 Are the presidency, Jane Callaghan, Yeezy, mysigrid Nana, invited guest members of the media, good morning and thank you for being here at the NPN studios. Of course we're here to celebrate the Nobel Laureate Festival as we do annually and this year we have so many different events that we have for you and we hope that of course you at home will come and attend. So we are going to be letting you know what's going to be happening this year ..y'n dwi'n gweithio'n arddangos i fynd i'r ffemysgfa. Yn y bydd yma ymddangos yng nghymru yw'r cyffredin.. ..y'r cyffredin honno'r newblariad ffesifol. Herksensi Dane Pelekentwm Ymwgysig. Ddod i'n gofyn am ysgol. Yn gweithio ddim yn gwneud ymddangos i'r hyn.. ..er i'r ffesifol yn bobl yn gweithio'r ENTN. Yn y gweithio'n gweithio, yfnod ymlaen yng nghymru.. ..y'r ffesifol newblariad.. 13 January to 26, 27, and continuing. We've been doing this for the past 26 years. In fact, this is the 26th edition of the honoring of our laureates. By now, most people in St. Lucia would know why we have this festival, but because I know that we have extended our reach a little to bring in persons who would not normally have been listening to these kinds of productions. I just want to give a reason why it is this time of year. The 23rd of January is in fact the birthday of our two Nobel laureates. So, as I say every year, if anybody has any intentions of having their progeny as Nobel laureates, you arrange for them to be born on the 23rd of January. We have a theme every year. The main theme is celebrating excellence, because that is what the Nobel laureates are all about. But every year we have a sub theme, and this year the sub theme is 40 years on. So our general theme, celebrating excellence, 40 years on. Of course, two reasons why we chose this particular theme. Of course, we are going to be celebrating, or we should by now have started celebrating, the 40th anniversary of our independence. There will be a program obviously later on. But this year, the 40th year of our independence, is also the 40th year since Arthur received his Nobel prize for economics. So that is why our theme, celebrating excellence, 40 years on. And we have wrapped this theme around the general theme of the independence activities, which, if I get it correctly, is all in. We are all in it. It's our journey, our future. So that while we are celebrating the laureates, it's not just the two gentlemen, but all of us in the celebration of our independence as a nation, of our achievements over these past 40 years. Now, unfortunately, both of our laureates have passed on. But there should not be to my mind any dimning or weakening of our pride in what our two accomplishments have been able to achieve. So they may have gone to the great beyond. And if I should quote a little Hamlet, they have gone to the undiscovered born where, from which no traveler returns. But we are hoping that they may not be here physically, but I hope and I know they are here in spirit. So I would like to invite everybody to join in our celebrations. And just to reiterate that Novel Laureate Festival is not just simply honoring or celebrating the achievements of the two gentlemen, our two accomplishments. There is a second aspect to our celebration, and it is to give us an opportunity every year to celebrate excellence in our own achievements, to nurture the potential to unlock the potential that is within all of us. And you don't have to be an economist like Sir Arthur or a man of letters as Sir Derek. It could be anything at all, any profession. What we're looking at is excellence. And you will notice that from the programs that we're going to put on during the course of the festival. Two weeks and beyond. So let us all come in. We will be having programs over the next two weeks to tell you what's coming, what's going, what's happening. And just keep an air open, an eye open, and come in and let us celebrate ourselves, really. We're celebrating Sir Arthur William Lewis, Sir Derek Alton-Walka, but we are also celebrating St Lucia, St Lucia's. Thank you very much. And now it's time for the part where we encourage you all to ensure that you come to the events, not just in cashries, but all throughout St Lucia. So I'd like to invite Ciaran St Rose to tell us about the first event. As Julia said to you, my name is Ciaran St Lucia. My name is Ciaran St Rose and I am the coordinator of the church service and the breakfast. I'm here to invite every one of you to attend the church service and also the breakfast. The church service will be scheduled to be held at the abyss of the Immaclete conception, Mount of Preys, Cwbari. It's a long, long name, but we can say at Mount of Preys, Cwbari. The church service is scheduled for the 13th of January, which is Sunday coming at 7.45. And as I said, everybody in here is invited to attend the church service. It gives you an opportunity to meet us, to interact with us. Soon after the church service, we are having a breakfast at the same venue. The cost of the breakfast is only $35. So everybody should make an effort to attend and those who have never heard our one and only songster from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College sing the Nobel Laureate Song. It is a wonderful opportunity to... It is a wonderful opportunity to hear the song. She has a fantastic voice and I hear her every year