Good morning everyone and welcome to the press briefing for the launching of our 30th Independence Anniversary Celebrations. I will ask you to please rise for the playing of the National Anthem. Please, you may sign yourselves in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this new day. We thank you for the grace to be alive. We thank you that we have health and strength. And even as we are coming here today to launch our Independence 38 celebration activities, Father, we ask that you will bless us. Bless the proceedings here today. And I pray that everything will be done to your honor and your glory. That we will truly be able to celebrate our existence as a nation. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for keeping us throughout so many trials. Father, we thank you for victories. We thank you for everything, Lord. And we thank you for the peace that you have granted in our nation. Lord, we bless you and we ask that you continue to be with us and continue to guide us. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much, Mr. Frederick. Everyone, please be seated. Once again, a pleasant good morning to everyone. My name is Nicole Magdal. I'm the Senior Communications Officer for the government. Thank you very much to the members of the media for being with us here this morning in such large numbers for this press briefing. I would like to take the opportunity to also thank the members of the Independence Committee who are here this morning. I know you guys have been working very hard over the last few weeks to ensure that we have a calendar of events that we can be proud of for our 30th Independence celebrations. I would now like to introduce our esteemed guests here this morning. We have the Honorable Fortuna Belrose, who's our Minister in the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Empowerment, Youth Development, Sports, Culture, and Local Government. Good morning. We also have with us the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Local Government, Mr. Donovan Williams. We would now like to head straight into our presentations this morning. We will start with some opening remarks from the Minister, Honorable Fortuna Belrose. Minister. Thank you very much, Nicole. And then, Secretary, within the Ministry of the Department of Local Government and Culture, ladies and gentlemen, sons and daughters of St. Lucia, it is the 30th anniversary of Independence. As I said, 38, my thoughts are racing through my mind, and I trust that you too will engage in your own reflection on what this significant occasion means. As citizens of Fair Helen, we must all be concerned about where our country is, where it is headed, and most importantly, the role that we each must play and can play in keeping it on track. For us St. Lucia's, the proud children of Jabhatis Bidow, Flo Gaya, George Charles, Sir Arthur Lewis, Sir Alan Louisie, George Odlam, Sir John Compton, Dame Cessen Descartes, Sir Dwight Venner, and oh yes, Roddy and Sir Derek Walcott. Independence is a time when we unite. When we put our differences aside and focus on the things that make us unique and hard-called Lucian, the things we share, the things we care about, the things we are passionate about, like striving against all odds to be the best that we can be, being leaders and not my followers, giving off our self to help others, providing for our families and sharing the little that we have with our neighbors. And above all, respecting each other and holding on to the old adage, doing unto others as we would have them do unto us. It is these basic values of caring, loving, sharing, and giving that helps us define our solution-ness. And it is those very attributes we need to propel our country forward. As they keep us in constant, in a constant proactive state, ever conscious of our space and focus on achieving greatness. The reality is, some of us are not in that place where peace and tranquility reign supreme. For many, there is chaos and disharmony. For those who may feel that disconnect, this is the time for rethink on what being St. Lucian truly is. This year, under the chairmanship of Mr. Donovan Williams, we have created an abundance of opportunities for you to engage, to learn and to get the right orientation about us, Lucians, about our history and about our heritage as a people. So you can truly evaluate where you are and rethink how you can become even more meaningfully involved in the development of your country. Our programs cover events across the country, across the length and breadth of our country, catering to families, communities, and organizations. I therefore challenge every St. Lucian to let your passion for your country, that place that gave you both, reverberate across Fair Helen during the celebrations. Participate because it's your right. Participate because it's your business and it's your opportunity to make a statement as a St. Lucian who want to be counted. A proud St. Lucian. You see, to move St. Lucian, we all must act and there is no better time than now. Our celebrations this year will be underpinned by a focus on spirituality, recognizing the supremacy of God, the almighty creator, maker, and a friend. And that we can only celebrate 38 years because of his goodness and his mercy towards all of us. I also wish to note that this year's celebration coincides with two important milestones in our history. The 50th anniversary of our flag, which was designed by Honorable Dunstan Centoma on the attainment of Statue in 1967, and the 50th anniversary of the elevation of the city of Castries as a city. This provides us with an opportunity to infuse these two within our overall celebrations and our learning. As you know, our government recently established an events company to oversee the organization and delivery of all major national events and festivals. It was too soon to include independence in its portfolio of events this year, but the organization of the independence activities from next year will certainly be the responsibility of that organization. In addition, the institution, of course, will have even more time to prepare and engage and ensure that we deliver a quality product and even better quality product next year for independence. But the key to the successful delivery of our independence programs this year, my friends, sons and daughters of Sinusia, is the extent to which you as citizens, as organizations, participate in the program of activities that is planned. So I urge you to become involved. I urge you to embrace the celebrations as it is ours. Let us participate, let us make it relevant, and let us enjoy it. I thank you. It is a very fitting positive message as we begin our 30th celebrations. We're already a little bit into February, so I'm sure there's a lot of people already celebrating. I think our diaspora has already begun their activities. I want to thank you also for the history lesson you just gave us in terms of our national flag and in terms of the City of Castries. This is definitely information that our young people should know and all solutions should know and I hope that there is some kind of trivia exercise in some of the activities. Speaking of the activities, we have now our permanent secretary in the Department of Culture and Local Government to give you an overview of the activities and of course to also launch the theme and the logo for independence. Mr. Don van Williams. Thank you very much. Minister of Culture and Local Government, Junabel Rose. Members of the Independence Committee. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Good morning. Our task as a committee was I think very, very simple and it was underpinned by one overriding philosophy. We really had to make independence truly engaging for all of our citizens. We wanted to ensure that independence was not business as usual. Something that happens and then quickly forgotten as we go through our daily routines, etc. We wanted our citizens to be and to feel part of the celebrations and so it meant for us looking very critically at what we did traditionally to see how we could do it better and also to introduce new, different, there I say exciting events that could capture the attention of persons who previously would not have wanted to have been part of this activity. And so starting with the theme, we had many a discussion, many a debate about what that theme should be. There were persons who felt that there was no need for a theme. There were others who thought that our theme should be so designed as to have people really thinking. I think generally we agreed on a couple of characteristics of how this theme should be manifested. First, it should be basic, not too long, not too unwieldy, not too difficult for people to take in and understand. Secondly, it certainly should be one that could and should engage people and engage people, engage different groups in our society but also at different levels. Also we felt that the theme for it to be truly relevant had to be a statement of intent, had to be an opportunity to reflect, had to be an avenue for discussion and discourse and had to allow our people to give different perspectives on it and to show it in different ways. And so we needed a theme that would take all of those boxes. That actually came down to two. And again, we had a lot of discussion and debate about those two. The first, again very simple, I am St. Lucian. If you think about it, it does take all of the boxes because it's an affirmation of who we are. It provides us with an opportunity to articulate and showcase our St. Lucianness as Minister highlighted. But it also provides us with a platform to question what it is to be a St. Lucian and what are the characteristics of a St. Lucian. But in the final analysis, in our discussions and deliberations, we made a slight variation to that theme. And so the theme that we have selected for the 30th anniversary is I am St. Lucia. I am St. Lucia. And again, if you reflect on that theme, it takes all of the previous characteristics that I described. But I think the one central difference is the point that it wants to make to all of us and the point that we should keep with us beyond this period of celebration but throughout the year and throughout the years. Ultimately, St. Lucia is what we individually and collectively make of it. And so when we say I am St. Lucia, if we contribute to the positives, we will have a positive St. Lucia. If we contribute to the negatives, we will have a negative St. Lucia. And the time is right for us to have a serious discussion and dialogue about what we want St. Lucia to be. And to use independence to broaden that dialogue, to use independence to get the views of the diverse sections of our population to tell us what it is that St. Lucia should be and how we get there and where the examples of persons who have contributed to St. Lucia in a positive way and how can we emulate them. That is the nature of the discourse. That is the nature of the celebration. That is the nature of the entire package that we want to be focused on this year. In terms of the logo, again, we had a lot of discussion, a lot of dialogue, a lot of debate about what that logo should be, what it should signify, how do we represent it. And again, we've tried to be as simplistic as possible. We want to demonstrate or we wanted to have symbols of our pride as a people. We wanted to have a depiction of the radiance, the positivity that is what we should be about. And we also wanted to demonstrate an act of pursuing excellence. And we thought there would be nothing better than having one of our major symbols, our parrot, carrying our flag, carrying our flag as a symbol of where we want to be, what we want to do. Carrying our flag with pride, carrying our country with pride. We are St. Lucia. The activities that we will unveil and which you have before you, I must tell you is a snapshot of all of the activities that will take place. It's physically impossible to have placed in this document all of the activities that are being celebrated. And I must say that we have been inundated with initiatives for inclusion. And not all of them. That's also very encouraging. Not all of them have been initiatives requiring direct financial support. Again, it tells us that we have people who are resourceful and who are prepared to take on the responsibility of implementing activities even without a level of financial support. The diversity of the activities and the initiatives I think is very, very impressive. Not just from the types of activities, but also from where they are coming from. And again, in an era where we have often spoken about trying to move away from being castries and north-centric to ensuring that we span all of the regions in our country, this set of activities is very much representative of that. And so I want to underscore the fact that this calendar is not necessarily reflective of all. And as we move further and further towards the Independence Day itself, we will be updating and informing you of many other activities that are going to be taking place. So from our perspective, and I want to underscore the minister's point, our success is really going to be measured against the level and the nature of participation of all of our citizens. And I want to again underscore minister's point to encourage all of us, all of us to truly take part in these activities. We are really what Saint Lucia is to be. And so the theme, I am Saint Lucia, must be part of how we look at independence, how we encourage and engage more and more persons so that in the end it is the positive spirit that we bring to bear that will ultimately read down to the benefit of our country, Saint Lucia. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Mr. Williams, thank you very much. I want to repeat your call for all Saint Lucia to invoke the theme which we have launched and think about what it really means to them. I am Saint Lucia. We are definitely all Saint Lucia. Wherever we are in the world, we remain Saint Lucia. As I speak of what's going on in the world, I want to turn our attention to the screen to our Prime Minister, Honourable Allen Michael Shastney, delivered a message to the diaspora in anticipation of the 30th Independence Anniversary celebrations, and we will be playing that now for the audience. As we celebrate the 38th anniversary of our independence, this year's theme is, I am Saint Lucia. And I have to tell you that your government has been working very hard to bring substance to that theme. We have so many new investments coming into this country. We have been trying to bring back the hope and inspire people. I am very excited that we have been able to reduce the VAT rate from 15% to 12.5%. And next month we will be able to announce major new projects that are becoming Saint Lucia. Included in those is the Pearl of the Caribbean, a landmark project that would really put Saint Lucia on the roadmap. But we need more help. We need help from you. You have been doing an amazing job in the diaspora. Carrying that flag and all being saying out loud, I am Saint Lucia. You are living it every day and we need your help more than ever before. We need your help in continuing to support the efforts of all our social programs. We need your help in investing in Saint Lucia. And very soon we are going to need your help to come back to Saint Lucia and lend assistance to help us build a new Saint Lucia. I want to thank you for all the efforts you have made over the last years. Especially after the disasters we have had. Your contributions have gone a long way in keeping the flame alive here in Saint Lucia. We have difficult times. We have seen some of the horror stories of our young people killing each other. This is a big challenge for the government. But I have given the population of Saint Lucia the assurance that the justice system is going to be priority number one. We have some difficult times but we have some great opportunities. We have two new hospitals that are going to be opening up. And obviously this is a huge financial challenge for the government. But we are going to be standing tall to make sure that all solutions will be so proud of their new healthcare system in Saint Lucia. I also want to say to you that we need your help in lobbying other governments to make sure the voice of Saint Lucia and our concerns are heard. We need to make sure you're out there as our greatest ambassadors in promoting this rural class destination. I also want to say to you that members of my cabinet will be out with you very soon. We want to create new opportunities for you to come back home and invest. We have a new sovereign fund that we are going to be putting together. An ability for you to be able to invest money into Saint Lucia and make sure that this is going towards the development of this country. Let's all be proud and say I am Saint Lucia. Happy anniversary Saint Lucia. Thank you very much to the Honorable Prime Minister for that message that went out to the diaspora on Saturday evening at a gospel fest that was planned in New York that went over very well. And apparently they also took some collections in terms of charity there for people who are affected at home by crime, by health issues. So I definitely want to thank the very active organizations around the world, Saint Lucia organizations that continue to remember what's going on in Saint Lucia and continue to try to make a contribution to assist which lends to the idea that no matter where you are you are Saint Lucia. And we know that they are aware of what's going on in this country with the advent of social media. They can keep in contact at all times with what's happening here at home. Thank you very much. Also I do want to say that I was reading this morning that at 38 is when a woman is very sure of herself and where she's going. So I definitely know that Helen turning 38 she knows where she's going and she's definitely going to be sure of herself. You know it's two years from 40 which for some women can be a good or bad thing but I think definitely for Saint Lucia 38 and going into her 40 Saint Lucia will have a lot to be proud of especially if we as a nation come together. We want to go straight into some presentations by committee members who have been involved in the process in terms of planning the long list of activities we have planned. Obviously like the permanent secretary said the list does not include everything that will be happening but we wanted to highlight and give persons the opportunity to basically market some of the activities that they're involved in. I want to start by inviting Mr. Tedeson Glasgow to come up to the podium and explain to us some of the sporting activities that are going on for independent 38. Mr. Glasgow. Thank you Ms. McDonald. Good morning to my officials here. Indeed it's a pleasure for me to be here as 38th Independence Anniversary as the speakers before mentioned various activities have been planned for independence celebration but I do like the theme as a matter of fact I am Saint Lucia. What it really says is that we have to sell ourselves first I guess it will all filter down to our country. And of course we all know that sports plays an integral role in terms of development of a nation building a nation so you see on the program of activities is laden with a lot of sporting activities in terms of tennis which is the independence tennis tournament it's already started that's it being held probably every other day on weekends as well and the Saint Lucia National Tennis Center a lot of young kids a lot of actually a lot of categories are involved which means that if you're a tennis enthusiast learning the game you will be part of this tournament. It moves on we have seen the commencement of the independence netball tournament which is an island wide tournament because there are various venues of course the main venue would be the VG multiple sports complex but it brings again the going around the island because as the as the permanent secretary mentioned it's not only castries or north centric we have to spread our development and our involvement island wide so netball has been played quite across the island we move on to the independence table tennis championship again that's already started the house for this championship is the boss issue in the facility it is currently being continuing. Table tennis of course in itself we know about our history one time per house in the OECS but it brings enthusiasm when it comes to youth and we must engage the youth in terms of sport because they are the future of sport and they're also the future of our nation Saint Lucia that's why I love this theme I am Saint Lucia and if anybody knows me I am Saint Lucia we'll continue from February 11 to the 21st where we'll see the prime minister's cup which is the T20 cricket championship last year loads of crowd follow this championship all over the island again we know of how powerful Saint Lucia's are in terms of voice in their opinions and we know the national word it is often used at this championship when you see those players in those sixes and fours trust me they get all over it again it's in VF4, it's in Marble Valley it's in January, it's in Suffolk, it's all over not based on location so I'm looking forward to that of course the PS and the minister as well mentioned that we have to sell our own or we have to participate and I love that too because if we don't participate or if we don't spectate imagine playing on sport and there is no audience those players are not going to be alive they're going to be playing for playing sick but if we go out and participate and be part of the tournaments or the championships they get more involved and it gets more exciting and again it's independence let's go out there and participate as I look out further down in terms of the program I will now call on Mr Walter Berkeley who is the PRO for the Trailfinders Offroad Club there to have an event and it's going to be held at a very unique location I like the name as a matter of fact it's called cow city and earlier on someone said cow city and I had to tell them yes because they know of the millennium highway and I will set up now but back in the days I can tell you it was like a valley a lot of cows a lot of leech as well because we get cows you get that it's a very kind of swamp area the highway was nothing of the sort so cow city is quite fitting same way we have south for city for Stouffere it's a cow city so we now call on Mr Walter Berkeley just to give us an insight in terms of the independence for by four words and I'll be back just to give you a little more in terms of events sporting events that is for the 30th anniversary independence Mr Berkeley Honourable Minister Permanent Secretary, our host Press and our invited persons I would first like to thank the committee for all the government agencies I mean it's so possible for me to stand here today because we are a very young group and speak about this event the first one and the first time we have such an event for independence what we're going to be doing is that again our group trail finders deals with off-roading and going on trails and basically no way you want to drive a vehicle we like to go there and what we've done we've taken cow city again he was explained very nicely if you're going down south of the millennium highway in the mud that's what we're going to be we've created a nice track beautiful all right with a lot of obstacles we have persons coming from Barbados and Vincent hopefully Trinidad quite a number of persons coming down to deal with mud pits climbing rocks big holes in the dirt we set up our track nicely okay also we're going to have on that same day when we start at nine o'clock we want to open both our races we have two major races there to anybody in the public okay with a four by four that wants to take part of course we want to keep it as very organized as possible so you'll have to come and just register for that event so we don't just have people driving onto the track but it's going to be open for anybody to come and trust me it's going to be something different and we're going to like it if you like mud you like off-roading we solution we like a little rough road so come down it's going to be fun nine o'clock yes we used to do rough roads in solution but it will be a great event it's the first time we're looking for the support of everybody come out and support us it's free there will be music of course concession stands come out and enjoy it and hopefully next year you'll see us there again thank you very much thank you Mr. Berkeley of course we mentioned we've sent solutions so a lot of what is planned by the committee is all in the realm of being truth sent solutions that's why I go again I love the theme I am Saint Lucia moving on with other activities what's called the independence drag race battle there's a lot about drag racing it seems to be joined quite a bit of a crowd it's something new and again we moved away from the traditional ways of doing things so when you hear of drag racing it's new to Saint Lucia so why not go out and see what it is but it's free be part of it okay on the program it is I think this is a big one as a matter of fact it is the main event if you ask when it comes to sports especially when it comes to independence it's the very 18th National Cultural Center from 7 p.m. this is where