 Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am Genelle Norville. This edition stops stories. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne calls the global community to action, warning that time has run out for small island developing states. St. Lucia to benefit from a more than $30 million U.S. dollar health project supported by the World Bank. Students in Education District 1 rewarded for dedication to excellence. All that plus the latest in youth development and sports and the NTN Novel Aquial. St. Lucia's Prime Minister and Chairman of Caricum, the Honourable Alan Shasne, has challenged the international community to act on its expressed commitment to combating climate change. During his address to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Hon. Shasne asserted that small states like St. Lucia can ill afford the staggered pace and bureaucracy that hinders financing for resilience building. Prime Minister St. Lucia, the Honourable Alan Shasne, did not mean words when he addressed the UN General Assembly. The Prime Minister highlighting the devastation faced by countries like Barbuda, Dominica and the most recently, the Bahamas, indicated that world leaders must act with more urgency as it is critical to save lives. To date, despite the overwhelming evidence, the tragic loss of lives and the destruction of people's dignity, we unfortunately have failed. We're failing as world leaders to act with urgency and instead allowing too often the denials of a few to paper over the real existential threat to the lives and livelihoods of so many. Where is the action to deploy with immediate effect the resilient solutions and the commitment to wrestle to the ground the fact that a heating planet is to blame and the fact that we are the ones heating it? For the few who stand with us and have provided tangible assistance as we fight for our survival, we are grateful for the support thus far. But I dare say that given the magnitude of the problem, we only have begun to scratch the surface. Hon. Shasne asserted that the inability and at times the unwillingness of international entities to change the status quo as it relates to graduating countries out of programs and creating new financing vehicles can no longer be tolerated. He added that without global financial institutions heeding the calls of small island developing states, they are left to find solutions on their own and lean on new friends in the time of need. Highlighting the advancement of the Caribbean, the Prime Minister explained that the region cannot do it alone. We SIDS continue to have to battle with insurmountable challenges, many as a result of rules and systems that do not create the mechanisms and the requisite urgency to address our unique challenges. Some of these rules impose arbitrary restrictions on states in the absence of credible evidence to support claims of wrongdoing. Our islands are being blacklisted, a demeaning and unfair practice that results in some instances to affect irreversible damage to our reputations. So for countries like St Lucia, who has the ambition of self-sufficiency and aid-free, cannot exercise the will to participate in financial services, an area in which we have a comparative advantage. The Prime Minister indicated that St Lucia has been working feverishly to take control of its own destiny. One such way is our new partnership with the World Economic Forum, to be the first country to implement the country financing roadmap. The CFR is a platform to support countries in making a transformative shift from funding to financing. It will harness the collective intelligence from the WEF's expansive networks and promote consensus on the main challenges that limit capital flows to St Lucia. It will also leverage coordinated action to move from a holistic diagnostic to a country-specific tangible action plan. We are grateful for this opportunity to be the test case for this initiative and look forward to its success and once successful to be replicated across other states. The Prime Minister delivered his address on Friday, 27 September 2019. The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a US $30.6 million regional health project to improve regional coordination and resilience for public health emergencies and extreme weather events in four member states of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS. The OECS regional health project will help improve climate resilience of select health facilities in Dominica, Greenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The project will also strengthen the capacity of health systems in the OECS region to ensure continuity of services following an extreme weather event, both national and regional disease surveillance systems, to detect and respond to infectious diseases more rapidly. This US $30.6 million project is a combination of interest-free credits and grants financed through the International Development Association Credit, the Concessional Financing Arm of the World Bank. In previous years, the World Bank has provided a total of US $157 million in financing to support health initiatives across the Caribbean. Meantime, the Department of Economic Development, Transport and Civil Aviation is hosting a week-long workshop in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization WMO in refining a Green Climate Fund project for St Lucia. Nisha Charles reports. The Green Climate Fund was established to support the efforts of