and I still get carried away. So please make an effort to attend. It's at Cwbari 7.45 and the cost of the breakfast is $35. At the little breakfast, it would give you an opportunity to mix with the team. Find out from them a little about the Nobel Laureate Song. Just hear it on the road. But fine, let us talk to you to tell you whatever we know about the laureates. So again, I'm making a plea. Everybody should try to attend the church service followed by the breakfast. Anyway, thank you and see you there. Karen said it all there. The only thing that she missed was, of course, we know how wonderfully the nuns cook. They can cook. So you can always after the service and please don't cheat and not come to the service. But enjoy the breakfast with us as well. And we will, I'm sure, entice you to come out and visit some of the events. Now, I have a few events that I'd like to share with you and a couple of questions and perhaps you could honestly try to answer them in your minds. Many people don't realise that Sir Arthur Lewis became Britain's first black professor. Did you know that? Yes. Ah, well, you and you're in the committee. He did this at the University of Manchester in England. But have you ever thought how he managed to achieve everything that he did in those days? Because after all, it was 1948. Can you imagine how hard it must have been for him to forge his way? So he was actually there when he completed most of his important works. And in 1979, of course, he received the Nobel Prize for Economics. Through a series of videos and accounts by professionals, by professors and students of the University of Manchester, I have collaborated with them to put a really wonderful piece online that shows all the works or most of the works that he accomplished at the university. There are videos that discuss the effect and students talking about what they've learnt via some of the principles that Sir Arthur Lewis taught and actually explored. So we would invite everyone to go to the page. If you don't remember it right now, just go to Manchester.ac.uk or just type in Manchester University Sir Arthur and it will come up. There is a link and we'll put that up on the screen for you as well and on our Facebook page. So you can actually go there, spend a few moments listening, watching some videos, reading some of his works. You will be able to have access to that more or less straight away, although we have it down here as Monday the 14th. I've checked and it's there already. All right, also there was a building there named after him where the lectures take place and there's an annual lecture every year. Now on Friday the 18th of January, St Lucia's High Commissioner to the UK, his Excellency Guy Mears, will actually visit that building, the Arthur Lewis building, which was opened in 2015. His Excellency will also attend a luncheon, sorry, with Professor Brian Heffey, who is Head of Social Sciences, Professor Chris Wallace, who is Head of Economics, and Professor Angela Wilson, the School of Social Sciences, International Lead. The Commissioner will also meet St Lucia's, who are studying at the university, and also he will visit the community where he was very active, not just for St Lucia's in Manchester, but for Caribbean people in Manchester. So we'll be taking pictures and as a member of the Special Events Committee for St Lucia's in the UK, we have organised this. So if you are in the UK watching this, because of course the power of online media, you are going to be seeing pictures and some of the visitors that's there. Also, I'd like to know what is your perception of St Lucia's Nobel Laureate Festival? What do you really think it's all about? There are many things out there, people say, well, it's not for me, it's for a certain person, well no it's not, it's for everyone. So we're going to be asking questions like that. And also, how much do you know about our Nobel Laureates and how their works have influenced the world? We take a lot of these things for granted. So the Nobel Laureate Festival Committee would like to thank Choice TV for sponsoring a programme which will highlight those questions. It's going to be a very quick programme, so you don't have to sit and watch for hours. Five minutes, we'll ask you a question and we'll get someone there who can answer that. And at the end of the day, we hope that it will make you understand why we need to continue celebrating our Nobel Laureates. And that takes place from Monday the 21st of January to Friday, every day, five minutes before the news. No excuse, you're waiting for the news, so just turn it on, turn the volume up a little louder and then listen and understand. We're going to ask the questions that we think you need to know the answers to, but we are still open and receptive. If there is a question that you would like us to answer, please send it to us so we can answer that question. It is so important that we understand why it is so important. The last event I want to tell you about is about Barbara Ingoam and Paul Mosley's biography about Sir Arthur Lewis. In the biography, of course, he will talk about the man himself and his trials, tribulations, and the things that he experienced and conquered. And what they also do is they consider his friendships, his rivalries and the society, as it was in England at the time. I will be talking to Professor