everybody who played their part in sports if you a top flight player participant administrator whatever role you play in sports this is your night now everybody is going to be rewarded but we all know it's the sportswoman the sportsman of the year junior and senior they are the major ones highlighted also in terms of sporting associations they're going to be added as well that is their night of reward so the committee put together a nice little function it's becoming a red carpet function because you get to see sporting forces in a different light no longer in the tights or whatever but everybody is decked out in their nice dress and guys in their suits and ties and bow ties so the sports awards is definitely you want to mark on your calendar to be part of February 19th continues with the independence dash color run I like this dash color run what can I say it's a colorful event which involves running from Marcy Stores Shock Bay to Rodney Bay from 6am it is another event that you would want to be part of if you're not a runner at least you could walk fast to be just say you were part of it so the dash color run is another one to look forward to another event on February 19th is one which has become traditional or staple event rather is the Monropo Road Relay you often hear about it but now it turns to be part of it other organizations you don't have to be for example because you have road running that you have to be a road runner it could be a football or a cricketer put a team together again it's organized by the department of youth development and sports along with the Monropo committee and we have Mr Glenn Wilson to give us some more information on that event Honorable Minister Bellrose Secretary Mr Williams Ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you our Independence Road Relay held in the great state of Monropo on the 19th of February this month the great state of Monropo ten years after Saint Lucia became an independent nation a few persons from the great state of Monropo decided to put together an event that would sort of be a signature event for the community and so this year we'll be celebrating 28 years that we are hosting an Independence Road Relay in Monropo the event has grown from strength to strength we've been having participation from a lot of local clubs teams organizations as well as regional clubs participating and from the inception we had Machnik which has been a constant participant in our road relay we've changed our route slightly last year we wanted to make it more communal so our route usually took us to Wani in Viewfort and so we decided that we wanted to make it something more community based and so we wanted to involve other communities around so including the Miquud Village so we've changed the route slightly all of the information is available on our website it's rmrysc.org on there we have all the routes already plotted out so the aerial views of the route and how long they are where they would take you to and we've tried to do it as much as possible in communities so some of the routes will take you actually inside of Monropo itself and through the Miquud Village and on our way back the fifth leg would go to Elen which is just past Derisoga and then coming back we will go back to the Wendt Plainfield in Monropo where the activities will continue with fun games and other events get bring people together building families and so forth. This year one of the things that we've added to our road really is that we will be showing we'll be airing the event all of the event live at the Wendt Plainfield so persons can view the leg the persons participating in the relay so we'll have a big screen at Wendt Plainfield where persons can come and sit and have fun bring your family and everybody else with you and watch the race from the Wendt Plainfield. It's an activity that we've been having for quite some time and I want to encourage all solutions to participate as was mentioned before it is not just clubs but individuals can register it's an eight leg event so eight persons registration forms, rules, guidelines and all those things are available on our website as I mentioned mrysc.org and all information is on there. This Saturday also we'll be celebrating a smaller event with one of our affiliates Grass Street Youth and Sports Council on the 11th we'll be having the Kevin Malcolm Memorial 5k which is in memory of one of its members who died from cancer and it's now get towards providing scholarship funds for persons attending the Monropo and Passions so this event is scheduled for this Saturday the 11th of February and the next week Sunday the 19th all roads lead to the Wendt Plainfield in the great state of Monropo thank you so very much thank you for that the great state of Monropo, I like that because it's an area I'm very much familiar, you mentioned an area there I think you said Ellen for persons not too familiar what it is it's just after the Deriso Gap you get the bridge that's that area and the Wendt you need to go into the community go to the left and then you make your way down the hill to get onto the Wendt Plainfield moving on earlier we mentioned about the independence drag race and I was a little worried because this is a new event a lot of excitement, guess what Mr. Montut who is the president is here to fill us in and then we're going to move on to the Moto X club where Mr. Daniel Louis will fill us in as well so we now call on Mr. Montut good day to all Honourable Minister, Secretary, Ms. McDonough I'm here from Timeline Events this is we're no stranger to drag race in St. Lucia this is one of the steeple events that is celebrated almost every holiday thank you Timeline Events has been a club in organization for we've been here for about four years we've had about four to five events our Prime Minister and I will guide Joseph into two sports cars and send them down the track the video is actually on our Timeline Events so this event it's a two day event we have three cars coming up in St. Vincent you're going to invite the Minister they are welcome we're actually going to try it again we're actually going to try it again as a matter of fact everyone is invited the structure this time is that we will be having three cars come from St. Vincent some bikes from Dominica some bikes from Barbados as well and of course our local drivers will be there to take on the event so it's a two day event for this test and tune the last days the grudge matches where everybody gets excited to actually see some of the fastest cars go all out at the event so always all are welcome check out our Facebook page Timeline Events and we'll see you there, 18th and 19th thanks thank you Mr. Mondo I don't know if you folks have realized but as much as it is all about St. Lucia some of the planning of some of the events that have gone regional you see invitations now to Dominica Martinique Trinidad and Tobago Barbados so definitely we are getting out there that's what we need more of you know too much time that we have tailored our events for our own people we are St. Lucia and we are warm and hospitable so hence the reason why we can host this event across we move on now to the Independence Bikers Super Moto event that's February 19 at the Cassries Waterfront Mr. Daniel Louis will fill us in with more information First I would like to say good day to the honourable minister my name is Daniel Louis president of the St. Lucia Moto X club I'd first like to start off by giving the existence of our club it's 24 years old we started going to St. Vincent as a motorcycle club for the independence some years ago and this has created a movement amongst the biking, fraternity and other islands wanting to do the same as part of this year activities will be hosting clubs from St. Vincent Martinique, Quadloop Grenada, Dominica and Tobago we have a total of 150 bikes coming to the island and over 200 persons I expected along with audio sound cars we have drug cars and we have of course the off-roaders it's expected that these persons from these clubs will be arriving on the 16th from the 16th of February our activities is the welcome party we'll be hosting it at the old St. Moto X we're going to have all our invited guests all our foreigners come in and congregate so we could get them familiar with our activities for the independence on the 18th we have a song clash where we have all our cars from St. Vincent Barberas with the audio they will be competing with our guys from St. Lucia that is the St. Lucia Auto Sound Club so then and again we'll have like a regional competition the 19th I'm going to talk about this event Super Moto that is something that we held for the first time in the city of castries which created a carnival impact in the front of the castries market and of course we know that this time around it will be bigger and of course moving along to our island ride with all those foreigners all those bikes coming into the island from Dominica, Martinique Barberas St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago I mean that's a day that we all look forward to we attend the parade and then after we go sightseeing around our island and we take our foreigners and we get them to Noody Island so we take that trip through West Coast and come around through the east I would like to thank the government and the independence committee for inviting us to be part of this 48 year celebration thank you on behalf of all the members of the St. Lucia Moto X Club we're looking forward to collaborate with the government in the future we're looking forward to see St. Lucia come out and support the festivities planned by the independence committee thank you thank you chief in terms of what you mentioned in terms of the Super Moto event at the Cassius Waterfront near the market area I can tell you I attended that event last year I was very much pleased with what I saw so if you have a doubt of what Mr. Daniel Louie mentioned make sure that you're part of it because it is something that especially the youngsters they're thrilled to see that motorbike go up and land tires you guys had it made so again it's a new type of event and this is what we're moving away from traditional stuff to introduce new events that persons can get interested in all falls in line if why we are St. Lucia we really appreciate the innovation and what you guys are doing on February 19th there's also the independence Autocross that's in V4 at 9am that's put on by the association of Assorted Motor and Advancement 90th as well this is a free-stage Invitational Cycle Race by the St. Lucia Cycle Association again the Cassius Waterfront 2.40pm if you remember clearly back in the days you would hear move off the track keep off the track that is St. Lucia and that is what you want to see we reintroduce where we saw those guys go around the city circuit and you know persons would be so excited I think it was the oval team or something at that given point that's why it was so we need that injection of those sports they need the support but how do we do it by selling it by ensuring that the association goes out and engage their members first and thereby create that buzz that persons would want to be part of it moving on again on the February 21st it is it's called the Independence Walk-a-phone I think it's more than a walk-a-phone because actually it is a challenge and that is put on by the northern long distance walking group they're going to go around the island so it's not a walk-a-phone I can tell you it's a challenge in itself to give you more information on this we're going to call on Mr. Wayne Monroe who represents the northern long distance walking group Good morning Honourable Minister, Honourable PS Madam Second Madam Chairperson Ladies and gentlemen The northern long distance group really is a group of avid walkers over the years, over 30 years as a group we've been walking and we formalize ourselves and form this group and from henceforth we decided on different activities and that was the both of the walk around the island this walk is really a challenge a walk, a challenge for everyone who wants to challenge themselves while the ultimate is that of the finishing where we start at Kaldisak we go through the west coast and we end up back onto the boulevard that's where it ends but the objective is to challenge everyone to challenge themselves so while we hope everyone could get to the finish line you don't have to get there you could decide to stop at Ransker stop at Canaries, anywhere that you choose the average walk is 24 hours and this is not to fear you we start at five o'clock in the afternoon we go all across it is really to ensure that you get yourself prepared in advance necessary that