We're happy to be back. We're happy to be here. This is Community Matters because community does matter. There's Roger Epstein. He's right here. Roger joins us today to talk about community matters more specifically about the dramatic changes in tax policy and fiscal policy that we see happening in Washington. Hi, Roger. Hi, Jay. Pleasure to be with you again. So I know there's so much to talk about and it's going to be so easy for us to talk about things unrelated to that, but let's start with the things that are related to it. You and I have had a number of conversations about the Tax Reform Act of 2017, which we are both suspicious of.  And it sort of played out people. It seems to me that people are for the first time realizing how nefarious that statute is and how it did not help the people. It helped 1%, but not the people. And more than that, it's affecting fiscal policy in a terrible way. Can you talk about how it's evolved over the past, what, almost three years? Yeah. Well, that bill is clearly designed to favor the wealthy and reduce their taxes dramatically while giving little pitances to the poorest, perhaps, or the poorest working people, but also taking away from them. So let me give you a couple of examples. Of course, the biggest one was reducing the tax rates for corporations by 42% from 35 to 21%. So that means the profits that corporations make are only taxed at 21%. When I first started in the tax business, the corporate profits were taxed at 70%, as were the highest individual rates, which had actually come down in 1965 from 91%. And of course, the 50s and 60s were the most, not only the best economic times in the history, perhaps, of the world in the United States, but they also were fair.  And we didn't have any kind of every communism or so where everybody gets the same. There was a huge scale, but it was within range. So for example, the average executive of a big company was making maybe 40 times what the guy on the factory floor was making. Today, it's somewhere between 500 and a thousand times. And so we've gone from that situation, which seemed pretty healthy to where we are today. And I think in the 70s, there was a concept that was a reaction by the big business and the right-wing economists people to the insanity of the 60s and the liberality and all the things that changed, which were necessary, but were very disruptive.  And if you do anything else, you're breaching your fiduciary duty. And a guy named Louis Powell, not so famous, but became a Supreme Court justice, wrote a whole program about how big business had to get serious and start taking over. And here's a plan. He created a plan as to how to do it. People like the Koch brothers picked up on that in the early 70s. And they created the Heritage Institute and the Kato Institute. And these became ways to combat the academics of the 60s period, which were all liberal. Now you had these conservative people. And whether you, this is a matter of philosophy. And do you think that it's the business of government to control the worst aspects of business? And thereby give the guy who's not in control, the guy, the worker, the employee, a break and a fair life? Or do you think democracy means business can do whatever it wants? And I think that's fundamental. So then you come along, and you have the Reagan revolution in the 80s, which, which took the rate down from 70% to eventually it got to 35%. I'm trying to think if Reagan put it this 50. Anyway, the rates kept coming down and down. And then you had another situation in with George Bush, the second who changed two things. Richard Nixon, in fact, as a, as a Republican had eliminated the capital gain benefit in the 70s, so that all income was taxed the same. Now Bush comes in the second time and he puts a 20% tax rate maximum on corporate dividends. Okay. Now corporate corporation was paying 35, I think 35% tax and then the dividend was 20%. And you could make some case that that it was fair to give that a break, even though it had never existed in our, in our tax law before. So now if the average person is paying 25, 30, 40%, 37, whatever the maximum was, the guy clipping coupons and getting dividends is paying 20%. On his, on his dividends, when he sells his stock, when he sells his real estate, he's paying 20%. Now how is that fair? And, and doesn't it give you the clear indication that the law favors capital dramatically versus labor? You know, that's a good question. And I think they were just kind of beating down a little bit. I think that a lot of money and a lot of power went into these ideas.  How did the Republicans pick up people who were losing out on this? Because they added things like abortion, which you know they didn't care about. Trump has flip-flopped on that and have many other Republicans have. But it brings along a lot of people and not just the 1% who are really benefiting from this Republican, this Republican idea, these concepts that business shouldn't be bothered, that the best thing for us is to have free business. Even Adam Smith, who created the wealth of nations and the idea of capitalism, was very clear that government has to provide against the excesses of capitalism. And Reagan came in in 1980 and in landslide victories, he said government is not the answer, it's the problem. And this is what people picked up on. And so then the big business people who were basically 1% of the country had to find a way to bring in other people and they used abortion and the excesses of liberalism. I mean, people are right. The things that happened in the 60 have given us a lot of divorce, a lot of drugs, a lot of promiscuity and pornography. And so you can see why some people would be in favor of setting up laws against it. The problem is you cannot set up laws against that without shooting yourself in the foot and your kids. And you've got to have other practices that aren't government control. But as far as business goes, the one way that you have is the two ways you can regulate business. So it doesn't do terrible things. Jeffrey Skilling, who was with Enron, there's a story when he was in Harvard, he was asked whether or not if his company was selling a product that killed people, he would stop selling it. And he said, no. He said, as CEO, I'm supposed to make a profit. The government wants to kill it. That's their job. So you can see that you can't have it both ways. We have a problem now though. Where would you say that the Tax Reform Act of 2017 has taken us? To me, a lot of talk today, including by Thomas Friedman, isn't he the son of Milton Friedman? I mean, there were really different kettle of fish there between father and son. But he wrote an article recently about how democracy is dead and dying. And a lot of other people have said that. And so the question I put to you is, okay, democracy is under attack. We have to make up our minds where we're going. The country has to get together, which is not likely in a time of divisiveness that Trump has exacerbated. Aren't we sort of past it already? Aren't we so divisive that we can't come back? Haven't we reshaped our government to be something other than democracy? It really sounds like the corporate interests have the field now, and the people, as much as they want to get out in the street, don't have the power to change it. You know, that's a possibility, but I'm not going there. First of all, the other part, besides regulation, there's also taxation. And if big business, for instance, is going to pollute the streams, don't they have to pay to fix that? And here's the big question. Do you think that taxes should be used against the people who benefit the most by making the most money to create some pot of funds so that we can have universal health care, for instance? I'm just saying, if you believe that, and I believe that more people in the country want to have a bigger balance. Okay, so what Trump has done just to go through with the 2017 act, so he reduces the corporate income tax. To pay for some of this, that act provided that if you're an employee and you're getting a free parking space, now you have to pay tax on that. It's not just a fringe benefit. You've got to treat that as income. You don't even have the cash, but you've got to treat it as income as if you got it. Also, you have a movie, your company makes you move from Akron, Ohio to San Francisco. It used to be you could deduct the cost, no more. Another good example of how it's twisted in favor of the rich, this thing is incredible to me. When I started the estate tax, which the Republicans return the death tax to make it sound like we're really taxing people when they die. This is so you don't have an aristocracy of the rich, where they make a lot of money and just give it to their kids, and their kids didn't do anything, but they get to live off that. And so we had a huge estate tax. And the floor before you pay tax when I first started was either $30,000 or $60,000. In other words, if you had more than $60,000 of assets, you paid some tax when you died. When Trump came in, it was five and a half million. Today, it's 11 and a half for each person. So that means you've got to have $25 million before you pay any estate tax. Doesn't that prove my point? Yes, it proves. No, not. Well, you said, can we undo it? No, I know. Right now today, haven't we passed a tipping point? Because the very same people who have this huge 11 plus million dollar exemption are the ones who really know very well how to lobby. And the people in the legislature and the Congress are, you know, they're open for lobbying and they take money. And there may I say corrupt and Mitch McConnell is corrupt. Look at all the things. I think my favorite thing is the post office. So the House of Representatives says, here, here's $25 billion to keep it going in the time of COVID and the time of the election. And McConnell sits on it. It's not going to pass. And even if it did pass, Trump would veto it. So what kind of thing and what kind of legislation is that? There is no representation of the people. It's gone. It's already gone. Our democracy is already damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Perhaps, but Trump is not going to be in office after November, my prediction. And if he's here for another four years, the United States going to go on for a long time. There's a lot of capable people here. There's a lot of heartfelt people here. You know, we've had more people out in the streets since and protesting. I'm not even talking about Black Lives Matter. You don't forget when Trump came in, there were months and months of people protesting in the streets. And Black Lives Matter is a huge thing, which of course would be better if Martin Luther King were here to keep it peaceful protest because that's meaningful. When you go out and burn things down, then you're given Trump all this ammunition, which you see he's using it. Let's say Trump is out. Let's say he's out in November and come January, we get a chance to start all over again. Now, if somehow, which is not impossible, the Democrats take the House and the Senate, I mean, they can do whatever they want. The taxes are not cast in concrete. The regulations that he undid, all this ruining, you know, the Sierra Club, every one of their newsletters is, can you believe what they're doing now? I mean, they have, it's incredible to me. I don't believe most, I think 75% of the people in the United States or more would like to take care of our environment, would like to take care of our national parks and and not, you know, go to a national park next to an oil well. So to me, the potential is there. And what I've always hoped is that Trump is the last gas of male authoritarianism. Roger, it's not just Trump. It's those people in Kansas. You know, the people that support him is based. Okay, okay. So I think what you have to have plenty of authority, even if he loses. You know, there's a lot of middle ground that people aren't hitting on those people in Kansas, love their family. They love their community. They've been taught, they've been given a lot of lies. There's a lot of common ground for all of us in this country to agree that it's would be, it would be good. If everyone had a good life, if everyone had food, clothing and shelter, and if they could find a way to do it, that made sense. Maybe we come to more agreement. I'm not saying you're going to get 100% from everybody anytime, but they don't have to go along with the greediest, bigoted crooks in the world. This is out and out greed that's gone from, all right, let me finish with the estate tax. It doubled. Okay, there's a provision in the income tax that says because you have to pay a state tax, remember, you had to pay a state tax on everything over $60,000 four years, 50 years ago. Now you don't pay on anything over $22 million for a family. Okay, there's a provision in the income tax law that says because you're paying a state tax, if you bought this a long time ago and it appreciated, there's a lot of profit in it, you shouldn't have to pay an income tax also.  