Mosley about the authors, how they decided how they were going to write the book, what are the features about Sir Arthur, they felt that people should know. And also how the book was received by everyone. It has had a lot of international acclaim, and yet so many people, and I think innocent Lucien don't even know that it's there. So we are going to be doing a live radio station in London, in the city of London, very close to the mayor's office, where we're going to be talking about that. That happens later on in the year, in fact, one day before independence. So you'll have enough notice about that. And it will be available on the podcast. So all the information here that I've given you, and everything else that everyone else is going to tell you, it'll be on the screen, and will also give you the reasons or the ways that you can get in touch with people at the end of the show. So thank you, and I'll go ahead and ask Christelle if she would like to come. Thank you. Good morning, good morning. Your Excellency, good morning, everyone. I'm here representing Santa Mary's College. My name is Christelle Lee. Every year, for the last 11 years, I think at this level we've been doing celebrations, a show for a Nobel Laureate festival called the Literary Night. Of course, the school has been celebrating at different levels for much longer than that, because guess what? The secondary school that the Nobel Laureates went to is none other than Saint Mary's College. So, of course, we always strive, like our theme says, to celebrate excellence and engender it in our students. So this is a time to expose and show the world what Saint Mary's College brings. So this year, we are looking at love, love as an answer, because we're in a society that we're seeing a lot of fighting, a lot of anger, so many things, so many ills, and we're thinking and we're exploring with the students, and they are showing us that love can answer a lot of questions. And you know there are different types of love. The Greeks spoke about loving different forms and so on, and all of these things are what will be coming to stage in dance, in song, in poem, spoken word. So this is a night that everyone needs to come out to. Everyone needs to come and see. When people sometimes think of love as only the relationship, the boyfriend and girlfriend, but there's love of nation, there's love of society, the brotherly love of just your fellow man, just the person that's on the road that we all need to take advantage of, understand, and engender in ourselves. So Saint Mary's College, the 25th of January, Friday, at the National Cultural Center, 7.30. Be there, or you'll miss it. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. My name is Pupetio James, and I'm here this morning with Miss Rubina Joseph. She is another member of our committee, and I would like to share with you some of the activities that we will be having as part of our Nobel Laureates Festival in January. We represent the January Development Foundation. We start our activity this year with a night of literary performances. We will be having drumming, we will be having the spoken word. We will also be having three plays, three short plays, directed by Mr Hayden Ford. We want to thank him so much for that. And on the same night, we will be having our lecture. So you would well imagine it will be a packed night where we have performances and everything else, and then we have a lecture. We are so very honored to have Mr Oban Dolo to do our lecture for us this year. And we are hoping, in fact, we know that we would have a very good time with him. He is somebody who I think can interact very well with audiences and so on. And he has confirmed that he will be there. This night, it climaxes with our annual cocktail, our annual Nobel Laureates cocktail. We can miss that because people look forward to that. We have a lovely cocktail after all the activities, the lecture, the performances. And stay around and talk about the evening and everything else. Another feature of our celebration in January is the involvement of our schools in the area. We will be having short presentations on the lives and work of our laureates. And this will be made at three schools in January. At the school assemblies, we would not be interrupting the schedule. We would go to the assemblies and make those presentations. Last year, a similar activity took place. And this was well received by both students and members of staff. So this year, we are doing it again with a little more, a question and answer session after the presentations. And we will be giving them some tokens. We have been able to secure some small tokens featuring our laureates. There are some locally made wooden key rings, whatever it is. And we will be sharing that with our students. And this particular activity would be managed by the Tenry Youth and Sports Council. Let me ask Miss Joseph to do the photo. Thank you. The Tenry Development Foundation would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made the event possible for us, especially in the past with the excellent Sydian Polet-Lewisi, and those who continue to do so to present. We thank you so very much for your continued assistance and you have so frequently assisted us in keeping the event alive. So we would like to invite everyone to our conversations. That's the name of our event. Our