So you want to make this six figures python salary and you're trying to find out what the right way to go Well, you reached the right video. Let me explain This video was brought to you by Diginic Academy You're number one source to learn how to make money programming and get that six figures salary you desire Our Academy have a wide range of courses including 3k in 30 days our mentorship Membership program and much much more when you sign up for our free community you get access to our Membership community with like-minded professional who's going to help take your career to the next level So let's take the first step to get started and really take your career to the next level with our seven-step money guy today So let's go ahead and click the link below to sign up for our free seven step guide to help you get your career started today So guys when you are looking to learn python and you're trying to figure out Okay, is this the right way to go one of the things that really comes up? Um pretty quickly is the salary. Is this a right good? This is a good salary. Am I gonna make enough? Can I make the six figures and I'm gonna kind of tell you guys my story give you guys background and how I Really put my expectation in order when I'm looking at python salaries and it's gonna give you guys a full context of What salary to expect and how do you increase the salary once you learn what your market value is? So guys just like anybody else, you know, you get into programming you see all the benefits life is good You can learn quickly compared to other Uh professions and you can make six figure pretty easy But that's not the case most of us are not going to make six figures in our first job because we really don't have the tools at hand to showcase our value You may not have experience may not have uh, you may live in a crappy city It could be a lot of things guys and I made notes here so that I'll be going over everything to make sure I cover all the points here But at the end of the day There's some elements some factors you have to Kind of make sure you you position yourself to be able to make that six figure salary I stay here in Jackson Mississippi guys Mississippi one of poor states So it's going to be a little harder than the typical developer to get to that six figure salary, but it's not impossible It's easy to make six figures once you showcase your value to the right company. It's just a matter of ROI You know, they're going to pay you a hundred thousand dollars But you're going to provide them probably with you know, over a million dollars in value based off some of the software That's going to help scale their company So it's a no-brainer for them to make sure they maintain you pay you to that salary You desire and pay you market value so that you don't go looking somewhere else. So that's the name of the game guys um the factors are first of all the range of a Python developer guys could vary, you know, I've seen some as low as 45 40 thousand dollars And I've seen something as high 450 thousand dollars depending on you know if you're a tech lead what your position is on the company the size and all that So why so big of a range? It could be a variety of factors city company size your experience level Your ability to showcase your skills is it can be a ton of things guys. So it really come down to you know, really Looking at your local market finding out What's right for you? What's a good fit for you? And then kind of start pursuing that So, um, I'm assuming that you are a python. You're interested in python. You're trying to figure out. Okay, right Tell me the salary requirements and where we need to go. So first of all, let's start with the city guys let's just say you're a junior developer and a I'm gonna say we got three types of cities. So you got the larger Cities, well, I'm not going to say larger. I'm gonna say the cities that are specific to software development Like silicon valley is not one of the biggest cities in the world But that city is geared to make to maximize software development careers So you're going to make probably the maximum amount of money and either that city or any of the larger cities The la's the new york's the tech hubs the austin's houston's Basically the top five cities in the united states. That's where you're going to make the most money You're going to have that potential to make that 450 thousand dollar salary and um, Depending on how you showcase it depending on what kind of skill level you are It's not probably take time to get to 450 That's probably not a reasonable number for a junior developer to think they're going to get first day But in some of these bigger larger cities that are geared to the technology sector It's easy to make six bigger guys if you're in silicon valley If you got any level experience You should be if not at six figures definitely within 10 to 15 thousand dollars of it pretty easy early on in your career Well, if you're in the second category, which is a decent size city, but not necessarily a tech hub I usually put cities like, um, atlanta, uh, miami Dallas maybe sacramento Places like that where they're decent size cities But they may not have the technology driven companies that are there You know atlanta still have a lot a lot of nice places there even natchville Um places like uh, cincinadio, hio They have good size cities and good tech Sectors there, but it's not going to be like that top tier company These are the ones that you're going to probably start a little lower around 70 60 000 dollars as a junior developer To be able to get that python salary the thing that you got to you guys got to be aware of as you come down these, uh, cities You got to find out that the variety of jobs is going to be limited You know, you go to somebody tech hub you got all different types of development jobs You have a job just based off a react or front end development framework Versus if you go to the lower level cities or lower level is going to have general software development You're going to be more like a full stack. So kind of keep that in mind too So the bigger cities are going to offer more range of coding opportunities Plus they're going to have bigger salaries. So kind of keep that in mind. So I would say The range of these cities, um, we're going to be probably about, you know, 45 to maybe peak start to peak out at Maybe 150 200 250 000 dollars depending on where you at west side city You know, if you're in atlanta as a junior developer Your salary probably going to be more around that 60 70 range depending on how well you showcase your skills I've seen people come in and get 80 90 even 100 000 dollars depending on their experience level But you guys got to understand that we're talking about junior developers here Everything that I talk about in this video going to be pertaining to junior and intermediate developers If you are a senior level developer, you got experience. You should be reaching for the stars, you know Thank you for watching my video But you probably have a skill set to go out and get in a 200 at least a 150 000 dollar job right now and The top two categories relatively easy without necessarily doing a lot of work because your Portfolio work should speak for you without somebody even calling to talk to you. So kind of keep that in mind so The third two guys, these are the the smaller cities These are some of the cities you probably haven't heard a lot of And you can max out you can max and get to that six-figure salary But it's going to be a little bit of a journey to get to this Um, this is where you're going to have the smaller companies the mom and pops the startups Well, not even the startups the starters going to probably be in the Larger markets or the silicon startups like the awesons and the silicon valleys, but You know there they can probably be some wannabe startups or some level of small businesses that need some Customs of software development. They're going to hire you on Now fortune the side of these companies guys They they typically use their scale of salary that their existing employees have and they are already small and not paying them a lot So they're just gonna put software developer somewhere within that range that range is nowhere near Six figures You'll be lucky to get $50,000 that on the lower end of some of these companies That's why I always say guys if you work for a company they're trying to offer you $25,000 to be a software developer And you're not an intern or just just not a gig if it's just a small gig or something Maybe a first first very first software development gig. Okay. Just it's just to get you something on your resume But we don't want to be there long guys. We want you in that range I would say a good silent range at a decent size city not one of the larger ones that are talking about before But just say one of the third level cities You know 45 50 thousand now I wouldn't be too mad if you start off as a developer with that because I know within a year You're gonna be ready to get to the big leagues at 60 70 80 thousand dollars if you have the adequate amount of skills But I know a lot of you guys haven't really got a ton of software development skills And I know you are a risk to a company because you don't come in showcase your skills properly So they're gonna be comfortable Spending, you know 45 50 thousand dollars for you. If this is your first job Again guys, this is relative I don't want you guys to come in as junior developer at a small company demanding that you get six figures because They have budgets too guys a lot of these companies are 90 million dollar companies And you expect them to spend at least 10 percent of their revenue on one developer That's not gonna work. So you got to be realistic and know Know what type of market dealing with what type size company dealing with in a company So all of this stuff plays a major role And how you get closer to that six figure salary guys I talk about this in my seven step guide links are below If you haven't already guys, I have premium courses below Go support the channel go sign up for those courses. I got some good deals below. It's gonna really help take your Salary to the next level and really put you in a position to get that six figure salary Like subscribe to the content. Do you agree with me comment below? 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We feel that the evidence to suggest a highly capable, technologically advanced, intercontinental, possibly interstellar civilization once flourished here on our planet is now irrefutable. The questions we now feel need answering do not now regard whether they existed but surround their true origins, actual age, and indeed, final destination. We would, of course, be the descendants of this past civilization, yet the proof of global flooding, past cataclysm, and a technological reset occurring within human history, we would hope, is clear for all who peruse our channel to see. With such an event experienced by a civilization, once capable of lifting and building with unimaginably huge megaliths, one would presume that post-event one would encounter primitive dwellings yet built partially with these now dwindling technologies which would eventually become lost knowledge. We feel that indeed, many ancient dwellings that can be found all over the planet, in particular the United Kingdom, currently claimed as Neolithic, are suitable candidates to support this opposition. Constructed with enormous, unexplained, mysteriously lifted megaliths, are these sites remnants of an advanced lost civilization? We hypothesize that the builders of such still retained limited knowledge and or technologies left from their now lost civilization, allowing them to create stable, immovable, yet primitively constructed dwellings, which we still cannot explain today. Furthermore, and the purpose for our video, the extremely ancient, little academically shared dwelling, tucked away among a remote region of Russia. Located within the Caucasus Mountains, hundreds of similarly aged megalithic monuments, which the Russians call dolmens, uncannily similar to the ancient trilathons found within the UK, however, it seems that these remaining remnants, possibly of the same lost civilization, still possess something which allowed them to carve perfectly spherical holes through enormous megalithic stones. Just what were these ancient people