developing countries to respond to the challenges of climate change. To gain access to that fund, however, a strict climate science-based methodology must be adopted. With the help of the World Meteorological Organization, the WMO, St Lucia is gearing up to build capacity to develop projects which meet the criteria to access funds for the Green Climate Fund. A workshop on enhancing the climate science basis of GFC-funded activities is taking place this week in St Lucia. Financials Descat is the permanent representative of the National Designated Authority to the Green Climate Fund. The frequency of high-impact hydro-meteorological events in our region seem to have increased in recent times, and we do not know who the next target will be. There is now compelling evidence that climate change has reached our doorstep, and our response to that phenomenon may very well determine our future. So getting through with this workshop and pursuing the next steps is certainly the right way to go. The Paris Agreement of 2016 calls on the best available science to underpin climate action. The WMO supports that endeavor and is committed to assisting member countries to draw on the best available science to confront the challenges of climate change. About a year ago we entered into a partnership with the Green Climate Fund that is focused on ensuring that projects, plans, proposals that are presented to the fund have a strong climate science basis, and that the actions that are proposed in those plans and projects are a response to the past, present, and future conditions of the climate as best as science can tell us. And over that year we have worked very hard with the input from dozens of experts to prepare a methodology, which I'll describe later on, that we hope will underpin our efforts during this week. The workshop has been hosted by the Ministry of Economic Development, Transport and Civil Aviation. The Minister, Honourable Guy Joseph, says the impacts of climate change are far-reaching. It is evident that climate change not only threatens to erode development achieved thus far, but to hamper the future development of these countries. And we have said it several times. If we build a bridge higher to accommodate greater flow of water does not mean that this bridge will carry more cars than it used to before. But yet still these are expenses that the country must incur in order to respond to the threat of what the climate is doing today. The workshop will run from September 30 to October 4, 2019. In keeping with changes in the international oil prices and the government's application of the modified market pass through petroleum pricing mechanism, the retail price of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, LPG 20, 22 and 100 pound cylinders has changed. The price changes take effect from Monday, September 30, 2019. Gasoline decreased from $13.57 to $13.21 per gallon. Diesel decreased from $13.07 to $12.81 per gallon. And kerosene decreased from $8.76 to $8.12 per gallon. The 20 pound LPG cylinder increased marginally from $32.07 to $32.28. The 22 pound cylinder increased by $0.24 to $35.79. The 100 pound cylinder increased from $204.16 to $205.22. The next adjustment of the retail price of fuel products will be on Monday, October 21, 2019. This is NTN Nightly. Stay with us. Everyone is at risk forgetting a foodborne illness. While most foodborne illness cases are mild and go unreported, long-term health complications and even deaths 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 Sandusia Bureau of Standards can help you. For more information, contact the Sandusia Bureau of Standards at 456-0546 or email SLBS at candw.lc or visit the website at www.slbs.org.lc. Sandusia Bureau of Standards making quality and standards our way of life. Welcome everyone to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. School sports events now gain some momentum during the start of the first term of the new school year. Schools basketball fixtures set for Tuesday, October 1st, two-frag comprehensive, set to take on Corinth in a Group C engagement, while in Group A, Gastry's comprehensive comes up against Arthur Lewis Community College. Matches in school football on Wednesday. On the 15th Group D, Archipelago takes on Patricia James Secondary at the SAB and in Big 8 competition, Archipelago will face boys training centre also at the SAB. On the 15th Group B, Beanfield tackles Bocage at a Philip Marseille ground, while in Big 8, Miku takes on Souffre also at Philip Marseille. On the 15th, Stanley John Odom plays Leon Hess at Marcia and in Big 8 action at the same venue, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College will take on Granivier Secondary. In netball action, next games on Thursday, Corinth takes on Leon Hess at the VG Multipurpose Sports Complex. Miku takes on Choselle at Miku, while St. Joseph's Convent plays Gastry's comprehensive at the VG Multipurpose Sports Complex. Channel swimmer Cameron Bellamy, who recently completed a bold, brave swim from Barbados to St. Lucia, described how he ended up taking on that challenge as he was originally planning to swim from Cuba to Florida. I've always been thinking about this channel swim, and so when the Cuba swim fell of three, I was like, I got hold of my best buddy in Barbados, Christina Evelyn, who does all my PR and pretty much organizes my whole life in Barbados. She said like, I want to swim from Barbados to St. Lucia. And it was amazing within