conversations on January 26, 2019 at 7 p.m. and to be held at the Chateau Heritage that's along the highway in Dennerry, right opposite the police station. You cannot miss it. So once again, let me take this opportunity to invite everyone, especially Dennerry community members, come out and support and celebrate our Nobel laureates. Thank you. Your Excellency, I don't need any introduction. I notice. So here I am, Margot Thomas of the National Archives Authority, and we have been with this committee from the beginning. And once again, the National Archives Authority is honoured to be part of the Nobel Laureate Festival. This year marks the 40th anniversary of St Lucia's independence and is also the 40th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Economics to our own Sir William Arthur Lewis. What better way to pay homage to our country and our laureates than by hosting an exhibition, just think about it, to showcase the growth of our island coupled with the achievements of our laureates? Our exhibition is entitled St Lucia's Independence 40 Years On and will run from Wednesday, 23 January, to 31 March at the National Archives VG. We look forward to your attendance at our exhibition, which will be launched on Wednesday, the 23rd of January at the National Archives. I would like to invite you to be there. It is the birth date of our laureates and we shall be celebrating with... Just think of what you need to celebrate. The exhibition will highlight the turbulent years prior to the granting of independence. Were you there? I was there. Some of you were, many weren't. We look at the independence celebrations and the important developments during each of the four decades until now. We must bear in mind that it was in the decade of the 1990s that Sir Derek Alton Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Let us continue to celebrate our laureates who epitomise excellence lest we forget. Let me remind you that the legacy of these gentlemen will continue to live on. We've certainly seen Viva Sant Lucia. See you there. Good morning. Good morning. So let me introduce myself. My name is Bookie Kane and I have an art gallery called Me Curator which is located at Massard Grosillais. So I would like to say thank you first of all to the committee for letting me take part in this event and being part of this amazing celebration of Sir Arthur Lewis and also Sir Derek Walcott. I will be hosting an art exhibition. So as you can see here we have examples of some artwork which have been done by some students. So my focus is to host an art exhibition on the 17th of this month at the gallery and it will feature artwork done by young students between the age of 16 and 20. It's in collaboration with the Nobel Laureate Committee and also the Tuvet unit. So my call is for young artists to come and submit an artwork based on the poetry of Sir Derek Walcott. In this instance the art work should be based on a poem called Saint Lucia II which is all about celebrating what it is to be Lucian, what it means to you, how you are from Saint Lucia, of Saint Lucia and it's within you. I'd also like to encourage everyone, everyone in fact to come to the art launch night which takes place on the 17th of this month and that will be at the art gallery, Me Curator art gallery from 7 p.m. And the launch night will feature works by the young artists who are again from Saint Lucia, representing the works by Sir Derek Walcott and also work done by other artists within Saint Lucia, young and also old. So it's just a case of saying thank you for your time and we look forward to seeing you guys there on the 17th. Good morning everyone. Your Excellency. For 2019 the Cultural Development Foundation through the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting in collaboration with the Nobel Laureate Festival Committee is pleased to yet again be hosting the Sir Derek Walcott Memorial Lecture. This year the lecture is going to be held on the 22nd of January and we will be embracing a new venue which should be very interesting in itself. The lecture will be held at the conference room of the Financial Administrative Building which ironically is right next to us. This event is absolutely free and we are inviting the general public to participate. Every year it is really a thought provoking lecture that takes place. From my introduction to the foundation I've always been engrossed and enthralled by what is put on by the foundation. And it is sad but also it drives you to want to get people to be a part of the experience and understand what the committee and the festival is about and what work these two incredible gentlemen have brought to St. Lucia and how they have really placed this little dot on the map internationally. This year the lecture will be delivered by Professor Gregson Davies. Professor Davies is an Andrew William Mellon distinguished research professor in the humanities at Duke University. Antigone born Professor Davies has established several journal articles on the poetry of Sir Derek Walcott and has edited a volume of his essays devoted to his work. His professional career in higher education in the USA embraces appointments at Stanford University spanning over two decades. I was not born yet. Cornell University for five years and Duke University over two decades with a two year intervening stint at New York