 Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Jesse Léonce. This edition stopped stories, Invest St. Lucia promotes economic progress through land development. New sporting facilities are months away for residents of Miku and consumers to receive refunds for recalled coconut oil. Invest St. Lucia has officially cut the ribbon at its prized Beauchamp land development in Miku. The project forms part of the agency's goal of creating 600 new landowners in various communities. Invest St. Lucia has been looking into developments that explore options such as multi-family offerings in which persons can purchase the unit within a duplex or an apartment complex at a lower reasonable cost. This includes the Beauchamp land development which has been designated for both residential and commercial use. Lisa Joseph reports on the ribbon cutting which took place on Thursday, September 10. Invest St. Lucia, the ISL, has launched the Beauchamp development in keeping with its mandate to utilize state assets to create attractive and accessible opportunities for St. Lucia to become landowners. The Beauchamp land development project is 80% sold and comprises lots ranging from 4 to 12,000 square feet. Roderick Sherry is the chief executive officer of Invest St. Lucia. This Beauchamp development comprises 59 fully serviced lots and they are a combination of residential and some commercial property. The sizes range from 4,000 to 12,000 square feet and they are reasonably priced at $12 a square foot. A land development like this is crucial to Miku's growth and development as a self-sustaining community. The Beauchamp project was announced by the ISL along with the number of residential and commercial land development. However, the onset of COVID-19 delayed plans. But this has not deterred us. In fact, the challenges posed by the pandemic have made ISL even more determined than ever to push on. This is because it has underscored the importance of solutions owning property assets, including a home which is much better than having to deal with the uncertainties of living in rented accommodation or squatting on untitled lands. This proves that our decision to put more solutions on the path to land and home ownership was the right one and it was very timely. Mr Sherry says government and the ISL are working towards diversifying the local economic landscape and reducing poverty. And such projects are designed to create new neighborhoods away from the congested north of the island. Prime Minister and Parliamentary Representative Amiko South, Honourable Allen Chastney, As a constituency is ripe for this new development thrust. To facilitate this, there have been upgrades to the water supply and distribution network and further investments in facilities and infrastructure. We're opening up very soon a new water park for the kids which will include swings and slides and a canteen and a recreational area for adults as well as a water park feature. We are fixing up the football field in Deruso and putting an AstroTurf facility and just not too far from here in the Miku secondary school. We're also putting an AstroTurf football facility in that location. And why is that important? Because we recognize that Miku South is becoming a suburb, a suburb to View Fort. And while we may not have as much economic output that we used to have here, I think that persons who are going to be moving to the south, and yes, you did hear me right, persons who would be moving to the south from the north, and that is already starting, we're hoping that they're going to choose Miku South as their choice destination. Prime Minister Chastney says the time has come for Senusia to benefit from a more thriving construction sector where contractors are better empowered. So when we came in as a government, we had to figure out a mechanism as to how to develop these kinds of investments without overburdening the state. And so the land was already in invest Senusia, and Invest Senusia was able to identify a contractor that was willing to come in and put down the facilities government supported it by providing incentives to that contractor to be able to lay down the infrastructure. And then as the lots are sold, both Invest Senusia and the contractor now are reimbursed. We've also added now an additional incentive and that additional incentives is if a contractor from this constituency or the neighboring constituencies has the capacity to go out and convince five of the new landowners to build and gives them a design of a house and is able to get five other homeowners to agree to join in, government will give that contractor incentives. Invest Senusia is ahead in similar projects in Boise, Miku and Lafax, Choselle. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reports in. And meanwhile rehabilitation works on the sporting facilities in the Miku area are nearing completion. We have Ryan O'Brien from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports with the details. Another two plain fields under the National Sports Infrastructure Program are into the final phase of the rehabilitation, with completion estimated to be within a couple of months. Construction Manager Dominic Matra says the turf of fields at Miku and Derriso will be laid once a leveling machine currently in operation at the Sufra Mini Stadium becomes available. Presently Miku is only ready to take the final grid with a layer of small stones. We have all drainage and everything is in place and the turf. So we are hoping that after that if we have done Sufra, we will be starting around the 10th of September, we will be moving to Derriso and very far to Miku to do that turf area. So therefore this will be the Miku plain field. Also you see that if we have done what we call the fencing and we are the last stage of the fencing of the Miku plain field. So therefore everything is going well with the project and therefore we are hoping that is we will get to the end by the end of October. We are going to our swimming pool, we are going to have the refurbishment of basketball court and also multi-purpose centres. We also have produced what we call a five-size sand plain field at our back so therefore we have all of these facilities around and as we put those things we are going now to look at the stands and what kind of seats we are going to put in. Work on the Derriso plain field is at a similar stage and Matra was quick to point out that there will be a special cooling system that will regulate the temperature of the field. People are saying that the field gets hot but we have actually added new technology to the turf. A tea cooling system that will be coming in with the field. To regulate temperatures as the temperature rises it will release moisture to cool down the field. But this is the Derriso field. It has gone through the system, it is ready to receive the turf now as you could look at it. It is final, the final gradient has been done and therefore we expect that that is by in the next field time where the turf will be on that field. But also on that field also that program we also we are refurbishing the multi-purpose cot which we have up there that is we are going to resurface it put new lighting and so on. We have also created a small five-size field on the side there which we are going to have but also we are fencing going on. So if you look carefully at what we have at the back we have all the retaining wall being fixed. According to Matra the dimensions of the Derriso Plain field have been extended to provide a minimum five-size football surface. It will be the main field in the community. Phase two of the project will provide changing room facilities for players and portable seating will be installed to accommodate spectators. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien. Health authorities are calling on all members of society to play a part in suicide prevention more in this report from Fresnel Neptune. As part of observing World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, the Ministry of Health hosted a Suicide Awareness Symposium at the St. Lucia National Mental Wellness Centre. The symposium provided an opportunity for mental health professionals to share ideas and knowledge to help achieve the goal of preventing suicidal behaviour. Principal Nursing Officer Glenda Sepal says everyone can make a difference to assist others who have reached the point of wanting to end their lives. Preventing suicide is often possible and you are a key player in its prevention. You can make a difference as a member of society, as a child, as a parent, as a friend, as a colleague, or as a neighbour. You can raise awareness about the issue, educate yourself and others about the causes of suicide and warning signs for suicide. Show compassion and care for those who are in distress in your community. Question the stigma associated with suicide. Suicidal behaviour and mental health problems and share your own experiences. Sepal also called for the collaborative efforts of every one of us to prevent suicide. We must endeavor to develop evidence-based suicide prevention activities that reach those who are struggling in every part of the world. Joining together is critical in preventing suicide. Preventing suicide requires the efforts of many. It takes family, friends, co-workers, community, members, educators, religious leaders, health care professionals, political officials and governments. Suicide prevention requires integrative strategies that encompass work at the individual, systems and community level. World Suicide Prevention Day is observed under the theme working together to prevent suicide. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Phyllo Neptune. After rave reviews of the first Art Reach Poetry Live episode aired last Sunday, Cultural Development Foundation Director Drenia Frederick has been speaking on the refreshing and captivating element of the production that feature not only female St. Lucian poets, but also the essence of Castry's city and its artistic influence. The next Poetry Live Voices of the Underground episode will be aired live on Sunday, 13 September 2020. We have details in this report from Rajavar Lawrence. Poet and playwright Catherine Atkinson will take the Art Reach stage this weekend in another spellbinding episode of Poetry Live Voices of the Underground. This 30-minute program is the second of a series as part of the ongoing National Arts Festival. Atkinson gives a glimpse of what viewers can expect on Sunday night. So one piece is a suite of poems called Tomas, which are a reflection on the landscape and the experience of Hurricane Tomas. 2010. Yes, and oh gosh, was it that long ago? Yes. My goodness. And then another piece is also landscape inspired. It is called, I don't know what it's called. And that's okay. That's okay. It's about sort of the Easter season and the Kaoum sort of landscape and the narrator or the speaker in the poem is cooking her Good Friday meal. And then another piece which is a little bit more personal is just a reflection on identity and connection again to the landscape and the culture. After the betrayal, a quiet pain of disbelief and in the void, a heavy wet silence. Everywhere, everything bore the marks. Atkinson is also author of Requiem for a Bad John, a play set in an inner city community in Castries popularized in 2017. The play was performed to sold out audiences at the National Cultural Center. The Cultural Development Foundation has been deliberate in casting only female poets in this voice of the underground series. Director of events and production is Drenia Frederick. Within our sort of anthology of literature, there's always seemed to be a highlight of the male counterparts. I just throw a few names out there and everybody knows, Walcott, Lee, Augie. And you have these women who are writing and the work is just as formidable. You have new writers as well. And we felt that let's do this first series highlighting six dynamic St. Lucian poets. And let's do it spanning several generations. So if you notice, Gina is of that younger ilk bothering on millennia and then gradually it builds. So you have this pan to show that this sort of rich element of literary work done by women in St. Lucia. The Poetry Live series also features various aspects of St. Lucia's capital and influence from many local writers. This is captured in the theme, Voices of the Underground. When we walk around any major place in the world where art and something revolutionary in art, in music, in drama, in theater has developed, it has come out of a sort of an urban context, roughness of the city. If you look at Steele Pan, what did that develop? It didn't come from some highfalutin area. So within that sense, that sense of castries, people see castries as rugged, people are moving around in scummers. But that city has a sound and it is also the voice of these artists that are coming out of it. The new episode of Poetry Live, Voices of the Underground will air at 7pm Sunday night on NTN, HDS and Kalabash TV channels from the Government Information Service. Rajvaro Lawrence reporting. The Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development, and Consumer Affairs informs the public that on September 8th 2020, the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards issued a release to the public on the withdrawal of batches of Real Refined Coconut Oil and Magic Refined Coconut Oil. The batches that have been deemed non-compliant with the Compulsory National Standard, SLNS 25 2017, Specification for Coconut Oil, are as follows. Real Refined Coconut Oil, BN 037, BN 039 and BN 040, Magic Refined Coconut Oil, BN 030, BN 036, BN 037 and BN 040. Consumers or small businesses that have purchased these products from the above mentioned batches are asked to stop using the products immediately and return them with your receipt where applicable to the retailer or wholesaler where the purchase was made or a full refund. Please note that the refund is on partially used or unopened bottles. Up next, a Primus Hutchinson with the NTN Nouvelle. Bitterness. The hopelessness. Plant a seed of hope in your mind. It will grow and flourish in time. Hold on a little longer. Life encourages you to grow. You have so much to offer. Look, tomorrow is waiting to say hello. Don't give up on yourself. Instead, reach out for help. Perhaps it's time to reach out to someone. Call the Health Helpline 203 toll free anytime to speak to a professional. A message from the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson with the NTN Nouvelle Acreole. Universities for Information Governments G.I.S. with National Television, N.T.N. Caposito Nouvelle Acreole, Primes Hutchinson. The most important citizens are those who are full-nibbler in the country who are also very important in the development of government assistance programs to help the public in general. It has been possible by PAY India and the Organization of Food Affairs, WFO, programs that help the public when they are first, when the people are first. It is an assistance that the government works on every month to help the most important citizens who are working, the children who are not paid for food, who are disabled, and who are also being paid by the H.I.V.E.C. Coursa. The National Television and Studio G.I.S. NTN GEDI, the positive government, this one, dissembled to try and solve the problem that has been made mainly by the country that continues to fight for the spread of corona. The Ministry of Economic Development, we will guide you. Explain the value of the economic advantage that has been brought to the table. for these families who will be able to assist. Most of the time, the National Law is a place where a lot of situations such as the one affected by the European Union are the most important citizens, most of the time they are the ones who can block. The Ministry of Social Equality, the local government, we have all of them, says that the government has already decided to serve in the money that is in place to address a lot of necessities to help the people who are in need. So, assist us in the WFO. Sayon Keapote, how are you doing? Today, we thank the Agouimans on the Kayaale side for helping people who are in the sleepover, for helping people who are old, who have a disability, for helping people who are living with HIV, and for helping people who are in need. So, when I wait for the year 206,600 people who are in the sleepover, we will increase the sleepover to 3,600 with the help of the people who have a disability, the people who are living with HIV, and the people who are in need. So, the people who are in need, we will increase the sleepover. So, the village that is in need of a sleepover, it is a total of $700,000 a week with me, because I thank the World Food Program with the Indian government to give us a sleepover because it is a good way to help people who are in need to help people who are in need of a sleepover. When I was 27 years old in the corona virus, I was born in the country on May 8th, 2020. When I was taken care of when I was 9 years old, I was born on the 27th of August, I was taken care of on the 7th of Sunday, the 6th of September, but when I was born on the 9th of September, I was taken care of by the government. I was taken care of by the local government to have a sleepover in the country, because it is a good way to help people in need. the to be exposed to the dangers of the coronavirus in the country. For me, it is a matter that the assistance to identify and protect the coronavirus is to test the people who are fighting for their rights, and to ensure that the authorities are not satisfied with the results of the tests that are being conducted. Also, it is a matter of identifying and protecting the citizens to ensure that all citizens obey these protocols in place and ensure that the officers find everyone who is in contact with the citizens who are fighting for their rights. I would like to continue to investigate this matter and ensure that everyone who is in contact with the people who are fighting for their rights will continue to work and manage this hotel to ensure that everyone is in place, to sanitize, to reduce the possibility of the coronavirus and that all of these protocols are taken into account. I would like to continue to follow all these protocols in place to ensure that everyone is in contact and that all of these protocols are taken into account. I would like to continue to follow all these protocols in place to ensure that everyone is in contact with the citizens who are fighting for their rights. When we look at the situation, there is always a need to consider and make sure that we return to our country In addition to that, the government has decided to continue the initiative to present the opportunity for the citizens to take care of their families in this area. Chairman, I would like to thank you very much for your significant benefits for this job. Change here was a place that was abandoned. It was here where the water was. The government, through Invercent, developed this place. They put a lot of water, they put a lot of water. And people came and took care of it. This is a very different way of life. You go to the bank, you go to the bank, you go to school, you go to school, you go to the bank, you go to the bank, you go to the bank, you go to the bank, you go to the bank to do security. Chairman, I would like to thank you very much for your contribution. The place I live is where my family lives. I live in the Piesco area. But I would like to thank everyone who has helped me buy this place. And I would like to thank you for your contribution to the project. I would like to thank Invercent for the government for the project, because it was a very good project. And everyone who bought it was happy with the investment they made here. It was a pleasure to work with the government. With the government ministries, I would like to address them. Among them is the Prime Minister, Alain Chastney, who is also a representative of the Piesco area. I would like to thank you very much for the invitation. I would also like to thank everyone who has helped me buy this place. I would like to thank everyone who has helped me buy this place.