Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Let me be one of the first to say to you, happy new year. Welcome to 2023. And also, thank you for an amazing 2022. I appreciate all of you guys that tune into the videos. I absolutely love doing this, and I really appreciate all the comments and everything, all the support. Throughout the last year, it has been a remarkable year. And of course, I owe it all to you guys. So thank you so much for the support, and we look to do it even bigger and better this year in 2023. With that being said, EA Sports, they've done it again with Winter Wild Cards being so far the best promo this year. Even more objective content dropped yesterday, and that's what I wanna talk about today. We have draft objectives now. We've got friendlies, we've got daily SBCs, footchamps, player picks, and even foot draft is getting shown some love for the first time this year with some really good content, and extra player picks and packs available via Objective for Rewards for playing that. But today's a Sunday, and of course, since we didn't have a mini-release yesterday, we're looking towards a mini-release today. I wanna talk about today's Sunday, January 1st, first day of 2023 content on this game. And of course, the question that we all want the answer to, what's EA gonna do with this winter best of? Are these guys going out of packs today, or are they staying? They've stayed in packs through the weekend. Of course, these guys dropped exactly one week ago on Christmas. So that's a big question mark today as well, because a lot of these cards could potentially go up if they go out of packs today, but I wish, again, we still don't have any information about that from EA Sports. And of course, right now, a very hot topic is Christiane Ronaldo signing in the Saudi League. And a lot of people went out on Friday and invested in his gold card, thinking that it was going to be going out of packs. Well, hey, the January window, the winter transfer window is now open, right? So technically, the Ronaldo transfer, it sounds like it looks like it's gonna happen in this winter window. He should be getting a new card, but it's probably not gonna happen for a couple of weeks. And I wanna dive into that a little bit in this video and why I think there will be an investment opportunity here, but not yet. I think we need to wait a little bit longer as this card is gonna come back into packs in the next couple of weeks. Still as a Manchester United card, once this rule breakers version that is in packs now removed. So there's a lot to talk about today. And of course, we're gonna take a look at the market and what could be happening today on Sunday with content. If you're excited for the video today, hit the thumbs up. And if you're new around here, hit the subscribe button. Let's first look at today's content on Sunday. What are we expecting? Well, of course, last week, we had the mini-release on Saturday. We didn't get anything yesterday, but there are only two cards out of the leak that we saw earlier this week that have not dropped yet in the game. And that is Pepe and Herrera. I'm guessing this is Ander Herrera, the PSG midfielder. And of course, this is Nico Las Pepe, also in the league one, getting a special card in winter wildcards. Only two cards out of this list, though, have not dropped in the game, which is a bit weird because usually mini-releases consist of three or four cards. Most oftentimes it's not just two. So I would think that EA would add another card to this mini-release.  Down below. And right now we are still in that first row. So hopefully, I mean, I would cross my fingers for at least three players today, maybe four in the mini-release. But honestly, who knows, but we can count on Pepe and Herrera most likely being a part of that mini-release today. I do expect that to be a part of content. Now, of course, we are currently on 21 swap tokens. We had two tokens yesterday with the winter wildcards challenge five and the draft objective does give you a token. So 21 tokens in total and the objectives are available until January 6th. So I would assume that EA is gonna drop another token today, where would that be? Maybe in another SBC. I think last weekend on the weekend, they went pretty heavy with the SBC. So I would imagine that they might drop another winter wildcards challenge today, or maybe something else in objectives to give us another at least one swap token. Of course, we would expect that and player SBC, right? Yesterday we had the CELAS player SBC, which again, you can't really look at these and say they're bad value because EA just makes them so cheap. And that's been the best part about this winter wildcards promo. And honestly, pretty consistent from EA throughout the winter period this year, even during some of the World Cup promos, a lot of the SBCs of cards that don't have that great of stats, EA still makes them fun enough to be semi-usable and kind of a hype player with CELAS. I'm just gonna say big name, but just the hype player in the FIFA community. Shout out Danny Arons. Five star skills, three star week foot. It's only like 40,000 coins. It's okay that it's that cheap because the card's not that great. So fun content, right? Not amazing, but fun. So maybe we have that Bella Garda center mid, I think that's his name. That's one that a lot of people have been looking forward to as a winter wildcards player. I don't even know how to spell his name. Yeah, this guy right here. A French midfielder that was leaked a couple of days ago. So that CELAS was leaked a long time ago as well. We got that yesterday. So maybe we're getting that guy today. Who knows, but expecting to see a player SBC is that's been the trend every single day a winter wildcards SBC player. Now again, that's kind of our Sunday content. I'm not expecting anything crazy in that regard. Now could EA shake it up? Absolutely, right? I think where they might shake it up today is really with this winter best of. Like either this stays in packs and it's just boring and it stays the same. Or since this has been out for a week, EA pulled them out. I mean, there's technically a slight chance that they could do a different winter best of for the second half of the winter wildcards promo. And maybe they were just going from Sunday to Sunday with that sort of content. So that's a really big part of the market that I want to look at today because a lot of the guys that have been put back into packs, I mean, these guys have dropped. Like look at 9.22 for Messi. I mean, that seems really low. I might have to check his price here in a second. There's not very many cards to like a million coins, but like that's really low for his card, of course, on the lower tier. Remember we were looking at Los Angeles Martinez on Friday at like 64,000 coins. And I believe he's like, what, 40 something K