It's worth a million dollars today. Okay, it's your only real asset. You've got that house and or maybe you've got $20 million of other assets. Okay, when you die, even though there's no chance you'll pay an estate tax unless you got $22 million of total assets, you get to step the basis of that up to a million dollars. So it's value at the date of death. In other words, when you die, you didn't pay any estate tax because you didn't have $22 million.  Now, if you wanted to get rid of the estate tax and or said it's so high that it only applies to a small number of people and you were looking for ways to pay for that, wouldn't you eliminate the step up and basis on those assets? Of course you wouldn't. It's actually subject to tax. It's only fair. In fact, I think there was some discussion back in the day of the 2017 tax reform act, but it didn't go anywhere. So the stepped up basis is still there. He said he was looking for ways to pay for this and any tax person in their right mind would know that this was set up only because you're paying a double tax. He calls it the death tax. Let's make it so it doesn't apply to anybody, but the income tax also doesn't apply to anybody. So on real estate gains and stock gains. So now you have capital gain tax that's 20% compared to a much higher income tax. Dividends are taxed at 20%. And if you hold on to your assets long enough, you never have to pay any tax on them. So what I'm saying is, and this is why we're in trouble, because the relative value of capital has gotten so much greater than the value of labor. You can't earn enough to buy a house. You can't have enough additional income to get into the stock market. So we've skewed it. It wasn't like that when you and I were kids and the system was identical. We haven't changed the system. It's still, you know, capital. But the disparity, the disparity is huge. Disparity is huge. And this is the reason. And when you exacerbate it by not only is capital worth so much more than labor, but you tax it lower than you tax somebody's income. And not only that, if you earn your income, you've got to pay your own retirement called social security tax. You pay that yourself. The guy who gets a dividend, you don't have to pay any tax. Now they made it some years ago. Oh, he'll pay 3%. But you're paying 20%, 25%.  Why does he deserve more? I don't get it. Talk about Trump's idea, which actually is more than an idea. It's been embodied in a proclamation of deferring the payroll tax. What does that mean to social security? It means the end of social security. How can you pay for social security if you don't have enough tax money to pay for? They've been talked about social security going broke for years. And here's the other thing, Jay. So if we don't pay the tax and it gets deferred, who knows how long that's going to last? Are you going to get that money back? We're talking billions and billions of dollars. And so it's a short-term break that I think, like a lot of misdirection from Trump and the Republicans, is going to be the death knell of social security. Or it has it. And I've read other commentators saying exactly that. Now, keep in mind, the other thing that happened during this period from the middle 70s to now was we ended pension plans. We don't have pension plans. When I went to work for the government, you were going to get 30% of your salary for the rest of your life when you retired if you stayed there 30 years or something. And all companies worked with it. Now, the automobile industry in the 80s struggled like crazy. They had huge pension issues. They couldn't fund their plans properly. So somehow everybody said, oh, well then let's go to instead of the fine benefit, I get 30% of the fine contribution. Oh, I'll put in $100 at that. Now we have 401k plans where the company, if they're nice, they'll match your retirement that you put in for yourself. And when you retire, there's very little discussion that I hear, of course, with Trump doing all the crazy things, you don't hear much of anything. But we've got a huge population that's about to retire with no meaningful pensions. Well, for that matter, we've got a huge population that can't last two weeks. They have no money, no savings.  So when you think about these ideologies, and if you think about it, you think about people who are reasonable and they're not part of the 1%, yet they're conservative business people. And what do they say? Did they say, okay, this is acceptable. This is just the way it is. What you said we can't change. We can't do anything. In the United States, we have no way to let people earn a living that they can live on. In Hawaii, people have two, three, four jobs and they can't live on it. We already put women to work 35 years ago. And now we've played that card and we still don't have enough money. So let me go to another point, which we should cover in our remaining time. And that is, so in COVID, we spent three trillion already, three plus. And there was an effort to put another three trillion in, but that got stalled. And then, of course, Trump made his proclamation, which got stalled because it's largely ultraviries. He doesn't have the authority to do those things. I don't think that's happening. It's the money's not coming out of that. So we have two things going on. One is people are starving. And that's got to lead to a damage to the social framework. But number, and the governmental framework. And number two is that we have no way to repay all the money we've spent. Trillions of dollars of deficit. I mean, it was bad enough before where we put in hundreds of billions into the military for reasons that escaped me at the time. And he snaps his fingers and spends money. I don't know how it's possible that the president can spend money without that House of Representatives behind him. I didn't think that was possible. And yet, he's spending like no Republican ever spent. And McConnell is letting him do it, going along with him.  Do we never have to pay it back? Is it free money? We just keep on printing money until, I don't know, what will happen? But what happens at some point, Jay, what happens at some point is you have ultrainflation. And the other thing that's coming is the U.S. dollars no longer going to be the only currency to close transactions in. And so it looks like we have put ourselves in an incredibly bad position. You lower taxes. It was supposed to cost $500 million. It actually cost $2 trillion. Then you put another $3 trillion on top of that. You have no idea how much a trillion dollars is. It's unbelievable. And so, yes, we put ourselves in a hole. Yes, the Republicans are totally responsible for it. Is there a way out of it? Maybe not. Maybe we're due for another depression. When you say that the value of capital has gone so crazy compared to the value of labor, one way to fix it is a depression. You don't have to raise the salaries. Just bring down the cost of a house. Bring down. I'm not saying we should do this, but the universe and nature have a way of taking care of things. The invisible hand that Adam Smith talked about is an invisible hand in economics. And it's going to take care of the circumstances one way or the other. But I hear you saying, Roger, is if we have this huge deficit, which is just astronomical right now and getting worse, there's no end to it really this year, next year, then, okay. So, we've been talking about the disparity of income, the disparity of wealth, disparity of earnings between the 99% and the 1%. And now we're talking about a deficit that we can't repay. And we're talking about a depression to fix that or to equalize it somehow. So, who pays for this huge deficit? Well, it's the 99% guys. Of course. And that makes it even more unfair because they're going to be suffering through a depression. And in case nobody listening knows about the depression, let me tell you, if you read anything about the depression, you know it was a bone crusher. It was a killer for millions of people. It's not fun. And it won't be fun. And if that's what's going to come out of this, it's going to be so bad that government, and there were chances that government would change in the 30s, you know, the whole thing would be torn up because people were so unhappy. Government will change if we have a depression on top of that disparity, right? Well, what we have to decide is government for the people, of the people, for the people, by the people. And if a lot of people wanted to be that way, we can implement things which can minimize the problem. We can implement ways, their policies that could replace the insanity of lowering taxes when the economy was doing great. We've got to do something. If you don't have enough money, taxes are the way to go. And to come down to the low rates we have today is ridiculous. And you've got to be selective. You can't put it on everybody. You've got to put it on the rich period. You want to say soak the rich? They've been soaking us for a long time. And I'm rich too. They've been soaking us for a long time. And it's not right. And people have to start back to reason. You remember Franklin Roosevelt was called a traitor to his class, but he saw what you're seeing. And of course, it was after the fact. We're not quite in that depression yet. But we'll get there if we don't make a big change and start moving in other directions. Well, it's the we that stymies me. It's the we. Who's the we? The we is not the Republicans in the Senate. The we is not the people around Trump. The we is not the evangelicals who follow this kind of greed first, corporate profit for libertarianism first. They're on the wrong side. And my view is they're on the wrong side of the ideology, but they're in control. And even if they don't lose all the control, they'll still have some control. It'll be a big argument to go talking about. But you're supposed to look. 60% of the people are against Trump. 