using to create these ancient structures? Or indeed, the perfectly cut spherical doorways within? Who built the ancient dolmens that can be found dotting Russia? The ancient trilathons found dotting the United Kingdom. Are these structures, as we have suggested, remaining relics left by a civilization who had just experienced drastic cataclysm? If this is not the case, why do they possess characteristics indicative of lost knowledge, yet appear to be of such a primitive design? We find our hypothesis and the supporting evidence highly compelling. How did a lost global civilization once cut solid stone with such ease and precision? Unimaginably large megalithic structures, laser-like cut stones, utilized within the baffling, polygonal masonry, not to mention the mystery surrounding the construction of the Great Pyramids. Any mysterious drilled stone cores can be found through Algeza. These enigmatic tool marks can also be found at the incredibly ancient dolmen of Valkonsky in Russia, exposing the capabilities and clear technological prowess that this lost civilization, who we feel were possibly experiencing an ice age, had left in order to survive its fallout. Yet I digress. Standard within Austria we were initially presented with just these three images, two of the exterior, which, if one looks closely, not only displays the porthole of a hidden chamber hidden upon the side of a solid rock face, but that the surrounding rocks had also been cut and finished to an incredibly high standard somewhere in the very distant past. This indicated to us that this chamber that is not only reminiscent of the Hypogeum in Malta, with the addition of the stone within the circular chamber, which we cannot avoid feeling, could have some form of connection to resonance creation, with erosion indicative of a site with an age similar to Cappadocia's ruins, but later revealed to have been, as we expected, but one chamber, in a maze akin to that of the underground city of Derinkuyu. Hidden within an Austrian book of antiquities, we discover a series of fortunately mapped solid stone cut chambers, which litter this enormous chunk of exposed bedrock. Clearly an astonishing prehistoric site, one cut by an incredibly capable, and we feel, clearly technologically advanced civilization. For why would a civilization with simple, primitive tools, such as those made of blunt or brittle stones or soft malleable metals, such as that of copper, go to such extremes in the creation of a maze of hidden chambers, each not only finished to an incredibly precise degree, but to have worked stones into unnatural shapes outside of these chambers, many serving no essential function as far as we can identify. Who created this prehistoric site found within the landscape of Austria? How old are the chambers? What technology or tools were utilized in the creation of such a magnificent ancient ruin, or indeed that of the Valkonsky Dolmen, along with the many similarly drilled cores and their stone blocks found throughout Giza? Do all these pieces of evidence indicate the past existence of a lost civilization, one who possessed advanced stone cutting technology? We find such possibilities highly compelling. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the continent of Antarctica. Officially the driest place on earth, the ecosystems within the South Pole are untouched, and remain the healthiest anywhere, one of the main official reasons for the Antarctic Treaty. A cooperation of many of the world's nations to not pollute the area. The result of this treaty has been a ban of most human beings going there, unless crossing it on set cruise routes. If there are ancient ruins within this mysterious place, they will be buried under kilometers of ice, only the largest of which, would even show any evidence of their existence on the surface of the ice which encases them. These ruins may not even be classified as ruins, if they were flooded by a deluge, which in turn froze during pole shifts, they would be the most pristine ancient structures now left on earth, they may look as if they were abandoned yesterday. There are many strange reports from the region of Antarctica, usually attached to those not lucky enough to survive its elements, many researchers online claim to have found evidence of ruins and even pyramids within the South Pole. So, what I set out to do, was to attempt to find any evidence for a past colonization of Antarctica, and if I cover up of these articles as ensued, to attempt to find any artifacts that were lucky enough to attain public exposure before their disappearance from the official records. It did not take me long to realize I was already aware of such an artifact. A map made in 1513, by Turkish Admiral Piririz, created in accordance with ancient knowledge contained within manuscripts, which would later be lost during the destruction of the library of Alexandria. Whether these fires which occurred over a duration of eight years, were orchestrated to steal these ancient books, or indeed to destroy them forever is unknown. But from this lost knowledge, the continent of Antarctica would be shown without ice. It was thought at the time that the manuscripts within the library, were only a few centuries old at most, yet the evidence would suggest they were very much older than assumed. Which is a conclusion numerous researchers have made. The map has intrigued countless individuals, and like so many other things we encounter, in regards to ancient knowledge, the most important of relics become lost or destroyed. However, the map is a surviving remnant of this vast mountain of intellectual wealth, it is the smoldering amber of proof needed to confirm such knowledge as existed before, and that the shores of Antarctica were known well, in the very distant past. If the map displays the shorelines of Antarctica before it was covered with ice, and it is displayed more accurately than Brazil, then it is not a large leap of the imagination to suspect that ancient ruins, dating back to the time of this knowledge, do exist on the Antarctic continent. And while we have ancient pyramids, declared as existing on all continents of the planet, apart from Antarctica, you begin to doubt that Antarctica is an exception after all. It could be home to the largest, with the southern tip of the world encircled by the stars, it may hold the most amazing ruins on Earth. And with it being a place that only recently have we been able to explore extensively, you have to wonder what other artifacts may be preserved in the ice, what objects may have crashed in this desolate place, during the last few thousand years, just waiting to be reverse engineered. So how does such a smoking gun, such as the Pyre Rees map, survive for so long? All throughout the centuries all the source material has been engulfed with flames around it. Well, the coastline of Antarctica was not known to be displayed on the map, until we achieved the capability of developing ground penetrating technologies. It well and truly, slipped under the radar.


The local volume is the set of galaxies covered in the local volume legacy survey, or LVL for short, conducted by the Spitzer team. It is a complete sample of 258 galaxies within 36 million light years. This montage of images shows the ensemble of galaxies as observed by Spitzer. The galaxies are randomly arranged, but their relative sizes are as they appear on the sky. Here we have the galaxies laid out by distance from us. We'll take a look at a number of them.


We are interested in knowing what exactly forms the basis of next-generation networks. Next-generation networks have actually evolved out of the convergence of the telecommunication networks and the internet. And it is not as simple as it might sound. The convergence actually took its own toll and has resulted in the formation of certain dimensions which were initially unknown both to the telecom world and to the internet world. So let's look at the telecommunication networks and the internet networks in isolation and then understand what consequent implications both in the form of the challenges and the opportunities emerge. Telecommunication networks as we know of PSTNs, PLMNs and PDNs that is public data networks were thought to be specific that is they were specialized to offer a certain kind of service. These networks are inherently complex because the major investment is coming into the network and the end hosts are considered to be very simple. The example is of a simple PTCL telephone. You can understand that PTCL telephone is covering only a fraction or fraction of a fraction of the total activities which are taking place in the network. On the contrary in the case of internet since it is based on simplicity so the network was supposed to do simple things to the data which was coming from hosts. For instance if you look at router which is a layer 3 device is the main and the most dominating network elements at the core of the internet. So router is only layer 3 whereas end host is layer 7. So if we compare the two we can say that in the case of internet the network is very simple and the end host is expected to have all the intelligence to ensure that whatever is sent from one end is received as such on the other end. These telecommunication networks and other kinds of networks were inherently rigid because they were not meant to be flexible to cater for something else. Of course these were specialized. On the contrary if you look at internet architecture once again it is poised to be ready for convergence. Why? Because if you look at the IP layer at layer 3 all the layers above IP which conform to the services can be replaced with other kinds of services and other kinds of services. Likewise whatever access technology is available below IP specifically if you look at the broadband access side we understand that it can be changed either from wireless broadband access to wired broadband access. So it means this kind of flexibility makes the internet as the most eligible technology that would take the lead in the convergence of telecommunication and internet architecture. Now we look at some of the natural challenges which would emerge with internet architecture as the leader of the convergence. The first one is quality of service of course because internet was never meant to provide the best quality of service for its users all the time. It means that when some internet architecture is to be extended and evolved into the next generation network by integrating it with the telecommunication world then the quality of service aspects have to be catered for especially for real time voice and video communication. The next challenge emerges from the human agnostic addressing schemes that is when we look at the addressing schemes in PSTNs and in other kinds of traditional networks we see some kind of symmetry and some kind of human understandable aspect to it. But in the case of IP networks the IP addressing and the MAC addressing makes it increasingly complex and difficult to be retained by human beings. So if you look at the called and caller party one party the caller party is outside of the internet and the call party is on the inside of the internet. Now if such call is to be made then the addressing scheme as we know the dial number has to be translated into corresponding IP address. That's again a challenge and lastly if we compare the IP based network it is mostly based on in band signaling whereas the traditional networks are heavily relying on out of band signaling. So how could we cater for services such as voice over IP if we have to implement signaling. While the challenges are quite uphill there are equal and very lucrative opportunities as well. Let's look at these services in the traditional network from the value addition point of view. The value added services of traditional networks could be such for instance if you look at the television broadcast in a broadcast television network it could always be added with data because now it is coming on the internet in the best example is IP TV. Likewise if the traditional services are to be offered all these services are coming through IP so we can think about a unified billing. So instead of receiving a bill for say the television the mobile the telephone and other utilities we have a unified kind of billing that helps us from going to different outlets to pay individually.


