 Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. They move towards smart classrooms quickened with raspberry pie for STEM. Saint Lucia discusses compliance with the United Nations Human Rights Convention on discrimination against women. Saint Lucia Carnival enters the home stretch at Fever Pitch. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle Arcueon. The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development in collaboration with the Caribbean Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Organization carries STEM, hosted a week-long series of workshops in the use of raspberry pie devices for science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning. The overall goal is to introduce the raspberry pie as a platform as one of the means of integrating technology in the classroom. Here's Nisha Antoine. Raspberry Pie is a small yet powerful computer which can be used to perform simple programming and the basics of computer science. The secondary school students and teachers learned how to integrate the use of raspberry pie into different concepts. Jermaine Anthony is the curriculum specialist within the Technology Integration Department of the Ministry of Education. So this is a very important step we're taking because we want to be able to integrate more of these technologies in learning in general but also to give young people, our students, a window into the future into what the potential is for career opportunities that may lie ahead. We do know that a lot of the jobs, careers our young students are going to have in the next 5-10 years maybe are not even invented yet. This is an age where artificial intelligence, internet of things, all of these concepts are becoming more meaningful, more prevalent and so we have to prepare our students from now to take advantage of these opportunities as the world is in fact changing so rapidly. Professor Winston Sealy of Kyrostem is the lead facilitator of the workshops. The nice thing about a raspberry pie is it's a single board computer. It's inexpensive, roughly about 25 US dollars and it captures all the essence of a computer. Traditional computers are proprietary in nature, excuse me, so it's difficult to capture some of the ports and design stuff around it. With the raspberry pie it's open, we could design prototypes, we could build on them, we could experiment, etc. Dr. Nicholas St. Hill explained that Kyrostem is a platform for persons and organizations interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM within the Caribbean. Well, Kyrostem is mainly about inspiring people, inspiring students and adults actually to let them know that they can solve some problems. That's primarily our objective actually as an organization. We want them to know that they can play and there is no right and wrong answer in general in engineering and science. That's the goal. Dr. St. Hill expressed his excitement to be able to continuously collaborate with the Government of St. Lucia. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. A wide cross-section of St. Lucia's law enforcement and social support agencies recently discussed St. Lucia's compliance with the United Nations Human Rights Convention. The forum was hosted by the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights in Barbados. The focus was the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In 1982, St. Lucia ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination of Women which takes an important placing bringing the female half of humanity into the focus of human rights concerns. The implementation of the Convention is monitored by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW. At least every four years, countries that have signed on to the Convention are expected to submit a national report to the Committee, indicating the measures they have adopted to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. A workshop was held in preparation for these reports and was facilitated by the Human Rights Officer with the United Nations, Michelle Brathwick. Every single Caribbean country has ratified a number of human rights treaties and there are a certain number of obligations and responsibilities that come with ratifying a treaty. But small and young developing states have challenges when it comes to meeting those obligations. So part of my role is to help governments meet those challenges. So over the course of the next three days, I'll be working with Gender Relations to pull together information for your CEDAW report, going to the Committee against the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. What is most important, in order to pull this report together, information from you is critical. Acting Director of the Department of Gender Relations says St. Lucia submitted its first to sixth reports in 2015 and is in the process of submitting its seventh to ninth reports. So we are hoping that by the end of today, you'd have a greater appreciation for the human rights component of the job that you do, how what you do contributes to the commitments that St. Lucia has made and how you are supposed to be generating information, collecting data that contribute to the reports. You'll also, hopefully, you'll also get an understanding and appreciation of the value that the preparation of those reports add to the work that we do and more so to the beneficiaries of the work that we do. So at the end of the day, if the reports can give us the necessary feedback that will allow us to implement programs and projects and initiatives that could better the lives of the people that we serve, then we would have served the purpose of actually completing those reports. During its annual session, the committee members discussed these reports with the government representatives and explored with them areas of further actions by the specific country. The committee also makes general recommendations on matters concerning the elimination of discrimination against women. Karakam Chairman St. Lucia's Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shastney will in the coming weeks set pace as the region prepares to engage the global community in September at the United Nations on matters of climate change and resilience building. Caribbean leaders will tackle, among other issues, special financial provisions for countries in times of disaster. Considerable stride has already been made in the OECS subregion in that regard. General Norville has the details. As the region continues efforts to build resilience, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB, has made significant strides in that regard. Speaking on the program ECCB Connects, ECCB Governor Timothy Antoine highlighted the importance of building disaster resilience at various levels so as to include fiscal resilience. The governor indicated that the bank has been advocating for the embedding of disaster link clauses in sovereign debt contracts. He explained the benefits of this action. We have been advocating internationally, we mean in the ECCB, that all debt contracts for small countries, including small states, including those in the ECCU, ought to have in their contract a clause which says if there's a shock, if there's a hurricane, for example, or a major shock, that there will be a standstill on payments to give the country that is impacted the liquidity it needs to begin its recovery in the shortest possible time and then to resume the payment at a later date. And that date is specified whether it's one year later, two years later, three years later. The initiative, according to the governor in 2014-2015, was pioneering Grenada. Antoine stated that the ECCB has already contacted several international entities seeking buying. He noted that the next step is widespread adoption, especially by small island states. Through the Paris Club forum, we made a strong advocacy. Canada, as our G7 member, came along and was very supportive and we commend Canada for that. Canada uses good offices and we wrote, we, ECCB, wrote to the IMF and World Bank, both the managing director and the president of the World Bank, asking them to work with us on this particular issue. They accepted the challenge, worked with us and with the International Capital Markets Association came up with a term sheet that can be used in all debt contracts. That's a big advance. The ECCB has also written to the Paris Club urging the club to take the necessary steps for the automation of the embedding of disaster links within sovereign contracts. For the Government Information Service, I am Genelle Norville. And this is the NTA nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. The problem starts with finding a suitable spot. It extends to double parking. Offloading zones are ignored, thus inconveniencing commercial activity. Handicapped spots are occupied by drivers who use the quick errand excuse. And of course, there's the constant fear of parking tickets. In an effort to curb these and other parking-related issues, the Castery City Council will be implementing short-term paid parking. $3 an hour can save you $500 in parking tickets. Short-term paid parking, coming soon. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Misha. Welcome everyone. It's the weekend and I'm Ryan O'Brien of your weekend edition from Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. Director of Sports, Patrick Matres says and Lucia is getting ready to face the challenges of the other Winner Islands. When they participate in this year's Winner Islands school games, set for Dominica at Monthen. The St. Lucia contingent will soon be going into camp before leaving for the annual games. The preparations for the games are moving quite smoothly. Only this week, we had a meeting, a discussion where the team was chosen. So we already have our 62 persons who would be the team travelling into Dominica to represent the country. Sometime next week, after the carnival season, of course everything gets lost in the carnival season, that we will be having our training camp down in Viewfort at Bynfield where the 62 members of the delegation will be going down together with the coaches to go through the final preparations and more importantly the psychological preparation, getting them ready to go out and represent the country. So based on what we have done so far, we're very satisfied with what we have. We see our chances as being good to excellent in terms of coming up on top. Of course, like people say, you win the gold. You don't win a silver. So we're going all for gold to win that particular gold this year and to do well, but so far things have been going quite smoothly. Coaches of the various disciplines will be using the upcoming camp to fine-tune their athletes for competition. The Youth Empowerment Project, yep, is continuing here now that a logo has been formally established. Project Coordinated Joint Husbands tells the NTN Knightley that the time has come to expand on the scope of the project. The project implementation unit is happy to finally have a logo which is representative of empowerment to the youth and the communities of Wilton's Yard, New Village, Conway and Barnard Hill. We launched our logo and the prize-giving ceremony was also on the same date which was July 8th on Monday. The winner of the logo competition or design competition was that of Kerry Andrew from Conway. He provided us with this wonderful logo in our background and we're happy to finally have launched. Currently, moving on the next steps for the project is that of ensuring that we get our key staff on board or core staff on board for the program components. We will be re-advertising some of the positions. Some of the positions, we didn't get the minimum expressions of interest for. So please stay tuned for those advertisements or re-advertisements on the government website, the CDB website, and we look forward to persons who have the desired skill sets and qualifications to add value to our programming. To apply, we encourage you to apply. Don't be discouraged by the criteria. Please ensure that you submit your application. All applications are welcome. The project is working under the theme Enlightened Enrich Empower. And that's where we come to the end of your segment from Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly for this week. I'm Ryan O'Brien, saying goodbye and have a pleasant and safe weekend. Thanks, Ryan. St. Lucia's Carnival enters the home stretch at Fever Pitch, beginning with Panorama Friday evening. On Thursday night, Tribe of 12 showed its dominance on the Carnival landscape, capturing the 2019 National King and Queen of the band's title. The results for the Queen of the bands are Fourth Place with 374 points, Nicole St. Helen Azari Tribe. Third Place with 395 points, Claudine Cadet Tribe of 12. Second Place with 430 points, Natania Santoma, Zouvo Carnival Band, and First Place with 456 points, Sharon Tanner from Tribe of 12. The results for Kings of the bands are Fourth Place with 426 points, Barry George Fusion Mass. Third Place with 427 points, Quincy Griffith Tribe of 12. Second Place with 452 points, Martin Dorville from Tribe of 12. And the First Place with 456 points, Adrian O'Jay from Tribe of 12. Three hundred years, 12 million Africans shipped as car. Garden Green, the color of this island, and Gold, the color of our dreams, we have learned to dance again, to celebrate our survival, to see ourselves as our own reluctant heroes. She was not named by Spaniards, but by Amaryllians, who found her Twin Peaks, shining in that first storm, figuring the end of their long and lonely journey. And stay with the NTN Knightly up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. Excellent. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. The NTN Nouvelle Arquio is a university that is dedicated to the students, and it is to pay attention to the students' facilities. It is the Ministry of Education that makes announcements to inform journalists about what happened in the cabinet. We have Dr. Gil Rigorbutt from Clarique, Ministry of Education, which has several initiatives to consider, especially in primary school. According to Dr. Rigorbutt, the project that took place at this school was justified for the specialization of primary school. Dr. Rigorbutt noticed that it was not all teachers who were able to deliver this project to the primary school, and that it was necessary to establish the specialization of this project at this school. Your set of excellence in sports and culture are not only traditional, but they also have the capability to continue to find a way to improve secondary education. The Ministry of Education has also announced that the secondary school will have a national sports academy officially opened in September 2019. Dr. Rigorbutt, I am here to employ special sports for the primary school to teach primary school and secondary school. Dr. Rigorbutt, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to continue the education of this school. I would like to thank Dr. Rigorbutt and Dr. Rigorbutt for the opportunity to support this program. The students have found a way to address the disaster because the Ministry of Education has organized a program to reduce the risk of natural disaster. The students have left the school for eight years so they can assist the people who are injured or sick. They also have the opportunity to visit and establish a program to organize and conduct operations. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education has explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the disaster and the family to come to the U.S. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the disaster. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the family to help the school especially the family who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the family who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the family who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity to help the school especially the people who are injured or sick. The Ministry of Education has also explained that it is their opportunity