 and welcome to your favorite show on St. Lucian television. Now for our usual viewers I know I am not the one that you're accustomed to seeing as soon as the show starts or the one who usually makes that comment. Karim is not with us this evening but I believe that we did a good job in finding someone to hold his face for the evening I should say because of course Karim will be back. This evening I am joined on set by none other than the mind I could say behind the crossroads and really the driving force behind all of the episodes that we see coming out. Mr. Nixon Barry, how are you feeling this evening and how does it feel to step out from behind the scenes and onto the stage? Well Jack thank you so much for such a warm introduction. I must say I feel quite exciting. I'm a little bit nervous because I do have big shoes to full but nonetheless I am excited about this evening and let's do this. All right amazing I think we have a great show ahead. Of course Barry like I said has been working behind the scenes so he has been the one really pushing the prerecorded content that you would see when we go into the communities and today's episode will definitely feature some of that. Barry as part of your hosting orientation I'd just like to give you the opportunity to introduce our police guest this evening. Wow thank you you know Jacker crossroads have been around St. Lucia we've been to the north we've been to the south beautiful etc and this evening we went a little bit down the west coast into the beautiful scenic community of Canaries and with us we have Mr. Lance Shepherd one of the shepherds leading the flock in Canaries. Lance welcome to crossroads and how do you feel? Oh I feel excited I must say very excited. All right so I'm guessing St. Lucia and the world is wondering who is Lance Shepherd so let's get right into it tell us a little bit about who Lance Shepherd is. To just keep it short I believe. We'll take that. So Lance Shepherd is a young guy from Canaries just trying to build a peace community. I work in very I work well I work in a lot of different things just to try to build up the momentum in our community. We've seen you leading the youth in Canaries in areas from agriculture, arts, I don't want to give away too much we probably really get into today's show but I could say fully that he does a lot in Canaries. Of course you would have been on the ground in Canaries recently and speaking with some members of the community who really spoke well about Lance how about we check on that video? Yes certainly should. I think in this video we're going to have a quick insight we're going to hear from one of St Lucia's youth development activists Mr David Henry and Ms Janelle Felix two young people who I believe have great energy and definitely would tell us more about Lance. I'm very grateful here to speak about my friend Lance Shepherd. I've known Lance for the longest of while. We began our youth work together from 2010 starting with church youth group Youth for Christ where you know we we really shaped what youth engagement within you know the church setting is like. Moving forward we moved into the Sacred Swords Foundation where we did a lot of work in reference to sports, sports development, using sports as a tool to tackle and shape a lot of the issues that young people face. So as one of the programs Sacred Swords in the community is to move our focus from just sports but into other areas such as agriculture and one of the well one of the new things that came to St Lucia a few years ago was acroponics and so Lance spearheaded our project here in the calories community where we had the first acroponics project here and as part of that project a number of young people were trained in creating acroponic system and to be able to produce not just the crops itself but to be able to sustain livelihood of fish. This has been an ongoing success and Lance really has been the person to take on this these other initiatives and through that calories community has had a number of young people who have been training diverse fields none that Lance specializes in but his talent is really engaging the young people and really helping them try to make the impossible possible. Hi everyone my name is Janelle Felix. I am the secretary of the youth and sports council. I met Lance last year in March when we were all elected to be on the council and I would say that working with Lance has been a blast and we've worked with him on like so many things such as our sepan paint activities we had two of them one for mothers and we had another one. We also worked with him on a men's health talk and right now we're working on our summer camp. Today was the first day of camp and I would say that Lance was the best facilitator. Currently Lance is the president of the current youth and sports council. He was not elected in that position at first. First he was our trust one of our trustees but we were having a few issues and he stepped up and showed his leadership and now he's our president and I'm happy that he's our president because Lance is the best I would see. Welcome back this evening and you're watching Crossroads. We have Lance Shepard from Canaries with us in studios. Jacob? All right well from that video I think we could definitely say that you are well loved throughout your community. I mean how does it feel to hear people speak about you so well you know they usually say we wait too long to give people their flowers but it seems like the membership of your youth council and of course Canaries by Extension really appreciate the work that you're doing. Well for I must say I'm very excited to hear that we'll speak well them speaking about me because majority of the time we don't really hear those good things about people who work in the community as well I must say I'm quite happy. All right now one thing that they mentioned was aquaponics now me being a science fair kid back in my days I could say when I heard about aquaponics it was more on a small scale children putting together projects for the national science fair the district science fairs and perhaps for regional showcases but tell me a bit about