Minister for Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, the Honourable Bradley Felix, Permanent Secretary, the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, Mrs. Sophia Henry, Chief Executive Officer, Export, St. Lucia, Sonita Daniel, Director, St. Lucia Bureau of Standards, Sir Vern Immanuel, Mr. Immanuel Girard, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, Executive Director, St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, Mrs. Paula James, Executive Director, St. Lucia Coalition of Services Industries, Mrs. Yvonne Agard, Senior Communications Officer, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, Natural Resources and Corporates, Mr. Philip Sidney, Fishers and the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, Heads of Departments, Education Officer, Mr. Benedict Joseph, other specially invited guests, viewers of the National Television Network and other social media streams provided by the Government Information Service. Welcome to this official launch of the Love St. Lucia campaign. The main objective of this campaign, of the Love St. Lucia campaign, is to build resilience in the solution economy by encouraging hobby farming, maximizing the potential of local industry, improving consumer awareness and increasing domestic market share of our local manufacturers and service providers, the expected accomplishments, public awareness and sensitization to educate and re-educate consumers on the importance of supporting our local economy, new and wider market reach, including the export markets, to boost local consumer spending and strengthen our local culture, to subvert withdrawal from the circular flow of income and wealth and redirect these resources to build our nation and to contribute towards the development of St. Lucia by consuming more of what we produce, whether it be in agriculture, manufacturing or the service trade. Ladies and gentlemen, I think these are all noble objectives and something which the entire population of St. Lucia would certainly gravitate towards. It gives me great pleasure now to invite Mrs. Sophia Henry, the Permanent Secretary and the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs to deliver her welcome remarks. I would just like to say that we are not using the public announcement this morning, the public address system, because as we understood there's a meeting going on right next door and we are going to try to avoid them as much as possible. So we're hoping that our members would be able to cope. Those of you with the far wings of the room would also be able to hear them all and I'm sure they'll be able to project sufficiently for us to get their addresses. So I'd now like to invite Mrs. Henry to come forward and deliver her welcome remarks. Thank you. Honorable Radhvi Felix, Minister in the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, thereafter the Ministry of Commerce. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good morning. As Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Commerce, it is indeed a privilege to welcome you here today at the unveiling of our latest initiative, the rebranding of the Bi-Local Campaign. The Bi-Local Campaign was originally launched on November 25, 1998, when the ministries of Commerce, Agriculture and Tourism, along with private sector entities such as the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture and St. Lucia Industrial and Small Business Association, SLISBA came together in a show of solidarity and support for the manufacturing sector. The aim of which was to make the general public more aware of locally manufactured products and services. This campaign was further strengthened in 2002 with continued partnerships with the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association. Today, the Ministry of Commerce in partnership with other public and private institutions will launch the Bi-Local Campaign under a new brand and tagline. This campaign serves to drive an increase in sales revenue and profits of local manufacturers and service providers. This will result in employment creation and economic stabilization and ultimately have a multiplier effect in our local economy. The campaign will also inform manufacturers and service providers of the varying needs and preferences of the consumer and further assist them in responding to those needs. We are determined to ensure that all sectors benefit from this campaign. An important feature of the campaign is to encourage households to grow more of what they eat and share the surplus. Of equal importance is to increase the consumption of St. Lucia goods and services by visitors irrespective of the purpose of the visit. They must fall in love with our island, people, goods and services. My ministry is of the firm view that the success of this campaign will depend greatly on one, the involvement of all stakeholders and two, a change in mindset of our people towards appreciating and consuming what is ours. Our responsibility as a stakeholder is to collaborate in enhancing our business environment to enable the entrepreneurial culture to thrive through this campaign. We remain focused on providing, on promoting, sorry, and building an entrepreneurial culture throughout the breadth of St. Lucia. We are confident that supporting local businesses, particularly at this difficult juncture, will result in more money circulating in our communities and more becoming available to develop our St. Lucia. Every fruit and vegetable plant in our backyard will reduce the importation of these agricultural products and increase the consumption of fresh and healthy agricultural produce. Ladies and gentlemen, in closing, I would like to take the opportunity to thank my team members at the Ministry of Commerce for their diligent efforts in building this campaign. I would also like to express my extreme gratitude to all our supporting agencies, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Tourism, the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, the St. Lucia Coalition of Service Industries, and Export St. Lucia for their combined efforts in bringing this campaign from concept to this launch. Moreover, I would like to thank you, the general public, for taking time to share this moment with us and encourage each of you to love and appreciate what is ours. Ladies and gentlemen, love St. Lucia. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mrs. Henry, and I'm sure many of those who are viewing will be able to really relate to some of the comments made by the Permanent Secretary in relation to ensuring the hobby of backyard farming is something that remains in the forefront of their minds. It now gives me great pleasure to welcome the Senior Communication Officer in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, Natural Resources, and Corporates, Mr. Philip Sidney, to the podium. But it also reminds me, especially keeping in line with this team, gentlemen who also served in that capacity previously and been in the supermarket and looking to purchase a produce that was not locally oriented would certainly caution me, comrade, let's buy more local, and we are very happy that we are looking at Cisanumem. So we're going to have Mr. Philip Sidney, who will deliver some remarks for us this morning. Mr. Sidney. Thank you, Mr. O'Brien. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to adopt a protocol that's already been established. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, Natural Resources, and Corporates is pleased to collaborate with the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs, and other agencies in the official launching of the rebranding of the buy local campaign under the new name, Love St. Lucia. This initiative is long overdue, however, it is timely. COVID opened many doors, not windows, many doors, and I'll come back to that. Years ago, the Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce collaborated in assisting persons within the cottage industry in assisting them in their progress in agro-processing. We called it the cottage industry at that time, and I can recall from the burial standards we had Mrs. Mittal, who worked with the Ministry of Commerce, and our own Mrs. Amruz, who championed that cause. We worked together, especially in the Region 7 district, and we worked with some farmers in the area in Canaries and Oslavedi, and we saw the birth of Plas Kassav. We also saw the birth of the St. Lucia network of rural women, the clusters, they were four clusters. The Bawono cluster, the Miku cluster, the Anskawet cluster in Laboui, and of course the Cannabel cluster in Canaries. The Department of Agriculture over the years emphasized the consumption of local products, and we had our tagline which is still well alive, Eat Fresh St. Lucia's Best, and we will remain with that tagline even if we have an overall tagline for St. Lucia's product. Government cannot employ everybody, but what they can do is to create the environment for agro-processors to process the produce. And there came the construction of the Fawasso processing plant in Bawono, the Aje processing plant in Miku, and of course we have the Koko fomentary also in Miku, which is soon to be opened. We were able to highlight and expose our agro-processors at our various exhibitions like World Food Day. Last year we had this big World Food Day activity at the sub at VG, and we had in excess of 60 agro-processors showcasing their products. We also had the schools because we need to work with the schools too. They did a lot of work and we have been working with them for years, especially having our cassava product exhibiting out there. I remember we went to Martinique, I led the delegation to Martinique, and we had Barron's Foods and Viking Traders. Today we have seen Barron's Foods have taken off and they are worldwide. The Minister for Agriculture, when he saw the number of agro-processors at that exhibition, called them into a meeting and wanted to find out what was happening with them. We were able to see the number of products that were being produced. They wanted a market for export. They wanted other areas where they could actually do their own processing. So a lot of things came out of this gathering. And today what we have seen, again in addition to those agro-processors, we have Highland poultry farm, we have the Gigi Farms where we are looking at our poultry, and again we need to eat fresh St. Lucia's best. I'm hoping that this lunch is not just going to be a lunch and it's going to stay here. There is need for continuity. In the Ministry of Agriculture we have a project called the Seven Crop Projects, which is we have highlighted lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, sweet pepper, pineapples, and cantaloupe. The import bill on those seven crops was very, very, very high. And I am to tell you today, in 2018 our food import bill was 367 million. In 2019 it was 374. It is soaring. However, five of those crops that we are pushing in the Ministry, there was a reduction. So at least we are seeing a dent in our food import bill when it comes to the regular crops that will grow very easily in St. Lucia. We also need, I'm hoping that at this lunch today is not going to stay here, but we are going to see the increase in the domestic market share. We are going to see an increase in local consumption. We are going to see the enhancement of our tourism industry and of course the creation of employment. We are also hoping to enhance our food and nutrition security. So moving forward, like I said, I'm hoping this lunch is not going to be in that room, but we want to see things happening. Like you heard earlier, by local, each local have been around for a while. The rebranding is important, but yes we