 Welcome to NTN Nightly, I Am General Novel, this edition's top stories. The spirit of the nation's independence soars in the capital city, with the unveiling of a monument by Gialem Yudovic. The Gulf Mentals in Lucia demonstrates continued commitment to mainstreaming gender equality. The Ministry of Agriculture is exploring new avenues for cocoa producers. All that plus the latest in youth development and sports and the NTN Novel of Quaiol. The celebration of St Lucia's 40th anniversary of independence has taken many forms throughout the year. The talents of nationals have been displayed across the spectrums. Over entertainment, sports, education and on Thursday 3rd October, renowned sculptor Gialem Yudovic depicted the spirit of the nation's independence in a monument that symbolizes the St Lucia tradition of Kudme reflecting the independence theme all-in. And is your Antoine has more? In commemoration of St Lucia's 40th Independence Anniversary, the Government of St Lucia hosted an unveiling ceremony of the 40th Independence Monument. The monument serves as a permanent tribute to the forefathers who stead the land to statehood. Honourable Sarah Flood Bobra, Parliamentary Representative for Castries Central, stated that the monument should serve as a constant reminder to continue their legacy. I want to take this opportunity to commend the Prime Minister and the Government of St Lucia for the way in which we have begun to rebuild a new St Lucia, that we have put God at the heart of what we're doing, that we have put people first, that we are seeking to redevelop the city and putting the people at the heart of this redevelopment. And this monument will continue to remind us that regardless of where we come, we have a common heritage, we have a common destiny and being all in together with the help of God. Ministering the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, culture and creative industries, with responsibility for culture and creative industries, Honourable Fortuner Bill Rose noted that the unveiling ceremony is in keeping with the celebrations and events for Heritage Month. This is a time when we pay homage to our heritage, where we celebrate our values and reflect like the parliamentary rep for Castries said, reflect on who we are, what we have achieved as a people and where we are headed as a nation. The knowledge that a people must understand and write their history before they can determine their destiny is what propels us to continue to search for those tangible ways to leave our legacy behind. Jalim Yudovic, internationally renowned sculptor, was selected to artistically capture the essence of St Lucia. Yudovic expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister of St Lucia and the 40th Independent Committee for granting him this opportunity. I only own the process. The inspiration is of God and the outcome is for the people. Now I stand before you my people, humble that I have been given the opportunity to channel the efforts of our collective histories, our ancestry, who we become and what we aspire to be. The unveiling ceremony took place on Thursday, October 3, 2019, at the Castries Waterfront. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Andouan reporting. The second phase of training under the Project Mainstreaming Gender Equality in St Lucia's National Sustainable Development Plan recently concluded at the National Skills Development Centre. The project was launched earlier this year with the inception mission by consultants from Niagara College, Canada. The Gender Mainstreaming Project seeks to ensure that gender is mainstreamed throughout the public service. Since May of 2019, public servants have been introduced to gender concepts and gender analysis, with the aim of ensuring that during planning and budgeted in the public service, issues relating to men and women are dealt with equally. The second phase of that training project recently concluded that Claudia-Louis is the project coordinator. Gender Mainstreaming really relates to having gender in the forefront of planning throughout the Government Department or throughout the Government Service. In many cases, gender was always an afterthought when programs were being developed. The Gender Mainstreaming Project seeks to ensure that in planning and budgeting, issues related to men and women are dealt with equally, so that whoever is benefiting from any project or program implemented by any of these agencies would benefit men and women equally. The latest training exercise served as both a train-the-trainers exercise as well as a pilot project. We are currently training individuals from about 20 Government Departments right now and we are introducing them to the concepts, gender concepts and issues related to gender analysis. They are representatives of their various ministries and departments and they are expected to go back to their departments and multiply the training within their departments. As part of the project, we will keep a network of the various participants and to ensure that they get support in presenting the issues, concepts that they learn today into their various ministries. The project entitled Mainstreaming Gender Equality in St Lucia's National Sustainable Development Plan is being implemented by the Government of St Lucia through a grant from the Caribbean Development Bank. For the Government Information Service, Nisha Charles reporting. The Ministry of Agriculture is exploring new avenues for cocoa producers. The Ministry of Agriculture fisheries, natural resources and cooperatives, recognizing several changes within the cocoa industry, sought to gain insight into all aspects of the industry. In that vein, the Ministry engaged stakeholders to establish a set vision and action plan for the industry. Chief Extension Officer in the Extension and Advisory Services Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries, Natural Resources and Corporatives, Kemuel Jabatis indicated that over the years while the Ministry has made significant investment into the industry, so have stakeholders. He noted that there are several benefits to be had from the industry. There are a number of co-benefits from the cultivation of cocoa. We are looking at carbon sequestration, environmental protection, the stability of slopes, but very importantly, this is about livelihoods. The fact that the farmer is able to sustain a cocoa field with the other crops means that there's sustained livelihoods. This is a crop that would run anywhere from 50 to 100 years as long as it's properly maintained, even if you have to replant once in a while. And so this is about securing livelihoods for us. And of course, if we are able to increase, we're not really looking too much to increase the primary product, which is the beans. We're hoping that more chocolate years will arise and we'll be able to produce even better St. Lucia chocolates that will bring in even higher levels of income for farmers. And so that is the place we're looking to export. The Chief Extension Officer added that the government is in full support of expansion of the industry. Jabatis expressed the hope that attendees will put the information received to good use to grow the industry. What we anticipate is that based on our conversations here, that the commitment will be made for the expansion of the acreages is a starting point for us because we need the raw material. But also we're looking at opportunities for investments in cottage type industries or to even scale those up so that they meet international standards. And so you have a larger number of processors on board. The engagement which saw the participation of farmers, processors, technicians and agricultural officials was held on Thursday 3rd October 2019. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. In other agro-processing developments, Julian Caldron, owner of JKLM, an agro-processing company, that grids and packages coconuts is registering success. The product has been popular with local bakeries and is sold at the local supermarkets. Now with the assistance of exports inclusion, JKLM is being exported. Julian Caldron talks about his experience. On my retirement, like I said, I was looking for something to do. I didn't want to go back into construction industry because I've been there for so long. So what I did was looked at what I wanted to do and I came up with the idea of doing agro-processing, you know, and I started with a number of products I wanted to do and there were none of the products I wanted to do. I'm still looking at doing them. But then the coconut dry coconut was the one to pick up easiest on the market. That was the quickest one to pick up on the market. It was a bit difficult in the beginning because yes, you come in, it's something fresh on the market. People don't know about it and you're enthusiastic about it at the same time. But you now go and invest in it and then the returns are rather slow, you know, because it is not on the market. People don't know about it as yet. I mean, I must say thank you to the bakeries when I started approaching the bakeries because a welcome product. So we started at the bakeries and then again moving forward, I wanted to expand so I approached my sisters who again will ask for certain things from me, but that I had had before the certification which I had put in place. So by the time I approached my sisters with everything, it was a good deal, you know, they just pick up and I'm doing pretty well at the master stores, I must say. There comes export St. Lucia. I think I sort of earned St. Lucia Times news clip where export St. Lucia had helped somebody to break into the U.S. market with breadfruits. Yeah, that was where I first knew about export St. Lucia and I spoke with knowing 100 hours first day, I called and I spoke to her about it, you know, because again, I'm looking to expand and by that time, well, next thing I know, I was having a meeting with Anthony and people from export St. Lucia and it has just been good, the relationship between JKLM and export St. Lucia has been really, really nice. I broke through into Dominica, doing exports to Dominica and now the biggest deal is now I'm in to mark me. This is NTN Nightly, Rhino Bryan is up next. I'm innovative. I'm competitive. I am productive. I'm creative. I constantly improve what I do. And how I do it. I provide excellent customer service. I never stop learning. I give all my best, always. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council embracing excellence. Welcome back. We join Rhino Bryan for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Welcome everyone. It's the weekend once again and here's your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Rhino Bryan. President of the St. Lucia National Cricket Association and Cricket West Indies Director, Julian Charles has welcomed the inauguration of the National Sports Academy. Mr. Charles made the disclosure while part of a delegation from Cricket West Indies that toured the Academy with Prime Minister, the Honourable Alan Chastney recently. I think in his formulation it's a very good idea. I think that's what a lot of young people would be looking forward to. Generations would have been looking forward to the opportunity to go to school and play sports and have an opportunity to actually have sport as a career. So, you know, it's good. I think over the years it should grow even better. So I look forward to see how it evolves over the next few years. A number of the island's young cricketers are among the first group of students to attend the Academy. The 2019-2020 School Sports Program is set to continue next week. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports having to make some adjustments to some of the fixtures and disciplines currently being contested, particularly netball, will be keeping you up to date as far as these changes are concerned. Basketball and football are the other disciplines being contested early in the new school year. That's your weekend update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. Minister for Health and Wellness, Senator Hon. Mary Isaac, this week participated in a meeting of Caricum Health Ministers which discussed a number of issues on the regional health agenda. Program Manager for Health Sector Development and the Caricum Secretariat, Dr. Rudolph Cummings, spoke with Caricum News Times to San King English Francis about the meeting's agenda. Cummings said the meeting will provide Caricum Health Ministers with an insight of the strategic planning process of regional cooperation in health. They will receive a preliminary report on the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARFA from 2012 to present to see whether it has achieved its initially identified functions. A consultancy group, which was commissioned to conduct a review, will present the preliminary report. The Board of CARFA has dedicated an afternoon session to digest the report and its recommendations will be presented to COSAR. Dr. Cummings said the meeting will be informed of the upcoming consultative meeting between the Council for Trade and Economic