what is happening in Canaries in regards to aquaponics. So what is happening now with aquaponics in Canaries? It's really on it's still on a small scale but what we try to do maybe hopefully by next year we could introduce it in our in the primary school and in for school so what we trying to do now is trying to develop a base where we could say we could employ one person in that field where we could say we could introduce it more to our community and selling the product. All right and why decide to take that route in terms of exploring agriculture of the youth in Canaries? Oh so that route I believe that majority of the time we eat a lot of bad things we eat a lot of bad things and it could be one of the keys for a healthier lifestyle so with that it's totally organic so no chemicals introduced into the system so in that way and it's very fun as well in raising a child into aquaponics to get the benefits of everything. All right very interesting I mean I am on a special diet I think I need to get some of those products that you're preparing. Oh you see that? I was actually about to ask because when you hear aquaponics I think a lot of people would have thought about the fish but then you're growing plants as well. So is fish and plants together so the fish itself is giving the waste that feeds the plants like the fertilizer and the plants give the fish fresh water but the only thing you have to do to the system is to just feed the fish. Okay so things to consider for my next visit to Canaries. Are there anything on the market yet? Aquaponics for now? No we have nothing but our last product was basil so that is done. All right I think one of the things to consider of course with people going into agriculture I remember there was a phase where we were speaking about food security in St Lucia and people were encouraged to have backyard gardens but not everybody has the space for a backyard garden. But aquaponics itself you don't really need a big space to grow it. So it's quite simple. So it's very efficient. It's very efficient you could put it inside you could have your aquaponics inside and then you should be fine. I think we might need to do some upgrades to the crossroads set get some aquaponics going on on set. Great stuff with the aquaponics. I really like the idea. I think it's healthy it's very good. Jacque I want to dive a little bit back into Lance and his youth development. How should I put it? Mary we know that is your fourth state. Well of course I mean that is a field I work in and we've heard so much from from David and Tomitianne about Lance and his role in CanRays as a youth development activist so youth development practitioner you're practicing your development. When did it begin? When did you realize you had that interest in working with young people? So tell you the truth quite late quite late but saying that starting off with church and everything you know sometimes you just in the church but sometimes you don't really get that purpose of why you're here or even though you join a group sometimes it's not for that purpose you join a group. But after well being in the church well I'm still active with church and everything but being in the church and being out there with groups as well we realize a lot of our people are going astray. Sometimes they don't really have to go into the drugs but just the laissez-faire attitude so just being there and just relax like they're mother giving them things everybody giving them something but for me I realized I didn't really want to be too much I like to be independent I like to do my own thing and I don't like my friends just be sitting there so I like to do something or push them try to get some work or try to get something done so then lately I realized you know what that role like saying being the person in charge of things it wasn't really for me but I realized a lot of people have been looking at me as that role model but when I watch myself I'm saying like no I don't think I am. So you think they motivate me? They motivate me like big time like my friends and family motivate me a lot so I think that's why I got my role as trying to be the person in charge of things now. Well you certainly got in there and you are excelling because you are now the president of the Canaries Youth and Sports Council. Yeah. Tell us about that how did that happen? About that so our president of the Youth and Sports Council at the time but when they re-elected so I was the trustee I didn't really want to go up as a president but a lot of my friends told me to go up as a president go up as a president so I was like okay I'm going up as a president but I was late for the count well the election so I was like when I got in I was they was just about to say they missing the trustee I was like because on the last board I was the assistant treasurer so they say you know why not like they need somebody to fill up the room so I say well me so go into the meeting go into the meeting unfortunately that the president could not continue a post so she had to step down with work and then everybody else like learns I feel like you the person that's like the person to go up I was like me the person I'm like I'm like so busy I mean so much things why enter and pick up on next row so maybe two weeks later still go into the meeting without a president and then they was like then I said you know what it's not it will not kill me to be the president because every meeting I'm still there so I was like you know just let me go up just do it just do it um so I went up took up the role um with the help of my body I feel like they're the best support for me right now because at the end of the day um I did not really know how it's in me without them so I like to thank them especially for that I say when destiny calls I think it's a theme here I see a bit of crisis leadership a bit of servant leadership I think it's a good mix jacket absolutely and I think it really stands to show that sometimes we may not see potential in ourselves that other people are very clearly seeing that's true and speaking of potential we know lance has been working in several other areas of the community