 Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. The Caribbean community pulls resources as relief efforts get underway in Hurricane battered Bahamas. Saint Lucia talks about a resource management resilience in the face of climate change. Musicians exchange notes through the OECS mentorship and artist development program, all that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. Saint Lucia's Prime Minister and Chairman of the Caribbean community, Honourable Alan Shasne, has expressed solidarity with the government and people of the Bahamas following the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian. Grand Bahama Island and Abaco Islands felt more than the brunt of Dorian, which landed as a Category 5. It remains stationary over the islands from September 1st to September 3rd. Thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed. Five deaths have been officially confirmed thus far in what Prime Minister Honourable Hubert Minnis has described as a historic tragedy. Prime Minister Honourable Alan Shasne says at this time, Kharkham stands ready to give whatever assistance is required to deal with the efforts of this tragedy. Honourable Shasne informed that in advance of Hurricane Dorian, the Caribbean disaster emergency management agency, SIDEMA, took the lead to coordinate the regional response mechanism and deployed two rapid needs assessment teams to the Bahamas. The teams have since informed that the immediate needs of the islands are water and water pumps. And the government of Saint Lucia has pledged its full support to the recovery efforts of the Bahamas after the passage of Hurricane Dorian. Turin Gustave is the acting director of the National Emergency Management Organization. The water system is wells, right, and you can just imagine with the storm surge, the high level of water that the wells are no longer, well, can no longer provide the clean and safe water that they would need. However, we cannot say that immediately that we are going to appeal to the public for bottled water. We need to determine how best we can get this resource to them. Ms. Gustave notes that discussions are ongoing to determine the best way possible to get water to the Bahamian people. The Bahamas is a way off. It's not as close as Dominica where we could get one of our partners to come on board and ship the items. So we will determine how best do we make an appeal for persons to contribute money and send to them? Or do we get the water and get someone to take it up there to them? Meantime, Siddema has advised that monetary contributions would be easier logistically as procurement of needed items can be purchased at locations closer to the Bahamas. The government of St. Lucia thanks persons who have expressed interest in this humanitarian thrust and encourages everyone to make their cash donation at the following accounts in the name of the government of St Lucia. The passage of Hurricane Dorian and before it, Hurricanes Urma and Maria have presented a new frightening normal to the Caribbean of super monster storms. Caribbean governments and agencies over the years have been examining resilience at every possible level. Here in St Lucia, there has been focus on the critical water sector and the management of water resources. Higher temperatures and more extreme less predictable weather conditions, all effects of climate change are projected to affect the availability and quality of water. Changes in water availability will also impact health and food security. It is for this reason that the Water Resources Management Authority WRME in St Lucia is working towards ensuring that the country becomes more resilient. Acting Director of the WRME Jason Ernest, highlighting the critical need for conservation, explained some of the initiatives undertaken by the WRME. In terms of looking at WASCO intakes as a baseline so it's there, how best we can protect it so that the water quality is not affected because the more WASCO has to shift the intakes higher up into the watershed that means less of the water resource that they would have at particular times of the year because in St Lucia we have many tributaries and WASCO have the intakes on tributaries so the higher up you go the drainage area you have coming into those areas would be significantly diminished and that would affect the areas that are being supplied from those intakes so it's one of protecting what we have now and then seeing what initiatives that we can implement to actually augment our water supply. Project Manager at the WRME Rupert Lea indicated that the Authority has embraced an integrated approach in ensuring that there is a reliable sustainable and equitable supply of water. The WRME also works closely with the forestry department as forests provide significant benefits. It reduces evaporation for instance and trees forestry retain water. One, secondly, they are critical in maintaining slopes, keeping the structural integrity of slopes intact and preventing what we always have a problem with during times of storms, landslides and so on. Whenever you have a landslide you lose a portion of your water resource through groundwater. Water is at the core of sustainable development and it's critical for socio-economic development, energy and food production, healthy ecosystems and for human survival itself. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. In other news, in preparation for the new school year, a delegation from the OECS commission visited the Debarra Combined School in Barbano to deliver school bags and supplies. The relationship between Debarra School and the OECS was established approximately 10 years ago. Josep Edward Shalmine, Program Officer in the Environmental Sustainability Cluster and Miss Sally Ann Alfred, Paralegal Officer in the Legal Unit, continued to work with staff of the OECS commission to coordinate recurring donations to support the students. So good morning Mr. Joseph. In keeping with the OECS commission's commitment to continue assisting the Debarra School and the students of the Debarra School, we are happy to present with the bags this morning which was made possible through the contributions of staff of the OECS commission. Thank you. So on behalf of the teachers, the staff, the parents and the children of the Debarra Primary School, I would like to say thank you to the staff of the OECS. We are always happy to accept the kind of assistance that you have provided. We are happy that you have partnered with us and we look forward to continuing with this partnership. Our children have benefited significantly from your help and from your assistance, from your generosity. And so we say thank you once again. We are happy to have a partner like you. Thank you very much. The Ireland's Minister for Education has been handing out our own assistance packages to returning students. Anise Antoine tells us more. Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development and Parliamentary Representative for Miku Nof, Honourable Dr. Gil Rigabet, presented groceries to students in District 7. Over the past three years, Minister Rigabet has collaborated with various partners for the benefit of children and parents from the constituency of Miku Nof. I believe firmly that to give our children a sure start was critical to ensuring their success in their adult life. The grocery program has expanded to include primary, secondary and tertiary level students. We are honouring the top performers from the primary schools in our district. We are also affording some of you the opportunity of pursuing a tertiary education at Salas and Risk Community College. Some of you have asked for NAPSACs, others for books. And in some cases, we are also distributing what I call back-to-school hampers. The grocery program was financed by the St Lucia Social Development Fund, the St Lucia Diaspora and the business community of Miku Nof. From the Government Information Service, I am Anise Antoine reporting. And this is the NTN nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. Groundtick cover underneath a sturdy table or desk and hold on until the shaking stops. Stay away from the walls, windows and doors. Use your hands to cover your head and face and crouch in a corner of the building. But what if you're outside? What's an open space away from buildings, trees, street lights and utility wires? Drop to your knees, protect your head with your arms and wait for the shaking to stop. Remain alert to your surroundings. Be prepared to change where you are if necessary to promote your safety. During an earthquake, anything that can move and fall, pots of a building including doors, walls and windows, furniture and appliances can be a hazard. Remember, protect yourself from anything that can move. Do not panic. As soon as you feel the ground shaking, drop, cover and hold on. This message brought to you by the Viewport South District Disaster Preparedness Committee and NEMO and funded by the U.S. Aid Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks Misha. Welcome everyone to your update from youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Minister responsible for youth development and sports, the Honourable Edmund Estefan says government will continue providing the enabling environment for sportsmen and women in St. Lucia to excel. Minister Estefan made a statement to Parliament recently. Today, Mr. Speaker, our young people, our sportsmen and women continue to make us proud. Mr. Speaker, words cannot express the sincere gratitude we feel as a country for the level of effort and dedication demonstrated by our team sports personalities. Mr. Speaker, it is my distinct pleasure as Minister with responsibility for youth development and sports to bring to your attention and that of our Honourable House, the recent competitions and the recent successes of our various athletes. The Youth Development and Sports Minister made a commitment to sportspeople that government will continue to support their efforts to achieve excellence. Mr. Speaker, I wish to assure this distinguished sportsmen and women that my ministry and this government will continue to support their efforts. We will continue to do so with programming, with the establishment of our sports academy and that is going to help our footballers who are going to be the first ones to occupy that academy in Rosili. They will be supported, we will continue supporting them