 Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is preparing to offer the Bachelor of Science in Lawsian Program. The music education component of St. Lucia Jazz gets underway. The NCPC explores the link between productivity and punctuality. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports, and the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. The Department of Health Sciences at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is working towards the introduction of new programs including the Bachelor of Science in Nursing. The college has entered the final process and preparation for the delivery of this new degree, pending approval from the General Nursing Council of St. Lucia. During the next six to eight months, the department will ensure that all requirements are met towards the first intake of students. A main component is a building to house the new student. The Department of Health Sciences was charged with the responsibility of upgrading from an associate degree to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Developing the curriculum was an important step, but having the facility in which to execute it was just as important. Over the past three years, the department has been housed in different locations, the George Charles Secondary School, the main Sir Arthur Lewis Community College building, and now a new home at what was once the Cam2 Building. For the Vice Principal of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, this represents the college's commitment to not only providing a home for the department, but offering the best quality of instruction for its students. The dedicated space, the lab space is necessary, are necessary for not just cognitive learning but the honing of technical skills which is necessary in the nursing profession. We are grateful to the Ministry of Education for allowing the college the use of this building to add to our growing number of offerings as we continue to meet our mandate of providing quality education for the St. Lucian public. We thank the Ministry for its continued support in realising our objectives as a tertiary institution. According to the Education Minister, the Honourable Dr. Gil Rigabet, the college has been on a path of evolution and transformation for years. The commissioning of this building, she says, represents the dedication of not only the faculty of the department but the Board of Governors. But I must applaud the Board for recognising that still more had to be done and had to be done with greater urgency. And that is why my colleagues at the Ministry and other stakeholders agreed that perhaps it would make good sense to afford you the opportunity to use what was previously known as the Camdo building. And Madam VP was unequivocal in ensuring that we would not host this ceremony until such time as the Board would have approved all of the money necessary to secure the equipment as well. The Board of Governors at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College stands behind the college in offering this new level of qualification. The college is cognisant of the importance of ensuring that you have a conducive environment to provide the tuition and the training of our nurses to ensure that that conducive environment results in ensuring that the students get the best tuition possible and that it results in good performance of the students. The co-ordinator of the Department of Health Sciences says the commissioning of the building marks the beginning of a series of activities of achieving guidelines and standards set by CARICOM for nurse education. The Pan-American Health Organization PAHO Director Dr. Karisa Aitien recently paid an official visit to St. Lucia. As we hear from Fenil Neptune, a number of important issues were discussed at a meeting with health officials. PAHO Director Dr. Karisa Aitien joined her visit to St. Lucia, got the opportunity to meet with health and other high level officials to discuss ways of strengthening PAHO's technical cooperation in the areas of environmental health and universal health care to name a few. Dr. Aitien says she is committed to working with St. Lucia to provide assistance aimed at improving the health and quality of life for citizens. Certainly going forward, I would like the health sector to ensure much more prevention and prevention, particularly for the chronic diseases and non-communicable diseases, because this is the only way to reduce costs. This is the only way to save lives, and so I'd like to see that. As well, your government is contemplating a significant reform in health and more so in terms of financing what's strengthening the first level of care as well. And so I'd like to see that because one of our major goals is ensuring access to health for all. As part of the visit, a sub-regional manager's meeting was held with the various member states in the Caribbean. Minister for Health and Wellness, Senator the Honourable Miri Isaac, was present and highlighted the strides being made in the health sector. She says her government is extremely grateful for the technical support Pao has provided. One of the fundamental ways that Pao has been helping St. Lucia over the years is through financial support of the Department of Health and Wellness Work Program. They have provided and continue to provide support in the following areas. Health system and services development, family and community care, disease prevention and control, addressing communicable and non-communicable diseases, healthy lifestyles and social environment, environmental health and disaster, as well as health promotion and social communication. Dr. Carissa Atien was also granted the great pleasure of meeting the Governor-General of St. Lucia, his Excellency Sir Emmanuel Neville Snack. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Final Neptune. Students who are excited about music are being given opportunities this week to benefit from world-renowned jazz musicians via the Jazz at Lincoln Centre. The St. Lucia Jazz Music Education Program kicked off Wednesday with saxophonist Etienne Charles. Over 50 primary, secondary and tertiary students from across the island were in attendance. The music education component of the Jazz Festival was made possible through the collaboration between Events Company of St. Lucia, Inc., the St. Lucia Tourism Authority and Jazz at Lincoln Centre. Students and teachers were delighted to interact with world-class jazz musicians. This was a really great initiative where the students learned basically more about the origin of jazz in the Caribbean, which we barely touch on at school. Basically, we don't really pursue jazz that much at school. So it was really awesome. Oh, it was really cool. It was unexpected. I thought it would be very dry. It was great. I thought that the energy was very high in the room. I thought the students were somewhat a little reserved, which is very normal for students, especially young teenagers. But the energy with respect to when the music was happening