30 or 40% are with him. You may talk about who's more solid and who's not, but 60% is a big number.  Trump's out, the Republicans are out. There are ways that you can ameliorate. There are ways that you can turn the clock forward in a significant way. And yes, we're all going to have to help each other. If that's what we want to do, we put ourselves in a horrible box and we need to stop it and then come forward with some plans. And the people who are elected, let's assume it's a clean house election, the people who are elected have to resist the lobbyists. That's right. The lobbyists are very powerful in the culture of Congress now. More powerful, way more powerful than they should be. You can buy votes on the street. You can buy votes in Congress. If you have enough money, you can get anything done. And that process, that seductive process will continue even if the Democrats win. Well, there's no question about it. We in Hawaii tried to pass for many years. There was a professor at the university who was leading a movement to get rid of money and business.  And everybody knows that if you put... If I give you $1,000 and you don't, and somebody else doesn't, when the phone rings, who's phone are you going to call back? Me or the guy who didn't give any money? I mean, it's patently absurd that money will not influence people. You remember the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal? And the guy who did it, they asked them, did you think you were buying influence when you put the money when you did that? He said, what the hell do you think I put the money up for?  It's really hard to work around it. If we don't... It's all in the culture. It's a floor in the way our democracy has evolved. And then the Supreme Court... The Supreme Court failed for it. Yeah, the Supreme Court says business can't be limited in how much money they can be. Yeah, Citizens United. Well, Roger, I think the jury's out. Can I say the jury's out on this? We have to see all of the shenanigans that Trump plays out between now and election day. In fact, between election day and January 20th as well. There's all kinds of scenarios. Oh, that's going to be... If Trump loses from November 3rd to January 20th, it's going to be wild, the wild west. This year has been something. And in 2020, we're supposed to have perfect vision. Yeah, right. Thank you. Thank you for saying that. But Roger, we have to get back together again and connect the dots as we go forward and see which one of these trends prevails and see whether we, the people, buy the government for the government and all that, whether they can get together and prevail or whether the tipping point tips the wrong way. Here's what we should do next time we have a talk, Jake. Let's look at some answers. Are there any answers? That's a question you asked. Are there any answers? Are we just screwed?  Yes, we've kind of ruined our schools. Yes, we've kind of ruined our economics. But we ain't dead yet. And there are ways to recover. And you know what else? We got into this mess over 40 years or so. So we ain't going to get out of it in two days. All right, I'm feeling better then. That's Roger Epstein, a tax attorney who can see this stuff clearly. He can see the effects of tax bills rammed through by the Trump administration. He can see the changes in fiscal policy and he can see the changes in the country and the fabric of the country. And we'll follow this again. We'll talk to Roger again. He promised me. Thank you so much, Roger. Thank you, Jay. It's a pleasure. Always a pleasure.


I would like to introduce to you the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Florida, a great congressman and a fighter for liberty and freedom in the United States that is around the world, Connie Mack. Jeb, thank you very much. First let me just say thanks to the President for not only making the trip to come down here and support me and my campaign, but also making the special effort to have a few moments to meet with you to listen to some of your concerns. As you know, I started my campaign down in Key West, Florida, and I picked that spot because I wanted to make a very clear statement about the importance of freedom as an objective in our foreign policy, and I did that because it's only 90 miles from the coast of Cuba, and I wanted to make the point about the Cuban people living under the harsh and absolute domination of a communist tyrant. And so it is a great honor for me to be here today with the President of the United States. I would say the chief freedom fighter in the country today. Mr. President. Connie, thank you. Thank you very much. Well, I'm very pleased to be here with Connie Mack, who has been such a staunch fighter for everything that's good in Washington, and I'm hoping that all of you will make sure that we get him back in Washington. Thank you, sir. But I'm very pleased to meet with all of you again. I have one thing that I would like to reiterate, namely that as far as this administration is concerned, the freedom of Cuba and Cubans is non-negotiable. The rumors in your community that there will be a thaw or a warming in our relations with Cuba are unwarranted, and they're based on false beliefs that my administration is secretly plotting to become friends with Fidel Castro. Well, he is responsible for continued human rights violations and for spreading war and terrorism throughout the world, and Castro is not and never will be a friend of this administration. I have worked diligently to fight the spread of communism all over the world. As one example of our efforts against Castro's brand of communism, we have founded Radio Marti, and thanks to Connie Max's commitment, plans are now underway to establish TV Marti, which will give Cubans a chance not only to hear from, but also to see the free world. We've taken forceful actions in repelling Soviet and Cuban-backed forces in Nicaragua and Gola and other areas around the world. Communism as a form of government is a proven failure, but my administration will not apologize for participating in talks that may bring peace to war-torn areas, including Angola, a poor country that has been ravaged by fighting, perpetuated by Castro. I wish for this region to be free and stable with peace and democracy. There is an opportunity for growth. Two years ago, we initiated a worldwide offensive against the human rights violations of political prisoners in Cuba. I appointed a brave Cuban-American, Armand Valladeros, as our ambassador to lead the United States delegation at the United Nations Human Rights Commission at Geneva, Switzerland. He, Ambassador Valladeros, has been critically important in our effort to bring sanctions against communist Cuba for its human rights abuses. For the first time after our American representatives at that commission that we have tried to point to the violation of human rights going on in Cuba, this time with his leadership, we succeeded and a UN commission has been appointed to go and examine for itself to see the violation of human rights in Cuba. We, for two years ago, we, well, I think I've said about all I can say on that. We're working hard to find ways to bring freedom-seeking Cubans to the United States where they can start new and more productive lives. During the next several months, I expect our programs will bring thousands of Cubans to our shores. This administration has been active in its opposition to the Soviet-supported Marxist rule of Castro, and as I said to many of you on May 20th, Cuban Independence Day, in the heart of the Americas, the long night of totalitarian rule cannot endure forever. So long live the dawn of freedom and viva Cuba Libre. Dr. Gomez. Mr. President, before everything, I would like to say I am to us to discuss certain problems with our community. We thank also you for your statement, because you have expressed in very precise terms that there is not any possibility of normalization of the relationship of the U.S. government with the Cuban government, and that statement is very gratifying to all of us. We know, Mr. President, that you have been a great champion of freedom, of democracy, of human rights throughout the world. We know also that you have not been able to do in this connection all the things that perhaps you have in your mind. But you have accepted and you have faced great difficulties to help the cause of freedom. I remember here in America, for example, in the Caribbean, the case of Renada in Central America, Nicaragua and all the rest of the Latin American or the Central American countries that has been receiving substantial help from your government. And for all these things, Mr. President, we admire, we respect you and we love you. But I am sorry to say that besides these things, there are certain confusing elements in the foreign policy of the United States in regard to the case of Cuba. We know that these things do not come from you because we know very well your position, but from other sources or circles of your government. I referred, for example, to certain cultural exchanges that have taken place recently to the granting of visas to some show people coming from Cuba who are, in fact, politically against the Cuban government and that has been going around the country spreading their communist propaganda to the recent immigration agreement, to the exchange of natural technicians, to the rumors of developing some commercial relationships and weakening the embargo against Cuba, to some move to improve the communications between the two countries. These things, I'm sorry to say, Mr. President, we feel that are a little confusing and give to the public the idea that the U.S. interested in increasing its friendly relationships with Cuba and eventually to normalize its relationships with that regime. We would like to hear your opinion in connection with these precise points so that we can convey your message and your ideas to our community who, you know, love you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. If I understand correctly, I'm having a little trouble with a hearing aid here this morning. If I understand you correctly, though, did you say that we had people coming into the United States who are representing the Castro government and- No, I said, Mr. President, that recently has been granted to Tropicana, the true pair of Tropicana. And these people are, in fact, against politically against the government, and they have been here in the United States, and they have gone to New York, to Los Angeles, and, of course, as political agents, they have been spreading their communist propaganda. Well, the State Department have given visas to these true pairs. There have been visas granted to some entertainers and others from Cuba that have come into the United States, and as they're touring around, they're spreading communist propaganda. Now, I'm sorry about this. I'm sorry. I think I've got a battery failing here. Well, I guess I haven't paid much attention to that. I'll look into what you just told me, and if that's what is going on, yes, we'll take action, and I shall look into it.  