yes I mean of course crossroads is working with several persons as well to make the episodes possible barriers the man in charge how about you tell us about that certainly I do think we also drew for a break jack and so just before we go we like to say thanks to of course kfc who is one of our sponsors dbs of course we broadcast on saturdays 11 to 11 to 12 and soon coming to choice as well and of course our biggest supporter the ministry of youth development and sports we do have our director and ps and our hr in studios with us tonight they never miss an episode they never miss an episode they might as well be host to we might have to bring them on we'll have to bring them on so we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back more action here on crossroads are you looking to broaden your career opportunities future proof your career with a bachelor's degree from the sartre louis community college we've introduced a new cutting-edge degree programs in environmental studies and sustainability tourism and hospitality business administration and public health online platforms are making it easier than ever before to further your education and mask your competitive advantage this is the game changer you've been waiting for get the highest return on your investment in uecs from the college you trust visit sallcc.edu.lc apply today for september 2021 welcome back and thank you for staying with the program now this evening of course we have a special guest and we have a special guest host as well i feel like it's certainly i what do i call this opportunity being on set at crossroads with the mind behind crossroads i might have to think about it i'll tell you what i think about it at the end of the episode of course we're continuing with lance barry what are you thinking at the moment in regards to lance's working canaries um i must confess i've had the opportunity to work along with lance um as a youth and sports officer in canaries i think his work is is excellent his ability to connect young people and i mean really deliver on programs one of the latest we've had is his tail pan which the ministry i was very proud to support yeah man he's a music man and so i think um i would like to know more about lance and his tail pan we have to ask first off i mean just off the heels of the carnival season were you part of panorama oh yes we was part of panorama i wow as you see that that just brought me back good memories good memories yeah but we was part of panorama um we have been part of panorama for a long time now well 2018 so yeah i feel like i have a lot of fun hearing about the names of different entities here on crossroads so take us into the name of your steel pan band okay um so the name of like i have a shirt on you're branded um the name of the steel pan is can beats can beats can beats so like cannery's beats i was wondering what the inspiration behind the name yes so cannery's beats just for um the music aspect but we just not really a steel pan group but more of a community group um trying to get in touch with the young people in the community because at first steel pan is not well steel pan is new in cannery's so that aspect um we get a lot of children interested so that's one of the things amazing it's really part of that shift we've been seeing recently um to get young people more involved in music because not only it's physical activity it's socializing it's you know mental activity as well you could be learning a lot you could be learning to coordinate yourself better what was the driving factor in deciding to do steel pan oh so the driving factor um for doing steel pan well when i go way back i think 2016 i think i went to trinidad um i went to trinidad and then i was like wow they have steel pan and the culture and everything i wasn't really into steel pan down in senucia i took me i did not know nothing about steel pan so but when i got back when i got back to senucia i was like hey let's do something but um cdf um cultural development foundation they had that program running um so they had a program for cannery's and sulfur so we went into it and then i believe that's where the love for steel pan started so we did the program for 2017 to 2019 um cannery's sulfur and but we during that time we went to panorama as well just for a little experience and that kind of feel um but the steel pan program must see it has been very good all right well and um we've spoken a lot about steel pan yes how about we see what they've been doing certainly uh we've been on the ground um in cannery's and we've been talking to people about the steel pan so i think we should definitely uh hear what they have to say about lance and the steel pan in cannery's i am vinnette long wheel a member of can bit i'm actually the treasurer for can be steel pan and lance is our president can bit began from a summer program in 2017 which the cdf were persons from cannery's and sulfur attended in sulfur from there lance the lance love for steel pan began following this in 2018 there was another summer program this time this summer program was held in cannery's and lance used this opportunity to mobilize more people to become interested in steel pan after this came panorama in 2017 where sufkan participated for the first time and sufkan was made up of persons from cannery's and sulfur and at the time lance was the band leader sufkan participated in panorama 2017 where they placed for following this in 2018 the summer program continued with the cdf this time it took place in cannery's and we with this summer program lance was able to mobilize more persons to participate and this also allowed sufkan to participate in panorama 2018 one thing that i really admire about lance is that his leadership skills within us within can bits he one thing that he does he allows the younger persons in the group to take charge is not afraid to give them the opportunities to lead various parts of the the group following 2019 in 2020 the program continued in our community of cannery's there was because of covid and so on there was not any summer programs with the cdf and so on on his own and a few of us sourced our used our