 Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Genelle Norville, this edition's top stories. The Ministry of Health and Wellness peruses the report on the U.S.N.S. Medical Mission Her, nearly 5,000 Saint Lucia's benefitted, Saint Lucia to Access Grant funding from India for Development projects, Bank of Saint Lucia lends tangible support to governments efforts at sustainable development. All that plus the NTN Nufer, a quay all. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has received a report on the United States Naval Ship U.S.N.S. Comfort Medical Mission held from Monday, September 23 to Tuesday, October 1, 2019. The mission has been deemed a success. Clinics were held for six days at the Owen King EU Hospital and the National Cultural Center where clients received services in adult medicine, pediatric medicine, dental and eye care, along with other specialized medical services. A total of 79 Saint Lucia's received a surgical procedures aboard the U.S.N.S. Comfort. In addition, 48 clients received echocardiograms. A total of 4,846 clients benefitted from services at the two medical sites over the time period. Adult medicine was 1,665 clients, pediatric medicine was 264 clients, dental services 756 clients, and eye care was 2,161 clients. The Ministry of Health and Wellness is extremely grateful for the support and collaboration of those who made this medical mission a success. The department also expresses its deepest gratitude to the United States Naval Ship Comfort team for providing Saint Lucia's with the opportunity to receive medical services. The Department of the Public Service will on Friday, October 4, 2019 host a staff retreat at the Royal Turn Resort and Spa. The retreat will be held under the theme service delivery, our new reality. More in this report from Julia Peter. The retreat will provide a forum while staff will engage in activities geared at promoting professionalism and effective service delivery. Sheila Inbet is the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Department of the Public Service. Prior to the staff retreat, we held a management retreat where we did a comprehensive review of our strategic plan, which is supposed to be a three-year plan. And at that event, other managers were able to visualize the public service and set some goals and objectives. And we're going to tie in the management retreat to the staff retreat with the hope of coming up with a strategic plan that is going to guide the work program of the Department of Public Service for the next three years. Meantime over the past a few months, staff throughout the public service has benefited from a number of self-development and professional exercises facilitated by the Public Service Trading Institute and the Department of the Public Service Employee Assistance Program. The more recent one being a three-day supervisory skills training. The objective was to assist participants in better understanding their role as supervisors and equip them with the requisite skills to increase the effectiveness and efficiency in the workplace. In order to facilitate the staff retreat, the Department of the Public Service will be closed on Friday, October 4th. Services at the Department resume on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019. From the communications unit of the Department of the Public Service, Chulita Peter reporting. St. Lucia along with Karika member states will soon be able to draw down on grant funding from India for development to projects. A line of credit valued at 150 million US dollars for climate resilience has also been allocated. Karika and India came to the agreements at an historic meeting on the sidelines of the just concluded United Nations General Assembly. To thank English Francis of Karikam News Time reports. India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, reaffirmed his country's commitment to development in the region when he engaged Karikam heads of government in the first India Karikam Summit. The summit took place on the 25th of September in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Prime Minister Modi spoke of plans to develop a regional center for excellence in information technology in Georgetown Guyana and the regional vocational training center in Belize. He also reaffirmed India's commitment to enhancing human resource capacity in the region through specialized training. The meeting agreed that the Karikam India Joint Commission will continue to develop and implement concrete plans to further advance trade and facilitate diversification in the region. Karikam Chairman, Prime Minister Alan Chastanay of St. Lucia noted Karikam's appreciation for India's continued partnership and cooperation with the community. One of the most important questions to ask is how come it took us so long to get together? Given our cultural ties, historical ties, and clearly as you outlined many of the common issues that we have to confront on a global and geopolitical basis. So I am looking forward to a very meaningful discussion on one, the opportunity that India can offer us in the Karikam. Two, the opportunities that Karikam can offer India. And three, to talk about some very critical geopolitical issues that hopefully we can find common that report by Tucson King English Francis. Hands across the sea and non-profit organization dedicated to raising the literacy levels of children in the eastern Caribbean has partnered yet again with the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development in enhancing the teaching and learning experience in schools island-wide. The aim of the workshop is to train teachers as to the proper use of the Literacy Resource Guide. Chief Education Officer in the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations, Fiona Meyer, indicated that St Lucia cannot have a literate population without the incorporation of reading. She urged the participants to take advantage of the workshop so as to impact the students that they come in contact with on a daily basis. I'm really really glad that they've been able to facilitate