rebrand what's going to happen after the rebranding. So moving forward, I would like to say to us here today, agriculture is our business and we need to eat fresh St. Lucia's best. Thank you. And thank you too, Mr. Sidney. We've heard so much about getting the local produce together and there's also the opportunity that we can have them exported as well. And that's why agencies like Expo St. Lucia placed apart. I'd like to call upon the Chief Executive Officer of Expo St. Lucia, Ms. Sunita Daniel, to tell us how her agency impacts on all this local St. Lucia campaign. Ms. Daniel. Thank you. Honorable Bradley Felix, Minister for Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good morning. As an economist, I can tell you that without a doubt, in small economies such as ours, the driving force is the success of small and medium-sized enterprises. It is a fact that based on the international criteria, even the companies here in St. Lucia that we perceive as big are indeed small. Let me hasten to add though that when it comes to quality, in product and service, we are just as big as any other company or any country in the world. The Love St. Lucia campaign celebrates the excellence and authenticity of St. Lucia business and highlights the contributions that those businesses make to our economy and to our communities. The goal of the campaign is to perpetuate and re-energize the culture of patriotism and accentuate the excellence of St. Lucia-based businesses, products and services. The campaign seeks to give us that feeling we get around independence when nationalism and patriotism are normally at their annual peak. The cerulean blue of our most sacred emblem, the national flag, adorns our buildings, our clothes, our vehicles, and we proudly echo, seemingly in unison, how we love St. Lucia. When asked to present these remarks on the campaign, I had to do some soul searching. I had to analyze my own shopping habits.  Although largely I buy local, in some instances I had to trustize myself. But when I look inside my heart, my love for my country, my love for St. Lucia stood out more than anything else. We're hoping that that love stands out in everybody else's hearts. Export St. Lucia currently hosts a social media series entitled Export Quality Available Locally. The message behind this series was very simple, and it was brought to the fore from the onset of the COVID-19 impact on St. Lucia. Some of the essential products recommended in the combat against this virus were available locally at the highest quality, from hand sanitizers to pasta, washing up products, and tissue, which were all in high demand. Consumption of these local products increased. And while this may have resulted from other extenuating circumstances, it is our hope that the legacy left behind by COVID will be that we realize and appreciate that what we have available between the borders of our black and white sands and our turquoise waters. Love St. Lucia provides a platform to showcase our best. The Ministry of Commerce and its affiliate agencies and other partners have put their heads together to develop this campaign. Not just a bi-local campaign, but one that reignites the St. Lucia fire and attempts to keep it burning year-round. I implore you, my dear people, to look inside. Look inside your hearts and rediscover that love for St. Lucia.  The services that tourists come to enjoy. The food, the world-class ICT services and management consultants. Boo Hingson, Teddison John, Carnival, Denry Segment, the Pitons, Pitau Bay, Bar and Foods, Chairman's Reserve, and the list goes on and on and on and on. These are all export quality available locally. Let's do it for ourselves. Let's do it for our country. Let's all love St. Lucia. Thank you. Thank you very much. This is Daniel and we know that export St. Lucia is playing a very pivotal role in taking the quality of St. Lucia's produce throughout the world. And just on cue, we have the arrival of Ms. Anne Margaret Adams, the Director of Product Development, Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting. And we invite you, madam, to come up to the podium and deliver your remarks at this morning's Love St. Lucia campaign. Thank you, everyone. Good morning. I came just in time. Let me just accept or adopt the protocol that has been established and wish everybody good morning. On behalf of the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, let me take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Commerce for spearheading this important initiative, particularly in this new environment in which we now operate. The insufficient integration of local suppliers in tourism supply chains has been recognized as an area requiring much attention, and this campaign is necessary as we believe that opportunities for linkages between tourism and the local economic landscape must be fully exploited. Moreover, the sustainability and resilience of our economy heavily depends on the quality and strength of the backward and forward linkages between tourism and the other sectors. The implementation of this campaign is expected to therefore facilitate enhancement of livelihoods and reduction of linkages while providing opportunities to build the industry's competitive advantage by offering demand-driven, authentic experiences involving the local agricultural sector, traditions and gastronomy, and other locally produced goods and services. However, this must be supported by the establishment of clear monitoring and evaluation instruments and systems to ensure that the objectives are met. A coordinated and partnership approach is therefore critical to the success of this program, and the Ministry of Tourism is committed to working with our partners towards executing Love St. Glutia and developing other strategic supporting mechanisms and policies aimed at enhancing local economic development. My final words are to simply congratulate the Ministry of Commerce in the launch of this initiative and to express that the Ministry looks forward to working with you in advancing this local agenda. Thank you very much. We just had the address by Anne Margaret Adams, Director of Product Development, Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting. And I can assure you that the Honorable Minister for Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs has been looking forward to this day because we can remember just last week during his presentation of the appropriations bill debates in the House of Parliament. He did make mention of this event that was due to take place this morning and indeed very very much into the Love St. Glutia campaign. So it gives me great pleasure now to invite the Honorable Bradley Felix, Minister for Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs to address us. Honorable Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise, Development and Consumer Affairs, Members of the Head Table, Executives, Directors, Staff of the various Government Agencies, Representatives of the Private Sector, Manufacturing Sector, Mission Rep from the Taiwan Embassy. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and of course the media NTN. Good morning. To date, St. Lucia has for the most part been spared the health ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. With 19 reported cases of which all have fully recovered and zero deaths on record, ours is among the best health records in dealing with this pandemic globally. Whilst we have been fortunate thus far in evading the worst from our health standpoint, the same is not true in referencing to the economic fallout that COVID-19 presents. As a small island developing state, St. Lucia, like its counterparts throughout the Caribbean community has been heavily impacted. The tourism and accommodation sector, the main state of the solution economy is of course among the hardest hits globally. It was among the first industries to fill the impact of this pandemic and by all likelihood will be among the last to see a return to normality post-COVID-19. Outside of tourism, much of our productive sectors have paid a heavy price in protecting the health and well-being of our citizenry as border closures, partial and full lockdowns and even the ongoing curfew periods all while necessary measures have led to a crippling of domestic industry. Adding further complication to this dire scenario are the ongoing disruptions in international trade as we see a rising cost of imports. At this time, when unprecedented levels of job loss and reduced economic activity have seen large portions of our middle class now tinkering on the verge of poverty. This economic downturn coupled with increased spending on health has of course placed a great deal of pressure on the government's fiscal position which even under normal circumstances offers limited flexibility. In framing this scenario, ladies and gentlemen, the challenge being posed is thus how can a government respond effectively to the combined threat of a health and economic crisis particularly at a time of budget scarcity? The simple answer alone we cannot. It requires the combined efforts of the public and private sectors as well as civil society. Let's do this together. The onus therefore is on the government and people of St. Lucia to join heads and hearts to stay our nation to its prosperity. Central to this effort is the need for internal reflection, patriotism and national pride as we implement measures that will bring stability to the St. Lucia economy stimulating industry while at the same time reaffirming social nets in order to protect the most vulnerable of our citizenry. We must move past an all governmental approach and into an all of St. Lucia approach as we tackle head on the issues of COVID-19 and its threats to the long-term development and prosperity of our island home. The primary objective of this campaign is twofold or are twofold. One, to float economic activity over the short term in light of the crisis in tourism and goods exports. Two, to pivot St. Lucia's economy towards long-term growth post COVID-19. In this regard and with ongoing consultation with our private sector and civil society partners a number of proposals are currently under review by the Cabinet of Ministers as we maintain a phase approach towards implementation. Under the social stabilization plan announced in April the Honourable Prime Minister had alluded to these measures some of which like the NIC and Employment Relief Program and self-employment subsistence allowance are ready into effect. Today, it gives me great honour to stand before you in unveiling our latest initiative one that is aimed at building resilience within the local economy and sensitizing our populace as to the benefits of supporting local industry and consuming what we grew. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Love St. Lucia. The underlying goal of the Love St. Lucia campaign is to build resilience in the solution economy by encouraging hobby farming maximizing the potential of local industry improving consumer awareness and increasing domestic market share of our local manufacturers and service providers. Love St. Lucia says it all. It's about supporting, encouraging and believing in our people and appreciating our goods and services. The campaign shall seek to subvert the withdrawal from the circular flow of income and wealth and redirect these resources to build our nation. In the short term, the campaign will contribute to stabilizing the local economy by cushioning the impact of reduced foreign income and decreased domestic spending power. This is achieved by pivoting towards domestic consumption ahead of imports thereby increasing the circulation of already limited currency within the economy. In the medium term, a sustained increase in domestic consumption will stare enterprises towards increasing production capacity and improving quality standards which will continue a trend of import substitution leading towards an enhanced share of this domestic market. The long term strategy afforded by this campaign is to use this enhanced domestic market share as a platform for more of our local manufacturers and service providers to venture into exports. As I mentioned exports, literally as soon as I sat this morning I got the fantastic news that Saint Lucia had actually made it as a finalist in the World Trade Awards. And this is, it was for best initiative for inclusive and sustainable trade. And the countries which were into the finals are Austria, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Spain and of course Saint Lucia. The final winner will be announced in October and I wish Saint Lucia the very best and I hope that we come out on top. I want to take the opportunity to also congratulate Export Saint Lucia for the incredible work that they have been doing in this field and I would, with your assistance, round of applause to the Executive Director. In order to achieve our objectives, the Government of Saint Lucia will ensure a more effective implementation of its procurement policies, which require government agencies to support domestic industry, in particular our micro, small and medium enterprises where the goods and services are produced or delivered locally. Now we have heard that before. Many years ago there was a cabinet conclusion asking that all procurement by government agencies which could be sourced locally be purchased locally because we have the quality. And so, you know, it's very unsettling, for example, if Baudelaire wants to purchase mattresses and you hear that Baudelaire is purchasing mattresses from Trinidad when we do produce the quality of mattresses in Saint Lucia. So a lot of this is hearsay or talk, sorry, a lot of talk, but are we really practicing it? And so there must be a level of accountability by procurement officers and I'm hoping that the permanent secretaries in the room and those who are hearing will take this very seriously. We cannot just be all about talk. We must walk the talk and support what we produce. So I just wanted to verify on this just for a little while. With this, it is our aim to direct the consumption power of the public sector more effectively towards national development. However, government procurement is but one piece of the puzzle in achieving success. We also need to support and combine consumption power of our citizens and of our business community as we lean on each other, one supporting the other, all moving in unison towards the light at the end of a dark COVID-19 tunnel. By consuming more of what we produce as a nation and conversely by producing more of what we consume, whether it be in agriculture, manufacturer or service trade, we each contribute to the development of our country. As individual consumers, we can, through our purchasing decision, bolster local industry and enhance national food security. Similarly, we can, through our individual and collective efforts, increase our nation's productivity and develop a level of self-sufficiency that will enable solution to become a more independent and economically diverse nation. This is the power of each and every solution citizen. It is in this light that we urge all solutions, regardless of gender, religion, persuasion or political persuasion to support this initiative. Support our local fishermen and farmers who venture out to the seas and to their fields while most of us are still in bed. Support our manufacturers, our bakers, our agro-processors who help maintain our food security, delivering quality time after time. Support our service professionals from the engineers and architects who help build this nation to the hairstylists, florists and artisans who help beautify it. We ask that you open your eyes in the realization that there is quality available on our island. I repeat, we ask that you open your eyes in the realization that there is quality available on our island. Quality that is worthy of our hard-earned dollar. Permit me to quote the work of noted economist and author Michael H. Schumann in saying, and I quote, Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependent on imports. I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen, if you go only by the square mile count or by population, then St. Lucia is indeed a very tiny island. But if you consider the wealth of our culture, the resilience of our people and the strength of our will, make no mistake, we are a great nation. One that has stood before in the face of crisis and overcome. One that will now stand before this COVID-19 crisis and again overcome. In urging your support, I am reminded of the worlds of our national anthem where one line in particular grabs at me. Wheresoever you may roam, love or love our island home. Ladies and gentlemen, let's support and appreciate what's ours. Love, St. Lucia. Say, Sanu. I thank you. Thank you very much, Minister Bradley Felix, for those very inspiring words. And like you, I'd like to echo the wish that St. Lucia will be very successful in the announcement of the winners of that competition due to be announced in October. Well, just like many campaigns, the Love, St. Lucia campaign carries with it a logo. And right now we're going to have the unveiling of the logo via a pre-recorded video. So let's have the unveiling of the video, the pre-recorded video. A doctor of finance. So that is my second calling. And it is from Art that I get my peace and quiet from that financial aspect of my job. I've been doing the St. Lucia Taiwanese show for the past four years, of course, showing my artwork. And then I was called upon to do that piece for the Ministry of Commerce. Of course I was excited because I've never done a piece like that. Normally it would be my own creation and then I let others enjoy it. And with this St. Lucia flag, I wanted to give respect to the designer so I wanted to get the colors right. Now the background was supposed to be white. And I didn't want it to clash, which is the Tumali's clash with the white inside the heart. So I had to do the background last, which is not normal for me. Normally the first thing I paint would be my background. But in this case I had to leave it last and then do the heart. And then with the white for the background, I had to make sure that white was different from the white inside the heart. So I gave it a little bit of blue, which shows as a reflection in the white. And that is how I got this piece going. I hold this piece very dear to my heart because the St. Lucia flag is very important to me and I hope it is to all St. Lucia's. And the focus remains on supporting St. Lucia with its local products and services. And now the big moment, not necessarily a drum roll, but we're going to actually have an unveiling right here in the room. Thanks to Rufan Philipp and Sir Marvin St. Louis. Ladies and gentlemen, right before your eyes, the Love St. Lucia campaign logo just unveiled and to just give you a brief description on the logo just to back up what Dr. Isaac just told us. Since the brand St. Lucia has been approved by the government to market the island as a whole, adopting it for the Love St. Lucia campaign will help with promoting national pride and increase in local consumption of local products and services. Using the brand could simultaneously increase visitor patronage since it would be familiar to them. St. Lucia is regarded as having a premier tourism product. Thus, the St. Lucia brand would evoke a similar sentiment towards locally produced goods and services. The yellow heart shape is meant to mimic the hands heart shape which has gained recognition and popularity worldwide. This hand heart shape that encloses the flag symbolizes that we should love St. Lucia, love what is ours, say Sanu. Ladies and gentlemen, the logo for the Love St. Lucia campaign. And as we continue with our program, we now invite the executive director of the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, Mrs. Paula James, to address us. Mrs. James. Good morning all. I would like to adopt protocol which has already been established. On behalf of the executive and members of the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, it is a pleasure to participate in this rebranding of the Bi-Local campaign. New theme being Love St. Lucia. As it is an avenue for local manufactured products to be showcased. During COVID-19, it was quite evident that local products was of high importance to St. Lucia as it became very urgent for us to ensure that of our food security. St. Lucia should be proud of the quality of products manufactured locally as they meet international standards. We in the LECs, which is the OECS, have been given the opportunity by Caracum through Article 164 to expand and grow our high quality products regionally, thus increasing our market share. Out of the 24 items in this regime, four are essential to our food security and two are vital to our sustainability of our health sector. This has been in existence for the past nine years and in 2020, a further renewal was granted to include three more item products. We are therefore encouraging all St. Lucia to become a part of this Love St. Lucia campaign in an effort to support the growth and development of our economy. As this will mean more jobs for St. Lucia and our foreign currency will remain in St. Lucia, thus helping the GDP of our country to grow. I thank you. And we would also like to announce that the design of the logo was done by Mr. Danny Mooney of Expo St. Lucia. A round of applause for him, please. The Executive Director of the St. Lucia Coalition of Services Industries, Ms. Yvonne A-Gard was with us very early this morning. She had been very patient with us in being able to get our thoughts together. We now invite her to deliver her remarks. The Executive Director of St. Lucia Coalition of Services Industries, Ms. Yvonne A-Gard. Honourable Bradley Felix, Minister in the Ministry of Commerce, International Trade Investment Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good morning. The adage reminds us that charity begins at home. COVID-19 has driven home the lesson in that statement. The Love St. Lucia campaign is not about charity, it's about supporting our own. We are building the fresh to market goods and services that we produce and becoming more self-sustaining as a people, as a nation. This initiative is a movement that should be sustained long after COVID to ensure that our service providers are considered first and foremost in the procurement of goods and services. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the opportunities have been created, not least of which is the ingenuity of local farmers to package local produce for delivery to customers or the making of trendy and fashionable face masks by local seamstresses. The Love St. Lucia movement is seeking to change the perception of our micro and small businesses. It's educating consumers about the difference locally owned businesses make in their community and in our country. It's about uniting small businesses to embrace competition and succeed by creating a mindset among consumers that homegrown is our own. It's authentic, it's original, it's fresh, it's healthier, it's better. The Love St. Lucia campaign shines the spotlight on our small businesses. The measurable difference in their communities and consumers are paying attention. Whether or not you choose to get involved in the Love St. Lucia movement, your business will likely benefit from it. So we encourage you to get on board right now. A National Services Policy and Strategy and Action Plan was adopted by the Government of St. Lucia in 2017. One of its main objectives is to create the enabling environment to stimulate the development of four key services sector, namely professional services, health and wellness, ICT and creative industries. One of the core elements of the policy is the promotion of services across all government entities and the private sector. The Love St. Lucia concept is an initiative that can support and enforce that recommendation. As government ministries make full use of the competence and capabilities within St. Lucia, for this to be effective, we have to ensure equity and competitiveness in the procurement of goods and services within government. This can begin by the development of procurement policies and enacting of legislation so that service providers feel confident in the system. At SLCSI, we would like to see a policy direction that would, as far as its practical, see the demonstrated procurement of services from local service providers. Procurement of services from external sources results in flight of capital, does not engender confidence in, nor support the growth of local service providers. Wherever possible, local firms should be encouraged to collaborate to build capacity and synergy and achieve economies of scale. St. Lucia has a wide spectrum of service providers. Under business services, you have your architects, your engineers, management consultants, accountants who understand our local context and are very capable of providing solutions to the current challenges brought on by COVID and beyond. For example, they would assist remodeling, strategic planning and building resilience. Our competent professionals in the ICT sector can assist our SMEs transitioning to digital platform and provide services online. Not only to the domestic market, but to the rest of the world, creating more adept, efficient and profitable business through the use of technology. Let's support our practitioners in the cultural industries. Instead of downloading free music from YouTube, let's pay the 99 cents to download and consume their music. Let's start reading or buying the work of our local writers and encourage our families to do so. For example, don't books with her peanut series, the use of local animation as communication tools to reach audiences with our message. Let us utilize the services of our indigenous diaspora and wellness centers to improve our health and well-being. By engaging these professionals, the money remains in St. Lucia and circulates within our economy. That way, we can be assured of the trickle-down effect of our dollar, which can be measured and traced. Our SMEs, they purchase local raw materials, they create employment, they pay taxes, and they keep our economy going. Most of our service providers are certified in the field of expertise, and they do meet national, regional and international standards and have provided services to regional and international clients. The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards has been working assiduously with our local service providers in assisting them in meeting those standards. St. Lucia has over 400 national standards which are available for local producers, service providers and manufacturers to access and use. Additionally, they have access to over 30,000 standards through international affiliations. Almost every sector or business process can get support through available standards. Whereas standard does not exist, there is opportunity for development or adoption. Standards are considered the best practice for business or process improvement, cost savings, quality assurance and more. Standard give an advantage having documented the practical application of what should be done for a product or service joined from the expertise of the best mind in an industry or sector. The SLCSI, which is the private sector umbrella organization for the service sector, welcomed this initiative to shine the spotlight on our service industry and their contribution to national development. The many capacity-building and policy initiative supported by the SLCSI is testament of its commitment to grow the St. Lucia services sector. The Love St. Lucia campaign provides an opportunity for us to collect valuable baseline data to measure effectively the impact and contribution of local spend, which can assist in more focused policy formulation and dedicated support for our local MSME sector. I thank you. Now that we've seen why these persons were seated at the head table, we move into the next aspect of our program. We're going to listen to a jingle. There's no collage, but we're going to have the jingle followed by the display of prizes that are going to be viewed. A little earlier, so let's have the jingle, please. I've been given a task of displaying the prizes that are going to be up for grabs by the members of the public, the giveaways to the public and the viewers with their 13, and we're hoping that we can get a pan and get a lovely shot of those products that are going to be available. 13 handmade creations from our talented entrepreneurs and artisans. I'll re-wait to get the shot. Okay. And the businesses are not med-limited, Christy creations, illuminating designs, ACR wines, health nuts, Frances Robb, Fudgies, Sayana yoga, Caribbean hand-crafted soaps, Vells multi-services limited, Wireworlds, Viola's interior designs, and Abbey's exotic blends. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure there's some names that you might not have been too familiar with and certainly an ideal opportunity to get familiar with them. The first 12 persons to comment on what the Love Saint Lucia campaign means to them, under the live stream with the hashtag Love Saint Lucia, say Sanu will win a prize. The Ministry of Commerce will be contacting the winners of the prizes following the launch. All winners will be photographed with their prizes. Very interesting. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had quite an interesting morning and we've been inspired and even brought up to date a number of local entrepreneurs and artisans. We've come to the point where we're going to have some closing remarks. I'm Mrs. Leander, colleague, business development officer, Ministry of Commerce, international trade, investment, enterprise development, and consumer affairs. Good morning. Let me adopt the protocol as already established. Today's launch signals the beginning of a long and exciting journey for the people of Saint Lucia, especially owners of micro, small and medium enterprises and the final consumers of their products and services. We trust that you would understand the importance of supporting our very own MSMEs and dispel the myth that Saint Lucia products and services are inferior. In Saint Lucia, we have our very own industry leaders like Barron Foods, winning two silver medals at the mode selection 2019 Quality Awards for its banana ketchup and sweet chili Thai sauce products. Algas Organics, the Caribbean's first indigenous agricultural biotech manufacturing company founded on our beautiful island of Saint Lucia, owned by Joan and Dujo. 3D printing business by Coyote James, a birding young entrepreneur who has been able to meet the challenges of COVID-19 and adopted his process to produce the much needed personal protective equipment, face shields for frontline workers. There are many more successful entrepreneurs delivering world-class products and services right here in Saint Lucia. Remember, when you support homegrown business, you are not only supporting the dreams of our own people, but you are helping to create and sustain employment. You are helping a mother or father to put food on the table, a family to pay rent or mortgage, a child to get much needed school supplies. When you spend $1 in a local business, it is recirculated in the economy and overall this leads to increased economic activity. Given the benefits of supporting our own, we encourage you to participate in the upcoming activities which will be outlined in a calendar of activity events. This calendar is a collaboration of activities of all public and private sector partners providing us with a reminder that the campaign doesn't stop with the launch. Supporting our own is the way to go, especially in the face of COVID-19. When we need to generate the level of economic activity required for our sustainability, let us not only support the upcoming activities, but let this be our lifestyle, our motto, our modest operandi. As we all know, love begins at home. So let the love-solution mindset be instilled in everything that you do. Eat, breathe, sleep, explore, experience everything-solution. Love-solution. Say, Sanu. I thank you. And what a wonderful reminder for us as we have come to the end of our program. Based on the time we started on the allotted time that you had for this program, I think we've well within our time. So I'd like to thank all of those who came to the lecture and spoke and for all the organizers for helping us achieve that target. But I have a couple of minutes that I can use up just to ensure that we use the proper time. I've been inspired to continue additionally and play my own part because I know that most of us there are in one way or the other at some point in time where your fingers are green or not. That we try to plan something along the way whether it's in our balconies, a backyard which is the most space. But I'm sure that having followed this program today we are much more convinced that Sanucia will benefit from this and the love-solution campaign can only kick off and continue in a way that you want and as I was reminded so many years ago in the supermarket that we need to make choices that would benefit overall COVID-19 and definitely reassured us that we need to keep everything as much as possible within the shores of Sanucia because you'll notice what has happened and what we've been forced to do in terms of becoming self-reliant as much as we can. So I think the campaign the love-solution campaign will continue to show us that light and I'm happy that you were able to be here this morning to share all the values of such a campaign. I'd like to thank members from the ministry who gave me this opportunity to be with you this morning and just one final comment as we close we're going to have some refreshments we understand that we're going to head towards that door to my left and I've also been advised that we should pay the compliment to members at the head table and to allow them to exit first towards the refreshment area so on behalf of all of us here including the ministry I'd like to thank the hard-working staff of the Government Information Service and the National Television Network for this launch live this morning and also live stream. Ladies and gentlemen, we continue to implore that you love St. Lucia follow the campaign and that you have a very pleasant day. We love St. Lucia campaign official launch has just concluded and it begins rebranding of our by-local promotion here in St. Lucia we've seen that the by-local was being pushed by some steam admittedly in the last few years and it is hoped that with this love St. Lucia campaign we can resuscitate this vigorous approach to letting the public know the benefits of purchasing and supporting local businesses whether it be manufacturers or taking advantage of services that are locally based and so we've just seen the launch of St. Lucia campaign this morning markets in your calendar 30th of June 2020 here still hoping in the next few months next few years we can begin to see the effects of this new this new input into us trying to stimulate the economy at this time we know the lifeline that was tourism is we don't know what's happening with it as yet