Well, we are very grateful for your attention, Mr. President. Thank you very much. Alfonso Perez? Good afternoon, Mr. President. My name is Alfonso Perez, and on behalf of the Cuban community, I thank you, sir, Governor Martinez, Mr. Cruteles, the Republican Party, and last but not least, Congressman Connie Mack, with whom I serve as co-chairman in Dave Keowney. Mr. President, the issue that I wish to bring before your attention, sir, is the issue of the Orlando Bosch case. The case is a case that, in the opinion and the consensus of this community, is not a legal matter. It's a diplomatic, a political matter. The man has served for 11 years in a Venezuelan prison and been acquitted twice. I must tell you, sir, that as an attorney, I find that incredible. He, because it's not a legal case, most respectfully, sir, it's a political case, it is undoubtedly clear that the Cuban government has used Orlando Bosch as a pawn and is undoubtedly clear that, should the immigration and naturalization service take the action which it has promised, and that is deport Orlando Bosch on July 7th, that is akin to signing his death warrant, sir. Mr. Castro has already said that publicly, and from reliable, incredible sources, I have materials here for your consideration if you would like, specifically a defector from the Cuban government, has publicly stated that if Orlando Bosch is deported from this country, he will be summarily killed. And we implore of you to take action. I would be glad to have that additional information because I have, knowing that this was of concern to people here, I have some information with me that is a little counter to some of the things you said. His re-entry into the United States was illegal, but there isn't much that I can say about his situation because much of the information regarding his case is part of the ongoing legal proceeding. And it's my understanding that the immigration and naturalization service is currently reviewing his case, so I would appreciate having that and seeing that they get it. But in any event, I can tell you this, he will not be removed from the United States without an opportunity for a full and fair hearing and a complete review of his case by the courts. But as I say, I can't continue with some of the information that I have because of the legal ramifications of that and commenting publicers. I'm sure you of the law could well understand. Thank you, sir. But I can assure you of that last that there will be a full and final hearing before any action is taken. I thank you for that opportunity, Mr. President. Anyone else had a question? I think we probably have to go on to the event to raise the money for Congress. I'm getting a signal that I guess I have to move on to the next event. I was hoping that I could stay for some more questions. Well, there will be another time for that, so I'll just take the congressman with me and when I go and I just desperately hope that very shortly you'll have to learn to call him senator. And at the conclusion of the meeting I asked my hosts, it would be alright if I were to ask them a question. An elderly man, a little bit shaky as he stood up, standing in broken English, tell the American people that we will never forget that it was the American GIs that liberated Aboriginal town and liberated our country. Well, Mr. President, there will be times in the years to come when there will be questions about the crossroads of America in the 1980s. And we will respond that we will never forget that it was your policies that created this economic growth, that it was your policies that put 16 million people to work, that it was your policies that brought down inflation, interest rates, and unemployment. Mr. President, we will never forget that it was your policies that strengthened America's defenses so that you could go to the Soviet Union and negotiate from a position of strength. Liberated the people of Grenada, that it was your decision to raise Libya to stem the tide we will never forget that you gave America back its faith and its promise. This is the fact, the core of all human progress. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, he said, Washington first in war, first in peace, last in the American League. But next year, thanks to you, I want to present the historic crisis and the sinking of Germany. That's what the other fellows with all their lip service about compassion inflicted on the American people. The economy is called a statuation. The Democrats turned it in malaise. A liberal pundit said it's part of America's inevitable decline. But we came in and said the only thing that was inevitable employment sores and federal revenues actually increased. This, should we expect that if the Democrats all but certain presidential candidate is elected that he would raise taxes? Yep. In fact, he just did. Not only is he high taxes as governor of Massachusetts, but in the last five years he has increased Massachusetts' primarily small businesses. And here's the intent. Senator can fight for greater opportunity and prosperity for America. While American businesses, mostly small companies, were creating nearly 17 million new jobs, Western Europe created none. Not one. Back in 1981, we passed approved jobs bill. We favored the toughest, most comprehensive drug enforcement policies, including the death penalty when narcotics traffickers couldn't get murdered. He has socially defended the social security system to ensure that it will be physically sound and available for Americans who worked so many years to earn its benefits. Yes, kind man cares about people.


Manifest Destiny In 1845, John O'Sullivan asserted the right of America's manifest destiny to possess the whole continent for the great experiment of liberty. Manifest destiny is the phrase most associated with America's conquest of the West. In historical context, it referred to the belief that Americans were destined by God to govern the entire continent, including Canada, Mexico, and beyond. At the country's founding, Alexander Hamilton wanted to acquire Louisiana to, secure to the United States, the key to the Western country, and regretted that the preparation of an adequate military force does not advance more rapidly. Even Thomas Jefferson wanted to send troops to the frontier to add to the Empire of Liberty an extensive and fertile country. As president, Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory, despite his conviction that he was violating the Constitution. By adding nearly one million square miles to the nation's Western boundary, the Louisiana Purchase revealed the first characteristic of Empire, expansionism. The U.S. similarly purchased Oregon in 1846 and Alaska in 1867, reflecting the imperial characteristic of centralization. In Alaska's century as a territory, its governance was decided by politicians 3700 miles away. That's 500 miles further than London is from Boston. Western expansion was also territorial and coercive. America's annexation of Texas instigated the Mexican War, a boundary dispute that cost upwards of 38,000 lives, but resulted in the acquisition of territory far beyond the Texas borders. The war also helped consolidate a national standing army, which provided the impetus for aggressive diplomacy toward Indians. Early Western settlers frequently traded peacefully with Indians, but as the U.S. Army took over Indian relations, frontier warfare intensified. Manifest destiny is not confined to American expansion. The core concept is the belief that a nation is morally obligated to forcefully spread its superior culture, and this has been repackaged to justify imperial warfare throughout history. In theocratic societies, these conflicts took the form of holy wars, such as Crusades and Jihad. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny has traditionally expressed political ideals, such as Jefferson's dream of an empire of liberty and Woodrow Wilson's promise to keep the world safe for democracy.  This was his title for a poem intended to encourage Americans to join European empires in spreading Western civilization across the ocean. Kipling published the poem in the aftermath of a conflict that marked the beginning of America's overseas empire, the Spanish American War.


Okay, let's go ahead and check out this next example. This one is the experiment that you see done at the beginning of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark by Indiana Jones when he's in the temple in Peru or whatever. He's trying to replace the golden statue with the bag of sand on that weight sensor and we're going to see here if that's a plausible experiment to do. So we see the volume of both of these items is the same at 1.75 liters and the problem actually gives you the density of both gold and sand. So you're going to need to use those densities as conversion factors within the problem. And I've also put the other three conversion factors that you need in this problem to do it the way I'm doing it. So the first part of the problem says well what's the mass of both of these items? So the ultimate problem really is converting volume to mass or in our case liters to kilograms to be specific about it. So the mass of the gold, well you're going to start with the volume of the gold, cancel out those liters. So you're going to find the conversion factor that has the liters in it and so that's going to convert those liters to milliliters and then we're going to cancel out those milliliters using the next conversion factor, the cubic centimeters. So now we're in cubic centimeters. Now we can go back to the density and use that as a conversion factor to get from cubic centimeters to grams and I've done one more step to convert it from grams to kilograms because kilograms to me is easier to use especially in those big numbers as opposed to grams like I can wrap my brain around that number a little easier. So we do that same calculation with sand converting liters to milliliters then converting milliliters to cubic centimeters then going back and using the density as the next conversion factor to convert cubic centimeters to grams and then again converting that grams to kilograms. So both of those answers should be in three sig figs because of the volume of the objects. That was the given in the problem so we're going to go with the given as our significant digits and remember your units as well. So of course already you should be able to see that the difference in mass of those two items is fairly significant so he's going to go ahead and set off the alarm I guess for the viewers in the United States if you're having a hard time with those kilograms right that's about I don't know around 75 pounds for the mass of the statue and about 12 pounds for the mass of the sand so you can imagine well even imagine back to the movie and remember him trying to grab that with or grabbing that and lifting it up with one hand so that's pretty tough but anyways obviously he set off the alarm both in our problem and in the movie so I guess that's why the boulder came down so hopefully this makes sense and let me know if you have any questions on it


If you're considering rinsing off a paper object or maybe a photograph, and it's a single layer, just one photograph, not a stack of photographs stuck together or in an album, you'll want to make sure you give that some support. You can put it on a piece of plexiglass and put it at an angle, and then use a hose and spray the front of that object and then turn it over into the reverse side. If you have books that have mud on them, don't open the book up when you go to rinse it. Make sure you hold that book closed really tightly, and you just want to rinse off the cover and just give that a good rinse. You don't want to deal with trying to open that book up and rinsing individual pages because once again they're paper, they're very vulnerable.


Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition's top stories. Efforts continue at improving St Lucia's tourism products with the training of nearly 300 workers. The Department of Health reviews and strengthens its vaccination program. The Make It Happen Foundation donates to the Women's Support Center. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. St Lucia's tourism industry continues to record strong growth led by the cruise sector. With the island's capacity to welcome vista, quantum and freedom class vessels, cruise arrivals increased by 13.6% in 2018. The Caribbean Tourism Organization is projecting 6-7% growth this year. It is against that backdrop that the St Lucia Tourism Authority, the Ministry of Tourism, Invest St Lucia and Slasper have teamed up to ensure continuous enhancement of St Lucia's cruise tourism product. Nearly 300 frontline staff of onshore businesses began a training program. Janelle Norville has the details. The Florida Caribbean Cruise Association, FCCA, is hosting a two-day customer service frontline training for stakeholders of the cruise sector. The training is being facilitated by Aquila's Center for Cruise Excellence. The training, according to Aquila's trainer and international business development manager, Claudine Paul, encompasses training in the areas of tour operator excellence, tour guide excellence and port excellence, all designed to help the key players in the cruise industry achieve excellence in their ports, tours, guides and businesses. We've been working with many destinations since 2007. This is the first time we're in St Lucia. We've worked in many destinations that are very close to here and lots of really, really good feedback. Lots of guests, satisfaction levels increasing, lots of great feedback from the cruise lines as well, and it's really helping overall, especially with getting people to work together as well, which is really important. Once you get everybody working together, you really start to see things happen. Excellent customer service, according to Minister for Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries Honourable Dominic Fede is essential to St Lucia's tourism product. The minister expounded on the importance of those in the frontline of the cruise industry. All of the frontline people who engage with cruise passengers from time to time that have such a critical role to play in shaping the experience of the cruise passenger, they're the ones that we're targeting here today. They're the ones that we're teaching sales techniques, customer service and going that extra mile and to ensure that St Lucia have the competitive edge so that when people come, it is impressed upon them that it is not the Minister of Tourism, it is not the Prime Minister or the Cabinet or the policy makers that is responsible for that good delivery of service or but the biggest impact on the customer's experience in our destination has to do frontally with them and I think that this is what we're seeing here today. A lot of issues are being discussed on how they can better themselves and reinvent themselves and to add to the overall advancement of the destination. In an effort to ensure that best practices are adopted, following the training frontline officers will be evaluated in their respective lines of duty. The officers upon completion of the training will become certified frontline experts in customer service. The training is being held in collaboration with various entities including the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, the St Lucia Air and Seaports Authority, Investing Lucia and the St Lucia Tourism Authority. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norville. St Lucia Jazz sounded off this past weekend with crowd-pleasing events in ancillary and library. This year, organisers of the festival have teamed up with Jazz at Lincoln Centre for a heightened musical feel for Jazz enthusiasts. The collaboration will also benefit national musicians who will be exposed to masterclasses facilitated by the centre, more from Anissa Antoine. Via a first-time collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Centre, the week-long Jazz Festival features five renowned artists-in-residence in modern Jazz performing at intimate venues and public settings throughout St Lucia. Jason Orlane, director of programming and touring at Jazz at Lincoln Centre, explained that the collaboration forms part of an effort to bring the festival back to its original form. We're a non-for-profit Jazz organisation based in New York City. We've been around for a little over 30 years, and our mission is to grow a global audience for Jazz through a few different ways. One is through performances, that's concerts and touring, through education, through classes and some music competitions that we produce, and through advocacy, and that's supporting other organisations that are supporting Jazz. So this seemed like a kind of a match made in heaven, if you will, or heaven right here in St Lucia, where we could lend some of our expertise in programming Jazz and marketing and social media and those sorts of things with a place that already has a history of presenting Jazz in one of the most idyllic settings in the world. St Lucia music students will be given an opportunity to attend masterclasses and workshops hosted by the artists-in-residence such as Etienne Charles and Russell Hall. Meneva Ross is the public relations officer at events company St Lucia. Very critical to the shift for St Lucia Jazz is an education component, and of course that comes about because we understand that Jazz has often been seen as a niche market and we think it's critical that we get the masses to understand the art form itself, to understand the genre, and so as part of the thrust, as part of the drive, to create a unique product for our St Lucia Jazz Festival. Understanding as well that we're competing so heavily right here in the region and outside of that, we wanted to of course identify ourselves as having a unique product, a unique brand which is a St Lucia Jazz Festival. Jackie Mathre, Senior Marketing Manager at the St Lucia Tourism Authority, informed that the Jazz Festival is drawing a lot of international attention. On the international side we have had such an outpouring of interest from the outside world. On Wednesday we're having a lot of international journalists that are going to be descending to St Lucia. We're having the BBC, we're having the New York Post, we're having CNC3 from Trinidad, we're having L'Officiel, we're having France Antilles from Montenegro and many many many others. The excitement is growing from last week from Friday which started at Anceleré. I think there's been a couple of years that people have kind of, you know, they've been kind of waiting to see what's going on with this new refigration of the Jazz Festival and this year really I think magic is about to take off and we are really feeling it from the outside. On Wednesday 8th of May 2019, events company St Lucia will host the first ever St Lucia Jazz Cruise aboard the Pearl featuring Russell Hall's Enigma. From the Government Information Service, I am Anicia Antoine reporting. Meantime St Lucia Jazz is this year being staged at new venues. Organisers led the Minister for Tourism on a tour for a first-hand view. The St Lucia Jazz Festival 2019 promises to be epic with a number of new venues added to the event. Ministering the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries with responsibility for Culture and Creative Industries Honourable Fortuna Bell Rose, highlighting the new additions indicated the importance of decentralising the event. Today we've had Jazz in about three communities and there's a cry and I think that's what we wanted. When the Jazz Festival rolls into St Lucia, we don't want it to just be in a few locations. We would like the entire nation to embrace Jazz and from what we're seeing this year is that a number of small events happening, small events happening across the country and bringing in the opportunities and creating those opportunities for our young people, our local talent to be showcased publicly. Event St Lucia, according to Minister for Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries Honourable Dominic Fede has increased its asset to the addition of two temporary structures to its arsenal. The Minister noted with the addition of the structures, event St Lucia has expanded its mandate allowing St Lucia the competitive edge and an opportunity to take advantage of a new niche market. St Lucia has lost out on a lot of business in the meeting and incentives and conventions business. The largest conference room can only facilitate about 400 people and so if the conference is about over a thousand, it becomes very difficult for St Lucia to host these conferences. And so this investment is timely, it is very important and strategic for the furtherance of tourism. It gives us a chance to become a lot more competitive in competing and pitching for meeting and incentives and convention business. So now, this is good news for the industry, it's ideally located in the north where you've got the bedstock or the room stock if you will and I think that this is going to all go well. The temporary structures according to Chief Executive Officer of Event St Lucia, Thomas Lyons, will make its debut at the St Lucia Jazz Festival 2019 at the Grizzly Park. The venue is ideal as it offers patrons an intimate setting where they can fully submerge themselves in the jazz music among other things. At this structure starting tomorrow evening, we shall be hosting four shows for the St Lucia Jazz Festival 2019. So tomorrow night we have Joey Omisil and Patrick Bartley. That show starts at 7pm. The cover charge is US $50 or EC135. On Thursday we have Russell Hall's Family Band and Patrick Bartley's Dream Weaver Society again. That's on Thursday. That show starts at 10pm, so a late night show. So after you've done your dinner, maybe you're taking some fish on the Grizzly Strip, you can envelope over to the structure behind you and taking some jazz from 10pm onwards. The two structures house a total of 1,700 individuals and cost an investment of $3 million. For the Government Information Service, I am Genelle Norville. The Department of Health and Wellness in response to the growing outbreaks of measles in a number of countries in the Americas and Europe is treating the situation as an opportunity to enhance its vaccination program. This includes identifying persons who have not received the required vaccines and providing the measles vaccines to persons whose vaccination status is not compliant with the established protocol. Saint Lucia has been measles free since 1990, largely due to its high immunization rate. But globally, there has been a reversing trend in immunization against measles. Persons across the globe are choosing not to immunize themselves and their children against the disease, which according to Saint Lucia's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marlene Fredericks-James, has caused a resurgence of the disease. Just last week, the free winds cruise ship entered Saint Lucia's ports and had to be quarantined after it was revealed that there was one confirmed case of the disease. The ship has since left the island and the Ministry of Health is now alerting the public on the possible threat that this resurgence can pose to the population. Measles is a serious and highly contagious disease that can cause debilitating or fatal complications, including an infection that leads to swelling of the brain, severe diarrhea and dehydration, pneumonia and permanent vision loss. The acting national epidemiologist says a surveillance system is in place should the threat arrive in Saint Lucia. One of the things we do is called syndromic surveillance, which is where we monitor not the disease itself, but groups of disease based on their presentation. So we monitor what is called fever and rash. So there are a whole set of diseases or illnesses which can cause fever and rash and that is monitored. And every case of fever and rash, which is how, like I said, Measles would present, these warrant an investigation to find out what the cause is and we interview the patient whoever is presenting. So it sets in place a whole chain reaction when an individual presents with fever and rash. Up to 90% of people who come in contact with an individual who has the disease and is not vaccinated can get the disease. The disease is preventable through two doses of a safe and effective vaccine. This vaccine in Saint Lucia is a combination vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella, the MMR. Our vaccines generally are procured through power, through the Revolving Fund. So persons may have concerns about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines and we are committed with PAHO, the Ministry of Health that is, is committed to ensuring that all of the vaccines that are available in Saint Lucia, including the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine is safe and effective. The vaccine processes go through rigorous scrutiny to ensure that when it gets to Saint Lucia that the vaccines are in fact safe and it has been proven to be very effective in protecting against the diseases, Measles, Mumps and Rubella. Medical Officer of Health, Dr Sharon Belman George has noted that there are areas that need to be strengthened when it comes to protecting against Measles. We saw the need to strengthen some of our linkages in terms of working in a more coordinated manner and closely with the Ministry of Education to ensure that the vaccination cards are complete on children entering schools. So these are some of the measures which we have put in place in terms of lazing and working directly with the various sectors to strengthen and to ensure that we are fully prepared to manage possible cases coming in on the island. The Chief Medical Officer notes that persons who have adequately been vaccinated against the disease should not be worried and encourages those who are not vaccinated to do so. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. Everyone is at risk forgetting a foodborne illness. While most foodborne illness cases are mild and go unreported, long-term health complications and even deaths can occur from a foodborne illness. Foodborne illnesses are caused by contamination of food at any stage of preparation. If you are a food handler involved in home-based food production, meat, fish, chicken, or a big shop, as a food vendor, how you prepare food can put your customers at risk. Do you know the risks and how to avoid them? The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards can help you. For more information, contact the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards at 456-0546 or email slbs at candw.lc or visit the website at www.slbs.org.lc St. Lucia Bureau of Standards, making quality and standards our way of life. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Welcome once again to your update on happenings in youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Local physical education and sports teachers are part of an international FINA Level 1 open water coaching program, which got underway Tuesday. This is in keeping with the mandate of the St. Lucia Aquatic Federation's mandate to make accessible international certification for all interested persons. The five-day FINA Level 1 Open Water Coaches Clinic is open to anyone who is interested in becoming an open water swimming coach. Open Water Coaching presents a different set of dynamics to pool coaching and therefore requests its own certification as directed by the international body FINA. The Open Water Coaches Clinic is being conducted by world-renowned FINA lecturer Stephen Cassidy. He's a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Cassidy has served in nearly every role in the sport, a former professional marathon swimmer, a record-breaking channel swimmer, a national team coach, USA swimming and FINA administrator, Olympic official, race announcer, race director, and strong advocate of the sport. The Government of Cuba has reassured its commitment to collaborate with Saint Lucia in the area of sporting development. Cuban Ambassador to Saint Lucia, His Excellency Alejandro Simanca Smare, says Cuba is happy to be able to continue the collaboration between the Government of Saint Lucia and the Cuban Deportes Institute. Sports is a priority in Cuba. It's a part of our culture and I have seen that Saint Lucia is the same. We have the same spirit, sport spirit that this is something that we share. Here in Saint Lucia are working trainers in the field of basketball, in track and field, and in the Ministry of Sports. There is a Cuban Specialist also working advising in the methodological system of the sports. So he makes us very happy that we can contribute also in that way. I have seen and I have met the glory of the Saint Lucia sport, Leven Spencer, and first time I saw her was by television in Cuba, competing against Cuba. She won, but we were happy that the one who won the Cuba and the one who beat the Cuba towards Saint Lucia in sports. Ambassador Mare made a disclosure during an interview with the Government Information Service Tuesday. The two more recent coaches under this attachment are Juan Eddie and Roberto Montalvo, both assigned to the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. Eddie specializes in basketball and Montalvo in track and field. They are both stationed in the south of the island. And as we end a reminder that Inter-district Primary Schools' female football kicks off at the South Plain Field Wednesday. Competition will be among schools in the northern region, districts 1 through 4. There is action circuit off at 10 a.m. to 10-minute house per match, teams 7 aside. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, the Ministry of Education and the Saint Lucia Football Association using this competition to develop female football at the grassroots level. And that's your update from Youth Development and Sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. The Make It Happen Foundation since Inception devoted to helping police officers and firefighters with upgrades to their work spaces and providing equipment where needed. Most recently, the Foundation has broadened its reach to support women victims of domestic violence and their dependent children. In March, the Foundation hosted the first ever Tea and Testimony event, which brought over 300 women together to help raise funds for the Women's Support Center. On April 29, the Foundation made a check presentation in the amount of $15,000 to the center from the proceeds of the Tea and Testimony event. Sparehead in the Foundation is Raquel Jubilee-Chastney. Domestic violence victims and women who require a safe place of refuge, it tends to not get a lot of the attention that it deserves, and so this is just a very small measure to say that we support what you do. We value the haven that the center provides for those women, and we will be offering continued support as and when we can, so the funds raised this year were from the Tea and Testimony Tea Party held in March. We're very grateful that we could provide a small contribution today. The Women's Support Center was established in 2001 as a temporary place of safety for women victims of intimate partner abuse and their children and provides 24-hour service for these women who fare for their lives in a secure, safe, comfortable and supportive environment. The center's manager, Sylvie Edwards, expressed heartfelt gratitude for the timely donation. Those women come to the center for refuge. We provide counseling for them. We take a holistic approach. We also have to provide for all of their needs because very often when those women run from their homes, they leave with nothing. So when they come to the shelter, we have to provide everything for them as well as their children. So the shelter was there from 2001. We do the counseling. We send their kids to school. We find jobs. We find homes. We assist in every way that we can in assisting these women. Even after living in the shelter, we also provide continued support for them as well. In recent years, the center has also developed a student assistance program through which children of clients receive assistance with the acquisition of school supplies, uniforms and in some cases, payment of school fees. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Enquire. Was that an earthquake? No. What do you do that's an earthquake? Drop cover and hold on. What does that mean? You drop to the ground, take cover underneath a sturdy table or disk and hold on until the shaking stops. What does no table or desk? Stay away from the walls, windows and doors.  But what if you're outside? What's an open space away from buildings, trees, street lights and utility wires? Drop to your knees, protect your head with your arms and wait for the shaking to stop. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Enquire. I would like to invite you to come here for a good cause of infection, especially after the formation that killed me in the boat. A person who was affected and then came here recently. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mullen-Fedrick James said that he was in Coffence and then in the media. There was a nurse who came here in August to find a cure for this person after the vaccine and then she came here. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mullen-Fedrick James found permission to attend the debate and consequently he was able to return to the country. He could not have told the people who were supposed to come to Coffence. Dr. Mullen-Fedrick James Verticky said that he would be able to return to the country in the year of 1990. But if the people of Coffence would be able to return to the country in the international context and get the money back to the country in the world because it is the country that made the nation and to help the country to speak the language and the English and a lot of people in Venezuela. He said that he would also be able to visit a doctor who was concerned about the people of Coffence. He was able to go out to the country and find the vaccine before returning to Coffence. He said that he would be able to return to Coffence Um For protection, you It's money that is not a vaccine but a vaccine at risk for a disease. For a disease, the medical chief also advise parents to take care of four children to take care of the disease. If you don't wish to I see. It is a wish to lose life if you cannot find the vaccine for the deaf. The doctors are able, after all, to treat people who are injured or who are dying. The doctors have won the hospital's medical license, the Jackson Memorial Hospital, and visited this hospital for the ease of training to address the situation. situation Salah. Your consultant has done the operation. Dr Charles Greenwich declared that it will play and then it will not Salah because it will help doctors to save more lives. Dr Greenwich said that if there are 4 countries that will follow for the Salah, for the foundation of Che Expo, it will be the Octave Bioplay, which is an anti-Portuguese organization for financial initiatives Salah. Dr Rodd, the hospital Jackson Memorial, Dr Good Post, the organization that has made a commitment to continue to work and then doctors and nurses here to save the lives that will be injured in a bad accident. Our Dr Rodd, the hospital Victoria, is hoping to benefit from Salah. College Salah Louise, CEO of the gymnasium and the college of education at University of Niagara in America. The gymnasium that offers support in a way to transform the program in Salah Louise and to assist in increasing development of the institution for more current and future programs of education that can support the vision of the international country. Also, John Gweck, the director of the Salah College, John Calix by the science support college, the ministry of education and government. This is Professor of the University of Niagara, Dr Patricia Briscoe, who declared that Salah will help all the institutions here to learn more about Salah. And I would like to thank the ladies who have come here. I would like to thank you all for being here. I would like to thank you for the invitation that you have given me. I would like to thank you very much for coming here today. Thank you all for your time and here's a look at what's happening to us otherwise. Conditions are partly cloudy and breezy, becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers. A marginal increase in moisture and instability in the lower atmosphere over the southern eastern Caribbean region will result in some scattered showers during the next 24 hours. The Atlantic High Pressure System will maintain a moderate easterly wind flow across the eastern Caribbean region during the forecast period. The tide for Castries Harbor became high at 622 p.m. The tide for V4 Bay will be high at 729 p.m. The sea is moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Wednesday at 5.39 a.m. That brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Salusha Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Tras.