financially as we have started and we will continue to roll out all our major sporting facilities to make St. Lucia a place that everyone in the Caribbean would want to come when it comes to sports. Minister Estefan's statements comes after a month in which St. Lucia recorded regional and international success in the sporting arena. One of the island's sporting personalities achieving success on international stage was Javelin Thoreau, a national champion, Albert Reynolds, who won a bronze medal at this year's Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru. Senator the Honourable Fortuna Belrose, who is also the President of the St. Lucia Olympic Committee Incorporated, put Reynolds' achievements into greater perspective. Albert had many challenges before he went to Pan Am. Many, many, many challenges, from injury to joint pain, you name it, he had it. And if anybody looking at him would say, people looking at him would say, boy, it may not be ready yet, we're not going to invest in him. But we sat him down and he told us his plan and what we did was to support that plan. Senator Belrose spoke during a ceremony to mark Reynolds' success and that of a number of the island's sports personalities. The ceremony was held at the Prime Minister's official residence. That's your update for today from youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. Thanks, Ryan. St. Lucia was the latest stop for the music mentorship and artist development program launched recently by the OECS competitive business unit. The program connects musicians 30 years and under with established and experienced professionals in a series of discussions across OECS member states. Here's Janelle Norville. OECS Music Talk is geared towards providing young musicians with the opportunity to learn from experienced and seasoned professionals creating an avenue to discuss critical issues facing the industry in OECS member states and across the wider region. OECS Commission's head of statistical services unit within the division of economic affairs and regional integration, Dr. Gil Archibald, explained that St. Lucia is the third member state to host the initiative. She noted that the initiative falls under the OECS Commission's Youth Empowerment Society, yes, from which a youth development strategy was developed. It consists of two parts, yes, I earn, supporting the youth in gaining employment and venturing into entrepreneurship and yes, I am in culture, which focuses on creativity and utilising culture as a means of earning. Dr. Archibald highlighted the commission's goals coming out of the discussions. We hope that the music industry in all of the countries can get the sort of financial support, but you know, there's always the requirement for legislation for regulations and policies so that the artists, their creativity are protected, because if people are going to continue to download and stream, then they're going to eat into the value that they can create from their ideas and their intellectual property. So through that as well, the relationship with the mentors and the mentees, the mentees and the artists will explain some of the challenges they are confronting and to see how we can bring that to the member states, not individually, because the OECS Commission, one of the things we can do is to have common policies and common legislation, which can be applied to all the countries. Mentors for St. Lucia included Irving S. Showing Doop's Brice, Claudia Edward Ladner, Arthur Ale, and Tagesson Pen Joseph. Claudia Edward expressed gratitude having been selected as one of the mentors to assist the up-and-coming musicians. Providing words of advice, she encouraged them to keep striving no matter the challenges, challenges which she indicated can make or break them. The musician also emphasised the importance of exposure as it relates to the growth of a musician. Getting into those festivals such as the Roots and Soul Carnival, these are great avenues for artists to begin honing their craft. But at a certain point, I would hope that musicians are seen as something good enough to put as a show and not just as an opening for a show, if you understand what I mean. So musicians have to always aim to be part of a show instead of being the one opening for the big show. Seeing a songwriter, producer, Showing Doop's Brice utilising his vast experience in the music industry offered advice to aspiring musicians. Most importantly, you have to stay focused, set your goals, set reasonable goals, set big ones, and plan backwards. So if you're working on an album, you need to look at it from a song by song, figure out your team, build a team. Having a team is very important and never give up and keep pressing on. Simple but hard to do sometimes. The programme also sought to explore ways in which each country can further discussions on major themes and or areas for developing the industry along the lines of music management, marketing especially in the age of digital marketing, stage craft and presentation and music production. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. And stay with the NTA nightly. Up next, Parmus Hutchinson is here with the NTA, Nouvelle-Arcweol. Par sprays these plants too often, or sprays all the plantations in their cells. Plants that eat sprays affect other plants very easily. For more information on the way to treat and control new diseases, I am Janelle Norville. Her department calls to manage new diseases in the age of 4, 5, 4, 9, 4, 5, 8, 9, 4, and email her at bpmuatcandw.lc. Welcome back. We join Parmus Hutchinson for the NTA and Nouvelle-Arcweol. M. Ota Nechah, M. Mdm, Department of Universities for Information and Government of this year. This is the G.I.S. of the NTA, Nouvelle-Arcweol, Primes Hutchinson. I'd like to address the problem of the quality sufferer, the court guard, and the exemitter. I would like to highlight the condition of the NTA, the possibility that there is a capability to control the NTA for the next 20 years. I would like to propose to the NTA to work on the NTA for the next 20 years. Chef consultant, Gain Business, Norman St.ville, he was called to work on the NTA. And also, the White House, which has the benefit of the construction of the 40-metre NTA for the next 20 years, which is the total construction of the 640-metre NTA. I would like to address the problem of the quality sufferer, the possibility that there is a possibility that there is a possibility that there is the possibility that there is a possibility that the NTA will last for the next 20 years. For the first time in the history of Settlesie, government pay here to change your meeting cabinet and support pay here to serve you for MIM. Decisions for change meetings are there that follow the government's will to sign operations and to place please clarity on your attention to develop Fassad Settlesie. Prime Minister Onimab Allen Shasne declared that, like everyone else, Fassad Settlesie is one of the most developed countries in the world. First of all, I would like to ask you to build and support pay here. For me, it is the construction of a new building for the jet-gawi aircraft. We developed it in Hiwanora, Webatisma, Lopital St. John, Ojo Lab. Poget, abepoget, pool of the Caribbean, he was scared at the end of my father's life. The Prime Minister asked me to take the government and continue to work together and then put people there for an opportunity to make a first change and develop my country. That's it. I said, I will continue and then the Ministry of Education and then I will go to school and then I will go to school and then I will go to school and then I will go to school to study with the prime minister and then that was time, at that time, we had the opportunity to do what was possible in that time and to places in another school in that time so that this new school could look like. We visited there I was the 😄 move we went there 20 days, and we were happy able to have the capacity we are not doing the most bad things that we have done in school, but that is a good project. We are doing the same things, the infancy grouselay priming. We are doing the same things, we are putting the school to retire. We are trying to make the school, you know, the same boy, you know, so you know. So, what we want to do is, we can save the children, we can do that. But it's not just to save them, but it's also for us. But the best opportunity for these teachers to have a skill set, talent, and buy food for their students. We do this with patience. We know that in the Catholic Church, there are bad conditions. We talk about talent, what we do, what we do, and what we do with people like Mr. Frontinade. We don't know how to talk about skills. And the quality of the work is not enough to make skills for the next generation. So, no skills, no patience. Everyone has a job and is able to prepare their own life and work for that. So, we do this with patience, not with patience. We do this with patience, not with patience. We know that the work is not enough to make skills for the next generation. We know that the work is not enough to make skills for the next generation. Thank you. specialised classrooms, you can meet your beltie twiz in there, you can in your beltie music room. In fact, there are also some teachers who can teach and some of them can play by their mamayla. If you want to continue, then you have to do a lot of programs. If you want to get to know the news today, then you have to go to the temple to watch. Then you have to invite people to come and sit. And because of that, then you have to do a lot of programs. Then you have to do a lot of programs. Mainly over the extreme southern portion of the region today. Another tropical wave located several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 km per hour. This wave is expected to affect the region from late Thursday into Friday. The tide for Castris Harbor was low at 12.55 pm and will be high at 7.29 pm. The tide for Vierfort Bay was low at 222 pm and will be high again at 8.36 pm. The sea is slightly moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters becoming slight with waves 2 to 4 feet or 0.6 to 1.2 meters tonight. The sun will rise Thursday at 5.52 am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 pm with a repeat at 7 am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Celusia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Tross.