University. His research and teaching has been divided between two classical studies and also comparative literature. This lecture promises to be enticing and again a very thought provoking one. The theme for this year's lecture is birds in the pictorial landscapes of Derek Walcott's poetry and drama. Again, I am inviting everyone and the entire simulation populist although I don't think we can take everyone but as many as we possibly can to be a part of this event. Again, it is absolutely free and it will be held on Tuesday the 22nd of January at the Financial Centre. Thank you. At 7.30, thank you so much for writing that one by me at 7.30. Thank you. Your Excellency, good morning everyone. I am here representing Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development. And if you have been following the festival you know that the ministry has had quite a number of activities on the festival calendar because we understand the importance of nurturing excellence, nurturing the next generation to, as our chair said, to make sure that we have future Nobel laureates in the making. So if you look at our calendar you'll realise the first week we have quite a number of activities on the Ministry of Education. From the 14th to the 19th is basically the school's contribution to the festival. On Monday the 14th we have the school's music festival and what we do every year is especially in the first term the music department we conduct festivals in all the districts across the island and out of that we select the best of the various aspects of music. So we have singers, we have choirs, we have instruments, a little bit of everything and on Monday we invite you it's 10 o'clock at the National Cultural Centre to come out and see the best of the next generation of musicians. On Tuesday the 15th we have the National Awards of Excellence and at that time Ministry of Education we take a moment to celebrate and to recognise persons, students as well as employees who have in some way been excellent in the recently concluded academic year. On the 17th and the 18th we have a new component this year. It's part of what we call our cultural explorations series. What has happened is, well you know we usually have our work at schools festival and out of that we try as much as possible to follow the philosophy and the interests of the Warkad family and between, well both brothers, our of course our Nobel laureate winner as well as his brother, they have really been part of all the areas in the arts and they have also through their work made sure that persons have an understanding of the culture of St Lucia. So in following those footsteps we are trying through this series to ensure that students and the general public get an opportunity to experience not only our culture but culture of various countries. So on the 17th and the 18th we will have a team coming from Trinidad and Tobago and they will be conducting workshops alongside with cultural practitioners in St Lucia. This is going to be for secondary schools. And then on the 19th we have a young St Lucia, Shatoia Jabaptis. She has her own dance company called I hope I'm saying it correctly, The Sheer Experience. And on the 19th at the Grosile secondary school she has brought together a group of choreographers from the US, from Barbados and of course from St Lucia and they will be exploring and looking at similarities, techniques and cultural connections in terms of dance. So we're inviting you to come out for that. This is for the general public as well. It will cost you only $65. It starts at nine and ends at 4 p.m. Now in terms of our work at schools festival one of our major elements we try to have every year some sort of performance and this year we are collaborating with youth and arts and they will be repeating their performance of Maskerid Master which was written by one of our committee members, Miss Junior Frederick and we actually have three performances on that day. One at 10 a.m. for primary schools, one at 1 p.m. for secondary schools and one at 7 30 p.m. for the general public. So that way hopefully the students as well as the general public will have an opportunity to see the performance. So we invite you through our performances of course as much as it is for schools it's also educational so please feel free to come and join and to experience with us. Where is that? Cultural centre. Which one sorry? No 730. Yes at the cultural centre. So the performances of Maskerid Master all at the cultural centre. Good morning, Your Excellency, Ms Nama. Invited guests, media, Nobel laureate committee. My name is Jermaine Joseph. I'm representing the Saint Lucia National Trust and we are very excited to be part of the Nobel laureate festival. Thank you so much to the Nobel laureate committee for inviting us. We will be, Walk at House will be participating in this event in that we'll be having an open house from the 21st to the 25th of January and during this open house we'll be inviting students please come out and take part in an audiovisual exhibition. There will be some of Walk at, Derek Walk at sketches in, on original sketches on exhibition there. So between the 21st and the 25th between nine and four p.m. Please come down. You can book by calling 452-3639 and just book for an hour or two. What usually takes place is that the students come through and we give them a