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00:00:00I'm Marlon Hopkins and welcome to The Morning Edition. It's Wednesday, 14th August and thank
00:00:21you very much for joining us. The road march in the background there, listen to it, listen
00:00:26to it. That is what tens of thousands of you were dancing and jumping and the W word, whining
00:00:38to it, right? Yeah. All right. So yeah, so that song was one of the biggest songs for
00:00:46this year. All right. So how was your night? I hope that everything went well for you and
00:00:51that you're here with us this morning and everything is going for you good and it continues
00:00:57throughout today. Yeah. That's my wish for you all. Yeah. As I look through the papers,
00:01:02I'm seeing some strange things, you know, but this is Trinidad and Tobago. You know,
00:01:08so listen, listen, listen, listen how we are. So I believe it was yesterday. There was a
00:01:13lot of rain. Was it yesterday? There was a lot of rain in the morning and I have, and
00:01:19I'm on the NP turnoff, right? So I'm coming down the highway. I go onto the NP turnoff
00:01:26and I'm on the left lane. So persons who know that lane, when it rains, there's a lot of
00:01:32water. A lot of water is gathered there and it is seeping over to the right lane. So there's
00:01:38someone who is driving a white AD wagon, but I'm here and I'm allowing him to pass. You
00:01:45should see the speed that that person passed and while they were passing, throwing up all
00:01:52of the water. So what would have happened if I was there? You know, what would have
00:01:56happened? Well, my vehicle would have gotten an early morning bath. All of that to say
00:02:02some of the things that we are seeing in Trinidad and Tobago, we have to return to our glory
00:02:09days, you know, when we had respect for people and we try to do the decent thing and we try
00:02:15to do the right thing. As long as we don't return to those days, what you're seeing
00:02:21today is going to continue, you know, and it has to start at a very young age. You know,
00:02:27we always preach that it has to begin at a very young age, not 15, 16, 17. I remember
00:02:34the lady who called me and ma'am, maybe you're watching this morning, but I never forgot
00:02:39you. When you told me you had a grandson and you're living in that house with a grandson
00:02:45and he's making it hard for you. You remember what I told you at that time? Get him out
00:02:50the house, get him out the house. But sometimes it's not that easy for people. So I know some
00:02:56of the challenges that you're going through, but as I said, these little tidbits, we need
00:03:02to give our young children it very early. So as they grow, you know, it becomes a part
00:03:09of their culture and a part of their upbringing. All right, let's check out to see what's happening
00:03:13on The Daily Express. As cases rise to 813, Ministry sets up Coover Hospital as treatment
00:03:20site Dengue Fight Back. Elite check, $250,000 handover. David Roberts-Wright, Acting Permanent
00:03:28Secretary in the Ministry of Sport and Community Development presents a check for $250,000
00:03:34to two-time Olympic medalist Kishon Walcott. The funding was provided under the Ministry's
00:03:38Elite Athlete Assistance Program. The presentation took place on Monday at the Ministry's Port
00:03:44of Spain office. And on the third page of The Express this morning, Champha defends
00:03:51$0.25 million check for Elite Kishon. You know, let's not, let's not back-analyze everything.
00:03:59I mean, the athletes, they need funding. All right? The athletes need funding. And let
00:04:06me tell you, if that $0.25 million check is going to assist the athlete, well then
00:04:13okay. And better conditions for the athlete, then okay. All right? Of course, at the end
00:04:18of the day, we would like to see greater success from our athletes. But, you know, I'm not
00:04:25against the funding for the athletes. I see yesterday they were also speaking about accountability
00:04:31and better systems in place so as people can account for the money and it must be linked
00:04:36to a performance and so on. All of that is good. But provide with the athlete, provide
00:04:41the athlete with whatever the athlete needs. All right? That's my point. All right, we're
00:04:45moving on. Flood havoc. Parts of South Central underwater after overnight rain. As Tropical
00:04:52Storm Ernesto passed across the Lesser Antilles on Monday night, parts of South and Central
00:04:56Trinidad suffered a drenching which caused extensive flooding. By daybreak yesterday,
00:05:03low-lying areas in Pinal, Barakpo, and parts of Heizebad had been severely affected. All
00:05:08right? So that picture tells a thousand stories as to what has happened in that area. Several
00:05:15businesses, places along Pinal, Rock Road, Pinal remained closed yesterday due to flooding.