Hello and welcome to 575 ounces the only cricket show for football fans on today's show We're going to be talking about the semifinals and then we are going to do a review of a certain commentator But before that I just want to say that through the show We are going to be using football references And we hope that you can catch them and we hope that you guys can keep putting them in because sort of tired of doing this cricket terminology Joining us is Arjun Pandit and in the studio is Siddhanth Aani nice Used white shirt You guys I'm going to bring up the first football reference first semifinal is that old Trafford? Yeah, but that which club was this? BMRC Strikers Yes, that's good. BMRC United No, but yeah look before before we progress further Earlier you were vehemently against the format and what has the format shown you? The format has shown you that the four best teams have made the semi-finals Which we could have which we had pretty much everyone had said these four teams will be in the semi-finals How are they in the group? Hey, I'll tell you why. Look at the four you had predicted it will be so easy They're right that nothing is going to happen. It has not been easy at all, right? Pakistan was in the fray Bangladesh was in the fray and if you're the eternal optimist and maybe Sri Lanka was in the fray But I don't think they were in the fray so six teams were vying for those top four sports And if the best four have made the semi-final, isn't that a good bullcup? And shouldn't the best team really talk away as the winner? I agree. 100% I think they should have played that's what I think we were saying earlier also We should have played the World Cup with only these 40s Yeah, that's true. I mean why? Yeah, I don't think so I mean, I'm not trying to hit the plate No, it's not about hitting the plate. West Indies was also in with a shout If that six of Kalao's Bradford had gone on the other side of the fence Then today New Zealand and West Indies were fighting here for the top four spot You know the only disappointment in this World Cup has been Afghanistan who's not done anything But other than that someone or the other has had some say or the other throughout this league phase Yeah, there's been a lot to be discussed even in terms of like how the teams that are going through like New Zealand for example The teams they've beaten Compared to the theme that Pakistan have beaten There's a difference in who Pakistan have beaten and who New Zealand have beaten to get to this final Yeah, there's another way of looking at it That the first format that you've played in one match That means there's a chance you're getting knocked out of the World Cup That's super No, so yeah I guess the difference between The league format is the same Because we're football fans We watch a lot of football So the league is the format that we enjoy watching also So I think that way it's a pretty good thing Sometimes a cup competition is a cup competition That's why you love a cup competition also So that's what a Champions Trophy used to be Champions Trophy used to be a knockout tournament Then of course they noticed that India might get knocked out on the first round only Chained it back to a group tournament But anyway, my point being the first semi-final In all likelihood it seems like Australia finishing top India finishing second England finishing third and New Zealand finishing fourth Of course the final day will decide who goes first and second But I don't think Australia is going to lose to South Africa And knowing that if they finish first they will face New Zealand and not in England So why not go all out and get that first spot Which means India taking on England in Birmingham Because that track that England got was India and Birmingham Was flatter than The earth according to certain theories Yeah And really it played into England's hand They were beating each other up But I think the second time coming if India faces England They'll I don't know a good fight But this time they won't commit the same mistakes they made In that last game versus England in Birmingham I mean the last two matches that England The last two matches that England have played Have been on pretty flat tracks both of them But this now suddenly can This show can easily just turn into a criticism The way that England have suddenly turned this world cup around But instead of that So Australia versus New Zealand is basically we are obviously I mean Australia had a slight injury scare today by the way In their nets I know I know Yes Sean Marsh has gone back home with a broken wrist And Glenn Maxwell has injured his forearm Thanks to Pat Cummins And Mitchell Stark They forgot that they were bowling to their own guys And thought they were bowling to their palms No but you know Historically also you see in wherever Australia and New Zealand play each other For some reason or the other Australia has just geared up more for the game Whether it be the 2015 World Cup Depends on what sport we are talking about Davi game Because in rugby it's not that Who is talking about rugby? It's about cricket I am just saying Davi game This is touched by a global audience Okay Sir global audience Your nose will reach there Global audience So I think Australia Honestly speaking In line for a sixth World Cup Really? And no one give them a short term For this World Cup to be honest Everyone here thought that this is a very weak type of Australia team I don't know what's going to happen But suddenly tournament time comes on And these guys all switched on You know big match players Who come together for the big moments And he will be ridiculous Because Ricky Ponting will again get his hands on the World Cup They should just give it to him and then Let him take you home Yeah we'll just start But wait you also Australia and You have given the tournament On the other side But I am saying that If Australia reaches the final Australia is the team Who reaches the final Then they don't give up There is a mentality inside them They win five times In their support staff They are the type of Ricky Ponting So they know exactly what to do How to get geared up for that one game We were talking about Women's World Cup That could be the biggest difference Between USA and Netherlands That the US have been there Done that And that is the one thing That could really work in your favour On the day of the final I don't think talent And how good you play And your skill level comes into play As much as nerves And how well you handle yourself And really get the best out of yourself So that is one thing But I feel Australia is India This will be the final So in the England game Since we are looking at the semi-final How do you think that India Will approach it differently In terms of what they did last time It also depends on what pitch they used I mean can you believe it One boundary was only 55 metres The square of the boundary And England used their brains Because then they attacked the bowlers on that side There were three boundaries India scored two spinners On such a small distance You don't play two spinners Then you play paces So if the same boundary is used Then you bring back a Bhuvaneshwar Kumar You drop one spinner You know So I don't know But it's just a match Then you know Otherwise what else I mean it doesn't matter I forget the pitch conditions And this and that But not just You can't But that's cricket man I mean that's one of the reasons We guys haven't really taken So many variables involved in this game Bitch, boundary Can you believe it Boundary has played a part in Who is walking away with the win And how to approach a game I think a huge amount of cricket is Kheti Badi Isn't it Tapping, cleaning I just think India is too strong a team To let the same thing repeat itself Versus England On the other hand It must also be said that India's middle order has been Passive throughout the tournament Other than the top three And whoever the top three I think At the top they've changed Personnel But besides that nobody is Why are we not I don't know why We keep really picking up this middle order Debate man Kail Rahul is some good Yeah, sure he has And even before scoring The big runs He was getting your 40, 50s and 30s So he's always getting starts Right Rohit and Virat Next level batsman Another left Now Rishabh Pand Who's got a decent strike rate And he seems like a guy To be fair to the guy To be thrown into the tournament In the middle of it He's done pretty well to climb Out of that hole if A lot of people are saying And that speaks volumes about the guy's character And of course the mental You know, ability and all that Then you have Mr Dhoni The Tuk Tuk champion Look, I think as far as If only like It's perfectly balanced When we played room cricket We used to get runs in touch If that's the case Sir, tell me If all your batsmen Will do the same batsmen What's the point? So if Dhoni has a lower strike rate And he's not the biggest hitters Of the ball Before him comes A Rishabh Pand Who can go on 50s strike rate After him comes A Hardik Pand Who goes on 50s strike rate So why not have someone like a Dhoni I think it works for India Who if the situation demands That you don't go big Here's a guy who is happy to sit And play 20 runs of 50 balls 20 runs 60 balls But unfortunately that also Creates a situation where he's batting With Kedar Yadav And then they're just doing 20 runs Maybe he can come A little bit up the order If that Dhoni, I don't know if there's room For that I don't think so I don't think so This is the other problem When you have like Really good batsmen Ahead of you I mean this is If he has more time And he can lose that I think it works on the situation If you lose Virat and Rohit early Then you send Dhoni Because you need someone to Bide his time Yeah, to sort of anchor the rest of the Yeah, sort of put the pressure back On the bowlers Who can you know Lagya main lagya main lagya main But if 30-35th over Then you send of course A Rishabh Pand A little bit of a Hardik Pand To up the strike rate And then you can send Dhoni And they don't even go So then Mr. Dhoni Will have to do something You know But I kind of don't understand