tour of the Walk at Family Tree. There's some of Derek's watercolours on display. So we really try to sort of engage the students at their level. So primary school to secondary school. So they can actually see first hand what so Derek's watercolour techniques are about, what he wrote about and we engage them and some of them come up with ideas. They realise that so Derek was a normal person like themselves. He went to school at the Methodist school. So Walk at House sort of puts all of this into context and we really encourage everyone to come down and visit. Thank you. Good morning everyone. Your Excellency. My name is Andrew Jabati. Some representing 758 books. And this year we are hosting the Children's 2019 exhibition and that will be at our new location in the Gablewoods Mall in the courtyard. So please join us there. We will be featuring works, new works by Lovely Sheridan, Jacinta Leannuus, Patricia Turnbull and Dawn French, also Judelea. And that will be from January 20th to the 31st as I said at the Gablewoods Mall and it will be at 9am in the morning. That is the time that the store will be opening and it will be interactive. The children will have an opportunity to be read to by some of the authors and also to participate in painting, drawing, et cetera. So we're looking forward to seeing you guys there. Thank you very much for the Laureate Committee for inviting us and we appreciate it. Thank you. Good morning everyone. My name is Raymond Joseph. I'm a retired educator. The event which I am coordinating is the launch of the At the Well Leadership Academy in the US in the summer. This initiative seeks to establish a connection between Young's Inclusions and Princeton University through participation in the At the Well Leadership Academy which is held every summer at Princeton University, where Sir Arthur, one of our two Nobel Laureates and whose 40th anniversary of the receipt of the Nobel Laureate we are celebrating this year, worked for 20 years. He worked there from 1963 to 1983. So this connection we are hoping that young men and women will be inspired to strive for excellence and global leadership which were the hallmarks of Sir Arthur's illustrious career. The seminar will be facilitated by two persons from the At the Well Conferences Incorporated, Mistress Jacqueline Glass Campbell, who is the founder and executive director and also Mr Toby Sanders who participates in the summer program. The components of the At the Well Conference would include things like leadership development, academic preparation, curriculum features such as leadership projects, interaction, learning to discuss in small groups, et cetera. The At the Well launch targets, not the general public this time, but targets students from grades 11 and 12 and we are particularly focusing on the student councils which are the leadership arms in the secondary schools and also the National Youth Conference, the National Youth Council. If there are any parents in the general public who probably might be interested in seeing what their sons and daughters may be invited to participate in, we invite them also to participate in this activity. The activity will take place at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, more unfortunately at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January the 24th, 2019. I want to thank, this is my first time on the Nobel Laureate Committee and I want to thank her excellency for allowing me to have this activity. Thank you very much. Your Excellency, especially invited guests, members of the media, good morning. My name is Nathalie Julie Fannis and I am here representing the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. And as usual, we are very proud to be part of this continuing remembrance and celebration of our two Nobel Laureates. We have young people in our care and we think it is so very important for us to agenda excellence in them and who better to use than Sir Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott. So this year, as usual, we will be hosting three major activities that we consider on the national calendar as well as our student council is organizing activities within the school between the 21st and all the way to independence. They have a calendar that they will be hosting. Our first major activity, however, is on Wednesday the 23rd and that is an academic discourse where our faculty and members of the community will be engaged in discussion of an under topic relevant to the society. Both Sir Arthur and Sir Derek were very instrumental advocates of change in the society and they did get into some social issues that affected us and lend their voice to it, both locally, within the Caribbean and internationally. And therefore, we will encourage our faculty to explore the topic, the role of academics as a social force in the society. What role do they play? How can they be instrumental in change in the society? So that discourse will be taking place on Wednesday the 23rd of January at 12.30 p.m. on the campus. It's open to, of course, our college community but we do invite other members to come and be part of it. On that same day, Wednesday the 23rd, we will be very busy. Our students, they will be in action and they will be putting on a dramatic presentation or production at the National Cultural Centre at 7.30 p.m. and that one is entitled, Aeternum, I