00:05:20All right? So we're giving you some support before we move on. All right? So we're aiming
00:05:25for higher. Jamel Morkan has high hopes that his good work with the ball and dependability
00:05:31with the bat demonstrated in the first test against South Africa will again be showcased
00:05:35in the second contest starting tomorrow. Yeah? And just a story on the express here, a story
00:05:44that I'm sure that many of you would be interested in and many of you would know this individual.
00:05:49So the legendary nuts vendor, the Rastaman as he was called, who sold nuts on Frederick
00:05:55Street for 40 years. Yeah? So he has died. So nuts vendor, Kenneth Dona, who sold his
00:06:00product for more than 40 years from one spot in Port of Spain has died. All right? Okay.
00:06:07So we're moving on. It's time to remind you about Trinbago Your Nice feature. Remember
00:06:10to participate, email your videos or images to trinbagoyourniceattv6tnt.com. All right?
00:06:18So we always appreciate the photographs and also the videos that you send to us. This
00:06:23is a beautiful picture here. It looks like a picture of a farm, right? Dragon fruit field.
00:06:31Yeah. It's from Anjali Parasram Singh. Have you all ever tasted dragon fruit? It has no
00:06:40taste. I hear people saying it's a sort of light taste. Very, very subtle. There's a
00:06:49subtle taste. All right. Think to make a salad. All right. Yeah. But that's a good
00:06:56investment these days. You know, people are looking for more. Yeah. Exotic things to eat.
00:07:02Right. So there's a big debate in studio right now considering this dragon fruit. But I know
00:07:06there's a pink one, the pink kind of purple one. And then there's a yellow one too. A
00:07:12white too. All right. I have to take a taste of that. All right. So thank you very much,
00:07:16Anjali, for that picture this morning. All right. So you have a coffee, your tea,
00:07:20get something to eat. It could be dragon fruit, right? You're eating a dragon fruit.
00:07:23All right. We're coming back, everybody.
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00:09:31All right, so welcome back everyone. Thank you again for joining us this morning. So,
00:09:47mental health is on the front burner again following the murder of 57-year-old
00:09:51Mala Boodram who was reportedly beaten to death by a mentally ill man. Well,
00:09:56on the line this morning, we do have clinical psychologist and former independent senator,
00:10:00Dr. Varma Dayalsingh. Dr. Dayalsingh, good morning. Good morning. Dr. Dayalsingh,
00:10:06let me just say thank you very much for joining us this morning. It's always a pleasure to speak
00:10:10with you and see you. But doctor, as you look at this matter on the surface here,
00:10:15how do you see what has happened here? Well, I can't go in much detail because I don't know much
00:10:22about the incident. But what I'm hearing actually so far is that there was a mentally ill person
00:10:30who refused treatment. And basically what he did, he escalated at home and acted out at home,
00:10:37causing an unfortunate incident. So it brings in various factors into what went wrong here.
00:10:47But the first thing I want to clarify is that, you know, I don't want people to get the idea that
00:10:52once you're mentally ill, you know, we stigmatize those persons as just being violent because,
00:10:57you know, the movies, media has portrayed, you know, the crazies as the ones killing people.
00:11:04But statistics have shown that mentally ill persons are more on the receiving end of violence. So
00:11:10that's the first thing I want to a bit clarify, right? That is not to say if you're walking on
00:11:15the street and you see a homeless person with a big rock speaking to himself, you have to have
00:11:21that level of awareness. So I may move to the other side of the street, but I may equally well
00:11:26see a heavily tinted vehicle with three young guys in it with bandanas. That, again, is another
00:11:33warning sign, not of any sort of mentally ill person, but not an individual. There are other
00:11:38individuals there which could harm me. So the first thing is, let's say now, unfortunately,
00:11:44see that happened, an individual with mental illness probably committed this crime. And I'm
00:11:50saying probably because, you know, it still has to go to the court, et cetera, et cetera. So good.