connections with various organizations that we have worked with before in order to run our own programs with the children own after school programs with the children of the community and this has been tremendous we've had two programs where one was sponsored by the ministry of youth development and sports and this was truly a success through these two programs we have gained the interest of a lot of the young persons in the community those in the primary school age group to be specific of course i am in the mood i mean it's music it's still fun it's exciting stuff really exciting um lance a breath of fresh air jacker what do you think i want to say our guest host is giving karima a run for his money i don't think i remember buster move the one time we asked you know he shied away a bit but you know bars went a good job um lance it was absolutely vibes i have to ask the gentleman dancing in front of the stage was that you oh no no no i was um this time i did not play any still fun like but i was in the back hitting the iron i think that's that's that's why all my members want me to go is in the back to hit the iron hit the iron call me iron man um something that stood out to me in one of your previous comments you said that still pan is new to canaries yet i'm looking at you on the main stage on playing in in panorama yeah national competition this is this is a big deal yeah tell me about that um so panorama um so but first off so it's souffle canaries on stage there so it's souffle canaries um that's what we do every year because of numbers because our community will not be um they will not have enough children to qualify qualified so we kind of mix up the two and then we become one okay so yeah i think that bring in more flavor to you know super have his own vibe all the real pork and nice booyah oh yeah thank you for that larry now i need a snack but how was the feeling tell me about the feeling of that level of accomplishment being able to make it on the big stage and how did you perform oh we performed very good like i feel like that was one of our best performance ever um thanks to our ranger jesse he did a very good job with us um jesse and akram did it very well with us um i must say but out of everything we are very happy that we are over with panorama because that feeling it was the carnival feeling was there yeah i must say because you know coven and going back on stage that was a good vibe the energy the energy i i feel like why don't go down oh gosh all right before we continue with lance i just want to put it out there that we are open for questions if you have any questions that you'd like to ask lance or our second guest who will be joining us in a bit you can just comment those on our facebook and they will be filtered to us by our team now continuing with lance um now that carnival is over like you said a breath of relief but the work still continues down in canaries um barry would have mentioned earlier that you are also involved in sports so what is taking place of sports in canaries um with sports um what we're doing now is that we had a program with um the ministry of youth and sports um called harmony in motion so we point on three aspects um so we have the still pan we have football that's a grassy program and then we have a basketball program as well going on in community so we try our best to accommodate all those free kids well in sports so that's what we try to do right now i think we need to note that you cannot sleep on canaries not at all canaries has been dominating in so many areas i mean even the artists we call it denry segments yeah but so we need to give canaries their flowers we have dove too funny we have samu and these are artists who have been traveling representing satan of course representing canaries proudly so i think we have to look forward to a remix of one of those songs with a little bit of still pan in it oh yeah definitely definitely that's one of our projects as well you know ah you see yes hopefully for genuquial you will get a bit of that okay all right i am excited still coming from canaries lands definitely are coming to keep to keep their eyes on very a big community all right right now we are due for a quick commercial break but you need to stay tuned because of course we have more information and more great content coming up and we will be joined by another guest so stay tuned we'll be right back hey boss no sorry excuse me boss can i please be excused to go pay my driver's license okay after do my last well i'll do it later okay i'll see you on the line this is edgar he's going on the line this is keleb keleb does not go on the line he takes care of his transactions online keleb uses the digigolf platform with digigolf he can access and pay for government services using a computer tablet or mobile device digigolf allows you to apply for and renew your drivers and vehicle permits submit registrations and pay fees at 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your social media following the ministry of youth development and sports for all updates on everything crossroads of course this evening we are doing all things canaries and i have a special guest host joining me this evening so i want to give barry the opportunity to welcome our second guest for this evening barry thank you jacker and i like to say that we have shepherds in the house titus welcome welcome to crossroads how are you feeling this evening i am awesome like it's good to be here and then like to talk about like everything and then the exposure is really good so are you feeling the vibes are you feeling the crossroads vibes so like the thing about the shepherds we are always positive all right i love it i love it and just to make things abundantly clear barry did mention we are joined by shepherds because the two of you are brothers i believe oh yes i'm actually the eldest of like um say there's like so many of us like so many yes all right which shepherd is leading the flock yeah that guy this shepherd is leading the flock all right that's to set the example well you're obviously setting a good example because of course lance is doing so well with the youth