Development and the Council for Human and Social Development, COSAR, on convergent trade and health issues. Back in 2007, the heads of government proclaimed the Board of Spain Declaration. Its review four years ago showed that there was some implementation deficit in particular what concerned multi-sectoral actions and one of the concerns is actually the trade-related issues which negatively affect NCDs. We've had a task force which was prescribed by the heads of government in 2016 at their 37th meeting here in Georgetown and we've been working to put together two matters, one concerning diets and the other one concerning alcohol. The alcohol one comes from a mandate from COTED but the diet one comes into some measure from COTED but also from direction given by the same 37th meeting of heads as well as the 38th meeting where they refer to childhood obesity which we are trying to capture through addressing dietary related issues in trade. The Ministers of Health will receive for adoption the new regional strategic framework for HIV and AIDS that the pan-Caribbean partnership against HIV and AIDS has just completed. Time will be devoted to looking at the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV as well as measles. The plight of migrants including matters related to their rights are also on the agenda of the meeting. The oncologist and hematologist association of the Caribbean has prepared a paper on the treatment of cancer which it hopes to present as a framework to the COSOD. Dr. Cummins said the Caribbean cardiologist association will also interact with curriculum health ministers in a discussion on the challenges with curbing heart attacks in the region. Stay with NTIA Nightly up next from as Hodgington is here with come back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. This is a fair development economic. We have guide Joseph Kosei Epimue, Kosei Nesignificosla, who initiatives are there, Kav Vallei to Settlesi. If we are going to build, if we are going to build, if we are going to build in a good direction, we are going to build as fast as we can. So all of this is a story of everyone who lives in the country. From the Caribbean, from Arawaks, who were there before, for the Europeans to come, and then for Afritians and for the Indians. All of these people are there, you are there, to build Settlesi, except that's why we say we have a majority of Settlesi today. This monument was built by Mr Jayem Yurevik, who is the oldest Greek man in the world to work as a sculptor, who served as a woodcutter. This is Mr Joseph Yurevik. We are going to go to Shasne to talk about the great wealth that the monument has brought to the country, in general. Also, for the history of Settlesi, it is mainly an encouragement for all of us to work and cooperate together. For Settlesi, excellent CPI carry-com, a way to experience good benefits for the Indian country. Special encouragement has come in reality in the 20th of September, during a joint assembly of the United Nations in New York, America. Along with the $144 million that I have found in place to help fight the climate crisis, joint discussions at India and carry-com discuss plans to establish excellent information technology, in order to build excellent original Settlesi, information technology in the capital, Georgetown, Indiana, and the original Settlesi, for the Indian government, we are in a mode of conflict, such as the government, to also strengthen the capacity of the people, in order to specialize in Settlesi, India and carry-com, for the Settlesi, a chairman carry-com, we are in a mode of conflict, such as the government, we are in a mode of conflict, such as the government, we are in a mode of conflict, GID is the Settlesi, for India and carry-com, continue to experience auto-benefits and degrease the location of the initiative that has been carried out. The Greeks, the agricultural sector, I have taught them how to establish more relations with the community and the consumers of the gymnasium and the embassy in Taiwan. It is done by the initiative to build more territory to eat than to drink with the people who have cultivated these meals. The plan is to strengthen the project to help the agricultural sector in the country and to increase the pleasure of the way that it assists the agricultural ministry in the effort to help the society in the country that we buy. The National Coordination Project for the Free Eclegia in the country, Adlén Yodovic, declared that it is to discover the area, develop the area in a special way and also develop the fields of tomato, lettuce, moulin, cantaloupe and moulin. In Yodovic, it is necessary to have the experience of cultivation because it is necessary to engage in production. But it is not possible to produce constantly. Unfortunately, the demand in this industry is low in the production cycle. Yodovic does not want to encourage the situation to the next level. He wants to present a new technology for a new product in the next year. Recently, the company has expanded the space that is available in Ozo and Yodovic promises to organize the space every month in the cycle as well as the only player to organize it. Yodovic said that the initiative was successful. This year, we have eight agricultural fields. The main goal is to change the space for the cultivation of each of these fields. I have been training for the OPC Extension. This is the cultivation that I found in the country with new technology. This is a new technology that I have been using for years. This is a new technology that I have been using for years. I have been using it for many years as well. I have been using it for many years as well. Thank you appeal primers. Here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. occasionally cloudy skies with a few scattered showers and possible isolated thunderstorms. A tropical wave will continue to cause a few cloudy periods with showers and possibly thunderstorms to develop over the lesser Antilles during the next 24 hours. Another tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. A third tropical wave located over the far eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. The tide for Castries Harbour was low at 106 pm and will be high again at 742 pm. The tide for Viet-4-B was low at 233 pm and will be high again at 849 pm. The seas slide to moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Saturday at 5.53 am. That brings us to the end of 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 St Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am General Norville.