now. 40,000 coins for this Martinez card just because it maintained the supply and was supplied a lot more this weekend while it was in packs. So just again, the most frustrating thing here is and I tweeted this out yesterday. We have no conversation, no information from EA Sports and we've been saying this all week, but it's ridiculous that these guys have been out in packs now for seven days and we have zero communication, no list, no timeframe or anything. So cheeky plug, follow Twitter if you're not already. But I mean, that's just kind of crazy. Hopefully today something changes with this, right? If these guys are going to be in packs all the way until the end of Winter Wildcarts Team 2, they're just, their prices are going to get even further down into the floor throughout the rest of this week as they're going to get supplied a little bit more and stuff. And we would want to watch those prices because there are some really, really meta players in here, but we just want some communication and that would be fine if they wanted to put out like the team at the tournament messy, team at the tournament and Boppe, maybe you throw like, I don't know, some of the other path to glories in packs, like another best of Winter, I'm sure EA, go for it. I guess the only thing you have to be careful with then is like, if any of you guys own, like let's say they do Walker Path to Glory in the second best of Winter, you know, then of course, some cards would be dropping a lot of price and that would be kind of, you know, annoying for a player standpoint if you own this card and then you see his price just destroyed because he got put back into packs. That would be annoying, but that's a very interesting part of content today on Sunday that I want to watch. Now, of course, the market. We talked about in yesterday's video, the market was pretty high. It still is pretty high. I would, I would really class the market and I would describe the market right now in this game as being pretty stable in most areas. Yesterday I flipped a couple icons. I bought this muller at one mil flat. I had really good profits on Kaffu. I bought two of these, one under 1.4 mil and one a little over 1.4 mil. So I made a lot of profit on that. Sold the de Bruyne, sold the Salah, sold the Romero's I bought on the stream. Flipped the Gabriel Jesus, I bought that at 6.30. And then I bought a bunch of Vanja Malinkovich Savage at about 38 to 39,000 coins. Sold a lot of them for 47K. So some really good flips yesterday. I think there's gonna be opportunities for flips today. I'm losing coins in the Desai. But I think there's good opportunities for flips today on the market as well. As you've seen and as we always see, some of these impacts cards from the Winter Wild Cards team too have dropped off a lot in price. Again, Malinkovich Savage 28K, sign me up for that, right? I bought this guy last night for 39,000, 40,000 coins. Sold them for 47 and now you're telling me he's in the 20s as a 99 speed goalkeeper. I know his reactions are not that good but it's just a fun card, right? So, you know, some of these Winter Wild Cards I think could have a slight bounce again today as a few of them had some fluctuations and some rises yesterday into Saturday. I think some of the same could happen to Lay in Sunday. But also I really think that some of your just cheaper cards on the market that are still pretty meta from recent Primal teams and even some of your most popular gold cards, I think that on Sundays, a lot of people that play squad battles, especially with this influx of new players on the game, you've been seeing it, right? A lot of your lower tier cards have had really good movement in the past week.  You look at some of the other gold cards, like I think of Mohamed Salah as another one that's done really good. Gold Neymar has been rising up in price just because like this guy was 84K last week, right? And now Neymar who is still in packs and still getting supplied through landing rounds, you know, yesterday he didn't move as much but Friday he was down to like 95, went above 100. So, you know, a card like this could continue to go up a little bit especially with all the league one links that we have that are really hyped at the moment. And I think that lower tier on the market today would be a part of the market that I would want to watch. Maybe like Gold Vinny, Gold Sun. Some of these gold cards that you're like, Nate, they're dead, right? Well, not necessarily. Gold Vinny yesterday went from 22K up to 25 almost, back down to 20. So, now he's back up to 22. And then some of your promo cards from recent promo teams that are on the cheaper tier that tend to fluctuate a bit in price or just some of your most meta promo cards in general, maybe some of the Phenom's cards. Like, look at Saka, 125K. That card just keeps going up in price as you kind of monitor his fluctuations. He's of course out of packs. Dan James, another one that moves a lot. So like these kind of under 150, under 200,000 coin cards that people are buying and adding to their teams, they fluctuate a lot in price. And I think there's gonna be opportunities to see a few of them go up today just because I feel like with squad battle rewards, a lot of people that are maybe getting the game for the first time or going out and playing squad battles, getting some objectives done that are out there. So I think I'd watch that cheaper tier of the market today. Of course, you could definitely trade with icons. If you're on a higher tier budget, I gotta tell you guys right now that trading with prime icons, which they just made it a whole lot easier on the companion app or the web app. They finally allowed these guys to be searchable, but like these guys just get mad rare and they fluctuate a ton. And there's demand for them because people are playing the game right now and people are playing week in league and stuff like that. Mr. Berthold Carlos is getting a little bit low for what I've seen in his price. We'll look at that Muller card again. So on all budgets, I think there'll be opportunities to trade and to make coins today on this game. You just kind of have to watch prices. Watch foot bin. The market is very healthy. There's not a lot of crashing that's going on right now. Again, I would just use the word stable to describe a lot of the market, except there is one area that is down a lot and that is center backs. And that's because we've had a couple really, really popular SBCs dropped in the past few days on center backs. Number one was the Eric Bayee SBC. And if you take a look at some of your most meta center backs in the game, look at the price drop offs we're seeing here. Kutira Merrill, 265,000 coins. He was 300 on Thursday, right? We have back to back days. We have Eric Bayee SBC on Friday. And then on Thursday, we had the Maldini and a lot of these players have gone