was clear. I could tell that they actually entered the music, and the music was kind of the filter that allowed us to communicate. The students today, they really enjoyed the program, the feedback I got from them. And after today, they'll be going home to an assignment for me where they have to give me a brief description of the overall presentation here today. I always thought jazz was very cool. I like jazz music. And so for me as a performer and as a clinician, I had to think about, okay, let's make sure that we have enough energy in the rooms that got them up clapping, got them up singing, because I know that otherwise they're just sitting there. So teach them about the music, because you never know who is in this room. San Nusa Jazz Festival bringing in these artists to reach out to the kids. It's very important that they broaden their scope in terms of what they listen to and even understand what they listen to now, how it came about. And I think this workshop fuels these ideas very well. And I'm excited to see what's going to happen tomorrow and the following days. So getting them out just out of school into different artistic spaces is very, very important. So for me, I'm sure that these experiences happen as well as the show. Still with the jazz notes, Wednesday evening, everyone was all aboard the Pearl for the Jazz Cruise. There's Anissa Antoine. The one-of-a-kind collaboration between the San Lucia Jazz Festival and New York's premier jazz organization, Jazz at Lincoln Center, brought a new addition to San Lucia's annual Jazz Festival. Jazz on the Pearl featured performances by world-renowned artists such as Russell Hall and Rob Zion Finesse, who serenaded patrons in an intimate boat setting. Geneva Ross, public relations officer at events company St. Lucia, spoke on the rationale behind this year's venue selection. So the idea behind St. Lucia Jazz this year, of course, as you may be well aware, we have been shifting toward a more bona fide jazz festival in that we're focusing more on the genre of jazz. And jazz in itself is a very intimate, it creates a bit, it calls for very intimate settings. Smaller venues because it's a niche market. And so to go mass market with it, obviously you probably would be shooting yourself in the foot. So it was critical for us to find venues that would cater to smaller groupings and audiences. And as well, it does hit the bottom line because it is more cost-effective for us doing it this way. Ross expressed her satisfaction with the numbers in attendance at the event. The audience is a beautiful audience. And when I say so, it's inclusive but exclusive at the same time. Inclusive in the sense that I see people of all creeds, they're all races, all types. And that is beautiful because that's exactly what music does and especially jazz music. And also, it's exclusive because we get to ride away to the sunset. Well, the sun has gone down now but we get to ride away and have our own party on the pearl. The well-known St. Lucia duo Rob Zayand Finness have been performing at St. Lucia Jazz from 2017. The artists expressed their gratitude to the organisers for giving them the opportunity to be a part of the festival. You know, when we do events like this, it's always more of a special playlist. I mean, if it's songs that we've known for some time, we try to do them in a different way, a different style. And apart from showing the musicality of what we're about, whether it's our vocal ranges or our instruments, I think it's important to put on a show where we have to perform and entertain the people. And that's what I think we do best and that's what we enjoy to do. That's what's fun. Jazz on the Pearl took place on Wednesday 9th of May 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. Imagine being away from home, surrounded by danger and hostility, unable to escape or speak the language and being exploited. It might sound like fiction, but for 40 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, it is a reality. Innocent people enticed by the promise of a new life, then enslaved into forced labour or sex trafficking, human trafficking happens. In plain sight, know the signs, see it, report it. To report suspected cases of human trafficking, call the TIP Hawk Line at 847. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Anisia. First off on your segment, focusing on youth development and sports, on the 15th school's cricket, all but ready to bowl off in the first round of matches in the 2019 competition set for Wednesday, May 15th. Participants must be 15 years of age as of September 1st, 2019. Matches will be of 40 overs duration. Teams are not allowed to declare the innings close. Four points are being allocated for a win, two for a tie, one for no results and no points for a loss. Teams have been separated into four groups. Group A comprises Choselle Secondary, Souffle Comprehensive, PI Secondary, VFO Comprehensive and Beanfield Comprehensive. Group B consists Crandon Mason Memorial, Meku Secondary, Antupo Secondary, Granivier Secondary. In Group C, Arcastris Comprehensive, Gosele Secondary, Saaira Simon Secondary and Virbutai Secondary. Group D, St. Mary's College, Barbano Secondary, Leonhurst Comprehensive and Cicero Secondary. In the opening round fixtures, Group A, Choselle Secondary takes on Souffle Comprehensive at the PI playing field. Group B, Crandon Mason Memorial comes up against Meku at Larissus. Group C, Castris Comprehensive will play Gosele at Gosele and in Group D, St. Mary's College comes up against Barbano at the Mindofili Park. The Northern Zone Inter-District Primary Schools Football Competition was held at the Sound Plane Field Wednesday. School Sports Coordinator Isabel Alexander Markey expressed the hope that this competition will continue to develop the sport among schools on the island. That is the plan. It is the initiative of the Football Association. As you and everybody else would have known in the Ministry with the Football Association, they start female football in the secondary schools. We started with the seven aside but then we had to stop for a while because of some misunderstanding we had with the whole competition but then with the onset of the primary school football, female competition, we were looking to foster that bridge between primary school and secondary school and to continue a more sustainable female football program. Meanwhile, President of the St. Lucia Football Association, Lyndon Cooper, who was also on hand at the Sound Plane Field, noted how important this competition was to his association's objective of developing women's football. It's basically part of the overall development plan that we should invest more in the primary school both boys and girls a few months ago. We had the boys now, the girls and we have already committed ourselves to having this initiative for the next four years. It's part of trying to encourage the kids to play more. The Inter-District Primary Schools Female Football Competition is a collaborative effort