with what is going on globally in the world but to COVID-19 and at this time we did hear the Prime Minister acknowledging that aspects like the construction manufacturing being looked to to help sustain the economy and keep the economy afloat at this time and so a part of the stimulating the economy is part of the government's economic recovery and the resilience plan and we do hope that we see more and more businesses themselves not only the general public but more businesses coming on board supporting the movement joining the movement because it will all go well for them as well and this morning we did see the Minister for Commerce International Trade Investment Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs speaking on the benefits of this rebranded by local campaign the love St. Lucia campaign the now love St. Lucia campaign and we also saw the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association Representative and the person of Executive Director Ms. Paula James as well as the St. Lucia Coalition of Service Industries the Executive Director Ms. Yvonne Agard throwing their support behind the love of St. Lucia campaign the launch of the logo the unveiling of the logo we saw with the Dr. Veronica Isaac and she painted the logo as well as hello as well as the jingle that was released I think we should get the names of the two artists who penned and produced the jingle for the love St. Lucia campaign all efforts all hands on their creative and otherwise multi-sectoral approach to ensuring that St. Lucia can still float and rebound from the effects of COVID-19 as promoting what is our own. Yes, thank you so much we are very happy to have the St. Administrations in Angiola Point Serofin and we have also come here to support local service business and be careful if you buy a lot of money because you don't have money to sell here but we are from different sectors these people here who have developed their skills, we have come here and we have a symbol that has been used for consideration and it is a symbol that symbolizes our own attention and symbolizes our own chain and it is a symbol that has been used for the love of St. Lucia and we are here to help our own and to make our own friends and friends of St. Lucia and we have come here to support local service business and St. Lucia and we are here to support people who have been eating here and people who have been far away who have been here and the last evening we came here to help people and we have come here to support local service business and we have come here 9 people who have already supported the local services. And it's the same with our people. If we continue, as I said, it's not just today, but if we continue because of COVID-19, we have the direction we want to go. We have the support of the local people. If they want to come to the economy, we have the support of the local people. Absolutely. Another silver lining of the COVID-19 reality that we've had to face. The fast-tracking of construction activity, the fast-tracking of many of the plans that have long been in the pipelines. But now that we've seen, we need to stimulate the economy. We need to get other sectors going to fill the gap of the tourism sector. Absolutely. At this time, we do see this bi-local, rebranded bi-local campaign, the new title dubbed Love St. Lucia campaign coming into effect. It's all the time we have for now. We'd like to thank you so much for tuning in for those of you who watched for the entire duration of this morning's launch. Thank you so much. Do stay tuned for more updates on the Love St. Lucia campaign, how it evolves. I'm interested in seeing how it will evolve going forward. So stay tuned for that as well. We're signing off for now. Jesse Layons, Carlton Cyril signing off for now. But do stay tuned for more NTN programming coming up.


Now, with no functional people mill in Nigeria, Ugunstate government and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry are close to concluding plans to work at Mundatas to establish a paper mill. This is in order to boost paper production for legal consumption and exportation. The synergy will be based on equity participation arrangement in which Ugunstate is expected to allocate 20 hectares of land as its contribution to the investment. Mewa, the chairperson of LCCI's printing, publishing, and allied group Lioqiu women seemed that the demand for paper and printing had been predicted to increase tremendously. He called on stakeholders to respond actively to the anticipated demand. As we all know, the potentials of the Nigerian paper and port printing, publishing, and packaging sector in Nigeria has been significantly underutilized and this has had an aggressive impact on economic growth and development in the country. The challenges between this sector, among others, include issues with infrastructure, heavy reliance on importation of raw materials and various inputs required, and we know that this means that a significant percentage of the production cost is still exposed and vulnerable to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. While demand for paper and paper products related in Nigeria has grown widely and has been born to more than 3 million metric tons annually, its total capacity is at 200 million tons, thereby making importation of raw material a finished product in a vegetable. Currently, Nigeria currently demands for paper is being imported with scarce foreign exchange due to inadequate capacity, weak production, based on lack of investment.


Bon dia, OpenStack. Donem la beminguda a Jonathan Brice. Good morning, OpenStack. Please welcome Jonathan Brice. Well, good morning again, everyone. Thank you for coming back for day two of the OpenStack Summit here in Barcelona. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their time here and having a good summit. I know that there are a couple things I wanted to mention before we kind of start the morning. First of all, there were some bugs in the iOS app that you might have seen if you are an iOS user. Those are fixed and a new version has been pushed. So please update your app and get the latest version to get all of that functionality back. And also, I know that there were some issues with lunch yesterday. I think in some of the locations, we were running a little low on food. I think in one of the other locations, they were giving out lots of food. So we're going to work on balancing the load a little better today. Try to make some adjustments. So bear with us. Thankfully, there are a lot of options right around these venues here. So you can always go enjoy the city and see a little bit of what's out there. I think, though, that maybe the most talked-about thing that I've heard so far is, what's up with the pigeon? Everybody keeps asking about the pigeon. So the pigeon's name is Milo, or I guess, you know, Milo, if you were going to pronounce it in Spanish. And the truth is that I don't actually know exactly what the pigeon's story is. So, you know, you can create your own or maybe find Todd Morey and Wes Wilson who are our design team and try to nail them down on an answer about what the pigeon is here for. So yesterday, Mark talked a lot about workloads that are running on top of OpenStack and how OpenStack is really powering work that matters across a variety of industries. And I thought it was really cool to see the demos on stage, to hear from the users who are running different production workloads. The thing that is interesting about that is, you know, they are all finding great utility and basically using private clouds and single clouds for most of those use cases. And they are able to move more quickly in their business to do software development, to do data analysis. They are able to save money. They're able to, you know, deliver better value to their business from their technology. And that's, you know, again, mostly in kind of a single cloud scenario. But I think that as we look to the trends that we're starting to see really develop, one of the things that I think a lot of people are talking about is multi-cloud. And the future, I believe 100%, is absolutely going to be multi-cloud.  Hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, what do they mean? I want to talk a little bit about that today. And we're going to do some more demos and try to not just talk about it, but also show what it means. But to set the stage a little bit, I want to talk about some of the things that are driving this cloud usage and especially the need for actual true multi-cloud capacity in the world. When we were closing the day yesterday, we had some really, really interesting sessions from some different scientists. Tim Bell from CERN, Dr. Rosie Bolton, who's working on the Square Kilometer Array. Paul Kajaya who talked about bioinformatics and genomics and doing work on the cloud. And those are interesting use cases for what they represent in terms of research, in terms of knowledge that we are just starting to uncover. But to me, the thing that really struck me was the scale. You know, they're talking about incredible scale. And I think that an interesting thing that I heard as I listened to their talks is scale is not just about the number of servers that you have, but it's about the scope of the problem that you're trying to solve. Mark yesterday, he said that software is how we solve problems now. And the infrastructure that that software runs on is critical to enabling us to be able to solve new problems, to be able to do new things and really innovate in new ways. The Square Kilometer Array, this is just a fascinating project. I was able to go to Cambridge and talk with some of the researchers there and some of the IT team who are putting together the infrastructure and the plan to build this out over the next few years. And it was really mind-blowing for me, some of the numbers that they were talking about and also the capability that we're going to get from that. A few years ago, Eric Schmidt talked about how since the dawn of time, humanity had created about 5,000 petabytes of data.  When you're talking about five or 6,000 years, you know, I think that an argument about 10 years is a little moot. But, you know, the point is that this was a lot of data that we had created as civilization had kind of come about. But what he was saying was, you know, in 2010, we were actually creating 5,000 petabytes every two days collectively as a species. The Square Kilometer Array, when it goes online, will be generating 5,000 petabytes every day. 5,000 petabytes every single day. And that's what they have to process and down sample and then, you know, ship around for research and to share across these different institutions that are participating in the Square Kilometer Array.  That is an incredible growth curve. But what I found even more striking was as the Square Kilometer Array goes online, it's going to be in South Africa and Western Australia.  So the infrastructure and the compute components are actually a vital piece of the scientific instrument itself. And this is, to me, what defines, you know, kind of the cloud app era that we're in now. It's not just about running something on a server somewhere that's not in your data center or, you know, in an automated way. It's really about tying the infrastructure and the software together to get the capability to work on these kinds of problems. And as they finish that deployment and get it rolled out by seven years, you know, after they've launched this, the Square Kilometer Array will be generating 100,000 petabytes of data each day. When they launched it, Rosie said that they needed half an exoflop of computing. And when they get to this point, they're going to need multiple exoflops of computing to be able to process that, turn it into data that can be shipped to multiple clouds and then studied and used for research. So that, you know, is amazing scale, incredible scale. Another thing that we saw yesterday was a demo of a mobile phone call, you know, an NFV workload. And we have a lot of telecom usage. Super user yesterday. The award went to China Mobile. Another large telecom in China is China Telecom. And I heard a development from them recently that, again, really struck me. They recently brought online two new data centers. And the combined space of those data centers is 2 million square meters. 