down, especially in the center back position. Cordoba, who I just looked up, he's 313. What was he before the crash? He was 370. And now he is down to 300,000 coins. Some of these center backs that are pretty rare, pretty meta, like I would say the Romero and the Cordoba are great examples of that. I would just say keep an eye on them because if there starts to be some hype with other leaks like right now, a lot of the League One hype is real, right? You take a look at League One cards across the game, especially because of the Eric Bayee, the Payette. We've been talking about these two guys in SBCs. If we get another League One midfielder today, some of your other League One cards could continue to go up in price, but that's where the hype is right now. French links in League One, especially with the center back Eric Bayee that got dropped, a lot of your center backs are down. There will be a low point and these cards will start to rebound, but the ones that will rebound first are the ones that have like new cards that are released that are hyped from that league or from that nation that kind of pushed them up a little bit. So guys like Cordoba, guys like Romero, maybe check out some of your other really meta center backs that are in this game. They've probably dropped off a little bit in price recently just because like this Marquinhos, man, 560,000 coins, this guy was 670, and now he's 560, and this is even a League One card, but people that are really excited to go, I guess go and do the Maldini SBC. There's been a lot of panic selling there. And you know, we do have a big time Verran that is in this current promo team as well. So that's probably hurting some of the top tier center backs in the game. So just center backs are a position right now that are dropping a lot in price, but there would be a potential to rebound in the future, just depending on what cards get released with what hype, links, and opportunities there are to putting your teams there. So that's kind of what's going on with the market. It should be still pretty stable, but again, to me, that just, I don't know, kind of signals an opportunity that in the next, it doesn't have to be today or tomorrow, but in the next couple of days, you would think it might not be a terrible time to start thinking about offloading some cards from your club if you're making a lot of coins on them. We're gonna open 85 plus double from objectives and we get a league one PSG cheeky Kailor Navas PSG pack right there. Wow, okay, we will take that. Why couldn't we have had an Mbappe there EA sports? That would have been fantastic if we were running with the PSG love, but anyways, I will take that fodder from a double 85 plus. By the way, objective packs are juiced. I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but like that 85 plus double came from the Winter Wild Cards daily login, which today, people that have been keeping up with this SPC, you're gonna be getting an 81 times 11. So like almost everybody on FIFA today is gonna get an 81 times 11 pack. And that's just another reason why so many people are able to do SPCs right now and are crafting Winter Wild Cards players, Jarzino and all that good stuff. There's just so much fodder that you are able to attain from all of these packs. So this is a really big W. We are getting towards the end in which the early part of this week will all be opening Winter Wild Cards player packs which will be super duper hype. But guess what, EA Sports yesterday said, hey, you wanna grind after one of those packs? Well, we'll give you the opportunity to go after too because I believe maybe it's not in this year. Not in Winter Draft, but in, oh yeah, it's Winter Wild Cards Cup. Right now we have so many objectives, it's hard to keep them straight, but yesterday they dropped Winter Draft. And guys, I have not played a foot draft this year. Foot draft came into FIFA and FIFA 16, it was all the rage for a couple of years and it has died off big time because the rewards were just not worth it. But EA is bringing the hype back. If you actually go into foot draft and they combine this objective with a very, very cheap and very good value draft token, SBC that you can do every single day. If I can find it right here, it's only like 7,000 coins to do or 8,000 coins which is half the price of what it usually costs in coins to get into a draft. So really, really good value for this. You can do this once a day which is a great grind to coincide with the objectives. So draft is kind of hot right now, right? You can go in a draft and get some extra rewards if you wanna grind it. That's why I'm saying like EA has done it again with Winter Wild Cards. This content is top tier. This is really peak content guys, like all of the extra player picks and the fodder and the cups and the friendly objective game modes. You combine that with the daily player SBCs, the swaps program that is bam, bam, bam tokens every single day. This is peak content, all right? And this is just like Winter Wild Cards from last year. EA has done it again with this Winter Wild Cards promo. They have dropped a W, right? Of course, you could look at the player SBCs and say they could be a little better. Yeah, but they're all cheap at least, right? None of them have been crazy, crazy overpriced. If you just don't like doing O'Kello or maybe even Maxim Hillet, then don't. It's only 30, 40,000 coins. Anyway, you're not really missing out on too much or you don't have to spend too much to get those guys. So again, I just think that this content is absolutely insane and also just kind of keep that in mind, right? Because after this week, we go into another promo called Foot Centurions, it seems. That is the leak. And of course, as we get ready towards team of the year, like a lot of us are gonna have really, really high expectations heading into this next promo and we're gonna get used to all of this stuff, right? Now, all this stuff is, you know, some of it's out for five more days. Some of it's out for like winter draft is out for a couple more, two weeks, basically. So there's a lot of time left on this stuff and it'll go into overlap with the Centurions promo. But this is like, it's not gonna get too much better than this guys and I think we have to just realize that. Like we can't be expecting this level of content every single promo because EA just, they just don't wanna deliver it every single promo. And if they gave us this 10, nine out of 10, 10 out of 10 content all the time, our expectations would just go higher and higher and honestly, this promo this year in the content is, I would say, almost even better than last year with the draft stuff they added yesterday, there's literally every single facet of the game right now. Every single game mode that there is, even squad battles, there's objectives to get done but even moments too, right? You've