you have that is important for you to complete it we've decided that everyone is a winner you don't have to finish it as I said earlier on if you're interested and you get involved you don't have to finish to be a winner it is free registration is free it is an 88 mile challenge take note of that and there is a documentary out which was done in the 2016th walk it is on YouTube 88 miles of endurance I want to ask everybody to have a look at this documentary very interesting it's a very interesting documentary it really gives you an idea of what we are all about and what is involved in the walk one of the things we wanted to ensure here was that we do not create any sort of when you use 88 miles of endurance is to ensure that persons listening don't feel so worried or fear some that they may not want to challenge it and this is why the departure this year is really to encourage persons to challenge themselves forget the 88 miles if you cannot do it if you do 10, 20, 30, 40 whatever and that is the objective we want to also remind persons that registration is free and we will be having a meeting on the 9th it was supposed to be at the town hall that has changed and I hope we may be able to get the ministry of sports to allow us to use their facility because I am told that repairs are being done there so we will advise the public that on the 9th and on the 16th this is the two meetings we will have and we will give you more information and all the necessary things I could go among the list of things that you would need to do to prepare yourself but I am sure we can do that at that meeting so again it is an 88 mile challenge and we welcome Saint Lucians to be part of it thank you Mr. Monroe you mentioned it is an 88 mile challenge what I want to say now it is the 48th year challenge in terms of independence anniversary and I challenge Saint Lucians to be Saint Lucians moving on we look at the independence volleyball championship from February 24th to 25th very interesting tool going to be held at the boss issue in the facility we know that our history in terms of volleyball so I am right next door at the VG Sports Complex 1986 if I remember clearly because I was a ball retriever at that time where we took over and we have been dominant so it is another sport that needs your support as well February 25th it is the independence rugby 7th it will be 7th tournament and when you have rugby it will be some rough stuff but what you have done, you have tweaked it a bit in terms of the 7 so I guess you need 7 individuals to participate it is a little faster like a T20 version of the sport so it has drawn a lot of attention so make it also a sport to go out and spectate moving on we also see the independence invitational games that is athletics yes we know the conditions down there however we must create a platform for athletes themselves I mean yes they do practice on Tooth or probably the ground but you have a good track down there and again they need to showcase themselves so it is a spectacle that you could really take in International free on free basketball finals on the 25th at the VG sports complex put on by the solution basketball federation excitement, fast space draw lots of attention when we speak of basketball it is normally 5 against 5 but those guys play 21 but the free on free is certainly catching on so definitely you want to be part of that male and female that is thank you minister male and female of course we also want to engage the ladies so we have also the independence challenge swim meet February 26th at the Rowling Heights Aquatic Center 10 am swimming so don't show how much of a swim association you see those youngsters swimming but if you wear their chairs in the crowd you really spurs them on and I've often said that whenever there is a meet there's always some sort of record being broken so again if you support who knows you might just check on those youngsters into breaking some island records last but least on terms of the sporting events February 26th it is the Invitational Football Tournament Baccatelle Football Club, Marsha Football Council at the Mendo Phillip Park we know how critical football is to that community and that is Marsha and clearly the minister will can compound what I've said when he's saying how critical football is to Marsha if you ask me if ever there is a community that lives and dies and breathes football it is the community of Marsha so certainly taking this one it's an Invitational Football Tournament which means you are invited all you need to do is just get with the guys put on your team or the registration forms and be part of this tournament so folks that always brings us to the roundup in terms of sporting events for the 40th anniversary of Independence for Santa Lucia again I love the theme I love the theme I don't know who came up with it but who endorsed it but I am Saint Lucia and I urge other individuals to be Saint Lucia Miss Magdala mentioned the diaspora play your role as well to showcase our lovely island of Saint Lucia thank you thank you very much Mr. Glasgow for that passionate account of what's happening in terms of sports thank you very much to the representatives from the various communities and the various groups I can't tell the public that you see the effort and the passion that goes into planning these activities so what we really need from the public is the support these activities will not be successful unless you come out and support some of them sound so exciting I will not be doing the walk-off on but I will definitely be there at the start wish good luck to those who are heading off to the walk-off on so please take the information you have received here today look for them online as well we have some other persons who are involved in the activities which we have planned for our 30th Independence not related to sports related to some other aspects of the celebration I would now like to invite the representative for the National Youth Council to speak on behalf of what the youth have planned Honourable Minister Fortuna Belloz P.S. Donovan Williams and our host today Nicole McDonnell who is the Communications Officer at the Office of the Prime Minister excuse me so this year at the 40th Independence celebrations we have been given an opportunity from the National Youth Council to host a very special activity Mr. Tennyson earlier that youth or young people are the future of St. Lucia now what I would like to elaborate on is the fact that youth are not just the future of St. Lucia the current youth are today what we must embrace is that youth are today and the opportunity is now given for you to get a glimpse into the future with the youth expose this year we are going to be displaying some of the talents of our young persons in the arts, in the performing arts we are going to show you what St. Lucia what it means to be St. Lucia what it means to be part of this country and how we are going to be displaying what the young persons have to offer so we are going to have a youth expose and that is basically in a nutshell the talents and the expressions and the vibrancy of young people in St. Lucia so it's basically free to be between the constitution pack and the William Peter Boulevard so we invite everyone young old, grown, whoever feel that they can be part of such an activity whoever feels that they are St. Lucia, come out, come support come give the young persons the strength that they need because we know what is happening today we know what is happening from the 1st of January 2017 we have been crying so much that young persons are not doing so much positive things and the PSA alluded to earlier we need to be able to contribute positively we need to be engaging and again this is the opportunity right there for the public to come out and support there are no barriers, nothing keeping you out no separations it is the 21st of February from 3pm onward and basically inviting everyone young persons, old and all those who are interested so that is one activity that the National Council will be hosting and participating in the second activity is some people tend to think it is not but this year the theme will bring out I know for a fact we are going to be discussing CIP and the benefits in the time of independence the benefits of such an initiative we are basically discussing the pros and cons of such a program young people will be discussing you are not hearing from the parliamentarians you are not hearing from the decision makers you are hearing from the young people themselves how beneficial is CIP to Senegal to engage and be part of such an initiative and what it is that we should expect from it so young persons are going to give their views from all around the island every corner of Senegal is going to be at the House of Parliament from 10am on the 24th of February so two activities you are going to be engaging choose one, choose both come to every activity if you can but then we ask you to be part of the celebrations this year so thank you for having me and thank you for listening to what the youth have all offered this year thank you thank you very much Kelvin thank you so much for that overview of some of what the youth is participating in I know that the youth parliament will be very exciting with that topic and I am sure certain agreements which are in the news right now will come up as well so definitely the public should be excited about I think it will be carried live as well so persons can tune in if you are not able to make it to parliament so that session I do want to invite Mr. Frederick back on stage to deliver an overview of the prayer and prayers and worship which we have planned for the anniversary as well Honourable Minister Permanent Secretary in the Department of Equity Social Justice and Empowerment and our host, Ms. McDonald thank you for the opportunity to speak on one of the staple events every year annually which is the church service in celebration of our independence basically the Prime Minister indicated this year that he wanted to have something more festive in that we come to give praise, glory and worship to God so we have moved away from the traditional kind of church service within four walls and this year we are going to be having it at the Boseju Cricket Ground, the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground and it's going to be on Sunday afternoon, February 19th from 3.30 to about 6.30 and we are inviting churches from across the island it doesn't matter what denomination we are just inviting everyone to come and celebrate and all of that event is the prayer, praise and worship celebration where we are coming to reflect and even in mind with the theme, I am St. Lucia so we as St. Lucia we are going to reflect at where God has taken us as a nation where we are right now and where we would like him to continue leading us as a nation and part of that service is going to include a time you know reflection thinking about different aspects of our society various prayers will be offered by the ministers of religion and other members of the lady so it's going to be really a day to bring praise and honor to God and worship him for sustaining us as a nation you know we already had our first meeting with the leaders of various umbrella church organizations the Pentecostals were in attendance the full gospel fellowship and various other independent non-denominational faith based organizations and basically we have already picked out our key verse of scripture we have already started putting in place who will be presenting so we are going to be having alternate performances choreography and dance there might be some poems and definitely lots of prayer will be offered on behalf of the nation and we have asked since it is a Sunday that whether the church leaders could tailor their usual Sunday service to have it end a little earlier than usual so that everyone can make it to the big grand event on the Sunday afternoon but preceding that again the prime minister had indicated that he wants us to have something called a national day of prayer and rededication for our people and country and that will be held on Friday the 17th of February and basically it is going to entail several different prayers offered and basically everyone is being invited to tune in to the hourly prayer broadcast on radio and television between 9am to 6pm on that Friday and we are also asking members of the religious community whether they could have their places of worship opened during that day so that the congregants would be able to go in and have some prayers meditation even fasting on behalf of the nation we are also asking the corporate citizens corporate business places whether they could hold