00:11:56So let us say that happens. That is just one factor of why people commit crimes. You see,
00:12:05so we have to look into other factors. So I may have a certain disorder and certain
00:12:13mental disorders do, in fact, you know, sort of give you that little
00:12:21area where you could commit crime, not in the majority of cases. So the majority of cases,
00:12:26you have normal individuals going and shooting, killing people. So therefore, first thing we have
00:12:30to say, if you have somebody who has mental illness, which ones do we have to kind of be a
00:12:36little more cautious for? Right. Because not all persons with mentally ill or what I like to
00:12:42call it is not really mental illness, but emotional challenges or brain disorder, trying to get rid of
00:12:48mental. So let's say I have a brain disorder of anxiety. That may not make me harmful. So we can't
00:12:53lump all in one bracket. But if you have an individual who suffers from delusion, like
00:12:59paranoid delusion, persecutory delusion that I figure people against me, police against me,
00:13:05people spying on me. If I do not get in touch with reality, I may have that fear and I can act
00:13:12out and, you know, to a detrimental effect. So we looked at people having these delusions, thinking
00:13:18that my relative against me, my neighbors against me, certain people and those persons are persons
00:13:24we look out for. Other individuals too, you may have people with personality disorders and there
00:13:30are different personality disorders where you may have antisocial personality disorders,
00:13:35where these individuals could act out. Somebody who have mania, bipolar disorder could also act
00:13:41out where in that phase. Now the thing is, and even people with what you call organic brain
00:13:47syndrome. So I may get a damage to my brain, that part of my brain, which has impulse control this
00:13:54damage, and I might act out in a manner where a normal individual could restrain himself. So
00:13:59therefore, let's look at the spectrum of mentally ill individuals, emotionally
00:14:04challenged individuals, even people with Alzheimer's, dementia, their mind may think that people against
00:14:10them and they may act out at their nurses, etc. So okay, so yes, you may have people with certain
00:14:17mental challenges acting out, but you have to know which ones that we may have to kind of red flag.
00:14:23Yes, talking about red flag, because actually you took the words out of my brain
00:14:30here this morning, because sometimes I think that families, yes they do have, as you're saying,
00:14:38emotionally challenged people within their families, and I think that sometimes
00:14:44they become very accustomed to the attitudes, the behavior of the family member. So when do
00:14:54I as a family member say, I think that something is wrong here, that person is going beyond
00:15:02what we are accustomed to. So where do we see that red flag?
00:15:07So first of all, it's our duty as mental caregivers to educate the families when they come to clinic,
00:15:15hey, this individual may act out. We may in therapy with an individual hear certain dangerous
00:15:21things like, I hate my parents, I'm going to burn down the place, you know, certain things like that
00:15:25when you're here in therapy, you definitely have to sometimes, you know, look at the situation. So
00:15:31therefore now, the red flags I have really, what I warn the person is first, if you stop taking
00:15:37your medication, this now, that individual may now relapse, because you see things like,
00:15:42you know, people have to understand just as how diabetes is an arrangement of your pancreas,
00:15:47gland producing insulin, mental disorders, you have the dopamine levels, you know, may change
00:15:53and certain schizophrenia, and you could have medication that could bring you back to that
00:15:57level. So taking, not taking medication is one, lack of sleep. Anytime I find somebody's not
00:16:03sleeping, pacing around in the night, I get worried. Now you can sleep in the day and the night,
00:16:07but once you get eight, nine hours sleep, good. So lack of sleep, pacing the place, looking very
00:16:12angry, clenching your fists, shouting, you know, shouting out at your parents, you know,
00:16:19having that aggression, escalating. So when you see that escalating in terms of demands,
00:16:24you know, you're asking for something and you're not getting it, and you're just nagging, nagging,
00:16:27and you're escalating, you have to be worried. When they're smashing objects in the house,
00:16:32you have to be worried. So you look at that sort of scenario, and at that stage is where
00:16:38you have to now decide, I'm going to reach out for help. Now, look what the problem we have.
00:16:43A mother may look at certain of our institutions and think, oh, it's not the place for my son,
00:16:49because some of the institutions, if they find it is not looking clean, or your child may go in
00:16:55there and get more abuses, some parents may be turned off. Other parents may say that
00:17:00it's just a phase he's going through, you know, and he will come back down to his normal level.
00:17:05So they have that hope that he will, you know, just verbalize, verbalize, verbalize, and come
00:17:09back down. So sometimes they may not take it seriously. And so our main trust is educating,
00:17:17educating the parents as well. We in clinic should have red flag patients. For instance,
00:17:25I have an individual now that, and real life scenarios, spoke about flooding early on.
00:17:30This guy lost his dog in the floods of 2018. The dog drowned. It wasn't home, it was in a kennel.