got rivals of course, you're weekly grind, you've got extra champs picks, you've got friendly cups to play and now you've got draft, right? And I've got draft tokens so I'll probably do this during the week, you might as well. The content right now is just fantastic. It's grindable on all different levels and of course you can go to SBCs, you talk about the league SBCs, it's wild. So again, I just wanna talk about that a little bit because this is basically as good as it gets in EA, they're timing it perfectly, right? They're timing it around the holidays, around the new year where they know there's gonna be a lot of new players that get the game for the first time, they're gonna be trying out FIFA for the first time and just having opportunities to play in all these modes and to drive engagement. EA is being really, really smart by doing this and by doing what they're doing right now. I'm gonna take a quick look at this messy live with you guys in this video because 9.22 seems very cheap. Has he been there all day? He's been between, wow, he was 9.50. Yeah, I think I probably could have bought that 9.22 and then maybe sold it for around a million coins. If I see another messier like 900K, I might have to snag that because him going up 100,000 coins would mean 50K net after tax profit. So we'll keep an eye on that messy, see what he does today. PSG links, it's messy, right? Anyways, last thing I wanna talk about in this video, Cristiano Ronaldo. Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo got his transfer to the Saudi League. He went after the bag, he got the bag. Whatever your opinions are on the situation, it impacts FIFA, all right? It impacts FIFA because no longer is Ronaldo going to have a Manchester United card. And I think that was part of the issue when they dropped his flashback just a week ago or a week and a half ago, they had to make it a Portugal League card because he was not signified or not signed by any club at the time. And the FIFA Pro rights kind of would have changed, I guess, right? Well, this Ronaldo card is gonna act like all other cards that we see during the winter transfer window, which is now open, right? Since it's January.  And that's what I wanna talk to you guys about because some people, after they saw this picture earlier in the weekend, went out and started buying the Cristiano Ronaldo gold card because they're like, it's gonna go out of packs, I have to invest. Well, technically right now, this card is out of packs. The rule breakers is in packs. And you saw this card go up a lot, especially on Friday when the news broke, right? And Ronaldo went from 80K, he went all the way to about 97 and then kind of went back down, basically dropped all the yesterday down to the low 80s again. Now, couple things with this card. First of all, it will stay in packs until EA add a brand new Ronaldo will be the same rating. They do this every year when they do the transfer cards, right? It'll probably take a couple of weeks though before they add in the Al-Nasser, Cristiano Ronaldo card, which will still be 90 rated but it will have the Al-Nasser links on it, right? It'll have that club badge, right? Maybe they'll update the image on the card to show him, you know, the cheesing and the portrait, you know, there, what? His Ronaldo, this Manchester United card will not go out of packs, in my opinion, for at least a week to two weeks because it takes EA time to add in all the new players and all the new clubs and they sort of add them in in batches, right? So on foot, then, if you wanna wait and see when this is gonna get dropped, you go to the players tab, drop down new FIFA 23 players. You see like, Celas is one of the first ones that is added there. You will start to see that EA will populate this with cards and they'll start to add them into the game and Footbin will start to add those to the website of a Ronaldo with a different club badge and with different links. So that's what I would watch out for with this Ronaldo card because, you know, he will be getting a new card in the game and this one will go out of packs but it's not out of packs just yet and I think it's gonna come down to a timing thing with these cards because, you know, of course, Al-Nasser is in the game, right? And so, Ronaldo will get a card and it's not like they don't have the rights or whatever, right? He'll be like, Teliska will have a card in the game with that club badge and with those league links in the Saudi League. But that gold card for Ronaldo that is Manchester United and especially the rule breakers are gonna have some value because they're gonna have better links for most people that wanna use this Ronaldo card in their team. So I'm just saying that this Ronaldo, I mean, this Ronaldo and the gold one will be an investment at some point but I think we need to wait a little bit because the gold card's gonna come back into packs. It's gonna probably drop as we head towards team of the year but we're gonna have to keep a close eye to foot bin and to the game and the concepts because once they add that new Ronaldo into the code it'll be a very short time period until we see that one in packs instead of the Manchester United one. So I would not go invest in Ronaldo yet especially with his gold card being out of packs right now. I would definitely wait until the rule breaker is out of packs. This gold card will come back into packs here probably pretty soon when the winter best of is up whenever that may be. And then as soon as EA look like they're adding the new Ronaldo card to the game then we can start to look at the market and go and get involved with that because I think those are all those long term even this one, the rule breakers Ronaldo, I think there's some value there. I really do just because of the links that he has the dynamic image with the Manchester United kit and I think that'll make it more valuable in FIFA to most people of course. So until it gets like a team of the season card or something for Al-Nasir and then he'll be like 96 or seven rated or whatever. And I don't know about team of the year. I mean that's a whole other conversation itself. Team of the year is voted on nowadays. So maybe Ronaldo gets a team of the year this year just because his fan voted, who knows. But that's a whole big conversation and I've talked enough in this video but I hope you guys have a great start to the new year enjoy the time with family and friends and hopefully EA drops some new year cheer on the game today as well. EA, I mean they're giving us an 81 times 11 so that's pretty solid. And the conference been great. So I'm gonna ask for too much but they've been doing a great job. So if you guys enjoyed this video today, smash thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. And subscribe if you do. It has been Nathan Vodoukown. I'll catch you guys tomorrow. Peace.


Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I stand to support the resolution which was moved by the Minister for Finance and Prime Minister of St. Lucia, and I agree with him, Mr. Speaker, that it is revolutionary. Although the member of Foch-Wazale indicated that this government continues what other governments have done before, and I am sure it is not in the same way. And I know the Minister for Finance will clarify, but Mr. Speaker, before I continue, I wish for you to give me a few seconds just to congratulate the police. I want to join my colleagues to congratulate the police, the revelers, all of the team, the team members, the leaders. I want to pay special tribute to my colleague, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Member of Parliament for Kastri South for his still-in-leadership over the last few months in the carnival, the Calypso and so on. We had practically an incident-free season. I want to also congratulate everyone, the band leaders, the creators, all those who have joined us here in the parliament, and those who made St. Lucia Carnival what it was. Julian Alfred, we have all expressed our joy, and I also want to, on behalf of the people of V4 North, congratulate her and wish her well as she continues. Mr. Speaker, I wish, before I say a few words on this resolution, just to say a very special thanks to the professionals, the medical professionals in St. Lucia who over the years have attempted and in some respects very successfully, some of them have established medical practices, professional, very sought-after services in St. Lucia, and they have provided a space for the people of St. Lucia to access high-quality services. Mr. Speaker, many of them have established whether it be at the private hospital or in their own private offices, and if you go around the country, especially in the V4 area, the castries area and so on, the north of the island, in the south of the island, you see more and more medical professionals establishing not just offices, not just the traditional doctors' offices, but you realize they're establishing services almost like mini-hospitals. You go to establishments and you can see many professionals all at once, and you get a sense based on evidence that the doctors in St. Lucia, the medical professionals, whether they be providing dialysis services or other services, are really expanding their services, and this resolution will assist them in that regard. I recently returned from a trip, a tour of the new hospital which has been constructed in Guadalupe, and Mr. Speaker, it is amazing to see the kind of equipment that they have over there, I'm sure, in Martinique, neighbor in Martinique, same thing, and you would think, Mr. Speaker, that it is just the skills, but it's not just their skills. We have doctors and professionals in St. Lucia who can do just the same, and as the Prime Minister said a while ago, what we are lacking is a lot of the equipment, and I know for a fact, Mr. Speaker, that even as we speak, there are medical professionals in St. Lucia who have applied for certain waivers, who have applied to the cabinet, and very soon, I'm sure you'll hear announcements of some very advanced services that will be provided by them to St. Lucia, and so Mr. Speaker, when our people travel to Martinique or Guadalupe or other countries, it is not because our professionals do not have the skills. There are some very complicated surgeries that have been carried out in St. Lucia, not too long ago, a constituent of mine, God bless him and his doctors, a constituent of mine just collapsed in his garden, a very good friend of mine, Mr. Speaker, and it was found that he had some severe trauma in his brain. Mr. Speaker, sometime ago, when you hear things like that, you would not believe that there are medical professionals in St. Lucia, particularly one of them, Mr. Speaker, who opens up your skull, removes your part of your scalp, surgical procedure on your brain, and right now this gentleman is fine after surgery. So there are some very good examples of neurosurgeons and other medical professionals in St. Lucia who are sought after and who have really done well and who are developing medical tourism services in St. Lucia and also services for our own people. Even before I go into the details of the resolution, Mr. Speaker, I always like as Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs to encourage St. Lucia to not only check your doctor and your medical professionals very regularly, but also to carry out all your tests, your colonoscopy tests, all of your tests, especially as we grow older, especially us men, especially us, especially Mr. Speaker, the tradition is that men don't don't like to go to the doctors. The tradition is that Mr. Speaker, the doctors tell you when a lady, any little ink, the lady feels. It doesn't matter where in her body, she's at the doctor, but the men, you know, we like to, you know, we macho and we don't want to go to the doctor until it's too late. So I always like Mr. Speaker to say those things and to say also that just as the government is encouraging us to contribute 2.5 percent for the health and security levy, when I speak to people, I always say to them, put a little thing aside for your health. Put a little thing aside just as you have your savings. Put a little 25 cents, a little 50 cents, a little $2, $5, depends on what you're making. Put something aside for your health. Pay the NIC. Even though you are working for yourself, Mr. Speaker, pay your little NIC, go to the NIC, self-employed people, you can do that and put something aside for your health.  When it's too late, dialysis, all kinds of conditions, when it's too late and then you realize some people maybe through difficulty or challenges, they're not working, but those who can, those who can, put a little something aside for your health. Those of us, Mr. Speaker, who help other people, if we can, who help our relatives and so on, if you can give them $20 and you can put a little extra five for them, put a little something aside for the health, because all the doctors will tell you, most of us visit them, most of us quickly go when it's too late and a lot of the diagnosis, a lot of the diagnostics can be done when we check things early. So I always like to say that. So Mr. Speaker, I support this resolution and just very quickly to let honorable members know why we need to do this and what role the various pieces of equipment play. We know about the CT scan, Mr. Speaker. Most people now know what's a CT scan and why we do it. It combines X-ray images from different angles of your body. So you want a CT scan of different parts of your body, Mr. Speaker. That's very, very important. And sometimes we take these things for granted, but not all of the doctors, most of the doctors would love to have access to a good CT scan. And you know, Mr. Speaker, a good CT scan at the lower level would cost about $130,000 US dollars. So you can understand why the medical professionals would want to get relief so that they now can assist the people of St. Lucia. An endoscopy, that one, most doctors, most people, well, let me not say most, but many people who have gone to doctors would know what an endoscopy is. It's a little tube with a small camera inside. It goes through your body, through your mouth, and the doctor can check. So it's important, no, no, no. Far from that, far from Dr. Moussa. But I think it's important for us to explain to the people what these things are so that if we are going to waive that, it's important for the doctors to have a good CT scan. Atheroscopy, Mr. Speaker, we are also doing it for that. And one of the, although it's small, one of it can cost about $11,500 US. And it's a little incision. It's mainly for the joints to investigate the joints, Mr. Speaker. Atheroscopy. It's mainly to investigate your joints. So from the word arthritis, atheroscopy, it's very important. And we also have, by the way, Mr. Speaker, while my colleagues tease me a bit, these can be found, Mr. Speaker. You can just Google them. And I don't want to make anybody think about it. When we're in the parliament, we must encourage the people of St. Lucia while we speak to go and check it out. Check what we're saying to make, check us to make sure that what we're saying, and we on this side, we always give you the real thing. So the, as we know, the histoscopy is from the word hysterectomy, from the word, you know, it has to do with the ladies and so on, and to check.  