by the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, the Ministry of Education and the St. Lucia Football Association. President moves to the Philip Marseille Ground Friday with competition among districts 5 to 8. FINA Open Water Swimming instructor Stephen Cassidy is hopeful that in the long run all children of school age in St. Lucia will be exposed to the pleasures of open water swimming. Cassidy is currently on island conducting a FINA level 1 open water swim course of the St. Lucia Aquatics Federation and also involves a number of physical education and sports teachers. It's fantastic that I was invited to be a part of this and it's forward thinking by the Ministry and by the people involved in physical education here in St. Lucia. Imagine if every student in the island one day had exposure to the water and that they learned it's not something to fear but it's something to love and something to be a part of and that's the goal for the future. Tonic Edward is a physical education and sports teacher at the Cicero secondary school. He feels the course will help his students get better prepared for school championships. It's a new venture so they're very much excited. Some of them are still fearful of the water but with practice eventually we should be able to compete in the championship soon. The open water swim course ends on Friday. That's your update on new development and sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks Ryan. Staff at the WLBL received a lesson on the link between productivity and punctuality by members of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council during their safety awareness activities more in this report from Glenn Simon. Rings true as the Wynwood and Leeward Bury WLBL observed a safety day for its staff at its viewport office. Safety is a major component of the operations of the Bury, whose safety vision is zero accidents. Among the presenters for the day was Fiona Hinkson, director of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NCPC. She noted that one of the mandates of the NCPC is to raise awareness around the issues involving productivity and competitiveness. So we discussed what productivity is all about, why it's important for a company like WLBL to improve on the productivity and how that impacts on the overall productivity for the country. When all companies improve on the productivity sanctuary benefits on the whole. So today we also discussed two factors that hinders productivity, absenteeism and punctuality. So we believe that improving on absenteeism and punctuality can really help the company with the bottom line because they are spending money paying salaries and so on and if employees are not at work then it reduces the output and therefore the productivity. Human Resource Officer at WLBL, Margarita Orelia said the thinking behind inviting the NCPC to the safety day activity is because the company has recognized the important collaboration between safety and productivity as a productive worker also works safely. I think it was well received. The staff now have a better understanding of productivity and not just productivity for the organization but for themselves too because we both tend to benefit when the organization is more productive and the employees are more productive you get a better output. So in the end it's win-win for the employee position. With a 24-hour production cycle safety is a high priority for WLBL who prominently displays the number of accidents three days during their operations. Production supervisor at WLBL Orelia St-Hilaire said he found the presentation very insightful not just for companies like WLBL but for the nation at large as productivity helps the nation move. Well productivity goes hand in hand with a program that already have at WLBL which is TPM, Total Productive Maintenance Management sorry and it's really about minimizing waste and also to look at how you can impact on profit and other areas in the company. The NCPC aims to foster increased collaboration with the private and public sectors, institutions and organizations as well as the wider public on issues surrounding productivity and competitiveness. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. 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This agreement is one of these countries for the West Coast Ability to implement this agreement. The National Union has already developed these countries that are able to implement this agreement in a way of national development. This is a commitment and a system that the National Union has developed since 2016. According to the Department of Economic Development, Claudia Simmanuel, has already participated in this program to support development until 2020. We have established the National Development Plan under the government. We plan to deliver six initiatives during the period of 1919 for 2021. Security for the citizens, construction for the development program, agriculture, education, tourism, and so on. At the end of the day, Agnieszka, who has plans for the development of financial development, is able to establish a lot of places for the program. Minister of Education I announced that the program could improve its quality of education. I started the program that follows the vision of the government to increase the sector of education in this sector, including the development bank which is financed. It has come from a way of education that addresses its diverse needs. Children, young people, and adults also, the program has developed young people who finished their studies at university, who are able to place them in the international economic community and the social community. There are these programs that can reinforce the capacity, which also improves the quality of its institutions at school to make education more important and to make education more important in the education sector. The program also addresses the need for special education in the state of Etydia, which is part of the normal, which is the program of special education in the state of Etydia. The program has been developed by the Masters University of New Brunswick. 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If you want to work at the end of the day, you need to have a certificate to prove that you are qualified to work in a business touristic. If you want to work at the end of the day, you need to have a certificate to prove that you are qualified to work in a business touristic. The Atlantic High Pressure System will maintain a moderate to brisk easterly wind flow across the eastern Caribbean region during the forecast period. Low-level clouds drifting along this wind flow will bring a few scattered showers over the islands during the next 24 hours. The tide for Castries Harbor was low at 1.21pm and will be high again at 8.18pm. The tide for V4 Bay was low at 2.48pm and will be high at 9.25pm. The sea is moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Friday at 5.38am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Troll.