Why we always magnify on that guy Which guy I think we all know as a bit tease man And it's not been the same But now his Use in this team At least in the patting order Is different from what it was earlier He's not the Dhoni He's going to finish the game for you That is the Hardik Pand That is the Rishabh Pand That is the Kedar Jadav He's the guy who solely They don't anchor the innings in the middle And let us experience You know Fair point Variety Fair enough And we somehow tend not to focus On his keeping That's because He can still top notch That's because we have four keepers And it's tough to focus on one No it's true Because he's so sharp in his head I think the Wicked keeping So much of it comes with instinct And sort of Being able to read Or understand what the bowler is doing Also I think it's Several points of time Like wherever Virat defends him I think he also defends him From the sense that It's not just Batting and keeping That Dhoni is important for this Also a lot of Influency carries in the way That the field is set What the bowlers are bowling The plans for different batsmen Just He has a lot of Game IQ Basically And I genuinely believe If we play England and Birmingham Then We will not go on with tourist spinners This time Especially the way they Attacked India in the last game I won't be surprised If you use Neshwar Kumar Yeah You know And you have three Shammi Because Shammi has shown That for all his might He also leaks runs in the end Okay So I'm just going to Quickly jump We're just going to jump on From this And this is a good jump Because then Should we pick Ravinder Chedeja Because There's someone who May not agree with that Right Yeah I don't understand this This is our human tendency There's not just about Ravinder Chedeja From We're all Working in TV for a while now Who do you not Have some Who speaks his mind Who's opinionated And who doesn't Give you the same old garbage That you expect someone To do it because he's Towing the line Now I'm going to point a finger at Sanjay Manjrekar For saying that he toes the line He speaks his mind by Whether you like it or not He's getting money To give his opinion on the game Because he's played the game Whether he's played one game Two games He's played it, sir And he's played a lot of domestic cricket as well I mean we tend to We tend to equate everything With international cricket Yeah No, anyway Either way is whether he's played Not played whatever He's a commentator His job is to Comment For Sanjay Manjrekar Has been flowing through the World Cup And most of that criticism Has been that he's His analysis is useless He's always favoring certain players The Bombay boys basically He always brings in Some Bombay angle Or the other constantly And he gets a lot of things wrong And this is That's why everyone When Jadeja came out And furiously criticized him Everyone piled on Because he was Everyone came out of their bills Sir, Jadeja has given us Validity All after that Exactly That's exactly what has happened No, I have a friend there That day we were watching the match And can you believe it He was playing hide and seek With Sanjay Manjrekar So as soon as he's come on In the English commentary He swish to Hindi As soon as he's come on Hindi we swish back to English As soon as you see You know, even in these two places We've gone to dugout I mean I'll admit that I don't I don't enjoy Sanjay Manjrekar's commentary I don't watch cricket Why? I just don't There are way better commentators There are way better Indian commentators I prefer watching Someone like Listening to Someone like Ganguly Or Harshabh Mughal Guys who They give a perspective They're very critical Of certain things And they say things And I don't know I just enjoy the tone In which they say it The words they use Whatever it is So it's subjective Absolutely That's why I don't Enjoy Manjrekar But I do believe that Yes, he should His opinion Is Should be valid There shouldn't be a situation I just think This is A result of the time We live in This social media This Hindi I mean One person That day I saw That actor Siddharth That guy who was In that Rang De Basanti Now he's tweeted out Saying I am hearing Manjrekar Some bullshit he's written About him And I'm switching off my TV Or something I'll say Which Oscar movie Have you made And after that If someone writes about you Will you like it? All you're doing is Generating more public hate Towards someone Yes, absolutely Agreed I don't understand Why people critique So much on social media I just don't buy that concept I find it very weird It's like you're Critiquing me But you're not looking In the eye and critiquing me You're just saying It's easy They never have to meet you Anonymous Yeah I mean we often We also get Often abused For not having a bath And If they If the people who were saying That ever came Next to us They'd know that was true Look at Annie's face You can make up But I think this Like the More important point is also That this is Very often this happens That commentators Indian commentators Avoid Criticizing Indian players And But he is the one That I Yeah It's true That's good Absolutely And that's I think There was a certain point of time When There were some commentators Who were Put together And they were told Not to do this In the IPL There was a Huge Situation made out of it At that point And earlier in this Exact tournament Michael Holding has come out And Criticized the ICP Respect to Michael Absolutely Now listening to Michael Holding is like That's a Very much Subjective Absolutely I agree I also feel like I mean it's one One of the things that The television Also tries to do Right There has to be some Villain in the piece A little conflict It's important to create So that Whatever it is Sanjay Manjurekar I don't think has Become like a Trending subject Ever before Right The way He's become today Sir but this Trending subject is all Piggybacking That Here Popular votes are going So I am also I agree The same is happening Also Absolutely I'm just wondering if Like the conversation points We are also talking about it Are they It's true They are so little To talk about it No there is like I mean can I bring up One more thing Which we just On an extempore Can we talk about Ambati Raidu retiring Who I can I can tell you that the I don't blame Iceland Cricket have offered him I have told him The way to get citizenship And It's a very fake account I hate that account But he did You know why Want for attention Is insane Every time Every Tuesday But funny Backoff Why Backoff They are not a member Of the ICC This is the only way They get attention No I am Just going back I don't know if Jadeja should have tweeted About this man That too during a tournament Absolutely That is something You meet the guy Everyday on the field He is there to In post match interviews If you have a problem With him Go to him on his face And tell him Look I do not Like what you say about me Fair enough Because you are being Spoken about In a public forum But what is this Point of going into Twitter And saying I don't like What you are saying Your verbal diarrhea After that From Saharanpur To Bichnaur To Indore Has climbed on And is abusing the Living daylights Out of Sanjay Manjrekar Actually ideally would be Great if Jadeja plays The Sri Lanka game Gets man of the match And is interviewed By Sanjay Manjrekar Then I think Everything can be resolved Very peacefully I think that The best would be He starts saying Hey Ravindra well played What was that tweet all about Perfect Perfect Or maybe He says Hey Ravindra well played So okay before we We start doing verbal diarrhea Ourselves I think it's time to Cut the show And We'll see everyone Next Before the final Before the final Australia vs India I'm calling it Calling the final I'm calling New Zealand Australia India England New Zealand That's the way to go Just Someone will get it wrong Just to be different Everyone else has said This is the quality of a hipster Absolutely Before the word was invented Okay Thank you for watching


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Yes, I'm sorry, yes, Rob, that's my name, I'm the inspector of client services in the south business district. A rape, a very violent rape occurred at the corner of Manning and Melbourne Street at West End on Friday evening. We think this has occurred about between 11 and 1130. We know the plaintiffs in this matter are a 20 year old girl, I'm sorry. That's a private function in the Uber nightclub in Boundary Street and Melbourne Street. She intended to go to a bus to her home and section of Melbourne and Manning Street. She was approached by the two suspects. Yes, there's very good compits available. One offender's a blonde spiky hair. He had some slight stubble or beard growth, just very slight. The other fella's a darker fella, but the compits we believe are very good from their witnesses who are great. I would like to comment at the moment. I think she needs to respect that we don't identify who she is. Only to say she's a very respectable person in our community. I've got a very good career ahead of us. I would like to say who she is or whatever for her. Respect to her. Well, I'll just make you wonder. I was wondering if they have done it before because it seems so well orchestrated and the violence they used. Animals don't do that to each other. I guess people in that area could be on the lookout. Yes, definitely. It's not just that area. As we know, it's a vibrant area. People love West End and they're drawn there because the cafe and nightclub is there. They could have come from anywhere really. All I can say is, yes, certainly this person did the right thing as far as I'm concerned. She stuck to the main rag. She walked in to catch the bus and unfortunately this happened so I suppose you've got to be very aware of your own safety. Has anyone come forward who's been the man or were any abusive? No, they haven't. That's what we would like the media to assist us with if people could come forward. If they saw these persons there acting strangely, from the Comfort or the CCTV that have got available, if anyone can help us with it, we'd love them to come forward.