The ultrasound, Mr. Speaker, echocardiography, ultrasound, you know, cardio has to do with what? With the heart. I spent 32 years as a teacher. So cardio has to do with the heart. So that's very important, very important ultrasound. And our medical professionals are saying to us, more and more, we are finding people in St. Lucia who are coming, who are having challenges with heart disease. So it's very, very important to don't wait until we have something to go check. Just like you do your normal checks, it's good to go to the cardiologist and just check your heart, check your heart to make sure everything is okay. A mammogram. I think most people are familiar with that. Many ladies have gone for the mammogram colonoscopy. And I think we need to, there's a little mistake, I believe, with the spelling there. So it should really be a colonoscopy. And again, that's another one. Many of us are afraid of, people tell you, they don't want to do it. Especially men. It's for your colon. It's a piece of equipment that is push through your rectum and to check whether there are any issues there. Doctors use it to catch colon cancer. No, your colon. Colon cancer. So that's very important. And again, Mr. Speaker, it is something I say that we need to popularize. A lot of those medical tests and so on. We are afraid. Me too, you know, Mr. Speaker, I was very, very afraid of those things, Mr. Speaker. Well, I've done almost all of these. Especially the prostate test, Mr. Speaker, especially your prostate test for men, a lot of men are afraid. I have done all of it. And I was afraid at first, but Mr. Speaker, it is very important. I think as parliamentarians, the more we speak about these things, the more our constituents will feel comfortable to go and do it or do them. Because, Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, we do not want to hear our constituents say it was too late. A PSA test to test colon, not colon, sorry, but your prostate to test whether in your blood there are signs and so on for colon cancer, PSA. I think it's about $50, $75 in some cases. But what is $75 or $50 every year? Let's do it. Because at the end of the day, if we catch it early, then the doctors are not me saying so, you know, not me saying so. The doctors are saying, the medical professionals are saying, if we catch them early, then something can be done and our families can save a lot of money. So all of these pieces of equipment are very, very important. A fluoroscopy, Mr. Speaker, is to check your stomach and your intestines. And the MRI, everybody, well, not everybody, but most people know about the MRI because many individuals come to us for assistance to go to Martinique or to go to Barbados and so on. Even in St. Lucia, there are some MRI services. And I know, Mr. Speaker, that there are one or two local companies. One company has actually has set up the building and the equipment. Most of the equipment is here in St. Lucia already and they are setting up the MRI machine. And I know that there are other medical professionals or businesses and they are setting up the MRI. So I can see in the next few years, Mr. Speaker, St. Lucia becoming a hub for medical tourism. But most importantly, Mr. Speaker, yeah, most importantly, we see the private sector working hand in hand with the government and to see how best we can. It's not just government. The government by itself can never establish this medical landscape, can never, no government by itself can do it. So you must work with the private sector, the medical professionals, those who are in medical, in the businesses, the people who make equipment and so on. What we want is for St. Lucia's first and foremost, to have the best medical care at an affordable price. So whatever we can do as a government, we have taxes, whatever we can do to assist the private sector, we will do. And Mr. Speaker, the trouble someone, which is really an endoscopy for the gastrointestinal and lower upper gastro and lower gastro tract, Mr. Speaker, the colon geopancreatography. Really, what does it do? It's really an extra to treat problems of the bile duct and the pancreatic duct, bile and pancreas. So again, Mr. Speaker, it's just a long wait, but if you break it down, it's really, it's not difficult, you know, just break it down. And I encourage all our viewers and members of parliament, once again, before I sit, Mr. Speaker, I encourage everyone to do all of your tests, carnival is over and so on. You have a little, take a little two weeks, drink a lot of water and so on.   So I support this resolution, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.


And you're literally right there, right in the abdominal cavity, looking at like the uterus and all of that stuff.  So I wanted to give you guys all of the juicy details of everything I did as a PA student on my women's health rotation. And you know that this is the area that I want to go into, so I really like Dovan and I really wanted to be a part of it and know exactly everything that I could possibly learn in the short period of time, which was four weeks that I had on this rotation in the hospital. So I tried to do a lot and I think I got to do a lot as well. So let's get into the video. I did a women's health rotation and I'm actually doing two, maybe three women's health rotations just because again it's the area that I want to get into. So I have electives that I can choose from and then I would just essentially add that on as my next elective. In my women's health rotation we had to get there pretty early, like around seven. I'd always get there like a little bit before seven just in case I wanted to go eat breakfast and kind of hydrate myself because you never know when a C-section is going to happen. You never know when someone is going to go into labor and you want to be ready because you might be in the operating room when it's time for lunch and you might miss lunch.  So I'd do that. I'd get there maybe like 6.30ish and then from that we have sign out. So the women's health, the OBGYNPA from the night shift because they work 24 hour shifts and they work 3-24 hours in their two weeks. So they only work six times in the month which is really, really cool. So with respect to that they would have came in on the 7 o'clock the morning before and then they go all the way to 7 o'clock of the next day. So that PA that was on that night will then give report to the new PA that's coming in and the physicians and NPs like the nurse midwives because we're all part of the care of the people on the L and D floor. So the certified nurse midwives they take care of all of your simple OB cases, people that are laboring just vaginal birthing coming to their clinic and then the PAs usually do all of the sincere cases with the physicians and also something that's kind of in the works is possibly allowing them to go to the clinic because the hospital does have a clinic that they allow some of their patients to come to and then they direct their care from the clinic to the hospital as well. For me we would run through the cases, we get presented on everyone that is either laboring or gave birth or is postpartum day one, two, one, two or three depending on if they had a cesarean or if they did a vaginal birth. We just talk about their numbers, how they're trending, how they're doing, if they were pre-eclantic or not. If there was bleeding postpartum hemorrhage and if so how much then what did we give them?  