in canaries um what has your involvement been like in the community so with my involvement with like um say we it's been from a young age we uh we come from like a sporting background so we come up from playing like my entire family plays football um netball we represent st luce and national labels and all this and then lance is like yeah not everybody plays football so far i'm like i'm like shelly that i was i was just about to mention i was just about to mention that so i also have an um there's like two cheerleaders like um my sister lian is like also a cheerleader so there's nine of us oh there are a lot of shepherds so if you you probably heard of like kustendure wilfred and untron wilfred those are shepherds but they sign wilfred i don't have no idea why they sign wilfred so i also asked my direct amiri um jacka from this shepherd's conversation i believe leads right into shepherd's cocktails shepherd's cocktails absolutely i mean you're working together as brothers in addition to your work with the youth in canaries to invest in yourselves in the form of entrepreneurship certainly certainly and we've had the opportunity again to go into canaries and get a feel of what chef i mean i've seen the thing on facebook i've seen it on instagram it had me so drawn in that i needed to go to canaries and experience it myself exactly because marie said we went but he did mean i you'll see what i meant in a moment so i think we should have a look at what shepherd's cocktail house to offer hi um my name is titus shepherd my business is called shepherd's cocktail it's a kind of like a dream for me to actually like i'm really sad this and do this kind of thing um i've been a bartender from like 2006 i've been all over the world like traveling and bartending and like my goal is to actually try to bring back what i've learned to like um to send lushe and have like my share of like everybody experienced what i've learned so i have my brother lanshaper who's like actually helping me he's like one of the best things that happened because like he's my brother and knows how to promote and how to sell so with like my experience and with lans being there it's like a win-win situation for both of us because like we know how to do this thing and we've liked the drinks that i make i try to make drinks that are kind of like whatever to what's people's liking if you like um something bitter something sweet something that's what i try to create so that's where shepherd's cocktail has like it's a little advantage i don't try to like keep things like as local as everything because like my little experience that i've done um being on the ship with like working in alchemy bar working in like local bars and all this things where i would use like things like basil what's a melon cucumbers in a drink where people would normally just use like everything so i try to implement these drinks these things in a drink and try to make it for everybody so yeah why it started is because like not really wanting to work out there again and it's time to like show off and promote this thing and having lunch there and teaching my brother how to make cocktails so um for today like actually like um what what what i really wanted to do was like i'm just like i'm just present like a couple cocktails in that aspect with like making the watermelon drink and see where i will make the quick drink watermelon and cucumber drink for you guys just out there slices of cucumber i have to use lime sugar syrup and muddle for this drink i i i i try to use like mostly local stuff because i want to promote mostly local um ingredients so i'm going to use like bachari white so use two ounces of that orange juice one ounce so for my glass i like my glasses to be well sexy so as you can see when i'm shaking like i try to use glasses so everybody sees exactly what's going in the drink so we shake right there strainer so i like to double strangers for what's an experience that would have been i mean our in studio audience is a bit disappointed that we didn't get any samples but barry the gentleman at the end of that video looked so familiar i mean have you ever met him i was going to say like shaggy it wasn't me but i think the video evidence proves otherwise but um i must confess i didn't drink i was driving at night so i gave it to marklyn but i had to leave the experience looking at the mixologist um the hand whoop the the the skill that he put into that sitting there i just had to pull the glass and leave the experience i mean shepherd's cocktail by the way i'm coming back i need one of those non-alcoholic ones by doctor have me and three quarters so i'm coming back no always i'm a doctor myself so see things coming full circle i noticed that some of the um the ingredients you would have mentioned cucumbers watermelon basil those are products that are being um produced in canaries through aquaponics so is that where you're sourcing just the basil for now just the basil for now like the connection you know i'm speaking in future tense because you know it's always so important as an entrepreneur to be self-sustainable i mean what we would have seen throughout the pandemic is a lot of small businesses went under because they couldn't receive the products that they need i mean we had supply chain issues we're seeing the same thing extending right now with the war over in ukraine so i think sustainability is something you'd have thought of when you decided to use local products oh yes definitely because like i have this guy is so local because like now i'm gonna use like the soup and as an advantage so where i could use like cocktails and still plan for like future future events he'll be on beyond so like yes i have like the wind wind situation on my side right then so what are we call it s and s but and still by trying to get you um soon for copyright yes if you need any information on not getting sued for copyright you know right upstairs urinora house you could check with you know the the registry yes exactly but you do have a very dynamic duo going on with your business he would have mentioned that each of you serve specific roles oh yes with the business