00:17:38So now anytime it rains, I know that individual could act up, that thoughts could come. Now,
00:17:44after his dog drowned, that individual wanted to go and kill all the other dogs in the neighborhood.
00:17:49So imagine we have an individual like that. But I know when it rains, the area was flooded.
00:17:55What do we do? I reached out to a mental health officer, I said, check on this guy for a minute,
00:17:59just make sure he's okay. Let him come in clinic and talk. So therefore, we in clinic should have
00:18:04that awareness of the social problems that could add to the mental state. For instance, if you have
00:18:10an unemployed male, if you have poverty, if you have a disruptive home, all that could take away
00:18:17changes in the home. So let's say I have a patient's table on medication, but I know there's a new
00:18:23factor, like a newborn baby there now, going to be crying all night, and now the brother can't get
00:18:28sleep. That's a new factor we have to take into account. Just a lot, a lot of factors that we have
00:18:34to look at our neighbor movie next door, making noise all night with dogs or with music blasting.
00:18:41Those are things that we need to hear from our patients. Yes. And get other agencies like the
00:18:46EMA, etc. to come on board, because it's really the mental health of the individual. But you know,
00:18:50you know, Dr. Dialsing, and you did touch a little bit on it, but there is a great hesitation
00:18:59by relatives of people who are emotionally challenged, as you put it. There is a great
00:19:06hesitation by them to bring in the authorities. One, maybe they just don't want to contact,
00:19:13let's say, the hospitals that are designated to deal with such patients. And two, they do not
00:19:19want to call in the police when situations such as these happen. So what do you tell a family
00:19:27who is, who could be looking at us right now, relatives who are maybe looking at us right now,
00:19:32who are quite hesitant to bring in the authorities? Okay, so if you see, if we had a parallel proper
00:19:42running functional thing in place, we may not need to call in the authorities, right? But the
00:19:47authorities do have their place. When I say the police has their place. Because, so let us say now,
00:19:52you find that my relative in the home is not taking medicine, refusing to leave, you can call
00:19:58our clinics and ask our mental health officer, our social worker to come home and talk to us,
00:20:04talk to that patient. So this is where, in the clinics, when we have that patient and you have
00:20:11your team there assembled, that team now will know that, you know, what's the, what's the,
00:20:16what's the problem with that patient. And when you ask for help, you have the visiting officers
00:20:22will have to now go to that home. So, so are we up to standard? No, we need more social workers.
00:20:30We need more mental health officers. Some mental health officers tell me they are not going in
00:20:34certain areas because of the physical danger. So first of all, a proper system like that, where
00:20:40each area has its staff willing to go out and do home visits. So even if I know I have a patient
00:20:46who may potentially turn violent, I know mental health officers, every week, I want to just go
00:20:52and pay a visit, just chat, just talk to the guy, bring him clinic, let him, you see, we have to get
00:20:56that therapeutic bond there with a patient also, because you have to understand that some of these
00:21:01patients, they don't think they have an illness. So, so first thing, if the mental health officers
00:21:09and the social workers, they work from eight to four, what's going to happen in the night?
00:21:14When there's no staff to call. And just recently in Aruka, a patient called me, somebody I didn't
00:21:19know, but he reached out to me actually, they had a relative who was having a meltdown. And thankfully,
00:21:25Inspector Grant, who's in charge of the Arima station, lays with the EHS, the ambulance service,
00:21:31they coordinated their efforts to bring that patient into the institution. So that was a
00:21:36patient who was known before, we had a clinic card, and that will be dependent on that. But
00:21:42relatives have to know, sometimes if a patient is acting out and doesn't want to get treated,
00:21:47the police and the ambulance service could come in. Mental health officers could come in and get
00:21:52you, but you have to be like something in a public place. You see the law recently, we had a case
00:21:57where mental health officers went to a building in Portisville to get someone who was acting in a
00:22:02strange way. And they took us to court. So mental health officers know, if you're walking in the
00:22:07road with a big stone, you're looking dangerous, you know, you're looking unkempt, you're talking nonsense,
00:22:12they have that authority to have involuntary admission. But Dr. Dialsing, take that person.