2 million square meters. You know, we're in Europe, so square meters are a common form of measurement here. I'm from Texas. We don't use meters as much. I like to think in terms of acres. So some of you may know that I have a little ranch in East Texas. This is actually a picture of it. You know, it's got a pasture. It's actually three pastures. It has a lake, some ponds. It has horses, dogs, cats. You know, it's Texas. Everybody has a ranch, right? But my ranch is just under 100 acres. So I was like, okay, 2 million square meters. What would that be in acres? How would that compare to my ranch? 2 million square meters is actually 497 acres. So it's basically like five times the size of this ranch. And, you know, their plan, as they roll that out, is to basically, you know, get to the point where OpenStack is controlling the infrastructure that's in that environment as they bring these data centers online and fill it up. So, you know, that is a lot of servers. They are not going to be able to manage those like pets. They're going to have to manage them like cattle, just like the ranch. But, you know, the thing that I see here is we've got two applications only that I'm talking about at this incredible scale. I saw a tweet yesterday from Ben Keeps. Ben is from New Zealand, and he always likes us to mention New Zealand because, you know, we do have community members down there, but sometimes it shows up really small on the maps that we put. But Ben tweeted yesterday about a presentation or a comment from Annie Lai's presentation. And in his tweet, he said that Deng Feng Motors, a car company never heard of, made four million cars last year and runs their IT on OpenStack. And, you know, as I travel around and I get to visit different places where we have OpenStack meetups, OpenStack users, I'm constantly amazed by how many of these kinds of uses are out there already. And then, you know, things like the square kilometer array that are coming online really just blow my mind because no matter how big I think it is, no matter how much I think the potential for the technology that we're building is, it's actually bigger than that. And that's what I am just constantly seeing as we continue on this journey with OpenStack. And when we look at things like the square kilometer array, when we look at the bioinformatics uses, the other thing that strikes me is that, you know, we're in a position where in order to enable these, we have to keep doing things to push the edge on technology because they need capacity, they need capabilities that we don't have right now. You know, how many of you have an exoflop computer? No one. However, sometimes when people look at this, they go, okay, so that's a great opportunity. Who's going to win? Who are the winners and losers going to be? To me, that is totally the wrong question to ask because what we're talking about here is not just a single market that's going to be decided by a couple of companies. Again, just these use cases that we're talking about, the square kilometer array, millions of square feet of data center space, it's not something that any single company, any single country, any single institution, even a single community like ours can take on. But that's okay because computing is something that it really pushes us forward as a planet overall. The more access we have to computing, the faster we can move, the more research we can do, the more industries we open up, and it's really a positive sum game. Earlier this year, Sam Ramsey talked about how open source is a positive sum game, and I think that people, you know, they can comprehend that because open source inherently has a collaborative aspect to it. Sometimes when people look at cloud computing, they see that as just straight up competitive capitalism. But I think that when you see how critical computing is to the future of our species and to what we are going to accomplish together, you realize that computing is also a positive sum game, and this insane appetite that we have for it only grows and grows and grows. One example of that that I think is interesting that we've seen develop here in Europe just in the last 18 months is with the public cloud market. Again, you know, people think public cloud, it's something that is going to be totally dominated perhaps by a couple of hyperscale providers. But, you know, if you look here just in Europe, we have 15 public clouds with over 20 different regions that are powered by OpenStack, and a lot of those have come online in just the last, you know, 12 to 18 months. And we're going to dive into this a little bit more in just a few minutes. But, you know, this is a situation where, you know, these companies are offering services that are bringing new users into the cloud because they are meeting regulatory requirements, they're meeting data privacy requirements that have to be met and that were not being met by the public cloud before. So by doing that, you know, this is that positive sum game where it's bringing more companies into the cloud fold. And that to me is the opportunity that we have. And as a community, we're already doing big things in this and I think we can keep doing that. So as we think about that, I just want to mention three things that I think we should focus on in OpenStack in terms of our role in helping to drive forward this positive sum cloud game. So the first thing I think is really critical is we have to keep innovating. You know, we started out bringing basic compute and object storage as cloud services and an open source development and delivery model. And since then, we've added a lot of other capabilities and a lot of other technologies. And, you know, that is awesome. That's great. But we have to keep doing that. We have to use what I think is our real strength and that is that we've created this competitive marketplace of ideas where people can come and develop implementations and see in the real world who uses them, how do they shake out, which ones attract contributors, and grow from there. And as we look at these use cases like the Square Kilometer Array or NFV, we heard yesterday about some of the projects that have enabled the level of reliability that you need to run a voice phone call. You know, those are great innovations that we've done. We've got to keep doing that to meet these new use cases. Sometimes when I say that, people go, okay, so you just want OpenStack to do everything. But that's not at all what I think. You know, the second point is that we always have to look for opportunities to collaborate. At the Austin Summit, Mark Collier and his keynote, he talked about collaborate or die. And he talked about the concept of a lamp stack for the cloud.  They were developed by different teams, different communities. There were some licensed differences. It wasn't just one kind of monolithic package. But you put them together and they created something that was incredibly powerful and really changed the worldwide web from being a bunch of static content into the dynamic thing that we know of today. And that changed every industry. It changed the way that we interact with each other. It changed the way that we do business. And I think that, you know, we are on the cusp of seeing another wave of innovation based on cloud technologies. But we have to do a better job of combining these technologies and giving people the ability to use them together in new ways. Ultimately, you know, users, they don't care so much about what the technology is or where it came from.  And OpenStack is solving a lot of problems and solving a lot of needs, but there are also other technologies out there like Cloud Foundry and OPNFV and Kubernetes and Mezos and others that, you know, solve an even broader set of problems. And together, that, I think, is when we can deliver the most value for users. So, again, you know, thinking back to that whole win, lose, zero-sum game, positive-sum game, to me, if we get caught up in trying to compete for how the world exists today, we're going to miss the opportunity of the future that is so much bigger than, you know, what we can imagine right now. The third thing is less about technology and more about the culture. And that is that we have to make it easier to replicate the successes that we're seeing. We heard from some users yesterday, like Sky, who is delivering, you know, mobile or web streaming. They are doing internal application development. They're running enterprise applications. They're doing all of this, and they're having a lot of success with it. But, you know, what we have to do is figure out how to take the knowledge that they've learned when we see successful combinations of these technologies. We have to make it easier to replicate that. And this is, again, I think, primarily a cultural thing. The shift to multicloud and even cloud, you know, single-cloud, is a big change for a lot of organizations. And it's a big change for developers. It is a big change for administrators. It's a big change for the finance of IT. And so, you know, to that end, at the OpenStack Foundation, we have started to publish a lot of material that comes from users and is developed by users to explain what they've gone through on their cloud journeys and to try to help other people succeed on that same journey. Mark mentioned yesterday the reference architectures that we've started to publish. They give a lot more detail about how people are successfully delivering big data or web applications or whatever it might be. If you go to OpenStack.org slash Enterprise, there are also some books that we've started writing collaboratively in the community that cover cultural change and what's going on inside of organizations as they adopt these technologies. And to me, again, this is not just about OpenStack, but this is about helping all of us to understand how to make these shifts so we can take advantage of these technologies and we can go seize those 100,000 petabyte a day opportunities and really move things forward. So when you look at that, when you look at the scale, when you look at the variety, I think that, to me, it's very clear that the future is going to be multi-cloud. I said I wasn't just going to talk about it though. So what does multi-cloud look like? What does multi-cloud feel like as you are interacting with it and working with it? How do you go about doing that? Well, we're going to do a demo now. And this is a bold claim. I have to admit that I have nothing that I can say concretely backs this up, but, you know, I'm going to say it anyway. The world's largest multi-cloud automated CI CD system does thousands of jobs an hour, 1.7 million test jobs in the last six months. It does this distributed across 12 different regions, uses 10 to 20,000 VMs a day. Does it all only using OpenStack APIs?  This is the infra testing system that we use to do our production development process for OpenStack. So this is a very important system.  And it does this for a massively distributed team of thousands of developers who are working all day, every day, all year long. So a very critical system for us, but also for everybody who depends on OpenStack.