That sign out usually lasts maybe like 30 or so minutes, 30 to 40 minutes and then from that we are free-ish until about nine. What will happen is I will then get a list of patients. So in sign up we have a list of patients but then I personally get a list of my patients that I'm going to go and see and make sure that they're doing well. I would go and feel where the fundal height is, is it below the umbilicus or not? Are they bleeding? I would ask them questions like are you bleeding? If so, are there clots? Because you know we expect that clots would start to kind of decrease. So it's important that you ask these questions and then depending on if I have patients that are actually getting discharged I would give them the discharge instructions. So you know tell them about what to look for, if there's a serum patient let them know hey you can take a shower with no baths make sure that you're just kind of damping the area clean, don't scrub it because although we put sutures in there if you rub it really hard you can tear the sutures that kind of stuff. Signs of infection, signs of postpartum, hypertension, all of those things so we're giving them all of this stuff and it's so cool because like they're literally my patients that I'm talking to you know some of them I've seen in like actually get their C-section done and then I follow them throughout the course of the next three days so it's really cool I loved it and then from that I would go to the actual like labor and delivery so we have like Mother Baby but then we have to go over to labor and delivery to see about the patients that are still laboring and so we'll get another sign out at around like 8 39 o'clock on those patients and then there in the labor and delivery room we floor we also have a board that actually talks about like who is laboring we'll have the heart tracings of both the mother and the baby we'll have information on they've gotten Potosin are they scheduled for a C section those type of things so it's important to also have that information after we get all of that then it's again your free time to kind of go and see any of your other patients if we get calls for ed consult we have to go to those as well which is pretty cool because you get to see like some really interesting cases come into the emergency department but since they're pregnant or if they're a woman for the most part you were the ones that they call so after that depending on what is scheduled for the day C section or not then you'd go in to the C section I talked about my general surgery rotation where I would scrub first and then Pat dry I don't usually do that with my women's health I literally just go in and I scrub and I walk in wet and then they give me the towel and then I pat dry I don't know why I don't do the other way but that's just what I did so I would do that and then you walk in again hands in you get your gloves on help well first off I help the patient so like we'd move the patient to the bed help the patient on I'm always there like hugging the patient as they're getting their epidural and then I'm doing everything else with respect to making sure that they're strapped up and all of that is done also get my gloves introduce myself to everybody in the room make sure that they're aware of who I am introduce myself to the patient and the family prior to going into the OR with them that's always important because like well who are you I don't know you have never seen you before in my life so you want to make sure that you're able to actually introduce yourself to the patients and then we'll go through the whole like cesarean case where you're cutting like the physicians cutting and they're retracting and they're passing things and you're literally right there right in the abdominal cavity looking at like the uterus and all of that stuff and then you see them cut through the uterus and pull baby out baby goes to the nurse and then from that you will then start closing and well you like make sure that you have a placenta it's all in one piece like all intact because if there's any remnants of that then it can cause postpartum hemorrhage so we'll make sure that that's intact and then they'll start to close which is partly like where you come in you're retracting because they close like the inner layers first and then from that I can close like the more superficial layer with a subcuticular stitch and then we add stereostrips some people like staples but a lot of the physicians are using like stereostrips and like a well the PAs as well are using stereostrips and a subcuticular suture and then from that we just you know Pat like put the dressing on the wound and the patient wakes up and we bring them back to labor and delivery whatever room they were in with the baby and it's like such a cool thing you know because everybody's like oh thank you thank you you're like you're welcome like you didn't really you don't really think you did much but it's cool because you got to be a part of that moment with them so it's like really happy and I like these happy moments I mean I haven't been on in on any sad moments which is great for well some sad moments but not like sad moments while laboring so that's been great for me but you know I love experiencing the happy moments with them and I also kind of just did my own thing as well in asking some of the physicians hey can I go in on your self-inject me or you know for your removal of the fibroids or you know somebody may have had like an ectopic and removal of that so I would do that because I wanted to see those cases because technically the med students are the ones who have to see those cases like they get first preference with that because they have a certain amount of cases that they have to see with respect to just GYN cases but you know if the physician doesn't mind I go in and sometimes you have to do that guys you have to like fight for yourself direct your own learning experience because you know if you're just there and you're quiet no one's going to do it for you you have to do it for yourself so I guess like note for the day learn how to fight for yourself go for it direct your own learning and just be supplemental but be really like nice about it okay all right so that was it that was my women's health I love it you guys I absolutely love it um I'm so happy I really want to like do this in the future and so like pray for me y'all because you know towards the end of this year I'm going to be applying to some jobs and hopefully women's health is one of the jobs that I get hired on for all right if you have any other questions for me go ahead and leave it in comment section below thank you guys so much for watching please follow me on instagram at adanathepa and I will talk to you guys next time bye


The federal government said the use of force would be the last result should the coup plotters in the Niger Republic refuse to surrender. The permanent secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Adamou Lemoua, studied this on Friday at a briefing session on the current political situation in the Niger Republic and the Echoas sub-region organized by the Ministry for the Diplomatic Corps. In addition to a one-week ultimatum to restore constitutional order and the suspension of financial transactions with Niger, Echoas decreed the freezing of all service transactions including energy transactions. The steps so far taken by Echoas authority demonstrate the reality in the region that the worst form of democracy is still better than the best military dictatorship. Likewise, the condemnation of the coup in Niger by the international community is a welcome development. The swift reaction by the international community is a huge testimony to the preference for democracy and constitutional rule to any form of governance. Consequently, Nigeria and indeed Echoas called upon the international community to remain resolute on that stance and continue to show solidarity with Echoas for affirming the superiority of democratic and constitutional rule.


Why is your organisation pursuing a net-zero goal? What are the benefits and why is this important to the Unilever? So good morning. Unilever already actually had science-based targets to eliminate GHG's greenhouse gases from our own operations and half GHG emissions of our products by 2030, with almost half of our GHG emissions coming from our raw materials. We knew when we realised that we had to do a lot more if we really wanted to be able to lower our environmental impact overall, so really thinking about upstream. So last year we launched what we call our Unilever Compass, an integrated business and sustainability plan. And we took the extra step of setting an ambitious target to reach net-zero across the value chain by 2039. Evidently it's really important that we take that step and we look in a much more broad way across our entire ecosystem. We all know that this decade is make or break now. We've really got to make sure that the private sector is on track to reach net-zero by mid-century. And of course from a commercial perspective as well, it's really, really important for our business. We need to use the reach and the breadth and the stretch of our brands to talk about what we're doing in a consumer-facing way. We know that consumers now are much more aware around carbon issues and it's really, really important that business takes a very proactive step. Absolutely. And so you've given some great examples already but I don't know if you'd like to highlight a couple of positive actions that your company is taking already that is driving the change needed to make net-zero a reality. So Unilever, when we approach these big complex global issues, we tend to do it in four ways. So thinking about our own operations, thinking across our supply chain, thinking about our brands and then our role in wider society. So in our own operations we've switched already to 100% renewable grid electricity globally. We've reduced CO2 emissions from energy from our factories by 75% against where we started. In 2008 we've got zero waste to landfill across all of our factories. And then when you think about our value chain, we've reduced emissions and the sourcing of raw materials and packaging, manufacturing, transport. When you think about the brands, we've really put a sustainability lens across the innovation process. So for example, we've done things like concentrated liquid laundry detergent. So they're fitting now into much smaller bottles. We're eliminating fossil fuel-based carbon out of the home care portfolio. And we launched earlier this year what we're calling our climate and nature fund. So it's a billion euros that we're going to spend by 2030 that will enable the brands to invest in projects that are protecting nature and really helping us towards the climate and nature targets that we've set out. What do you see as the most significant hurdle when it comes to companies achieving net zero? How have you been able to overcome this? So I think there's a lot that business can do and we need to do to transform our own operations and our value chains. So I think a lot of that is around companies working together pre-competitively and sending important demand signals to the market. So for example, a lot of the work that we've done on things like setting up sustainable sourcing of raw materials, so crops and commodities that are essential to our business, making sure that we do that in partnership with others. But of course, there is only so far that we can go on our own. Not everything is within our control. So to reach net zero, it's really, really important that governments play their parts as well. So if I think for example about some of the work that we've tried to do over the past 10 years to encourage consumers to live their lives in a more environmentally friendly way, if the energy that they're using to run, for example, a shorter machine wash on their washing machines or taking a shorter shower, if that isn't coming from renewable energy sources, it's going to be much harder for us to see the changes that we all need to see. So if you think about that from a government perspective, really a big ask to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy so that consumers can get clean electricity off the grid wherever they are in the world. So Unilever has a long experience of working on these issues, but what would you say would be two or three top key learnings for companies who are just starting on their journey? From my perspective, I think Unilever has been a long journey over the past 10 years, trying to really change the way that we're orienting the business. And I think the first key learning is you cannot separate business performance and sustainability and view them as binary choices, and they're not mutually exclusive. One drives the other. So I think that's really important.  And that's what we've tried to do at Unilever with the Unilever Compass. And I think the second thing is really thinking about who are the other stakeholders up and down your value chain that you need to connect with if you really want to be able to bring about the changes that you've set yourselves. So for example, we're working with suppliers on reducing emissions upstream, but we're also working with the supermarkets, with the retailers on talking to consumers about the kind of changes that they can make through different buying choices to live a greener lifestyle. We've talked a little bit as well around governments, but I think also for us, a crucially important audience is investors. And investors really want to see roadmaps and goals and targets in the short and the medium and the long term. So we launched at Unilever a climate transition action plan that sets out how we're going to get to the targets that we're talking about in 2030 and 2039. And I think having those interim targets in place and actually showing the tangible actions you're going to take are really, really important. On COP26, what are the most important outcomes that you're really looking for? So COP26, I think will be a success when the world goes from this agreement in principle to actually having an action plan in practice. So there's been lots of talk about this being that the last best chance to get onto a one and a half degree trajectory and really restore the natural world. So we need to take action now. So I would like to see stretching climate goals from all of the countries that are turning up that are aligned with that one and a half degree trajectory. And then we want to see the programs in place to be able to deliver on that. So on a practical level, I think that means things like ending subsidies for fossil fuels. So we'll think about coal, carbon price, really scaling up renewable energy and electric vehicles so that it's much easier for everybody to be able to make more sustainable choices. And then thinking about how are you going to and then implementing nature-based solutions, because climate change and biodiversity obviously are inextricably linked. So you've got to actually address all of them together. And I think to do all of that, there's got to be sufficient public finance in place to help all countries including in developing and emerging markets to be able to take action and to implement those programs. Just when we come to European policy on climate, what are your key priorities for the 55 package? What are your views on it at the moment? So we all know that for successful businesses to thrive, you've got to have stable climate. You've got to have regenerative practices in place. So we need to take decisive global action on both. So you need to integrate climate work, land use work and biodiversity goals. And I think what FIT for 55 package is doing is bringing all of that together. So you've got businesses and policymakers working in partnership on how we're going to end or reverse nature loss and harm emissions by 2030.