three weeks we kind of planned it, which is incredible for such a hard, logistically challenging swim. Bellamy got support from Channel Swim St. Lucia for the expedition, which helped raise needed funds for charities in St. Lucia and Barbados. He was met at the end of the swim by Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne and congratulated by officials of the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports and the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. That's your update from Youth Development and Sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Students in Education District 1 have been rewarded for the dedication to excellence in their academic lives. Anisia Antoine has that report. Education District 1 collaborated with Parliamentary Representative for Barbano, Honourable Ezekiel Joseph, to host the 2019 edition of Academic Awards. The ceremony honoured students from all schools within the Barbano constituency who excelled in the 2019 Common Entrance Examination. Students who scored above 75% received a $200 gift voucher and the top performing student from each school received a laptop. Cyrus Seepal, District 1 Education Officer, congratulated the students on their performance in the 2019 Common Entrance Examination. Every childhood have gone through our walls. Living grade K and spending seven years at our schools should be able to live our school with the basic prerequisites of numeracy, literacy and other life skills that they may need to survive. So I challenge you, and I want to let St. Lucia know that we have to undertake this and see it as a mandate for us. Parliamentary Representative for Barbano, Honourable Ezekiel Joseph, commended the Boji's Combined School for Achieving Second Place Ranking in the 2019 Common Entrance Examination. Honourable Ezekiel Joseph encouraged the District Office, principals and teachers to continue their rewarding work being done with the students in District 1. I believe strongly in the holistic development of an individual, not only academics. And that is why we are working together, and I say we, the District Education Office and myself, we are working together to see what are the extra-curricular activities that we can introduce in our school system to encourage you and to make you all more rounded persons and to, of course, assist you in accomplishing your goals. The Academic Award Ceremony took place on Wednesday, September 25th, at the Barbano Multipurpose Centre. From the Government Information Service, I am Anicia Antoine reporting. In other success news, St. Lucia, an author and educator, Lovely Sheridan, became the recipient of the prestigious Palm Beach Illustrated Educator of the Year Award at the Norton Museum of the Arts in Palm Beach, Florida on September 20, 2019. Sheridan emerged as the final winner through public voting, from five finalists of top-notch educators who forge meaningful relationships with their students through innovative techniques and genuine care for the next generation. She has penned five children's books, including Be A Buddy Not A Bully, which promotes friendliness and inclusivity. Sheridan also created the Buddy Ambassador program, which she runs in partnership with Mental Health America of Palm Beach County. The program has been a huge success. It has been introduced in four countries in the Caribbean, including St. Lucia. Stay with NTIA Nightly up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTIA Nouvelle Aquarium. Frankie, you know I'm traveling to Antigua this afternoon and I forgot my passport at home? Boy, it's a good thing I have my driver's license, I'll still be able to travel. Oh, how can you travel to Antigua without your passport? Under the OECS Freedom of Movement regime, OECS citizens can travel to any of the seven protocol member states without a passport, once they have an official and valid identification card with their picture and nationality on it. Really, since when? Since the establishment of the Eastern Caribbean OECS Economic Union, under the Revised Treaty of Bastet, it entered into force in 2011. So, you mean to tell me that I can leave St Lucia and go to another OECS country with just my driver's license or national ID and customs and immigration won't stop me? Yes, you can even use your photo's registration card or social security card. As a matter of fact, as a citizen of an OECS protocol member state, you are entitled to indefinite stay when you travel to another OECS protocol member state, so you can live and work without a work permit or skilled national certificate. As a construction worker here, I could take my trade to Grenada or any other OECS country? Yes, Frankie, you're straight. And what about my wife and children's schooling? Frankie, OECS citizens and their children will be granted equal rights and privileges under the freedom of movement. That includes access to social services, labour market schemes, health and education for your children and your wife. This free movement thing sounds nice. Hasselby travel to any OECS country, live and work for as long as you like. The OECS Economic Union is the real deal. For more information, visit www.oecs.org. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle-Aquiolle. It's a great pleasure to welcome you to this� So we're doing the safari today. We're doing a great activity for the youth and the youth. The safari has been in business for the past year. The city is doing great activities. We were doing this ourselves. And the culture we have now here today is that. We're doing the same thing as before because we are doing great activities. Many activities, food service, future light, festival, violin, all of these things are for young people to learn. To find out how much money is needed is a way for young people to work, to be able to do business for young people. The F.R.C. research and research place for the development of cultural CDF, events in St. Lucia, the regional exploration of Sofia to collaborate with them to present the activity of me and Retache Creole, a pleasure-spectacular of Sofia, which started at 4 o'clock in the morning, it started at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then in the morning, we went to Sofia for a pleasure-lot activity of the Swiss Spectacular. As the officers explained at the time, for the spectacles, even a new establishment with the River Des, an extra-fellow to a passenger that is Old Trafford, an executive director for the F.R.C. research, Louis Victor, explained the significant spectacles of Sofia. We are celebrating the discovery of the CDF. A new F.R.C. research place for the development of the CDF to discover the place I have never been before. To participate in the F.R.C. research and to discover a variety of systems that are available to the public on Thursday. Many people, too, have the opportunity to participate in the F.R.C. research. On Wednesday, we will begin the Bocca commitment of course to support the country. Along with the Tava sprechen, more people of Sufria, Palais de Valais culture, a power city of Sufria. Sufria is a place where you can live, so you can encourage everyone who lives in Sufria. Even if you don't come today, thank you very much, thank you for coming today. Come to Sufria, come to the saloon, and please come today. It's a beautiful city, and it's a place where you can live with your family. Okay, now we're going to the post office, but how are we going to move here today? Right, we're going to move here pretty well. We started from the 4th floor, we were here in the Sufria, we were going to Sufria, we really enjoyed going to Sufria, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, we were really going to Sufria, because that's where we were going to discover Sufria, football, everything we did here inside the Sufria, and now we're going to finish the program here, and we're going to launch the heritage man, so we can move here pretty well. Today, we're going to move here very well, everything is good, everything is good, so come here today. Yes, come here, come here, but you don't have to move here today. We started from the 4th floor, we were going to move to Sufria, to officially start my career heritage, which is in Tewi-Saint, Tewi-Saint, that's what I said, Tewi-Saint. I was born as a Barbonneau, I found the opportunity to improve in the sportive language. I want to thank Simon Passea, to honour the students who performed very well in the Common Entrance Examination, positive for Barbonneau, we will be teaching Joseph, because it is more or less because of the matches that I made and that have continued to be made to assist the youth in the Barbonneau University. According to the representative, Ezekiel Joseph, to start the year last year, I have increased the participation of even more youth, and I noticed that just these young boys, after participating in the netball. And Simon Passea, who is in Tewi-Saint, he is the guy who is involved in the netball, so I think that Tiffy can be involved in the cricket, Tiffy can be involved in the football. Here in Tewi-Saint, Barbonneau, we are in Tewi-Saint, we are involved in the netball. So, some of us say that when it comes to expanding, we have basketball, we have volleyball, we also need to participate in sport activities, we also need to work with outside sporting activities called for poachy competition. We need poachy competition, right? We need to have a speaking competition, we need quiz competition, because not all of us play football, not all of us play cricket, not all of us play Tewi-Saint, not all of us play activities, so we need to play as much as possible in such a program, so I think that's important. Welcome to Barbonneau, I'm Ezekiel Joseph, President of the School of Premier, and all of these Barbonneau students, with the help of the family, we are going to have a laptop. I'm going to have a look at the news, I'm going to have a look at the news, I'm going to have an invitation, because I'm going to have a look at the news, because I'm going to have a look at the news, because I'm going to have a look at the news, Genel. Thank you, Pil Primus. Here's a look at what's happening to us, weather-wise. Fair to partly cloudy and hazy over the northern portion of the region, elsewhere it will be fair to partly cloudy skies with a few showers. A relatively dry and stable atmosphere will maintain mostly fair weather conditions across the eastern Caribbean during the next 24 hours. Two tropical waves located over the central tropical Atlantic and just off the West African coast are moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. The Tideford-Castries Harbor was high at 4.40 p.m. and will be low again at 11.02 p.m. The Tideford VFOR Bay was high at 5.47 p.m. and will be low again at 12.29 a.m. The seas like to moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Tuesday 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 Genel Norvel.