call that right? Aeternum. And they are exploring a social issue that is affecting them. They are looking at the issue of suicide in the society, especially among young men. So this young man, after he commits suicide, is in purgatory and there he is forced to explore all of the issues that led him to that place. And then speaking to the students, they are saying there's a lot of depression and suicide in our society and they don't just look at it as a dark issue but facing the issues that are confronting them and hopefully to help young people face that. So you know we are hungry for theatre in St. Lucia, so I am hoping that the general public will come out to see that production. This is the second year that the students are writing, directing, producing their own dramatic presentation. So please come out and support the students of the South Louis Drama Club on Wednesday the 23rd, 7 p.m. There's a small cost of $20 just to offset costuming and the set design, et cetera. So we look forward to seeing our students in action. Last year our production was very well received and had to be repeated so we hope the same will happen after your attendance at the first one. On Thursday the 23rd of January we will be hosting the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture as we do every year and we heard Delia's speaker Dr Paul Mosley who recently authored a biography of Sir Arthur. So he is looking at Sir Arthur not just as an economist but also as a social activist. So we have that theme running through and the title of his lecture is Arthur Lewis as thinker social activist. Dr Paul Mosley is a professor of economics at Sheffield University and the lecture will be taking place at the Finance Administrative Centre at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday the 23rd of January and that is also open to the general public and it is free. Pardon? Thursday the 24th, my apologies. 24th, Wednesday the 23rd, Thursday the 24th. For that particular week our final activity for that week will be the wreath laying ceremony and this is where we, members of the community, members of the Lewis and Wolcott families come together to lay wreaths at the gravesite of both Sir Arthur and Sir Derek. As you know, Sir Derek is now buried on the grounds of the Inesculent Monument which is just off to the side of where Sir Arthur has been laid to rest. So we gather together to remember them. We normally have the students put on dramatic presentations representing the works of the two laureates and we lay wreaths at their gravesites to close off the week that we used to celebrate. But so Thursday, sorry, Friday, the 25th of January will be the wreath laying ceremony at the gravesite of Sir Arthur Lewis at 10 am in the morning. 10 am. So we are again pleased to be able to partner with the rest of the committee in order to put on those activities and we look forward to the general public participating in all of these activities. Thank you very much. Well, that's all just one other thing before Leslie comes on. We also have Paint the Village, Paint Our History, which is going to be with Jonathan Gladding and that takes place in Labry. It's the second time I believe that we're doing it because it was so well received. So you don't need to be an artist. You just need to have the interest in trying to paint, paint, you know, what's in front of you. So that's taking place with Jonathan and this year it will focus on Labry's historical and industrial heritage. That is taking place on Saturday, the 26th and Sunday, the 27th of January and it's between 10 am and 2 pm. Okay, Leslie? Oh, Excellency, D'Aimpola Louise, Ms Sigrid Norma and all specially invited guests here this morning. My name is Leslie Crane-Mitchell and I represent the UWI Open Campus St Lucia. Four years ago, the Open Campus decided that as its contribution to the Nobel Laureate Festival that it would set up and establish a literary workshop in the name of another St Lucia icon and her name is Dr Patricia Ismund. As I said, she's the daughter of the soil and for many decades, she worked with the University of the West Indies as professor of literature. So many persons have passed through her hands and have been taught by her over many years. She is well known for doing some seminal work on Sir Derek Walkert, which can be found in the library at the University of the West Indies. So, as our contribution, what we have done for the last few years is to partner with the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College as well as with the Viewfort Secondary Comprehensive, the post-secondary unit, where the students take the Cape Literatures in English, it's called these days, and we host a whole day session for them, which starts at 9 o'clock and ends at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. This workshop is actually a joint effort of the University of the West Indies Open Campus and Dr Ismund's sister, Ms Hester Ismund, who has been very, very supportive of her sister's work and of the work of the University of the West Indies. Not only does she essentially fund the workshop on a yearly basis, but also scholarship has been set up by Ms Hester Ismund in her sister's name, which allows a St Lucian student, you have to be St Lucian, and studying the area of literature at the University of the West Indies to receive a scholarship