such a workshop for our teachers, bringing our literacy coordinators, bringing our special needs units and you the classroom teachers who can make or break. And particularly our infant teachers who have them so young that your impact lasts a lifetime. So I do not want us to underestimate literacy, the importance of an individual being able to read and how that can impact that person's life, their family, their community and by extension our country St Lucia. Literacy link for Hands Across the Sea Clara Paul indicated that St Lucia's resources are limited. She noted that the number of bookstores on island have dwindled and the central library struggles not only to stay afloat but to obtain material interesting enough to gravitate students to it. Additionally teachers have indicated that they are not versed on the protocol when taking students to the library. It is for this reason that the workshop will focus on the teacher resource guide. Hands Across the Sea has come to our rescue over the past 11 years. They're into the 12th year this year and among the programs that they continue to provide the islands that's the six islands of the OECS are creating, rejuvenating, sustaining lending libraries, training our student librarians, developing manuals and teacher resource guides to support the work of literacy and education. We all know that libraries support the work of a school library, supports the work of literacy and education. It helps children to develop good reading habits and so Hands Across the Sea has complemented the work of the child-friendly schools and the OECS early lunas program. District 4 education officer in the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations Marie-George Ale expressed gratitude to the Hands Across the Sea for the initiative. This is truly an investment in human resource, in the human resource of St. Lucia and we will therefore make maximum use of the books and the training. I wish to extend a sincere thanks to Mrs. Clara Paul and her new associate, Mrs. Sheila Serville, for executing their duties in a professional manner and of a very high standard. Your passion for improving the literacy schools in school along with the ELP team have impacted our schools more and more and we are now seeing improvements in student performance. Hands Across the Sea seeks to transform the child literacy landscape in the Eastern Caribbean and every year it sends thousands of new books, over 464,000 since it started in 2007, to various educational institutions. For the Government Information Service, I am Genelle Norville. In more education-related news, the La Beji Early Childhood Center this week was relocated to the Bexel Primary School as the Ministry of Education addresses structural issues at the center and is hear Antoine reports. The La Beji Early Childhood Center has been relocated to the Bexel Primary School. Due to the structural integrity of the building being compromised, the school's operations needed to be moved. Fiona Meyer, Chief Education Officer at the Ministry of Education, expressed gratitude to the Early Childhood Unit for safeguarding the success of the transition. Today we were able to welcome beautiful children into the Bexel Primary School that has agreed to host them, embrace them as members of the community. And so the team is here. We've got our Education Officer here as well as our District Education Officer here to welcome the parents and the students as well to ensure that whatever happens moving forward is really about the well-being of every one of our little ones interested into our care. The Bexel Primary School initially welcomed 14 students from the La Beji Early Childhood Center. Agnes Prince is the Education Officer for Early Childhood Development. This is the first day and I must say it has been such a welcoming environment. Even the children, they met me out there. They were the ones who gave me directions as to where to find the principal and they really welcomed me there. So I am sure and I can ensure that these children will welcome the children that we have here this morning. We've been speaking so much as to the transitioning from the Early Childhood Centers to the primary school. Now we have an opportunity to work at this very early stage to ensure that the children are embraced by their younger peers right here. The students of the La Beji Early Childhood Center commenced school at the Bexel Primary School on Monday, September 30th, 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. This is NTM Knightley. We'll be right back. Everyone is at risk of getting a foodborne illness. While most foodborne illness cases are mild and go unreported, long-term health complications and even death can occur from a foodborne illness. Foodborne illnesses are caused by contamination of food at any stage of preparation. If you are a food handler involved in home-based food production, meat, fish, chicken or a big shop, as a food vendor, how you prepare food can put your customers at risk. Do you know the risks and how to avoid them? The Sinoche Bureau of Standards can help you. For more information, contact the Sinoche Bureau of Standards at 456-0546 or email SLBS at candw.lc or visit the website at www.slbs.org.lc. Sinoche Bureau of Standards, making quality and standards our way of life. Welcome back. Bankers in Lucia, BOSL, has lent tangible support to government's efforts at sustainable development. BOSL teamed up with the St. Joseph's convent to sensitize students on the importance of creating a sustainable environment for future generations. For the students of the St. Joseph's convent, it was a Friday morning assembly with a difference. A team of Bank of St. Lucia representatives and past students were not just visibly present to make a donation, but had also taken over the format and agenda for the entire assembly. According to the bank's Corporate Communications Officer, Annalisia Edmonds-Oguist, the bank heard of the school's effort to meet some of the United Nations' sustainable development goals and decided to lend a helping hand. It's very