a staff meeting during on that morning and call members of staff to pray also the schools whether the school principals could have general assemblies and allow students to pray on behalf of our nation and some of the prayers that we would like to air throughout the course of the day is a prayer for the youth, prayer for our economy commerce, business, trade, agriculture prayer for the schools prayer for even our national security the Royal Saint Lucia police force firefighters, the bodily officers security guards and even watchmen some other prayers we would like to have for prayers for our nurses and medical practitioners and also prayer for our religious community for the commitment of believers to the feet so again we are seeing that this independence year of celebration is really going to have a foundation on our Christian principles what has built us as a nation and has preserved us to this day so we are inviting everyone on that Sunday to come and be a part of the prayer, praise and worship celebration. Thank you very much Mr. Frederick no doubt this would be a very unifying event for our entire community I do call on the private sector again to lend support to this and obviously it would bring your team together and feel like you are part of something much bigger than your own I would now like to invite finally the PS in the department of culture and local government to speak to the best of Saint Lucia initiative which is also forming part of the activities welcoming back again I am tempted to say you saved the best the best for last okay this activity really is an attempt to bring a real culmination to our celebrations and it is also an attempt to take some of the traditional things that we did and place it in a package that perhaps would appeal more to a wider group of solutions and certainly appeal to families because I think part of what we want to do is to ensure that we have the participation of families traditionally we have celebrated independence with your military parade your youth rally and it has sometimes been seen as somewhat disjointed what we have attempted to do is to have one activity which captures all of those elements together and so I think what we have attempted to do with this particular event is to truly showcase what is the best about Saint Lucia so it will include a parade a military parade it will include a rally but as part of that package it will include performances and performances which truly depict the best of Saint Lucia one of the things that allows us outer solutions is our capacity and our appetite to celebrate to party to come together and really unite in celebration and so this activity really is designed to bring all of that together as one bring us together as one bring the close if you like of the celebration of independence to something that is big that is rewarding and so we will hopefully have a reflection of the best so the best of Saint Lucia culture the best of Saint Lucia dancers the best of Saint Lucia music and even in the category of music all different genres of music the best of Kai so the best of Soka the best R&B if you like the best of Pan it is really to showcase everything that is good quite apart from the musical and the performance based activities we also going to be showcasing other aspects of Saint Lucia's life so the best of Saint Lucia cuisine is going to be a major feature of this the best of Saint Lucia art is going to be a major activity here and again opportunities exist for all of those involved in those different areas to come out showcase enlighten in many instances all that is good all that is best about Saint Lucia as we move closer towards the celebration we will give the general public a greater sense of the specifics who is going to be involved etc but I think as a taste it should wet our appetites and it should encourage us as community and as family to make sure that we celebrate the day of independence with something that is grand something that is spectacular and something that will keep us united and proud thank you I would now like to open up the floor to any questions we might have for the honorable minister and obviously members of the committee who are here who can also lend support to answering those questions we have a question in the back Steve I am Saint Lucia can we translate this in Queo I think we need to give a little more thought to our Saint Lucia culture if you want to embrace all our Saint Lucia language I think we need to consider that thank you thank you very much do we have any other questions from the audience yes just please introduce yourself before you ask the question your nation long distance walking with breath over the last four years we have been involved in this independence we have been involved in this independence we have been involved in this independence challenge we have been ending almost alone except for last year to some extent because we ended with the activities that were taking place it is somewhat discouraging after in some cases some persons have walked for as long as 38 hours to end and end alone to encourage persons participants to feel just a little more excited about it I am wondering whether this year in particular we could not cause from the community side of things a welcome that would make a feel welcome the first persons who have ended the walk have been the ones welcoming the other participants and you end up feeling like oh god it was a waste of time though there is the joy that you did it but no one to have witnessed you doing it so let's hope this year we see a better representation of the committee and ministers of government I think that is definitely a request that can be arranged I think with people being able to go live now even on Facebook people can maybe keep track of the walkers a little bit better so we know what time you are actually getting to that finish line and we can have a welcome committee there to meet the winners good morning Sumon Plesi part of the planning committee though we mentioned the 22nd being a grand day we would also like to make mention of the 26th of February being really the end of the celebrations our PM made specific mention of ensuring that the planning committee includes view for the south of the island in its activities and we will be having a family beach bash during this beach bash you will again sports will be a highlight we have invited the motocross guys to also be part of this activity so we are inviting sanations to end the celebrations down in view for on the 26th of February and I would also like to mention Creole definitely it will be part of all the activities that we will be hosting for the season thank you very much do we have any other questions from the audience okay I will just ask the minister to say some final words before we wrap up just to bring everything together honourable minister thank you Niko thank you Niko but it's basically just to echo the plea and to encourage all Saint Lucians to come out and support the event and the event is for all Saint Lucians I know my Creole speaking friend mentioned the fact that we didn't mention anything in Creole but of course Saint Lucia belongs to all of us our history has done for us now you see I'm gone that's why I didn't use the Patois to be Saint Lucian is to be able to articulate ourselves clearly in the Creole language as well and a lot of us are working on it like myself and of course we're just happy that we're able to celebrate 38 years 38 years of independence 38 years of freedom 38 years and like Niko said we are mature we're supposed to know exactly where we're going and the sad thing is not every Saint Lucian can see the same thing we really want to be in a place where we all can be singing from the same song sheet about our country and we want to know that through the program this year we can provide the opportunity for reflection, engagement and of course helping all of us to reshape the direction that we would want to go in our own personal lives and so in the process contributing to the development of our own country so we want to say thank you to everybody thank you to the committee that has worked so hard to put the program together we could not have done it without you and your wonderful team the enthusiasm of all the groups as you see the passion was displayed in the presentations this morning we just hope that the rest of the country now can come in and participate and be a part of this wonderful journey of 38 years of Saint Lucian success and history thank you so much I do want to mention that one of our official activities on the calendar begins this evening it's constitutional discourse it's being moderated by Mrs. Kim St. Rose and also she has an excellent panel of lawyers and they will be going into details in terms of our fundamental rights and freedoms this is open to the public and you can find out more information on the schedule activities on the government website I assume it will be or should have been uploaded already I hope I'm not preempting them we hope they do it right away so persons can go to that website and see all the activities that they would want to partake in I want to thank the honorable minister for being with us this morning I want to also thank the PS in the department of culture and local government thank you to members of the media thank you to members of the independence committee thank you to persons who are so passionate about the activities that you have been planning you can see from today that you will get more government support we are not getting that already so thank you everybody and I will just end with saying I am Sen Lusha we are all Sen Lusha thank you


What's good y'all Chris from jassescasebase.com doing our last break of the night. We got it done We got it filled out 2023 tops Cosmic Chrome Baseball 12 box case PYT number eight. We had one filler turned All the spots of the Baltimore Orioles were the only team in there Go into Jake is some first break mojo for Jacob in the Baltimore Orioles, but PYT 8 Joe with the D-backs All the way down to John with the Nets. Let's do it y'all. Thanks again for giving us one filled out Anyone who grabbed a spot straight up anyone who tried to get in through the filler. I appreciate you getting it done either way We don't gonna do any of this without shop. So I will always be grateful No matter how you get in good To everyone to Jake's in here Jake gets it first break Jake again y'all good luck this Some heat Cosmic has been very good Very good and very good to us in particular here at Jaspie's case breaks Jaspie's breaks platforms as well You've ripped about 20 cases or so. I think a thousand for the last few days So glad to be able to get one more done with y'all to end our Saturday The cover boy run the cunea haven't been all-time series against the Dodgers seemingly at the perfect time It is third home run of the series today a 451 foot bomb 121.2 miles per hour off the bat the hardest hit ball This season he has been Couple steels as well a grand slam game one Just electric He is nuts And I gotta forget happy wife happy life, you know Most important part. All right shall box one Shall I extra terrestrial talent join menesses on the nucleus? First pair I'll gonna be Walker Bueller out of 199 aqua fruit my dodger is gonna go to Ryan Should be coming back soon much needed Green speckle redeemer second year Going cross-town to the angels and Larry that's two out of 75 on the redeemer's Jazz Chisholm extra terrestrial will randomize this at the very very end those multi team star clusters So do not let me forget left center right Donner extra terrestrial talent So you get chrome refractor Mickey betz starry night. Those are great-looking inserts Michael Harris extra terrestrial looks like we got some nice color coming up here Start off our box with Jordan Walker Got a gold Austin Riley auto nice from our first box eight out of 50 Austin Riley gold auto Atlanta Braves going to Matt Lieber Nice first hit. He's been awesome this year, too Oh, I definitely think that second part as Chris Bryant on the blue moon I think uh, you know the media will say a lot about how he won the MVP this series I think 162 games worth of season is a little more important than just four games But you know doing against the Dodgers doing against mookie bats and Freddy Freeman and You know, he's just been awesome all year and putting an exclamation part exclamation point on his season right now The voters will remember that for sure It's like how this past NBA season every media writer was like last month Yolkich has won the MVP with this performance and then two days later Joe Wellum beat has won the MVP with this performance and Yanis in bead