 Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Misha Charles. This edition stops stories. Saint Lucia to Banday Portation of Styrofoam Containers as of June 1, 2019. USAID helps to strengthen Saint Lucia's response to Zika. The ancillary seafood festival is prepped with trained vendors. All that, plus the latest in youth development, sports, and the NTN Nouvelle Arquillon. Saint Lucia will ban the importation of foam and plastic food service containers as of June 1, 2019. This was announced by the Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, Honourable Dr. Gail Rigabert during the debate on the appropriation bill, 2019-2020. The minister cited research that shows that food service containers made from polystyrene and plastic negatively affects our health and environment. And as studies have shown, food service containers made from what we know as Styrofoam, along with plastics, have continued to negatively affect the health of citizens and the cleanliness of our environment. In this regard, the Department of Sustainable Development in partnership with other key agencies such as the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, the Department of Economic Development, Ministry of Commerce, the Department of Finance and the Customs and Excise Department over the last few months have worked towards the development of a suitable strategy to eliminate single-use plastics or Styrofoam from our market and environment. In the first instance, the government will be phasing out the importation of all Styrofoam food service containers including cups, plates and hinged takeaway containers and other selected plastic cups, plates and containers. Thereafter, a ban on the use of these products will become effective immediately on June 1, 2020. And selected plastic food service containers landed after May 31, 2019 will not be released by the Customs and Excise Department. These items will be phased out over a one-year period commencing June 1, 2019 until May 31, 2020. This approach will allow all stakeholders a chance to exhaust their current stock of Styrofoam and the selected plastic food service containers and to source environmentally friendly alternatives. The importer will bear the associated costs for disposal of any seized items. Minister Rigobot lauded the private sector for its cooperation in effecting the ban. Saint Lucia's response to Zika and Arbovirus is expected to be strengthened as the United States Agency for International Development at the USAID hosted a social and behaviour change workshop recently. More in this report from Miguel Morissette. The workshop is aimed at enhancing the capacity of participants to increase the practice of priority healthy behaviours in the community as it relates to vector control. Medical Officer of Health Dr Sharon Belma George says vector-borne diseases are of significant public health importance therefore there must be the integration of social and behaviour interventions in health programmes. This workshop is extremely timely and I'm also happy to see the presence of our partners because at the Ministry of Health we cannot do it alone. We need the support of all of our partners to get at the level of the communities. Acting Chief Environmental Health Officer Parker Ragnannon says it is important that a collective action in the community be undertaken for vector control. We hope that you're going to be change engines in your community, in the society, and be responsible to seeing that there is an integrated vector management approach that is undertaken because for too long as a country we've depended on using chemicals to treat for vectors. What we have seen is the results are very clear that you cannot do the same thing all the time and expect a different result and therefore the results that we are seeing is evident that the chemical treatment is not working. A participant of the workshop, Lucy Lubringirad, believes this workshop will assist her in making changes in the community. I am confident that I will be able to facilitate a better intervention programme with all the skills and knowledge that I have acquired. I also learnt strategies to get maximum community participation and involvement focusing on the stakeholders and the resources required to effect that change and to be able to monitor and evaluate the impact of the intervention on the ground. Another participant, Alicia Elevic, also shared her perspective on the workshop. As community leaders, we always figure the main thing is to put them out perhaps if there is a meeting, put the notice on the radio station and expect persons to come. But having come to this training, I realised there is a target audience, there are other factors to be considered when calling a meeting even when conducting a survey, etc. A key element of the workshop was a data collection exercise on vector control in Grusile. From the communications unit in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Miguel Morrisett reporting. A burst of flavours can be experienced at the Anslerace Seafood Festival come April 26. This follows weeks of rigorous training to shape vendors and their assistance to deliver to international standards. Given the growing trend in coronary travel, local officials are taking bold steps to create a niche around St. Lucia's offerings. The St Lucia Tourism Authority and the Ministry of Tourism have joined efforts to enhance the offering of the Anslerace Seafood Festival. Under the supervision of Chef Didier LeBeurre, 15 vendors and 30 assistants are receiving training in culinary creativity, safety and presentation. The six-week program has afforded the 45 trainees the opportunity to demonstrate their newly acquired culinary skills weekly at the Seafood Festival. Jackie Mathra is the Senior Marketing Manager at the St Lucia Tourism Authority. With communities like Anslerace helping to drive culinary and the culinary experience in St. Lucia, we really saw the need to develop the skill set of our young people and to really bring up our level in the sense of presentation, the sense of using our local produce and really creating something really wonderful and exciting around the whole niche of cuisine and cuisine tourism. Aldrich Evans is the Chairperson of the Anslerace Seafood Committee. Aldrich Evans, who operates a smoothie bar, is also on the going training in mastering the art of creativity, safety and presentation. He says working with Chef Didier is very exciting and the vendors are serious about advancing their skills. With this training, I think it has mobilized the people. The people have