on a regular basis. So we are very, very grateful to Ms Ismund. So this workshop is for students, but in addition to that, there is also usually a half-day session that is held for the tutors of the two schools in order to prepare for the workshop and also for them to receive some extra training and to enter into some further discussion with the facilitator so that they can enhance their teaching of their students. The facilitator of the workshop is also daughter of the soil. She is Dr Antonia McDonnell. She was well-known for being a literature tutor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College for many years. She has, however, for a while now moved on and she is a professor in literature at St George's University in Grenada, as well as Dean of the College of Arts at that university. She comes with a wealth of knowledge and lots of experience having worked with CXC herself. So in many ways we have to thank your excellency for being patient and for extending the festival all the way down to the month of March, so that we could be included. Usually we are on time, but because we had to fit in with Dr McDonnell's schedule, unfortunately we had to do it in March. So the workshop will be held on Thursday, the 14th of March. It is really being held specifically for those students. So usually when you combine both schools, number approximately 100 students and usually they find it very worthwhile in assisting them with their examination preparation. So thank you very much for your patience. Thank you Leslie. I'd like to invite our excellency, Dane Pallet-Louisey, to the podium to accept a very special thing, something that we all like to receive. Would you like to come and introduce yourself and what the check is for? Thank you. Okay, pleasant. Good morning to everyone. Chairperson of the Novelary Committee, excellency Dane Pallet-Louisey, a special guest and members of the media. My name is Leola and I am the marketing officer for First Citizens Investment Services. And just as in the past years, First Citizens Investment Services is proud to once again support the activities of the Nobel Laureate Festival. We recognise the excellent contributions of our two Nobel Laureates to this island and to the rest of the world. We also recognise the importance of celebrating Sir Arthur-Louise and Sir Derek Walcott and continuing the legacy for generations to come, so as to educate and to inspire others to achieve greatness. First Citizens remains committed in its support of the people, arts and culture in Tynwsia. Our support as before will go directly to the Walcott Schools Festival and we look forward to an epic production of a mascarine master. We are indeed pleased to know that a workshop for students will also form part of the Walcott Schools Festival and hope that this will foster talent and creativity among the participants. I would like to extend best wishes to the production team, including Michelle Thebles, Junior Frederick, the Youth in Arts Theatre Company and to the facilitator of the workshop, Mrs. June Frederick. First Citizens Investment Services congratulates the Nobel Laureate Committee for its commitment to making these events possible every year and anticipates an outstanding celebration of excellence what he is honoured. Thank you. Yes, let me thank First Citizens Investment Services for once again sponsoring our Walcott Schools Theatre Festival. First Citizens is always interested, as you've heard, in youth and in the arts and in culture. So every year or the past four years, I think, they have been making that contribution. So it comes in... I mean, it's a very timely presentation. It comes in very handy. All right, and so we thank you so very much. Thank you, everybody. Now, I think we have covered everyone. So I would like to thank NTN, Choice TV, for sponsoring the shows that they're going to be producing and the star newspaper who are actually producing a supplement to celebrate our Nobel Laureates. I'd also like to thank the committee members who take a lot of time. We don't just do this in the month of January of the year that we are presenting. We spend a very long time to put everything together. And of course, I'd like to thank our Chair, her Excellency, Dame Pellet-Louisey, for her continued support and strength when we have to get everything together. And before I thank you, members of the audience and you at home, I would like to remind you that all the events, or most of the events, platform three, are free. So don't hesitate to come and take part. I also want to let you know that we are guaranteeing you that if you attend the breakfast with us on the 13th of January, apart from having that scrumptious breakfast, you will be able to meet members of the committee and you can talk about some of the events that you may want to attend. So don't forget the date, Sunday, January the 13th, 7.45 a.m. So we will go to... I'm not going to attempt to say the long title, but of course, we all know that the... Do you want to attempt to say the whole name for me? But we just call it the Cwbury. The Mount of Prayer at Cwbury. So we hope that you will all come. But ultimately, I'd like to remind you that the Nobel Laureate Festival Committee, everything we do, we do it for you. So thank you so much for joining us today, and we look forward to welcoming you in the future. Thank you.