versus Yanis Yanis wins the game. He's gonna be the MVP They matter obviously they're great great games, but let's not look at the Just a little picture. Yeah, look at the big picture Yeah, no, I I agree. I think I think the writers unfortunately will remember that Well, I'm not gonna get mad if who wins MVP. He has been tremendous You can make a case for all three of them. There's no true There's there's no true MVP robbery Any any of those three you put them against, you know, any other MVP candidate from past years They probably take it but Not sure they have time. It doesn't count. People are always so mad about The MVP stuff here I got a little happier when I hear it happen like oh man, you know Cody Ballinger the 2019 and no MVP like yeah, that makes me happy to hear but Doesn't make it any better. It's gonna get some players have it in their contract if they win MVP But I would assume those are like kind of like Fringe players Akunin might though because he has kind of that weird super friendly team deal So he might have it in there to be honest Blue Moon max Scherzer That's Mets addition. It's gonna go to John 96 out of 99 Yeah, she done the extraterrestrial town he has just been outstanding as well in the AL I think it's like fifth and bad external Alvarez going to John and the Mets Jake with the Orioles grabs all the gunners all the Adleys Francisco Alvarez, and there it is first off Planetary pursuit show hey Otani to Uranus Nice hit for Larry congrats man 7th planet from the Sun The 7th planet from the Sun nice hit man congrats. That is awesome There's some heat in here man You know it How do you get it filled out so thanks everyone for getting it filled out. I'm sure worry does not mind Nice J-Rod extra trust show he has been man can't forget about how incredible he's been here Little white on the color, but you know that's not too surprising up for a hit like that I can't believe the thought was a good idea like come on I guess what are we really doing here? Who's who's doing that? Doing that. Do you think Uranus deserves that you think Uranus deserves to be giggled at and what's next?  What are all the old really shitty like? Astronomy police always got to bring it up right just a year ago a year reminder. Okay, so when are we probing?  That's some heck of a hit there Hey face firm base for Larry's spot for the angels know that much Let's see if we can double. I really want to hit a Poodle for someone. I think the odds. I'm pulling a Poodle are like So Pun intended Astronomically well, I think it's more rare than hitting a super a super factor so Let's see box three Jordan Groeschan's rookie refractor There's a Volpe sorry night. Mr. 2020 himself Our first Corbin Carroll of the break Extra terrestrial town on the Corb's Every now and then I've got one Hunter Brown nucleus And a Byron Buxton Byron Buxton extra terrestrial talent autograph nice For the Minnesota twins going to go to stealing one of the last things picked up straight up Very nice Gints on rehab starts in center field at St. Paul triple affiliate from Minnesota, so he'll be back in the outfield soon Washington orbit Aaron judge Blue moon hunter green blue green going to the Cincinnati Reds and Shane 49 out of 99 on the hunter green I would love to see what aliens think about just the hobby as a whole right if you do this Try to understand it other Max Scherzer awkwardest time Looks like John's going for the rainbow. Okay. It wants to or not 53 out of 199 on the Mad Max teal They probably think this thing is so funny, but I would love to see like an alien Actually designing cars have a trippy, right? Probably some shape. We haven't even thought of Can you can mentally comprehend the shapes of the cars that design? and you got to get some kind of Brainpower on it. I mean if you're asking about us, I would assume that we can probably throw one more up after that I do not know That would be a very earth thing to happen We're terrified about two different takeovers robots aliens. They wipe each other out and we're just like fine chillin That's a very earth thing to happen. Don't have to worry about The earth's core the monsters that live in the crust and mantle of earth like the looney tunes It's it's canonical. It's in Canaan. That's the looney tunes live underneath us an earth's core Ever watch Space Jam? When's the last time I watched Space Jam? That's where they established that You can get to it from a random golf course in Alabama Well, I've got I've got your center fielder and you're starting picture slash DH for the aliens Jason Dominguez and center and Shohei Or if we're talking basketball Let me think about Space Jam.  Oh nice Oswaldo Cabrera on the gold rookie auto for the New York Yankees So what a big mic. That's it 42 out of 50 on the Oswaldo Cabrera gold rookie auto nice I'm gonna rock. Oh and another one for the angst Orange galactic launched into orbit John Carlos Stan Yankees box here for Mike nice hits man back to back Stan Orange 14 out of 25 Tristan Cosas basework you there Francisco Alvarez. Yeah dinosaurs are real aliens exist like let's be real guys Let's keep it going man. Nice stuff so far Only four boxes into this case two autos down one planetary Gotta assume we have some more heat coming in for the Carol base They they grade it as well as they possibly can't I do not envy Card graders on die-casts. It's tough. Ryan Bayo new releases. I'm in a nice rookie season two Lisa riots your current and unbattling later. Oh, Freddie is catching up. Do I have free my trip? Oh, yeah, I do have freedom Who's arise at a 1.99? Yeah, I have the awesome front about the Austin Riley I'm just talking about how good he's been this year too Obviously, we're talking about a Kunya on that Braves team and Matt Olson who went nuclear hot power wise for a couple weeks But man, how about how good Austin Riley has been? How about how good Marcella Zula has been?  And that team is so scary I didn't promise an auto You can you can make clips on the youtube of course When did I say that? I said I like to I didn't have never seen anything about an auto I mean Jen You put words into my mouth.  I will sue you Fine, I know one of y'all did it. I will if you put my my voice into like the chat gbt I will be suing you You will be getting you will be my legal crisis The taco ton.  I'm gonna get those some McDonald's They can split a cheeseburger Those two those two girls love a McDonald's cheeseburger. I would like I would like a walker texas ranger I'm sure the cartilage fans wouldn't appreciate that and I would assume that in the future if that does happen And he and josh young both turn out to be good But the rangers and breaks like this are going to be very expensive Well, actually, that doesn't look like a car Like I said, I make an ass out of myself easily and regularly You don't need to make you don't need anything to make me do that As a gunner add the star cluster And judge on the starry night Green for hip walker On the speckle One more hit for the twins and steven 66 out of 75 Is that Adley gunner Cluster Wouldn't mind some color on that too kind of squabble and color factor And a Jorge Polanco blue balloon Steven going for the rainbow out of 99 on the Jorge Polanco Edward Julian rookie in there he's having a nice rookie season for the twins As Brian bale aqua Boston bread socks that's going to Steven as well Having all the parallels here 110 out of 199 over as base From opinion extraterrestrial And a supernova nice Bryce harper on the supernova Going to the Philadelphia Phillies and john Nice hit. He's a pretty awesome looking to like an action movie Nice We've got a planetary pursuit. We've got three autos. We've got a supernova A couple of golds Let's see what else we can get only five boxes to this case So if we get something low here Sometimes and I've never had a body nose. I don't really know the sensation, but when my nose is like continuously I just don't believe this first half of this case about to get knocked out And we have six more boxes Gunner on the extraterrestrial Kyle Schwabber extraterrestrial Another lead-off home run for Kyle Schwabber today against Milwaukee Dominic Fletcher on the nucleus Mickey Betz starring nights Quiet first half of that box Watching the orbit Jordan Walker kind of Anderson base Chris Bryant For the Rockies it's going to go to Jake 177 out of 199 You Watching the orbit Frank Thomas And a planetary pursuit nice Adley rushman really kind of the last spot mojo, yeah Going to Jake won the o's and the filler the sun On the Adley rushman nice Show the extraterrestrial Nice end to the first half of this case probably got six more. Let's get a little further away from the sum of the next one though. Yeah to tell you What I want to Get an orange in the first half of that case too as you can get a little lower Maybe a black eclipse Maybe a red maybe a Pretty cool It would be pretty cool All right box seven Soto extra Adley refractor nice one A green Mackenzie Gore autumn nice for the nationals 51 out of 75 it's gonna go to John Kenzie Gore Washington Nationals on the auto That's our fourth auto still got five boxes to go. I can't imagine that that's our last one Corpse Other green speckle gonna be another left-handed starter. It's gonna be Carlos Rodan for the Yankees. It's gonna go to big Mike 72 out of 75 A glitch starting night of a Jordan Walker base There's a black eclipse nice asking you shall receive for the Boston Red Sox Alex Redugo for Stephen nice out of 10 8 out of 10 on the Alex Redugo Love the way these look It's just a regular base. They just pop so much nice On Walker extra Shintaro Fujinami on the nucleus One more parallel gonna be Boba chef for the Toronto Blue Jays. They're gonna be J 98 out of 199 Let's keep it going though We asked for lower on one of the black to come to beat the start See if we can get something nice and red Another bishop for Colorado About 150 snaps played both sides of the ball 120 yards and a touchdown on the receiving 70 and a pick On the defensive side like that.  Are you the mid-season form? That's why I kind of feel bad for trailing Sorry cowboys fans just joking kind of just a little bit all right boxy Kudai Senga extra terrestrial Another guy who I feel you forget about has just been awesome this year The Mets have been pretty mediocre, but Kudai Senga has been electric As good as advertised Santander Opium starry nights And another supernova gonna be francisco indoor John grabs one more for the Mets ice Frankie on the supernova very very nice Second one of the case And nice zack netto one more for the angels and larry I'm gonna solid rookie season as well 80 out of 199 called him up and like may he got drafted last year And he's I didn't get to the expectations. Obviously, it was going to be a good glove short and he had some help defensively Or on the infield, but I feel like he's really kind of figured out how to hit up there He's one to watch out for Why would I be doing that? I want to hit for everyone Oh, and I want to hit something nice Actively It's not even passive glass for me slander Lies and fizz I have no reason to do that I have no reason to do that I saw this recently with Joe When we were doing the facts, is that like the best part of my job is hitting big for someone The worst part about my job is not hitting for someone I think inherently where people put this I uh, you know I want everybody to get in that's the whole point Rakes were uh All 30 teams all 32 teams whatever whatever it is whatever sport it is when everyone gets something Is nice. Those are my favorites nine There's a Vlad junior for the blue jays one more for jake 17 out of 75 Valley base 129 snaps that is so exact I Has gunner nucleus who they refractor Starting night Mike trout Let's get some actually some actual color on these two. Yeah, who you extra Take some gold coming up another Jordan Walker launched Nice gold James Alton for the Dodgers and Ryan I said man 16 out of 50 on the gold James Alton Very nice At a wilson ventures for Chad the Cardinals 122 out of 199 Turner extra Frank Thomas launched Garner and Adley on the cluster There you go. So we're getting maybe heating back up last three boxes Nice gold there. Nice gold rookie Just keep it going. Yeah Right there. So I'll peek of it I love y'all from this right side. So We are what a third plan to go with two supernovas.  