00:22:17Yeah, let me make a point. And I suspect that I may have spoken to you about this point in the past
00:22:23that I feel, and it's just my personal view, that when incidents such as these happen, where you have
00:22:30within your family, an emotionally challenged person, and relatives need help, to me, there
00:22:38should be an emergency system that should kick in almost immediately. So I'm speaking about a
00:22:46medical practitioner, I'm speaking about police officers, I'm speaking about mental health
00:22:54officers. And the reason why I say that, because there have been incidents in the past, Dr. Dialsing,
00:23:01where police were called out to a fracker at a home involving a mentally ill person,
00:23:10and all the police really had at their disposal was to shoot and kill that individual. And what
00:23:17do you hear after? Well, the individual should not have been killed. So one, my personal view, again,
00:23:25there has to be a 24-hour service, and also the system must be set up in a way where when relatives
00:23:33need help, there must be immediate, a system to immediately attend to that incident.
00:23:42And I agree with you totally. So we will now have like a crisis intervention team, whereby you call,
00:23:50you come with the doctor who's on call in the major hospitals, you know, the psychiatrist could
00:23:55come there, and you take them down with injections, rather with guns, because you remember in the past,
00:23:59the police officers may have shot, may have wounded, and we did try to train police officers
00:24:04how to recognize, how sometimes don't go with uniform and guns, how to step back, how to probably,
00:24:11if somebody's really attacking you with a cutlass, you know, police may have no choice, but you have
00:24:16tasers, you have rubber bullets, so you have to have that first, or you shoot on an area where
00:24:21it's not a lethal area, like the leg. So basically, the crisis intervention team would definitely
00:24:29go a long way in assisting families now. You could call a major hospital, and they now could come to
00:24:36your door, they can come with the staff, mental health officers who could take them down with an
00:24:40injection, rather than bullets. And this is where we need to go further. This is where we need to
00:24:46evolve further. Now, the other thing too, remember, we have difficulties where some patients just don't
00:24:52see they have a problem. And don't matter as you in clinics, you are giving them medication, they
00:24:57would not take their medication. And this has always been a plea for the parents coming in,
00:25:02look, Doc, he's not taking his medication. So I had a guy from Santa Cruz, planting garden,
00:25:07came to clinic because he thought Illuminati was after him. I said, but how come Illuminati will
00:25:13come after you, you're a gardener, he started putting up all sorts of shields in his garden
00:25:17to prevent people from hearing him. Obviously, he was ill, he came in, I tried speaking to him,
00:25:23you know, so to get you to him was difficult. Because you know, in these delusional disorders,
00:25:29sometimes your mind would not accept it, that would have what doctor is saying. And sometimes
00:25:34they are quick to say doctor now in league with the Illuminati. So you know, so you have to know
00:25:38that guy, eventually, I carried it when he settled, I carried him next to another patient who was just
00:25:44rambling and all sorts of things about aliens, I think, and he started laughing at the patient.
00:25:49I said, what? But you see, so he didn't see the delusional. So I had to say, boy, chemicals in
00:25:55your brain could change it. And we got an utterly therapeutic intervention to battle with him, take
00:26:01your medicine. And we give him medicine. And he's, he's not, I mean, anything now could feed on his
00:26:07delusion still. So if he goes online, and looking at Illuminati, it means it will not feed on his
00:26:13delusion. So I banned him, I said, go online, listen to music, go online, listen to comedy.
00:26:18So you memorize that. And I want persons to know government has spent a lot of money
00:26:23in getting what you call depo injections. depo injections, it's an injection when you give you
00:26:29know, long, it's the last month in your system. So you know, it's a slow release injection. Now
00:26:34they've gone at three months, six months. So this, I think, is a way forward for patients who I may
00:26:41assess a degree of, of dangerousness, patients who are not taking their medication, who the
00:26:47therapeutic bond, you know, you're not you're not getting through, we have to know this tool is
00:26:51available, that you know, you know, you feel more comfortable out there. So besides giving these
00:26:57injections, you still need a visit from the mental health officers, you still need to know what is in
00:27:01the patient's mind, let them come in, look on employment, a simple thing, patients who are not
00:27:06employed and see their mommy catching their skin to do a house, housework, you know, came to me
00:27:12recently. And we got a job for him in a supermarket to pack goods. Now, what we really need is more
00:27:21occupational therapists in each area to go into these persons and say, look, give this boy a
00:27:25chance, I give him a blight, he can't do this, but give him that. And government could pay, you know,
00:27:31you can get back a tax rebate with a little extra money to it. So therefore, let's say I pay in a
00:27:36salary to this guy, I know at the end of the year, my accountant now will give me back something with
00:27:40a little extra because that exists now, when you want to hire students, so we could do it for our
00:27:45mentally ill people. And don't take away their disability grants till that it exists, because
00:27:50that occupation that they feel useful outside, certainly not so, what not, helps their mental
00:27:55state, that helps community, that society. Yeah, Dr. Dayal Singh, a view was expressed some time
00:28:02ago that the authorities are expecting an explosion, and that's how they described it,
00:28:10in mental problems among the population in Trinidad and Tobago. Judging from your experience
00:28:17and what you are dealing with on a daily basis, is it your view that you're seeing more and more
00:28:24people suffering with mental problems? Yes, I have been seeing it, it's a global phenomenon,
00:28:32it's not, and they're not necessarily violent, I mean, they are homicidal, but we are seeing it,
00:28:37so we are seeing younger individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
00:28:41we have seen more OCD in the younger individuals, anxiety disorders,
00:28:45and now look what's happening, we are aging population, so we now have to cater for dementia
00:28:52and Alzheimer's and vascular dementia that is going to occur then. So all these things, plus
00:28:58the middle sector now, which is fighting up with life, fighting with unemployment, job, you know,
00:29:03relationship problems, so there is definitely an explosion. But government has recognized this,
00:29:08in the sense that we have clinics, and then they decided, let's put an adolescent clinic in Monaco,
00:29:15so you can, the young people can just go and speak. I must thank the Minister, Donna Cox, for
00:29:22having, you know, she has a calling line, 800-OOP, which she launched, and I was there at that
00:29:28launch, and I gave some talk, where if you have a problem, you could reach out and call this number.
00:29:35And you see, so this is something where the recognition that more persons will have a
00:29:41problem, but we need to advertise it more. And you see something, so the advertising is there,
00:29:46the Ministry of Health has something called finecare.tt, so which is, so you could reach out,
00:29:51but remember, sometimes if I am depressed, I don't have the energy to go and look for this,
00:29:56go and look at that. This is where the relatives have to be, you know, observing that. Neighbors
00:30:04sometimes, the community spirit might say, hey look, Miss Alfredson walking down the road looking
00:30:09stressed out, have that community spirit, because we have to look out, because remember, the state,
00:30:14you can't depend on the state. I mean, we see that for plenty of things, like crime, you know, we have
00:30:18to set up our own watch groups. So if we go to depend totally on the state, we will be always,
00:30:24you know, in a situation where things can happen. So we have to, family has to look out, we look
00:30:30out for each other, we have to demand that our institutions come above board. So if you're fine,
00:30:35you're fine, you go, and you're not getting enough good care. I love social media for that,
00:30:41you know, go on, blaze them up with social media, and hopefully you'll get that change,
00:30:45that you're not getting that care or things. So therefore, there is definitely an increase. WHO
00:30:53had even said that there will be an increase of depression that will be, you know, descending. So
00:30:58it's a world we're looking at, that younger persons, we have to look out for our young ones,
00:31:03older ones with dementia, it's just dealing with problems. We have people now, marriages last in
00:31:10four years. So you find people in homes who married and who are planning a life to each other
00:31:14are so toxic. Sometimes they come in to talk to us. But again, Ministry of Family and Social
00:31:20Services offer a couple of counsellors also, so you don't have to come to my clinic and be the
00:31:25stigma of mental health. Family service has now had parenting, you know, courses. But remember,
00:31:33you can have things, you know, you have things there that you could utilise, but it has to be
00:31:37advertised more, that, hey, you have problems with mummy and child, let's go to a counsellor in
00:31:45Family and Social Services. But Dr. Dyalsing, have we as a country always had the problem of mental
00:31:52illness on this scale? Or is it that because of social media and the news and media and so on,
00:31:59it is more exposed now? So but because there is the argument also, and I'm sure that you would
00:32:05have heard it, that we as a society, we can't take pressure, we have become very soft. So
00:32:13is that the situation? Or is it that we always had these problems?
00:32:18Well, we always have mental problems, right? We had, I mean, you're too young to this, but there
00:32:22was my grandfather and father used to tell me, there's a guy called, I think it was
00:32:27Maha or something, where he used to be pretending he's driving a vehicle, and he used to have a
00:32:31milo tin pan coming from Central and whatnot. So you always have persons in society that may have
00:32:37had disorders, right? So it was there. What we see now, besides that, there's now an increase
00:32:43right over. So they describe it as a tsunami of depression that is going to descend. But it's not
00:32:48just that, it's young children now having neurophysiological disorders like ADHD and
00:32:55obsession, you know, so we are seeing it, we are seeing it more. So we have to be prepared for it.
00:33:01We have to have it, and our, you know, I heard you mention early on that a mother had a child
00:33:08who was given trouble, right? Something in our home, and you're thinking the mother should,
00:33:13you know, come forth. But look at the difficulty. If I have my child, and I know the child is acting
00:33:20out, using drugs, etc. I want a home where I could put my child, a public home where I would
00:33:26safe. Yes, where the child wouldn't be abused. And so, because that is the torment, we have to
00:33:32provide places, safe places for our children to go and be healed. Another problem we have is if
00:33:38you have patients, and I know that patient, you know, if you have to put back that patient out
00:33:43in society after two weeks because of the bed spaces, sometimes I'd rather keep somebody there
00:33:48for three months, knowing that that will save them from getting a 10-year custodial sentence
00:33:54in the jail. Because that patient could go outside and commit a crime, while if you had kept that
00:34:00patient longer, put things in place, we might have protected. Because remember, the criminal justice
00:34:06system, I don't want our patients to be there. I want them in a place where we can heal them,
00:34:10get them to a level of functioning, medicate them, make sure they can do something. There's a rehab
00:34:17center in Poon Poona, where patients go there to be prepared to get like jobs, so they can go and
00:34:23learn to make a lorry, they can learn to cook something, they learn to do gardening. So, those
00:34:28are things we need to push. Yeah. You know, I had a, yeah, so. Doctor, I just have about one minute
00:34:33again, but I think what I'm hearing from you this morning is that there is a lot of help out there,
00:34:39you know, but sometimes people just don't know how to access the help. So, where can people access
00:34:45the help? Relatives, even emotionally challenged people, where can they get the help?
00:34:51Is there a one-stop shop that we can go to? Well, there is the, there are about 27 psychiatric
00:35:00outpatient clinics all over the country. Now, we try to call it wellness clinics now to get rid of
00:35:04the stigma, right? So, there are clinics. So, therefore, in your area, if you find out where
00:35:10that clinic is, you can do that. Or, if let's say somebody is having a meltdown in the night, relatives
00:35:14could hold up, carry them into the major hospital, San Fernando, Port of Spain, and Mount Hope, and
00:35:20they would be able to get help. So, it's really getting them to a place of help, but knowing you
00:35:24could reach out. The 800 here, you could call it, they can direct you where to do. People who are
00:35:30suicidal, there's the hotline for that. So, there is help, but I'm saying sometimes we're so busy,
00:35:36like a mother told me, she's so busy in her life, she can't be looking at her kid all the time. So,
00:35:41it's a challenge, it's really a challenge. We have to take over some of them in clinic,
00:35:44open our clinic doors, where people could just step in in the afternoon and come and be,
00:35:49you know, sealed. Yeah, yeah. Dr. Dayal Singh, it's always a pleasure speaking with you and thank you
00:35:54for helping us this morning shine a light on this very important issue. Thank you for your tips and
00:35:59also advice. Thank you very much again, Dr. Dayal Singh. Bye for now. Most welcome. Okay, thank you.
00:36:05All right, so we are going to a very quick break. We are coming back, everybody.
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00:38:25We do have with us as always multimedia business editor Joel Julian. Joel, thank you very much for
00:38:30coming again. Marlon, always a pleasure to be here. Of course, well let's get right into it.
00:38:35All right, so today's magazine, our headline is Return of the Titan. You know that movie
00:38:41that you saw before. So we stole the title. I feel you came up with that.
00:38:47Right, so Return of the Titan. Yes. And what that means is there's a company called Methanex
00:38:53Corporation, a Canadian company. And they operate, they have two plants in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:38:58One is Atlas, one is Titan. Titan is the smaller of the two plants. Now in 2020, because of gas
00:39:05supply issues, Methanex would have decided to idle the Titan plant. So that's since 2020.
