 Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. The Ministry of Education is working assiduously to address suspected cases of poor air quality at the Bocache and Sir Iris Simmons secondary schools. The national enrichment and learning units begin to roll out the Skills for Youth Employment Project. Medical practitioners build capacity under the HOTS initiative. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports in the NTN Nouvelle-Arc rayon. The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development has been alerted to further suspected cases of poor air quality and mold infestation at schools in the Castries Basin, following comprehensive remedial works undertaken at the Archipel Secondary School some two weeks ago. In response to the fresh concerns the ministry has undertaken significant work including deep cleaning, mold remediation and pre- and post-air quality testing at the various schools. For instance, the ministry has entered a second week of assessments and remedial works at the Bocache and Sir Iris Simmons secondary schools. On Friday, November 1, the ministry reported that officials visited the Bocache secondary school where air quality issues were discovered. However, the chief education officer Fiona Maya notes that it is not a case of mold infestation. In the interest of the Ministry of Education that is proactive about looking at the various issues presented, we have nonetheless gotten a contractor to look at the roofing in which there were some leaks and the air quality issues and work is to be commenced today. So the Bocache secondary school has been looked at immediately by the Ministry of Education and we are pleased that the team has been able to support in that regard. Ministry officials also visited the Sir Iris Simmons secondary school on Wednesday, October 13. We met with the leadership team of the school including the district education officer, the DPS, our members of the planning unit as well as the building officers. An assessment followed soon thereafter on the following day and contractors were sent in. We have noted that there's been molding on one of the desk in the staff room but likewise we have moved with urgency and a team has been put together today to look at the various issues on the weekend. We can promise, we can speak to the fact that we are taking those issues very seriously. There is a process of grievance but we are appreciative that when there are health issues that may impact an individual or groupings we will deal with it as a matter of urgency. The Ministry has been working assiduously to address the situation, however students attending the Bocache Antropole and Sir Iris Simmons secondary schools were dismissed early on Monday, 4th November due to inadequate teachers supervision. The chief education officer assures that the education of the nation's children remains a top priority for the ministry and every effort is being made to minimize loss of instructional time. And speaking of instructional time, more than 1,000 young persons are to benefit from the Skills for Youth Employment project referred to as the SKY project. SKY is a four year program funded by the UK government to the value of 9.1 million pounds. It is designed to promote economic growth and sustainable development in St. Lucia and the OECS states of Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. The National Enrichment and Learning Unit is now conducting workshops and orientation for successful candidates. The National Enrichment and Learning Unit NELU is responsible for the execution and management of the SKY project which is being funded by the UK government. The SKY project specifically targets disadvantaged youth including those with disabilities between the ages of 15 and 30. This project is aligned with the national, regional and international agendas on continued education and training. Country coordinator for Sky Lyndell Archibald indicates that the project is being conducted throughout the Winwood Islands with local support. For years we are expected in those four islands to provide training for over 6,000 young persons, training that would help change their lives, training that would get them certified and skilled and to become employed. You are some of the fortunate ones here in St. Lucia and as Mrs. Modest said we'll be going around to three other centres to host orientations of this nature. NELU is expected to train 1,150 young persons between the ages of 15 and 30 years in the next three years. We have other training providers in St. Lucia that will be doing similar training. Trainers include the Centre for Adolescent Renewal and Education, CARE, National Skills Development Centre, NSDC and Springboard Consulting. Archibald indicates that the program spans a period of 10 months, urged the trainees to commit fully to the training bar in all challenges they may confront. NELU under the program will train 1,150 young persons over a three-year period, 350 persons in year one, 400 in year two and 400 in year three. Sherriann Julian is the Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development. This program will provide basic skills training, basic technical and life skills training. This program will help you if you have problems with literacy and numeracy. This program will provide work ethics and soft skills needed for you to function in the world of work. This program will provide internships. This training will allow you to gain employment or to continue training. After you have completed the course, you will receive a CVQ certificate levels one and two. Training will be certificated at the Caribbean Vocational Qualification CVQ level and will see a total cohort being trained. More than 35% of trainees will be male, more than 35% of trainees will be female and 12% of trainees will be young people with disabilities. CVQ courses will be offered in districts throughout the island. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. In more education-related news, a twinning program between schools in St Lucia and the French Departments offers new prospects in education as well as social and cultural integration for the islands. More in this report. A delegation of 20 school officials from the French Isles has visited St Lucia to officially sign a memorandum of understanding for the twinning of schools in St Lucia and those of the French dependencies in the eastern Caribbean. The objective of the twinning agreement is to formalize and improve the already existing exchanges between schools in St Lucia and the French Isles. Joanna Salton, Consul General for Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana noted that a point person has been chosen to liaise with the countries. There will now be this plan that will lead to the greater good for both both both islands. We're looking at cricket being introduced into the curriculum in Martinique. We're looking at students here being able to attend the universities in the islands that are having to go all the way to France or to the States or to England. It's just a matter of learning the language. And of course the French are very interested in learning English. Likewise we are interested in French. Fiona Meyer, Chief Education Officer at the Ministry of Education explained that the MOU will ensure continued collaboration in the future. So this has been formalized and it includes 20 schools in our primary schools across the island as a starting point whereby we pray we hope we desire to continue to work collaboratively with our French counterparts in fact our French sisters and brothers to ensure that issues of linguistic exchanges, cultural appreciation for both of the nations happen when we look at instruction, effectiveness of those, best practice and it includes likewise our Saafalwis Community College. So we have gone not only from the primary all the way to the tertiary levels to ensure that language doesn't continue to be a barrier on both sides. The Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Honourable Alan Shastney highlighted that due to close proximity many opportunities will arise for both Martinique and St. Lucia students via the signing of the MOU. The ability for us to see activities after the signing are real and the times that I'm hoping that our students from St. Lucia are going to be able to spend in Martinique with young people of their age and to learn the culture and understand the life of being in Martinique is invaluable and I believe similarly that the young people of Martinique being able to come over here and enjoy the many festivities that we have here the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, our carnival, we just finished the Jeanne Creole, we have our Roots and Soul Festival and we're hoping that some of these activities are going to be the reason why some of the students are able to come over here. The memorandum of understanding was part of a three day visit last week. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. As part of ensuring the smooth integration of the recently launched Hearts initiatives in the primary health delivery services in St. Lucia, the Department of Health and Wellness and the Pan American Health Organization PAHO recently hosted a capacity building workshop, more from Phenel Neptune. Healthcare workers around the island were granted the opportunity to participate in a workshop aimed at building a capacity on the implementation of the Hearts initiative. The participants were able to gain knowledge on the best practices for ensuring management of cardiovascular diseases at the primary healthcare facilities. Senior medical officer for non-communicable diseases, Dr. Shana Sarah Philbert says, this initiative is extremely important and is hoped that it will assist with decreasing the mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases in St. Lucia. Hearts encompasses all the healthcare providers. We're talking the doctors, nurses, the health educators, nutritionists, pharmacists, everybody's on board with Hearts. Everybody has a role in Hearts. Everybody knows what it is that's expected and also Hearts is very patient oriented so it's not about the doctor coming and telling the patient what to do but their discussions, their counselling. It's a holistic way of managing a patient with high blood pressure to prevent strokes and heart attacks. Consultant for the WHO Global Hearts Initiative, Dr. Kenneth Cornell says it is necessary that countries in the Caribbean region engage in health system interventions as to ensure better cardiovascular disease outcomes. Hearts uses the system strengthening such that we can provide care at a lower cost that is evidence-based and with better results. Through very simple interventions, take for instance, this isn't a new drug that's discovered or even a new way of doing things. It's getting healthcare providers to work together as a team. It's also using the most evidence-based drugs which actually are not the most expensive and it's having a structure. The training also focused on identifying strategic approaches and measures to protect inclusions from cardiovascular disease. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Phenoneptian. And this is the NTN Nightly. Rhino-Brain is up next. Namenshawa can also change money as a person who is on the other side and go to the other side. This list can contribute in petitizing gas in the space. In every country, we can try to do everything we can to ensure that we lower the amount of gas we serve to prevent the earth from getting hotter. It is necessary to lower the amount of gas we serve to mitigate the change. And Shailene, the name of the entire world is the most expensive gas, oil, and soap. And it's the most expensive thing in Shailene. That's what we can do to make sure that we adapt. We can do everything we can to prepare and recover for these negative consequences of climate change. We all know how to do that. For example, we can ensure that we protect everything we plant. We can also ensure that natural life can help us overcome the damage in the cyclone and goblins. We can build a channel so that we can grow as much as we need. And we can also build a channel through the years. We can do everything we can to ensure that climate change can be achieved. We can find more information about the great national adaptation of the government, and we can even learn how to protect the earth and all of our citizens. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Misha. Welcome once again to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the 2018 Nightly News. Amra and O'Brien. In the schools under 19 basketball competition continued Friday, November 1, 2019, with the following outcomes. Sufra Comprehensive Secondary School won handsomely over Archipelago Secondary 49-5, while Corrine Secondary also dominated Cicero Secondary 55-8. The Seventh Day Adventist Academy emerged victorious over Patricia James Secondary School, 44-36, in a keenly contested encounter. Semi-final matches are set for Tuesday, November 5. Therefore, a semi-final will see St. Mary's College taking on Sufra, whilst Arthur Lewis Community College awaits the outcome of a game Monday between Scheuzel Secondary and Leon Hess Comprehensive to determine their opponents in the second semi-final. Finals on third place playoff are set for Thursday, November 7 at the VG Malipropa Sports Complex. Third place jump ball is at 1pm and the final schedule for 2.30pm. Officials from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports have started the process ahead of the staging of the 40th Annual National Sports Awards Ceremony in February 2020. A number of national sporting associations sent representatives to an initial meeting called by the Ministry to align plans for the staging of the awards. Associational representatives present for that initial meeting on October 22, 2019 at the Ministry's conference room expressed the view that, in the main, the 39th Annual National Sports Awards was a success. The timing of the duration of the ceremony was highly commanded. As it was in keeping with the 2.5-hour period, as was promised, the upcoming awards will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at a venue to be confirmed shortly. Associations were advised that the deadline for submission of nomination forms is Friday, December 27, 2019. The awards document, which included the nomination form was presented at the meeting. Forms will also be distributed via the Ministry's email address youthdevelopment.sports.govt.lc Receipts shall also be by this medium. During the meeting, national associations were reminded of their annual subvention for the 2019-2020 government fiscal year and that national associations will be required to be more accountable in order to receive their allocation. They were also reminded of stipulations for assistance by the St. Lucia National Lottery's Authority, the NLA. And that's where we come to the end of our update from Youth Development and Sports Day on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. The Department of Home Affairs and National Security will host the 7th session of the Franco-St. Lucia Joint Security Committee on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The Franco-St. Lucia Security Commission came about on March 5, 2004 in order to organize cooperation between the two neighboring islands of St. Lucia and Martinique. The committee was formed to provide a link with the government of St. Lucia, the Embassy of France in Castres, and the prefecture of the region, Martinique in Fortefras. The objectives include organizing and addressing shared issues relating to maritime security, extradition, human and drug trafficking, natural disasters, risk management, and the promotion of judicial cooperation. Among the subject matters to be discussed are safety at sea, immigration and border control, and judicial cooperation, among others. The meeting takes place at the Finance Administrative Center Conference Room, Point Seraphine, Castres. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Parmus Hutchinson with the NTN mover, Arco Yon. Do not sign a contract that you are not satisfied or comfortable with. This message is brought to you as a public service announcement by ECTEL, the NTRC, and this station. Welcome back. We joined Parmus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvel Arco Yon. Monsieur Tarnich, Monsieur Madame, Department of University for the formation of government services. Welcome to the NTN Nouvel Arco Yon. Welcome to Parmus Hutchinson. I am from the business side of this station. And be careful, to make sure that you are well aware of the observation of the salary. In my opinion, the Ministry of Universities for the development of the business in this state is Bradley Felix. Let's move on. I am from the business side of Parmus Hutchinson. We also supported many business members. Several businesses, an organization with different agencies, we visited. We contacted a business man who works with us. He was very good at the business, You know, by and by the way, Prime Minister, for example, in the Taiwan trade show, people who have done trade shows have continued to do business, because people who have done business with bioencouragement and actually have done business, because as I said, the banks are very excited. These banks are young people who have always played with it, because they join the money to go to different levels of business. So many of these banks are not able to go to a place to do business with these young people. They have to do business to go to a lot of levels. According to our Bradley Felix Dimash La, Dimash Jaffet, Cote Invest Saint Lucia, Katawaya Sam, a business that offers you a lot of initiative, because you can do business with it. You can do business with it. You can do business with it. You can do business with it. You can do business effectively. You can do business yourself. You can do business with it. You can do business with it. You can do business with it. Minister Felix also said that the number of young people can do business with it. That's why the approach to government is that we can do business with it. We can always do business. But if we can do business with it, it's the most important thing to do business with it. So we can try to do business with it instead of doing business with it for the younger people. That's why we can try to do business with it. That's why we can try to do business with Call Center Saint Lucia, with Hotel Covenie, because it's important to do business with the young people. Government doesn't have to do business with it. Government doesn't have to do business with it. I have a private business. I can't do business with it. I can't do business with it. That's why when the government recognizes us, we can't continue doing business with it. We can't do business with it. We can't do business with it. We can't do business with it. We can't do business with it. Senator Mauricio Camus-Francis sent a piece of the initiative of the government to help the Barrel Commission of the family of the country. The members of the Senate assembled together to make a debate in a way that can be considered by the government to help the Barrel Commission of the family of the country. Moreover, they have to publish and educate the business place because 880 people attended the ArtIC Business Head providing the service to the people to deserve the excellent taxes. Senator Francis Kakweki sent a piece of the initiative to help the Barrel Commission of the family of the country. And then all of them had to wait for their families, and then they would have to wait for their families to come and eat the new things that had happened. So I had a lot of difficulties, and then the motion that we were talking about. I had a lot of difficulties, and then the motion that we were talking about was to wait for their families to come and eat the new things that had happened. And then we had to wait for their families to come and eat the new things that had happened, and then we had to wait for their families to come and eat the new things that had happened. But, Senator Francis has advised the government to consider it seriously, and to do something like that. Every year, we have to do the same thing. It's something that is so important, because it is, it is what we do for money. It is what we just say, it's what we advise, every year it's what we advise. And then, if we don't do it, it's because of the money that we have to do more. But it's not because of the money that we have to do. Because if we don't do it, it's not because of the money that we have to do. Madam President. L'Hôpital Saint-Jude has found a gift for your ambulance. By complimenting the directors of L'Hôpital Saint-Jude. So, the official registration of L'Hôpital Saint-Jude has placed you in a position that you have to apply for a medical service. For a company like that. Chairman of L'Hôpital Saint-Jude, Wayne Harrow, what is the importance of this ambulance? So, this ambulance needs all the equipment that is needed to operate effectively. For the L'Hôpital Saint-Jude hospital, it is necessary to have a service that is available to the police. Obviously, L'Hôpital Saint-Jude, Dr. Sylvester Francois, has said that he has to apply for a medical service that is available to the police. He has to take the ambulance to the hospital to get the service that is available to the police. He has to apply for a medical service that is available to the police. He has also been able to provide the services that the population of L'Hôpital Saint-Jude has provided to the police. Specialists and Shampoo Situations Ruku, Dr. Patrick Joseph, have been able to play with the ambulance service. 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-Jude government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.