I haven't seen any at all Joey Vada for the reds. It's gonna go to Shane and sincey 154 out of 199 for his last car on that half We're at the green extra terrestrial Brandon Marsh nucleus rally on the starry night planetary pursuit of Corbin Carroll nice For the sun from the sun excuse me for the d-backs It's gonna go to Joe. Nice hit interneuactic planetary Nice, there we go A couple of rugs to be like winner with we like when it's the rookies Adley on the first now corpse We'll take that extra terrestrial just chism refractor And a Stella nova wow double Double up here Stella nova Francisco Alvarez for the Mets and John what a break for the Mets here, huh Supernova a little earlier now a Stella nova These are so sick love these Nice hit for John and the Mets So it was an auto but All right box 11 now second to last box Oh Let's stay hot in your last two boxes. Let's grab one more nice auto for someone Some nice color too Especially with the diet. Yeah, some good diet that's obviously the Stella nova is like a short print But when the launch into orbit is like color two and when it's auto Seriously, I I have a hard time finding a product I like more right now than cosmic chrome Especially this is about last year's was good. I feel like they've been Juicing these cases they know just the designs the parallels inserts adding the planetary pursuits as a whole It was killer. Can you imagine like a patch auto in this too?  I feel like that'd be kind of cool too On our notto on the refractor nice hard for extra Goldy refractor starting night one soda nuclear cj chrome Freshers will ever has launched Blue moon trusty mckenzie for the guardians for the first time we call that name out there Cleveland It's gonna go to big life like s 10 out of 99 On the doctor sticks All the tie all the brown the greens by the way going to vaughan in detroit There's more color coming up like that Looks like gold nice one more for the socks brian bao Stephen doubling up on the bao color. This one even lower 50 out of 50 nice book in there Nice All right values one one final box Stupid grab one more auto. We've got the three. Yeah, usually there's four. I know that's an extra good Uh Short print types Hopefully we get all that Good luck y'all. Thanks again for getting this one Knocked out. No, we had a little bit of a late night rally Did I throw it into a filler? But I appreciate everyone sticking around getting it all filled out grabbing spots straight up Or through that topstone blasting. So either way we appreciate it. Thanks again. Good luck tonight.  It looks like something else coming up Judger fracter won't be One more stella nova boston man. Stephen killing it Masataka Yoshida on the stella nova Oh, man Killer case for the short prints one more masataka Yoshida on the stella nova for steven and the boston red socks man Super loaded case with the die cuts and the short prints, huh? See if we can grab. So see if we can grab one more. I wanted to come when we got one One more big one for someone here We'll take that might trout on the teal for larry and the angels 138 out of 199 on the trout O'Neill extra terrestrial Adley base last few cards here One more planetary man. Come on By the logan gilbert planetary pursuit corbin carol doubling up Is joe simone the sun On the corbin carol planetary pursuit man So three autos but a boatload of short prints, man Nice case y'all. Thanks again for getting this one filled out I got lots of cards sleeve up obviously they're all going to get top loads All these Right here And even more behind those all these getting top loads And let's look at our actual top loaded hits. So our short prints like the planetary pursuits. Nice.  All right real quick before we call this one a break Let's randomize these left middle and right. Let's switch screens That one's just an example. We got a few different ones In this product. So let's go to our fresh dice. We'll just go Left middle right Roll the dice and randomize please don't be double digits. We'll take any time any time. Okay one two three four five six seven and eight Going to be right So just for example real quick bike on this card. The right would be rally green as we go to detroit This one's our quest. There's heartbridge judge and mookie mookie on the right. Go to mookie bets and the dollars. All right. Thanks y'all Appreciate it. Have a good night. We'll see you back on monday We're back on here Uh, thanks again y'all have a good sunday at jashescasebreaks.com for more breaks soon. Bye. Bye


This is not an unboxing channel by any means, but lately it has been some unboxings. So unfortunately we're going to unbox a few things today as well. But I'm also going to talk about Atelier Risa 2. And my inbox has been flooded with questions. What do I think about Atelier Risa 2? Do I recommend it? Because I have been playing it for a week, I think, when I've found the time to sit down with the game, which is in the evenings, because the new job is going great. And I work like all day every day. So I'm quite busy right now because of this school filming project, which is going fine. I love it. And I was also in my postbox today. So yeah, I went and checked my postbox, which is postbox19481. It is still the same address, and I've gotten a few fun things. Now, first of all, I bought two controllers. So I'm going to quickly check them out first. I think they look, they look exciting. I just found them randomly on some Norwegian site called Max Gaming. Wow. So this is a small switch controller that is wired and it fits small hands. It was marketed as a controller that is really good for kids and me. It is cute. It has Pikachu and Eevee. Now the other controller that I got from the same site. I just thought this one looked cute as well. I never save boxes. I like it already. It is a small switch, 8-bit dough light controller. Cute. Now I have gotten a package from Koei Techno, which is Atelier Ryza. But first, I want to open a letter from Shampoo Uber Service. One of my moderators on my Discord. Dear Isha, thinking of you with loving thoughts this Christmas and always. Have a very merry, have a very merry Christmas. Merry Christmas and thank you for all you do. Your Discord is like family. We love you Shampoo. You don't know what we would be doing without you. The history was good and the music was good. Now this is from, don't know, France. This was also in my postbox. This is not an unboxing channel. It just looks like it. The letter says Hi Isha. So this is from Pixelheart. I'm not familiar with the name I got to admit. I'm not familiar. Oh my God. Schmupp Collection with armed seven, Satazius and Wolf Flame. Wolf Lame or Wolf Flame. Finnwin. Finding Teddy, perhaps. And we have Wallachia and we have Guns of Mercy. This game I actually have. Okay, so that was a surprise. So thank you for sending me some fun games. I'm gonna let neighbor Stefan check some of these out as well. Thank you. We have now looked into the funniest part of the video, which is this package. This is a review copy from Koei Takmö of Atelier Isha 2 Limited Edition from Koei Takmö. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Atelier Isha 2 Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy. Okay, so I'm opening up the box and I see the PlayStation 4 game. I have no idea what this box contains, so I'm gonna be just as surprised as you guys. Here we have the PlayStation 4 version of Atelier Isha 2, which I am currently playing on my Switch because I got a review code as well. But I'm gonna pop this into my PlayStation 4 as well to compare graphics, definitely. So beautiful. I sniffed everything, sorry. Okay. Now here we have a little keychain. I wanna say something about this, but I'm gonna save that for the end of the video. Something funny, something actually really shocking. So a big reveal will happen at the end of this video. Don't skip ahead, watch the entire video. Okay, so next up, oh my. Whoa, I love it. So that's two posters. I actually need stuff like this for my accounting, for my paperwork when it comes to everything that I do. And another one. I need stuff like this, like office supplies with Atelier Isha on it. A cloth, oh yes. So that is obviously very frameable. Maybe I can frame it just like I did with the death and request poster. I'm looking forward to the announcement at the end of the video. Oh my God. I don't know if I can dare say it, but something happened. But anyways, here we have what I find to be the most interesting part of any limited edition, the art book. And I'm very particular with my art books. I think this is going to be good. It's in Japanese, but it's fine. There's some English in it. So here we have the character designs. Fi, which is the cute little mascot of Atelier Isha 2. You get him pretty early on. Not gonna spoil how, but that is kind of funny. Here we have Claudia. But I'm gonna show you which one is my favorite character so far in Atelier Isha 2. It's one of the newcomers. I really enjoy her, where is she? There she is, Patty, also known as Patricia. I just like her because she has a good backstory. I think she comes from like a royal family and she's not allowed to do anything because she is royal and stuff and she is really envious of Ryza because she can do whatever she wants basically. And that is a really fun and interesting dynamic between Patty and Ryza. I actually really enjoy the cutscenes between these two characters so far in the game. Now, this is one newcomer as well, Clifford. He's more of a mysterious guy. And then you have some familiar faces, like Tao. And like the new city in Atelier Isha 2, it is huge. And this city has the favorite piece of music. I'm gonna have that as a background music to this video. It is so good. I am loving walking around in the city, just listening to that tune, to that music. So that is an early impression that I can tell you about the game. And the music was good. Also in Atelier Isha 2, an Atelier girl can for the first time actually swim also underwater and sling herself with ropes, overclips and climb. I mean, Ryza in this game. She's much more versatile. English is not my language. A lot of the locations so far in the game are beautiful. Basically, overall, I'm very happy with the game, but I am nowhere near ready to do any sort of review of the game yet, because that just has to wait. I have to play the game completely and fully before I do a review. You know how I do my things. I like to create super detailed reviews so that you can trust me, so that you can trust my reviews. I never throw out a review if I'm not ready. And right now I am kind of too busy to play the game as much as I would normally at this point, but a review will come, you know me. I review every Atelier game ever, almost anyway. I'm very fond of this series. They are so good, okay? If you have never played any Atelier game before, I highly recommend this series. Like truly highly, because they are complex RPG games with leveling, questing, fighting, collecting, crafting, cutscenes, Japanese voice acting. That is the thing, there's no English dub in Risa 1 and 2. I wish there was, but it's fine. I just treat the Japanese voices as if it was, you know, like in Animal Crossing, it's only gibberish. I treat it like that, but I just get the general gist of how their voice sounds, even though I can't understand it. Okay, so guys, this is a key chain and I'm just gonna break the news to you guys. I don't know if I can say this, but I'm just gonna say it and then leave the video. Yusha Man and I, we bought a house. What? More on that later, I guess. But we did that today and we have been looking for a long time. So finally, and we have been saving for a long time. It wasn't spontaneous, but this can hold the key. Guys, if you wanna have my quick impression of Atelier Risa 2, it is worth it. Buy it, it is worth it. I am having such a good time with the game. I am totally enjoying myself and the music and the graphics and the characters and most of all, actually, the gameplay loop. The loop of the gameplay where you are in control of what you wanna do, when you wanna do it, if you wanna do some side quests, if you wanna continue your main quest, if you wanna check out some of the cutscenes, if you wanna go crafting, if you wanna go and collect a lot of materials or simply just explore. You're free to do almost whatever you want across all Atelier games. And that is a formula that I highly appreciate and I also love the art style of the entire series. I am the Atelier girl on YouTube. I like to think that I am. So that simply means I am saying thank you, Koei Takmo and Gast for giving me Atelier stuff. I appreciate it so much. Now, thank you so much for watching this video and please hit like on it. I'm sorry for not updating my YouTube channel as much as I used to. But I'm busy now. But I won't be like in a month's time. I won't be as busy anymore because then I'm done with the project that I'm currently working on with work and stuff. Yeah. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you later. I hope you enjoy Atelier Riser 2.


