vincent. Some regional cooperation maybe would be usual, but this is not the point. The point now is, part one of my talks here is to take stock of what is going on in the hospital and to encourage and to put also our availability if further assist, technical assistance, capacity is necessary in order for this hospital to become operational as quickly as possible. Prime Minister, the Honourable Alan Chastney, indicated that health care remains a top priority for the Government as it seeks to ensure that quality health care is afforded to all's inclusions. The Prime Minister explained that achieving this is not without its challenges. We have a lot of people right now who currently just don't access health care just for lack of being able to afford it. And so while we speak in terms of universal health care, we're a long ways away from actually being able to deliver on universal health care. And what has happened to St. Lucia is that we were not even meeting the financial requirements for health care when we were doing it the old way. Now that we're modernizing the plan, so you have this facility, you have other polyclinics and also you have a hospital going in the south, the cost of those operations are now going up considerably. And so therefore it has caused us to have to really put in a very comprehensive plan. So basically when you were saying an evidence-based process, I can say to you that everything is part of this evidence-based process in terms of how we're going to be able to afford to do it because we're really seeing that health care, even if we're going to introduce a health care insurance, is going to significantly increase the amount of cost to the government. The EU Commission is also seeking to explore avenues of cooperation with St. Lucia in various areas including employment and job creation. The EU officials are expected to visit other countries in the region, including Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norville. The Government of St. Lucia's crime reduction strategy has been bolstered with the injection of 14 new special reserve constables. The Government of St. Lucia has placed citizen safety high on its medium-term development agenda as it seeks to reduce serious crimes by 45% by 2022. Part of the approach is to focus on better policing, which will ultimately include more offices. Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shasne on Friday, September 20 addressed the graduating class of special reserve officers and said that the Royal St. Lucia Police Force has responded positively to the changes. There was no security system, no way of communicating to each other. The standards of the facilities was poor. The amount of equipment that we had was inadequate. The court system almost seemed like it was against us rather than with us. And you have two choices. You can sit and complain about that or to do something about it. And my government has made every effort to increase the amount of resources that the police have. And today you are evidence of that next step. The next step in recognizing that we need to have more people, more officers in the streets. It is intended that the 40 special reserve officers will be assigned to key hotspot areas including castries, Miku, Viewfort and Souffre. Commandant of the Police Academy, Le Center Daisy Dolore, welcomed the graduating class. Today is an important day for the Royal St. Lucia Police Force and St. Lucia by extension because you have added to the number of the police officers patrolling the streets of St. Lucia. On behalf of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force, I welcome all of you to the commencement exercise of the special reserve police course number one of 2019. The initial training exercise lasted for three weeks. And this is the NTN 90, please take a class. I was raped by my uncle when I was five. I was raped by my spouse. I was raped by my nanny. I was raped by a family friend. He said he wanted to correct me. I was raped by my down low manager. I, I, I, I, I am HIV positive. Stand up, speak out. Welcome back. The Organization of American States met in Bahamas on the 18th to the 20th of September 2019 to deliberate on strengthening that creative economy and cultural sector with the aim at repositioning the culture sector to secure sustainable development. The forum discussed measuring the culture sector's contribution with use of cultural data and the cultural satellite accounts, enhancing the capacity of business and enterprises in the creative economy through greater financial and technical support and safeguarding cultural heritage by developing intersectoral linkages for sustainable economic growth. The forum was timely for St. Lucia as the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries prepares to revise its national cultural policy and look into measuring the impact of tourism, culture and creative industries on the economy. St. Lucia was represented by Honorable Fortuna Belrose, Minister for Culture and Creative Industries and Ms. Donalyn Vitti, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Information, Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries. St. Lucia Police officers attached to the Regional Security Service, the RSS, have been recognized for their contribution towards their building of Sister Isle Dominica, following the catastrophic passage of Hurricane Maria two years on. Alicia Antoine reports. Members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force, who served in the Regional Security System, were honored for their involvement in the relief efforts towards Dominica post-Hurricane Maria. The honorees served in the RSS during the operational period of September 12th to December 27th, 2017. Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Hon. Alan Shastney, was on hand to present the Regional Security Medals to their respective officers. Chairperson of the RSS and Minister for Home Affairs and National Security, Hon. HM. Francis, expressed gratitude towards the officers for their contribution. The Dominicans were very appreciative of the service that St. Lucia rendered to them. I think you had an advantage on other islands in that you speak the curial language. And I think that Dominicans were very, very, very pleased about this. When you're walking down to come to meet you guys, all you're getting was good praises from Dominicans. And they would say, Thank God the St. Lucia is ahead because you all were able to gel in the people. So I want to thank you all very much. The medals that you will be given today is just a small token of our appreciation. Severin Moshary, Commissioner of Police, expressed gratitude to the Regional Security System for the support rendered to the officers during the operational period. And it is nice to see that not only that our police officers are there, not only did they participate in just securing and protecting the citizens. I think there was a lot of community policing in that even during that time, we had our police officers assisting in repairing and actually doing Mr. Prime Minister's construction work up there. And it was when the St. Lucia went up there that one of the police stations was really taken care of. So it is good to know that we have very good soldiers in St. Lucia who when they're called upon can assist not only in peacekeeping but can also assist in rebuilding the community. Police Commissioner Moshary noted that six officers have also joined the RSS to provide assistance to the Bahamas. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. And stay with the NTA nightly. Up next, Prime Minister Hutchinson is here with the NTA, Mufa El-Arquio. I'm innovative. I'm competitive. I am productive. I'm creative. I constantly improve what I do. And how I do it. I provide excellent customers to visit. I never stop learning. I give up my best, always. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council embracing excellence. Welcome back. We join Prime Minister Hutchinson for the NTA, Nufa El-Arquio. Thank you, Mr. Anisia. Thank you very much. I'm from the Government Information Service, GIS. I'm from the National Television Service, NTA. I visit NTA, Nufa El-Arquio. I visit Prime Minister Hutchinson. Minister of Touristic Affairs, a collaboration and funding for travel, officially established a plan of action to embrace resources effectively to reduce the amount of gas that is consumed in the country as a result of the diverse work that has been done with the action that has been taken. Plan of action, that's it, to pay attention mainly to what is being done in the way that is being done. Plenty of recommendations for government and public agencies to establish diverse equalization and construction changes. There are also new recommendations for hotels and other businesses that need to be protected. To prove it in this way, you have to control the level of the machines that serve the business. You have to do it today to establish a sustainable way of buying. That's it. You have to develop a project for tourist transformation that will lead to the program of national development with Kika. It will be launched by the Foundation of Touristic Affairs. The original project for the national development will be formally launched by the Ministry of Touristic Affairs in the Republic of Fede. The Ministry of Tourism has also declared a commitment to make sure that I will succeed and that I will be successful on September 19, 2019. 2019. 2019. I'm going to pay attention to the collaboration and organization of food in the National Union, the FEO, to organize an atelier to develop a national fishing network. The initiative is to guide the sector to facilitate action to protect and support the fishing sector in the life of the people. That's it. The second chief of the fishing department, Thomas Nelson, is taking the objective to review the national fishing plan to help establish a network to support the development of the national fishing sector to help the people who are living in the country with the help of the FEO. That's it, Thomas. The next chief who will be in the description of the fishing that has been done without regulation and without the need to perform the activities of the Salah and the work of the fishing that has been done without implementation of the protection of the health and business of the Salah with the help of the climate that has affected the fishing industry in prison. Officially, the fishing and business of the FEO Dr. Yvette D. Wadi will continue the FEO to support the government to implement the FEO to keep the fishing alive in the country. This is particularly an action to develop the documents of the FEO specifically to support the fishing sector in the country. Dr. Wadi has said that fishing is a very important source for the national economy in the country to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the life of the fish in the country. Dr. Wadi has said that the FEO is a very important source for the national economy to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe for us to eat and to improve the fishing costs to ensure that it is safe As a result of that, I have improved the way I read and added the words that I have increased to 16%. I also want to compliment the development program to help children learn how to read. The first thing that has been found is the administration of the OECS organization and the financial aid agency of the International Development Agency in the US. I am a specialist to help children learn how to read and add the words that I have said. I also want to compliment the vision and education that has followed in many directions in order to increase the children to learn how to read and add the words that I have said. I also want to compliment the organization of the OECS organization that has participated in the program. I also want to compliment the organization of the OECS organization that has participated in the program. I also want to compliment the adoptionist of aLovely. heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms. Moisture and instability trading tropical storm current will continue to cause cloudiness, showers and isolated thunderstorms over the lesser Antilles. Residents and motorists in areas prone to flooding and landslides are advised to continue to be vigilant and exercise caution. A tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 12 miles per hour or 19 kilometers per hour. Tropical depression 13 has become better organized than is now tropical storm Lorenzo. Lorenzo is expected to become a hurricane by Wednesday. This system is expected to remain over the open Atlantic Ocean during the next five days. The tide for Castries Harbor was high at 12.06 p.m. and was low again at 4.03 p.m. The tide for Vierfort Bay was high at 1.13 p.m. and was low again at 5.30 p.m. The sea is moderate to locally rough with waves and swells of 5 to 7 feet or 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to continue to exercise caution due to brisk winds and above normal seas. The Sun will rise Tuesday at 5.53 a.m. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Senusia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.