important to us at Bank of St. Lucia to continue to do what we can to preserve our natural environment. We've had a number of programs that we have supported, like the Joakali pop-up shops and we actually had our greedy for green campaign a few years ago, which we're hoping to revamp in 2020. So doing something like this really fit in with our Corporate Social Responsibility program and we're very, very happy to have presented Sister Raphina and the girls at SJC with the cups today. BOSL donated hundreds of reusable plastic cups branded with the school's logo and in the school's distinct house colors. According to the principal, the initiative to ban the use of all plastic and styrofoam products at the beginning of the new school year falls under goal number 12 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which is Responsible Consumption and Production. From last term, we started with the project of the garden, the environmental aspect of it where students will be, different clubs will be responsible for caring for that space so that they make it their own without litter and we also looked at the reusable cups and plates and wanted to start with the cups, take it a step at a time and Banker sent us a hood of our initiative and they came on board with it by presenting the cups to the students. This we think is a great initiative on their part and they are our past students so it warms our hearts to know that they are coming back to assist us in this I love the colors and I think that it would be great for the girls since they have a lot of house spirits. BOSL continues to show its commitment to the development of education and the sustainability of the environment by supporting initiatives like these, especially those which target and involve the youth. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. Still with NTN Nightly up next, Primers Hutchingson is here with the NTN Duffel, a quay all. Welcome back, we join Primers Hutchingson for the NTN Nouvelle, a quay all. Welcome back, we join Primers Hutchingson for the NTN Nouvelle, a quay all. Welcome back, we join Primers Hutchingson for the NTN Nouvelle, a quay all. The Government Information Service Department continues to benefit from the development of the Duffel, a quay all. The Government Information Service is here with the NTN and the National Television Service, an institutional issue that is now in place because of the diversity that can be done, and then there is a problem with the water. It is official to say that the problem is not only because of the ability of the NTN, but also because of the technology service that is here. A consideration of the damage that is done with the life that is paid for by the Thomas Cyclone, the Truffler, the Nouvelle, Ex-de-güey cyclone kikai tuvei, ame kikai tuvei, ame hui joa, metna. Directer for Service Meteorology, Andrei Joyi, kakue, nepo divestment kifet, wawaforsi system, kikai addressi, mondia kodet pris de poblem goudlo kia affect ebeia. Eko sii po wawaforsi kapasite waisu service ala, adegüey zuti, po kodet pli de goudlo movitai eklawai, kai veuitabwa hui dui asopedat e la vi, aset le sii. Minister des Education et Development Sustainable, jha fei yo goin 6e po etabli yo pogum de mei proteksion po l'école peya. Asip aski yo ngup les étudiants anguad sec, jha tovei selekti ko officie po jide mei proteksion po l'école yo. Si étudiants sotiyan l'école premier Methodist Gordon & Walker Memorial, kumase etun monsala desa ki passe. Yo aprene mania po prin po kosion dedife ni les sui prisan po piersi situasio ki pei lokasione mei nasi desati na l'école la. Osi mania po potiwe ed si yo yon blisit ebei tovei blisit ebei peidkosias. Mod de etun monsala se yon kika tovei a pogum l'école ko yon initiative, kut mania po ménagi a mei ménagi wisos dedizas assekti edikasio peya. Kodnate po pogum sala a l'école Methodist la, Princess Codra dediki. S'etudiants te tovei etun man po dizan eka po dizan eka kum yo ki anguad sis kai kite l'école to sui plan jha a plas po etuene yon lot set po poe wa skosabili te sala. S'etudiants sala kai sevei etun man po po kosio asushime a kai e usi a kumin na mei. Ovisie dedikasio method foster felicitie l'école Methodist initiative sala. S'e bag po developement a kraibla ki financi po gamla. S'etudiants te tovei etun monsala se yon blisit ebei peidkosias. Twe kosanei de wa po de blisie monsa ka sofei, pi womisima ekuilashima asse si mena ki pasia. Si yo vei monsa kika eni koz yon la flamasio, na fuisi monsa ka l'okasio ne movi mal bude, ek la fieve. Ek yon te tovei si fei kontak e pi yomun ki j'y a effecte, ebei mania ebei mange ki kontamin e, mei eka pli effecte tizafan eke le pli gositoye. Minister a konsei publik la, po toujours la vei la mei, ek sa avon, particularly ma apro fei brison ebei vomi. Tsuju lavei le jime ek fui avon mange o. La vei tutsa oka e sa vei bie komifo. Yo ka mado osi o pa ale toa vai ebei le kol so ni wilashima sa la, ebei ka vomi. Ushis ka onti yuit ne ditan apro o tobei so la shima. Dipatima ka fei tutsa kipei ko kouigei situasima. Yo ka konsei tut moun, poin tut kaliti po ko sokei ne se se, visitei health center o si situasio sa la veni pli movi. Si ko sa nubut novela jodi a, oka e mesio o ttan, oka gade, oka bau yon wilashima. Ushis le pimi moa konsei dia, konsei vei la vi, then I po se toa lot novela ko yol. A po se ka vie, po se toa genera. Merci appeal primers. Here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Partly cloudy skies becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers and possibly isolated thunderstorms. A tropical wave is expected to bring cloudy conditions with showers and isolated thunderstorms over the islands during the forecast period. Another tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 km per hour. Tides for castries harbor low at 12.16 p.m. high at 6.47 p.m. Tides for Viewford Bay low at 1.43 p.m. high at 7.54 p.m. Seas are slight to moderate to 3 to 6 feet or 0.9 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Friday at 5.53 a.m. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Janelle Norville.