learned how to do their stuff a little different to showcase their product. And I think it will be a great thing for them and this is the opportunity they're going to take now. There's a lot of advantage over it and then to do a very good thing for themselves because this is what they depend on. So I think they're going to do the best out of it. Seafood vendor Nadia Chalmain says the training has put the skills of seafood vendors to the test. She adds that when the training is all over, the Anslerace seafood experience will be one with a difference. On a normal Friday, I will try it to see people such as creole shrimps, creole larvae, and steamed and banana leaf. We have tried it and it was a very good experience. The Ansleracee Food Festival will get on the way on Friday, April 26, 2019, when the public will have the opportunity to experience culinary delights of international standards with an all-siclution flavor. The Viewford North Constituency Council has delivered on its mandate to improve the quality of life for residents, more from Chef Roy Marius. Maneuvering over flooded canals is now a thing of the past for the residents of the Viewford North Kaku Community. We received a newly constructed mini-bridge walkway donated by the Viewford North Constituency Council. The handing over ceremony took place during the weekend in the Vijay Kaku Community. Chairperson of the Viewford North Constituency Council, Miss Kate Admey, echoed the importance of council's role in community development. Let me say to you that council's role is to improve the people's lifestyle to meet their basic need. The residents on the other side of this road had very little or no access to find themselves to the main road in order to either send their children to school or go to work in order to help their financial needs within the family structure and especially if a sick member needs medical care. It was very difficult to cross through this little structure that you can see in order to get this person to a health institution for medical care. The mini-bridge walkway will provide a secure access route for several families who traverse the road on a daily basis. Local government officer in the department of local government, Miss Keisha Atil, commanded the Viewford North Constituency Council for the timely donation. Today, I am very proud to see that Viewford North Constituency Council is here in Kaku to provide some support to the residents by building this access route. So on behalf of the Ministry of Equity on behalf of the Department of Local Government I wish to say thank you to the residents for accepting the little that we gave to offer to you today and we pledge to continue to support in any way that we can. Residents in the community extended special thanks to the donors for the much needed walkway. I would like to say how much I appreciate and we in the community we appreciate the work that has been done there so far. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. The walkway is the Constituency Council's first project in the Vijay Kaku community. Reporting from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment, I am Shivre Marius. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. There are signs everywhere. Pay attention whether you are male or female. Visit your health center to get screened. It's a preliminary test to determine if you are exposed to the HIV virus and STI or tuberculosis. Some people who are HIV positive also have tuberculosis. But there is help. Tuberculosis can be cured. And yes, you can live a full life with HIV. Talk to your doctor. Be responsible. Help stop the spread of TB, HIV. Help everyone to get tested. 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 happenings in youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. The Second Physical Education and Sports Conference was held recently at the Beanfield Comprehensive Secondary School. Physical Education Specialists in the Ministry of Education, Alice Poris, outlined the objectives of the conference. The objectives of this conference are to bring physical education teachers and other sport leaders together in a professional setting to share ideas and best practices, to identify problems affecting physical education and sports, to identify possible solutions and to generally highlight and raise the profile of the physical education profession. This year's theme is Physical Education for Nation Building. I'm sure everyone in here understands the impact that physical education and sports can have on an individual, a community, and a country. I know firsthand the impact that sports can have on an individual. If done correctly with long-term visionary planning, sound structures, linkages between the various agencies in our system, and provision of the necessary resources, physical education and sports can have a significant positive impact on the lives of our citizens. Dr. Alice Poris went on to say that following last year's resounding success of the conference, it was decided that local knowledge, skills, and expertise would have again been used for this year's event. She, however, noted that as the conference continues, there remains a possibility of presenters from overseas being used. In time as the conference grows, we will invite our colleagues from the region to join us. In the interim, our local persons are getting the opportunity to further develop their presentation skills to hopefully present at regional and even international conferences. I'd like to recognize our sponsors, UNICEF, Flow and the National Lottery Authority. Without their assistance, this conference would be a conference on paper. We would still be talking about it. The Mass United All-Star Team chosen after the 2019 Mass United Insurance under 19 in the secondary school's cricket competition had an outstanding win recently against the traveling Worcestershire under 19 squad from England at the Grooseley playing field. The young Worcestershire team batted first and scored 151 for 6 of their 30 overs with Edward Bragg scoring an attractive 56 not out. When the Mass United All-Star team batted, it was a brilliant batting performance by Akimogis who scored a stroke field 78, which contained 11 forwards and 3 6s that propelled the Mass United Insurance under 19 team to victory, gathering 155 for 6 in 27 overs. The Mass United All-Star Team comprised Akimogis, Ephron Charles, Keyon Gaston, Marklin Estefan, Dick Hedge Henry, Denzel Roberts, Amari Venner, Tyrone Thielo, Craig Elizay, Keegan Arno, Tiedon Elibox, Lee Solomon and Bolton Sears. The Ministry of