Everybody forced here being 2022 select team all football 10 box number 12 find these results anytime of late in sports cards comm results Quickly because the bottom of the website Let's go ahead and get started. Thanks everybody Yeah, Dustin the one on the preview photo Oh my god, that'd be insane a pool on the the preview of like the galaxy product There's like a super fractured dual auto photo of Harrison Ford Mark Hamill dual auto Dude Matt a pipe all that Like Matt pick out which box I should rip you pick out which one you would rip. No, I'm sure take it from me We were all talking about Kyle Dylan I doing like a like a box war and like just don't let don't let Dylan join or not don't don't let Matt join All to 89 on the snakeskins no matter the level all to 89 a Russell Wilson Denver Hendrickson for the Bengals Donovan Wilson for the Cowboys Could be Dean base rookie and a silver mid-sized Sanders premier level rookie to the Titans one 237. Come on Beat the Patriots the Patriots are supposed to win by 50 dang it now. I don't have any anything say that for retirement there goes all of it Spoiler never did have anything say that retirement. Oh Hey, Malik willis 15 for 20 to touchdowns 211 yards had two picks, but That's pretty cool Patriots didn't throw the ball at all Zabby through 15 pass Patriots never do anything preseason they're always like, yeah, I run the ball run the ball run the ball All right got Minka and these are all 89 of the Dragon scales Gino Smith for the Seahawks Justin Fields bears concourse 68 of 89 Jermaine Robinson and silver Kyle Hamilton Ravens club level die cuts Yeah, there goes a Bentley Dude the women of Star Wars that is gonna be fire That Ahsoka they have pictured on the the mock-up images to that thing is gonna go crazy, dude That thing is gonna have some insane value We've got 89 Kenyan green Texans rookie Stefan digs Bills and Nick Bonito for the Broncos He onto Ingram in a silver concourse Rondale more. I'm just ready for a galaxy to be here. What is that? What is that Wednesday the 30th is Wednesday? Yeah, I need to give in rich and do some to do a galaxy Let me do a goushee mathematics, too Yeah, Jason. I am I'm doing all my act on Sunday in my name do it all of its Brian Awesome one of the second you brought in the professional this time Got Nick Bosa Niners to 89 and it's you and me both both nights right? Oh, man, dude. It's Sean and I both nights It's going down Nick Bosa 89 Niners Devin Lloyd rookie Jags on the concourse to 89 That's Spiller and a silver concourse Ricky Rashad white for the Buccaneers That's off dude. That's so awesome Dustin. That's so sick Got a 89 snakeskin rookie Kyle Hamilton Ravens Calvin also in a third rookie for the Steelers also and a Brady premier level to 89 55 89 for Tampa Bay Adelene silver premier level Heineke for the commanders. I actually just picked up a pretty nice lay-off from one of the one of the galaxies Picked up a couple actually Buying some Star Wars recently y'all I'm not sure if y'all follow me on Instagram But my wife and I were at late in gaming like a week and a half ago and we ripped a galaxy box and hit she pulled an absolute freaking Monster card dude. Yeah It's 89 mark Andrews for the Ravens like Raw it's probably around 450 or 500 I would guess really yes Now concourse Ricky Dan Bellinger to 89 Giants Jalen Ramsey premier level But we're not I'm not there's no chance. I sell and we're gonna get it graded by HTC and just keep it silver clay pool No chance to sell Pulled a lack of faith Extractor three of ten out of that thing dude. It was so funny.  There's like two numbered cards usually like an auto and So she's like, oh this one looks kind of cool and we like freak out Caleb and I were like, oh my god and like everybody in the shop just comes over to the table. It was nuts. She was just like And I was like also just hand me the card Everyone just went bananas See Higgins a ridder to 89 nice one Falcons 48 of 89 Got Kyler Gordon rookie for the Bears There was like a graded one of the same card we pulled the 50 that was like a 10 that sold for like Around like four picture 500. So I'm like, okay, then that's what this one's worth completely raw like as is That silver talk or tricky Kobe Bryant for the Seahawks. I Don't even think if I were to sell it I probably even sell it for anything less than 500 and I would probably keep it up for a while You know and then everything else that we ripped that day was total garbage That's how it goes That was definitely the biggest card I've ever seen Like me or her like pull out of a pack. It was honestly crazy Tri-color rookie nice. Sorry snakeskin London. That's nice 62 89 for the London Trayvon Walker Jags as well and as Zion Johnson chargers and we've got a relic auto here Steelers on the red rookie patch out of Calvin Austin the third nice one Steelers Silver rookie is Davis price for the Niners. Oh another relic auto. What? Holy cow. How about that? Usually it's like to a case God hurts to 89. There you go. He goes a cool color match Got rookie concourse j-mo to 89 dude in an olave as well All to 89 Dude, that's what's up. Yeah, dude stark. Bendu is awesome, man bendu is great and Rookie relic auto is a Kenny picket What a box that was Congrats to the Steelers Get the Calvin Austin and the previous box really nice Dragon scales in the first few cards this one and a Kenny picket rookie jersey auto Congrats Pittsburgh. What a break. This has been silver premiere level 2 up for the Dolphins. My goodness Team all delivering big sometimes it can be tough because you're only getting the numbered cards usually But team all delivered You got a Parsons to 89 a Cameron Jordan to 89 and a Mike white to 89 A shot white and silver Matt Ryan Colts that will do for the break everybody. Thank you again moving on now to select hobby


After 23 years of consecutive representation to her country, and with the solution flag still wrapped around her back, Laverne Spencer is saluted for outstanding achievements in high jump. Constituency rep for Barbono, Honorable Dr. Virginia Albert Poyot, is honored to have Laverne home. From the constituency of Barbono, we are very proud of her as a constituent and her performance. She has actually put St. Lucia on the whole stage. She has created an impact and normally we use the word she has raised the bar for all our young people. So we are very excited to welcome her home as she has decided to take her retirement from high jumping. Having proudly carried the flag for her country at four successive Olympic Games, Laverne felt the time had come for her to retire. It was a tough decision, but it's a decision that you have to make some time, some point in life. My body spoke to me and then it's going to tell you when it's time to retire. And I started speaking to me and I was like, okay, it's time to give up the spikes and let's make way for the younger ones coming up. So now I'm just relaxing and taking it all in and going through the process and all the years have tortured my body, bartered through cold and sun and pain and aches. So like I said in my in my little speech, you know, it was a lot of highs and lows. It wasn't all smooth sailing, but it was worth it. I don't think I have any regrets. It was tough, but now that I'm done, I'm going to try to relax and enjoy it. During her retirement, Laverne plans to assist younger athletes in achieving success and contribute to sports development in St. Lucia. Marvin St. Louis reporting from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports.