 Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition's top stories. A major training exercise gets underway as the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force increases its ability to deal with sensitive cases. Agricultural exporters gain new markets with the help of Export St Lucia, over $1 billion in recovery funding for the Bahamas, all that plus the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force is increasing and strengthening its capacity to deal with sensitive cases. A major training workshop for officers of the Vulnerable Person's Unit of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force was conducted Monday with support from the British High Commission. Channel Novel reports. Supported by the British High Commission, the Serious Sexual Offences course for members of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force attached to the Vulnerable Person's Unit, VPU, is being held over a two-week period. It is the first training workshop of its kind for the VPU and aims to increase and strengthen their capacity to deal with the sensitive cases that these officers have to handle on a daily basis. The two-week training workshop was developed, funded, and facilitated by the British High Commission. UK resident British High Commissioner Steve McCready indicated that the facilitators come with a wealth of knowledge and experience that they can share with the attendees with a view of enhancing their capabilities. The UK resident British High Commissioner emphasized the importance of the workshop. You're the ones here on the front line. You're the ones who deal with customers, not just from the UK, from all around the world, but also solutions and other Caribbean nations who face these crimes. You're on the front line. And without your ability and without your skills and without your expertise, the experience would be much, much worse for people who face these crimes. So I need to thank you again. Again, it's another reason why this training is so important. We've heard a few of the areas which are going to be addressed throughout this two-week course, which will enhance your skills and knowledge. Some of those are about gathering evidence. Some of those are about recording statements and others. Members of the Vulnerable Person's Unit are expected to undergo training in a number of areas, including investigation strategy, victim strategy, welfare and resilience, and victims and witness special measures, to name a few. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Krusita Pelius, noted that building on the expertise of this unit of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force is timely, as the number of serious sexual offenses perpetrated continues to rise. These offenses impact negatively on the victims, psychologically, emotionally and physically, and are difficult to be dealt with. This, as any other crime, concerns law enforcement. You are fortunate to have been selected to participate in this training as law enforcement officers, charged with the responsibility of investigating sexual offenses. You are the ones the victims will look up to or depend on to get sexual assault offenders apprehended and prosecuted. When you investigate professionally and are successful in apprehending and prosecuting offenders, you make it clear to the victims and citizens that this behaviour will not be tolerated. The Syria sexual offenses course opened on Monday, 27th January 2020 at the Royal St. Lucia Police Training Academy. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. The Government of St. Lucia is playing its part to ensure that farmers can meet their demands for exports in new territories. With the help of Export St. Lucia, farmers have tapped into new markets for a variety of products. In 2019, Export St. Lucia increased its role in assisting farmers to gain new markets for their products. The agency has become the intermediary for farmers who would otherwise not possess the skills to meet the requirements for exports. Chief Executive Officer of Export St. Lucia, Sunita Daniel, says that's where the agency intervened, helping agriculture exporters gain new markets. Farmers, their job is to grow. And that's all they do and they'll do it very well for you. But their job should not be to go out into every market to look for contracts and so that's where we come in. We get those contracts for them, we tie them in and we've really worked very closely with the Ministry of Agriculture. We're so thankful for their support. Daniel encouraged farmers to continue to produce while they do their part in ensuring that exporters are able to meet market demands. The market is getting increasingly demanding and they want to make sure that you are up to standard. You meet all the standards that are expected and so our job is to make sure that everybody is able to meet those standards and to get those markets. I just want to reiterate how important it is that farmers really keep to those standards because the market is not a problem. We have a lot of demand for solution products out there when we go into the market. It's really just to get the production and the standards up. Mangled trading, canals, farms, terino exports and other supplies of agricultural produce have been direct beneficiaries of assistance from Export St. Lucia and are making headway into new markets. Over one billion dollars in recovery funding and in-kind services was recently pledged at a private sector pledging conference for Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian has a category five storm-battered parts of the Bahamas in August of 2019, leaving immense devastation and loss of life. The Office of the Prime Minister of Bahamas in a release following the conference said the pledges included initiatives in home-building and repair, educational assistance, renewable energy partnerships, relief aid among others. In expressing his gratitude, the Bahamas' Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis, said the conference was an important step in the ongoing reconstruction and rebuilding efforts. Progress on the ground on Abaco, the Abaco Keys and Grand Bahama, including the removal of debris and the restoration of various services. Despite the progress, someone visiting especially Abaco and Abaco Keys these four months later will be shocked by the scope and scale of the devastation and the enormous, complex, and many challenges of rebuilding. Though this was a generational tragedy, we must rebuild as smartly and as speedily as possible. But there is still a long road ahead. This conference and other such efforts are an essential part of the rebuilding process. We are involved in humankind and their responsibility for rebuilding the lives and the communities affected by DORI. The bell that tolls is the bell of responsibility which we all share as fellow human beings and citizens of the global community. I thank all of you who have heard this call and who are answering the generosity, the hope and this fight. And this is the NTN 9th League. We'll be back in a moment. Here at St. Lucia Distillers, we produce an award-winning range of rums and rum products. We export our rums to the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Standards facilitate our entry into overseas markets. In the rum business, it is critical that our distillers and blenders get it right. St. Lucia Distillers is HASAP certified. We use two standards from SLBS, the standard for labeling of prepackaged foods. SLNS 1-3, 2014 and the National Specification for Rum, SLNS 12, 2003. Also a registered member of the West Indies Rum and Spirit Producers Association, WISPA. SLBS ensures that we are up to standard and world class. This message is brought to you by the Commonwealth Standards Network. Welcome back. After Derek Walcott, the St. Lucia poetic tradition, that was the theme of this year's St. Derek Walcott Memorial Lecture as part of the Nobel Laureate Festival. The lecture was presented by St. Lucia's author and poet, MacDonald Dixon. In its presentation, Dixon described how he stumbled on Derek's work and how it would change the trajectory of his life. About the same time, I also discovered Henry H. Spring, St. Lucia Historical, Statistical and Descriptive 1844 at the Central Library. And that book had a similar effect on me. Born at a period when the Walcott twins, Dunstan Sintoma and Leo Spa St. Helen, were in their prime. And through them, I came into contact with Harry Simmons. I could not have been more privileged. Under these enormous influences, I learned to look inward. An exercise that was not encouraged by our regular teachers who fed us on diets of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Goldsmith, The Brontes, and other fodder from the pages of the only literature they knew. There was a feeling of inferiority about our own after being told directly and indirectly that as a people, we never produced anything worthwhile to benefit civilization. Dixon spoke about the limited horde of books in the public libraries during his time, which according to him did not provide an impetus to create a nation of readers. Dixon found himself in those libraries, which would later foster his love for writing. In St. Lucia, we were yet to hear of the emergence of C. L. R. James, Mays, Hearn, Walcott, Selvon, and Naipaul. We schoolboys were not aware of BIM magazine, although there were whispers from other islands like Barbados and Trinidad that books about us existed. There were rumors of one George Lamming in Barbados and a fellow from B.G. writing in England who in time would emerge as Edgar Mittelhauser. Midway through the year came my apotheosis. After trespassing across the first page of 25 poems, I knew I had found the missing link to my reading fare. Dixon wanted future writers to know the value of those who went on before, to pave the way for them to follow suit. We sometimes take for granted the phenomenon that is Walcott. Without realizing the immense favor he has done us writers by monopolizing the St. Lucia idiom in body, soul, and spirit with a down-to-earth pragmatism that is his distinct individuality, which in the process provides us with a yardstick longer than an English yard to measure our own work. He has mined every metaphor under the sun, beginning before we knew ourselves and learned to recognize our first scribbles. His poem, 1944, was published in The Voice in October of that year and heralded his entrance on the local stage, giving notice to the world that a 14-year-old had mastered the art of cloning miltonic verse. That's a Derek Walcott moral lecture took place on January 21, 2020. And stay with the NtnNightly, up next is Primus Hutchinson with the Ntn Inferno Aquarium. If you are in receipt of an abnormally high bill, it is highly possible that you have a leak. That leak may not always be visible. Before you contact Wasco, conduct a do-it-yourself test. 1. Record your meter reading. 2. Do not use water for 30 minutes to 1 hour. 3. Take another meter reading. If the reading changes, you have a leak. Contact a plumber to identify and fix the leak at the earliest. A message brought to you by the Water and Sewage Company, Incorporated, Wasco. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the Ntn Inferno Aquarium. Ladies and gentlemen, the Department of Wasco's Ability for Information and Government Settlesy, that is GIS, and then the National Television, Ntn. Welcome back to the Ntn Inferno Aquarium. This is Primus Hutchinson. To start the Ntn Inferno Aquarium today, we have to pay attention to the address of the Prime Minister, Alan Shastney, to start the Ntn Inferno Aquarium. The Prime Minister said that in the Ntn Inferno Aquarium, we have to work very hard to start working seriously and therefore to change the situation there. First, he said, the problem that can be experienced to find a problem, I have reduced it to 27% to 17%. According to Prime Minister Shastney, the first action is to encourage and correct the population entirely. Prime Minister said that among the actions that I have done, the reduction of the tax rate by 15%, the reduction of the tax rate of the property, the reduction of the hospital money, the reduction of the water supply, double the allocation to eat at school and transfer. Among the other actions, according to Prime Minister Shastney, for agriculture, addressing the system justice and security, starting with the operation of the Nef Hospital, that is Owen King. We have also announced that there is a large amount of money that the government has spent to improve the development of a diverse establishment with an olive institution here. Particularly, the development of community centers, facilities and services are not paid for. For activity, Prime Minister Shastney mentioned the Pearl of the Caribbean, particularly Guancouse Chauval, which is a national anniversary Prime Minister declared the spectacular of the entire country, with Latin adidas and a lot of courses that I have planned for a month or so, in February, for the 21st anniversary of Erebalance. In the end, it was worth experiencing the pleasure of the women's business in the past, and many of them have been working for themselves. But public behavior and salvation that visited South Péria in Guancouse Prime Minister Shastney declared that he did not ask the Pearl of the Caribbean to ask for the Pearl of the Euronora the new award for water touristic to ask for the redevelopment of sand and canals to ask for the Free Zone in Euronora, which is very well performed. I have experienced this in the operation. Prime Minister Shastney announced his project that the government has already begun to address the situation of education since 2016. Prime Minister Alain Shastney announced his project that the government has already implemented and that it will be fully established. According to Prime Minister already, the government has spent 25 million dollars to provide education in the field of education to the children to serve the children with water as soon as possible. But the government has spent 10 million dollars to provide education in schools. This is the school that received from the school of Methodist Gordon Wolcott Memorial which was the first school to serve the children. According to Prime Minister there are several programs for the year 2020 with majorities that have been done by the Internet and the computer. Prime Minister, thank you to the Taiwan Government for providing education by the computer for the next three years to come. Congratulations to the Principal Neff for the school of Lewis, Dr. Keith Ness who has been able to enjoy the new program and that this program will be established in the future because you will have a studio to record music to reinforce and to indicate genius in communication and prediction. The Minister of Agricultural Affairs asked me to present the economic side of the U.S. for the future of these young people who are living in the West with good health. According to the U.S. the economic side is the one who is able to live well with social equality. I will start with another official official of the program Mr. Carl Augustine declared that he will work to protect the resources of the ECTEP and I will engage the community to support the organization so that they can learn how to serve the program at the same time to protect the living of the animals. Augustine will also provide a project that will help us to engage the cultivators to plant fruits so that they can sell and establish fruits so that they can share their income with other cultivators according to Augustine so that they can serve fruits and fruits so that they can serve before. The official declared that he will contribute more with the protection of water with my economic benefits. That's why we are here today with Mr. Augustine so that we can have an invitation so that we can have a lot of new water with Mr. Augustine so that we can have a lot of new water Mr. Opel Primus and here's a look of what's happening to us weather wise. Winds will be blowing in the east and southeast near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour becoming lighter at times. The island will experience fair to partly cloudy skies with a chance of few brief isolated showers. An increase in cloudiness with a few scattered showers is expected tomorrow. The Atlantic high pressure system will continue to generate light to moderate easterly winds during the next few days. A weak frontal trough will continue to cause occasional cloudiness with a few showers over the northern Leeward Islands over the next 24 hours. Relatively dry and stable conditions will prevail over the other eastern Caribbean islands for the rest of today. An approaching weak low level trough is expected to cause an increase in cloudiness and a few scattered showers over the islands tomorrow. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with the repeat at 7am. Thank you. You can also catch up with us anytime on the San Misha Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Misha Tross.