Development and Sports will be holding a review of the recently held inter-secondary school's track and field championship at the Conference Room of the Ministry on Friday, April 26. Physical education teachers representing the various schools that participated in the two meets are expected to be part of the review. Additionally, among events of the school sports programming for the current term will be Special Eds, Table Tennis and the Primary Schools Netball Festival. And that's your update on your development and sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. Children in the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital are expected to benefit from a safe sleeping space as a donation of cribs and towels were made recently. More on this report from Phinell Neptune. The St. Lucia Mother's Day Committee of Brooklyn, New York recently made a donation of cribs and towels to the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital. A member of the committee, Claudia Ogistanisla says her organization remains committed to giving back to the citizens of St. Lucia. We are hoping this will bless the hospital that they will be distributed to. Our mission is to help our home country the best way we can and when this opportunity comes to us, we could not let it go. We would also like to thank Mr. Ernil Johnny for thinking of us when this opportunity popped up. Departmental sister of obstetrics and Child Health Services of the Victoria Hospital, Cecil Marcellis says she is extremely grateful for the donation of the cribs which will ensure the safety of the children. This donation is important in that it will assist with the safety of our younger children in the department because as we know children are very active and sometimes even though they are ill we still need to ensure the safety. A total of 18 cribs were donated to the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Phenel Neptune. And stay with the NTN Nightly, up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquillon. Preparation is to make sure that the food is served at every portion, particularly after a disaster. Millions of people who have suffered from joint diseases. Be careful when buying food. If you examine it well, it could be too bad to look at it to make sure it is not too bad. If you buy it at the same price keep it in stock for free in the Ministry and if you want to buy it you can examine it if it is satisfactory for you. If you buy it, you can buy it for the people who are still suffering from chronic leukotomy, wash them well and then they will be very careful. Take care of them when they come and eat it fast. Serve them on a plate with other things in it to catch up when they leave. Put them at home before eating them and eat them after you finish their meals. If you don't have food for three days and the only thing left is to have a massage before eating, since after a few days Welcome back. We join Prime Minister Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle-en-Cueil. Mr. Utan Nishih, I am the Secretary of State for Information and Information for the Government of this country. This is GIS, the National Television of the NTN, the Nouvelle-en-Cueil, the Prime Minister Hutchinson. A continuation of his presentation by Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney, pay attention to his education. According to Prime Minister Chassney, the Government has never been in place to advance education for all ages and to deal with academic and vocational disabilities. Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney, the Government has approved technical education and also participated in sports, culture and acting in a way to achieve total ability to follow the program of education at secondary school. Prime Minister Chassney declared that the program of training for professional development for the rest of the year will not be able to deliver restrictions for the students in the country. Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney also announced that the Government has added $10 million to the program to provide education for the rest of the year. The program of education at secondary school has added $2.5 million to Prime Minister Chassney so that it can facilitate the study to strengthen the ability to prepare for the first time for employment in the country. The residents of the community have a strong role in this. I have found that the water supply is very high. I have a good example of this. I have a good example of this for the residents of the country. This is because of the support that comes from the community in front of the community that can initiate this to build a new business. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community. Chief of the Council of North V4, Madam Kate Edmé, to strengthen this role in the development of this community. The responsibility is to improve the life of the residents so that they can live more safely. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community so that it can facilitate the study to strengthen the ability to prepare for the next time for employment in the country. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community so that it can facilitate the development of this community. Village Oslaway is in a position to support the large number of people in this area to support the development of this community so that it can help the residents to get a living. This is to help the residents to participate in the study to strengthen the ability to provide a good place for them to live. This is to help the residents to provide a good place for them to eat in the international food. This is to provide a good place for them to eat in the international food. São Paulo province prec park, Thank you, Pail Primus. And here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Skies are fair with a slim chance of showers. A gradual increase in cloudiness and showers is expected over the forecast period. The Atlantic High Pressure System will maintain a moderate easterly to east-north-easterly wind flow across the eastern Caribbean region for the next few days. A weak share line is causing some shower-y spells over the central eastern Caribbean islands. The tide for Castries Harbor was low at 12.54pm and will be high at 7.29pm. The tide for V4 Bay low at 2.21pm and will be high again at 8.36pm. Seas are slight to moderate with waves and swells 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Wednesday at 5.45am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. 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