so take us into that remember that okay um so this guy right here my brother um he is the main guy at the back of the cocktails he will be the one majority of the time he would be the one mixing and majority of the time i'll be taking off pictures and posting on instagram and social media just for the follow-up but um i have been mixing a lot myself okay a lot a lot a lot very multi-faceted yeah like too much so yeah um i've been mixing as well but we have equal roles in the business as well so we do events if he's not available i won't do the events and then if i'm not available he do the events he do the drinks um especially for our drinks itself we normally customize drinks to fit your suit like to suit you for your event like colors and everything wow yeah for sure because like um with the cocktails and all this and it's like um in shapers cocktails where my my thing is like whilst it's starting to go and eventually when it grows bigger to like to show off the skills and then like teach younger people like how to make cocktails and all this and so i you cannot have like all the knowledge and not try to share so you have to like share your experience i'm like so yeah absolutely all right well brothers working together i mean we love to see it the shepherds i mean barry barry is working on something there for you that's some good copyright advice so you could you could go you know put that down make it legal all right so of course we will be continuing with you we are due for another commercial break but of course i want to remind that the floor is open for questions if there's anything that you'd like to ask the shepherds brothers you could send us a message over on facebook or comments below the live and we will be asking them actually we see some questions coming through so you need to set me for that we're heading to a quick commercial break don't move consciousness emancipation 2022 presents the law was festival a bus of color culture food and entertainment at the constitution park and william peter castries tuesday august 30th at 9 a.m to 5 p.m come be part of a cultural sensory experience for more information go to cdfs book page participating partners government of st lucia cdf nrc umbutu icor nyc frc denry nerf and sub constituent sufre council sufre foundation archaeological and historical society slhda and events st lucia welcome back st lucia we are live here at crossroads and we have the shepherds in studio having some cocktails and great conversations i want jack i want to find out about the level of reception from the community in the community i mean you're going to be so tight in it as well yeah you're doing this business what has been the level of reception from the community um towards your business it's been very well received um because i'm sick um there are times like if there's an event like recently we had like an event in the village where a street street jump by um my place and like also like there was like an opening of like a mini boutique and we had our little stall on the outside and our drinks were with the prices of the drinks i tried out to make it as expensive for if you got to get a go to like a hotel or any restaurant a drink would probably be like 20 dollars 25 dollars so i tried to be reasonable for like everybody so everybody could get like that experience so it doesn't matter when like a drink where i make would probably cost like maybe 30 dollars onwards and i try to incorporate that and i say like no everybody has to get that experience i try to put it in a reasonable price so just make it fancy everybody has to get the same love i love this cost-effective and fancy i'm going to calories as if you needed any more reason after seeing him make that first drink barry but i find um well i find that our country's community have been very supportive of our business um like very supportive very very very supportive i think that's something we can certainly say about canaries about souffle they come out and they represent for their own i mean at this point i would expect canaries to have a flag unless i am just ignorant to that development but i'll be looking out for that we have a flag we have a flag but it's not canaries flag we have a flag like our community we call it pakistan but we have a yeah um where we live like we live riverside road that's our own community we are away from the village and everything so it happens like after the trough after the trough after the bridge went down so we was like pakistan we call it pakistan because we look like pakistan let me tell you community is shriek geography lesson for us right now but with like um we shepherd's cocktails and all this is like the the actual like end product would want to be like having like our own established business like but you cannot have like you could have like the best bar in the world with the best drinks but if you don't have the proper location right it's like definitely not gonna sell so location sells you have a proper location yeah you could have the woods drinks and it's gonna work right but like location sells everything so that's finding the right location and then we are good to go so am i hearing possible expansion coming soon uh looking forward to it so like i'm saying this is our actual goal and we are in the works of talking to people about like this and then say hoping just hoping like with fingers crossed that we do get like our chances to get this i'm sure our viewers who usually visit rodney b and i'm sure they that their taste buds are calling for this in rodney b barry is trying to throw in suggestions so you will have to drive too far the thing about where you have learned so like um with like shepherd's cocktails and all this since we will get people recently we did like a party all the way in schoolyard above the party for like uh four kids and like we get like these little calls and we just need a theme if you need to color color theme with the drinks we try to make this and kids party always just try to make everything very diverse absolutely and barry did mention um i mean rodney b but of course we need to think about decentralizing as well so getting more things up in the south i noticed there's sushi places in the south now there's different kind of culinary experiences you could have in addition to what it's traditionally known for and people from the north will come i remember there was a period of time every single thursday i'll not mention where they were going but everybody from the north was getting down to library so as long as you have a good product and a good location in addition to the ambience of the whole thing i know you mentioned the steel pump people will come all right so with our viewers um we did mention that we will be taking in questions so are you ready for the questions from st lusia oh yes i am all right so let's start off with lance so you did mention that your brother is the main bartender and earlier on you spoke about being involved in so many things that you were even questioning if you should take up the presidency so what made you decide um to try your hand your hands in bartending when your brother wouldn't be available okay um so in bartending um the pandemic so we did not have anything to do at that time but springboard had a free course so i took some time to do um uh course there and then i was like hey you see me i will do it um but then my brother is a bartender i was thinking about he's teaching me to mix and you know sometimes we could do a little something just that little experience um but then again i took it up and then i actually run with it okay so that's like my little when i have nothing to do you learn something new this man is such an inspiration i need to take some notes barry but yeah um that's what i do um on a free time majority of the time just like mix and learn how to mix and that kind of thing but thanks to springboard on that free course then i'm satisfied in bartending as well way to go all right we also have a question for titus um during your montage you would have mentioned working on a cruise line so after working so many years on the cruise ship what inspired you to come back to st lusia and start off a bartending business with your brother i am so currently like i'm actually um working with like carnival um but like the thing it's on your vacation uh the thing is like i'm trying to like have things done on my own so like mentioning like i've been a bartender from 2006 i used to i started off in the virgin islands and then like i'm safe from them but it's always been like working i try to work in the hotels it's in st lusia it's kind of like um where you get blocked by friends because there's always like distractions and all this and there's like there's a party there there's a party this so i choose to work like outside there until like i'm saying now getting like things done by myself like where i get more responsibilities so like i could be more responsible on my own and have my own free time so when i'm on whilst i'm here it's like just trying to work where i don't really have to go out there again so if it blooms bye bye carnival so all right i just want to note right now that i think it's so important that we have people like the two of you engaging with the youth and working in youth development in st lusia because a lot of time for young people if you come to us and you tell us hey this is what you're supposed to do with your life and you're not actually living that reality it's like just so that person coming and talk to me that you just read that from a textbook you're just repeating it to me i could go google that myself but here you are spending your time in the pandemic learning to mix drinks and turning that into a business and here you are you know you went out of st lusia so you could focus and then you're coming back home to bring in the skills that you would have learned so i just want to you know throw that out there and of course i enjoy giving people their flowers barry knows that for sure yes i say diversity i say resilience is what i'm seeing present before me this evening i mean we've had quite a lot of talk about uh conversation rather about chefford's cocktail but how can we reach you yes the marketing man how can we reach you um so you could call us um directly um our numbers is at the back of our business cards um so my number is 733-5492 or you could check us out on instagram at shepherd with a z cocktails yes or if you want you could check us on our on my personal page it's learn shepherd 17 on instagram facebook as well well there you have it st lusia shepherd's cocktail you have the information how to reach them don't slip on you get in the mix the actual mix yes all right we've had quite a bit of discussions this evening i mean had it been left to us alone we would still be talking but we have time constraints so we will settle for keeping up with shepherd's cocktails through your social media so say lusia don't miss out on giving them a follow now i think it's only fair that i give our special host the opportunity to close this evening's show so barry i will count you down and you will bring us out of this edition of crossroads are you ready certainly it's been quite an exciting evening my first time shifting the gears moving from behind the scenes to in front of the camera it has been quite refreshing and i can't do it a refreshing drink from from shepherd's cocktail but gentlemen thank you so very much for being here with us this evening the conversation was great i believe st lusia really appreciates and will be reaching out to you as we pull the curtains down i believe we must say thanks to our sponsors kfc of course gis they're doing such an amazing job the ministry of youth development and sports um don't forget you can view on dbs on saturday from 11 a.m to 12 and it's coming to choice tv very soon um so yeah all right and we just have to say thank you to barry because you know it's one thing to lead it's one thing to direct but it's another thing to step into the shoes so you have to be able to put what you're seeing into practice as well and barry you're a great example in that sense thank you i think the still pan and the cocktails had me going thank you so much for being with us this evening st lusia do enjoy the rest of your night