00:39:14So four plus years later, they are attempting to restart the Titan plant. Hence the title, Return
00:39:21of the Titan. Now what happens is that in October last year, they would have signed a new two-year
00:39:28gas supply contract with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, which facilitates the reopening
00:39:33of the Titan plant. Now while that happened, next month the 20-year gas supply contract for Atlas
00:39:42comes to an end. So two things will be taking place. They're going to restart Titan, that has
00:39:47been done for the past four years. But with that, they'll be mothballing Atlas. And the reason why
00:39:55this is being done is because of the gas supply curtailment issues that we have taking place in
00:40:00Trinidad and Tobago. So our cover story today looks at this situation that is expected to take place
00:40:06in the middle of September and what that would mean. So Methanex would have held their investor call
00:40:14last week, and they would have spoken, the CEO and president of Methanex, a gentleman called
00:40:20Rich Sumner, would have spoken about the transition that is going to take place. And he said he believes
00:40:25it's going to be a seamless transition. He doesn't believe that there's going to be any set of capital
00:40:31that they have to expend in terms of getting Titan back on. So we decided to focus
00:40:36on the situation, you know, because gas, oil and gas, the energy sector remains the bread and
00:40:42butter of Trinidad and Tobago. And this return of Titan, what does it mean to the economy? And so that
00:40:48is our cover story for today. The return of the Titan. Titan has the capacity to produce 875,000
00:40:55tons of methanol a year. Yeah. Yeah. Atlas has the capacity to produce a million and 85,000 tons
00:41:04of methanol a year. So the Titan, as you said, it's the, it's the bigger plant. Titan is the
00:41:10smaller of the two. So what happens is Atlas is the larger plant, but where, while Methanex
00:41:16owns 100% of Titan, they only have a 63% ownership in Atlas. So, but we see this situation
00:41:24arising because of the gas, gas supply issues. Now we know that while gas supply remains an issue,
00:41:31we see that the government is trying to do different things to try and improve the situation.
00:41:38But as it stands right now, the 20-year contract for Atlas comes to an end. That was a legacy
00:41:43contract. And we see the difference in terms of even the length of time of the contract
00:41:47because of the gas supply curtailment issues. All right. Yeah. All right. Apart from that,
00:41:52one of the things that we have taking place is the AgriExpo that, that returns. Now in 2022,
00:42:00they would have had the AgriExpo in the Savannah. Persons would have come out and stuff like that.
00:42:06We see the return of that AgriExpo taking place. I believe it's Friday. It starts,
00:42:11if I'm not mistaken, either Tuesday or Friday. So we decided as the Express Business Magazine
00:42:17to look at that, you know, because as we always say, we believe that there's business in everything.
00:42:22So we wanted to speak to some of the stakeholders with respect to what can people expect for the
00:42:27new Agri, the AgriExpo. Yeah. So we would have spoken to the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the
00:42:34Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries. We would have spoken to the Agricultural Society
00:42:40and we would have spoken to some of the other stakeholders, my colleague Vashana Pagu.
00:42:44So that's just a look, a sort of curtain raiser for the AgriExpo and what it may mean in terms
00:42:49of Trinidad and Tobago, what people could look out for. Because on a personal level, you know,
00:42:54when I went to the Expo the last time, it was interesting. You know, you see all these
00:42:57different aspects of agriculture. A lot of opportunities. A lot of opportunities.
00:43:04And, you know, so we just, we speak to those stakeholders just to see like what people can
00:43:08expect going forward. One of the things one of these stakeholders actually spoke about is,
00:43:13I think is one of the gentlemen from Exportiti, if I'm not mistaken. It's more like an Agri
00:43:18stadium, you know, an area where persons could come and see different things. Even on like on
00:43:24social media yesterday, I saw this, like a vending machine where a gentleman puts a pineapple in it.
00:43:32So you're putting the whole pineapple, it spikes everything and this machine cuts up the pineapple
00:43:38for you. So, you know, probably we might see something like that, you know, we'll see innovation
00:43:42within the agricultural sector because at the end of the day, we have to eat.
00:43:45I mean, we have had as a country such a long relationship with agriculture and it's like
00:43:51every budget since from time immemorial, we have heard, well, we need to boost agriculture
00:43:56and we continue to speak about how we are relying on the goods and services from
00:44:03other countries and we should be doing it here at home. So it's always good when we see that there
00:44:09is a real trust to develop the agricultural sector. Of course, to tell you, and you all know
00:44:18that the sector, it has a number of risks too, because you could spend and I've even had
00:44:24conversations with farmers where they would say, well, we have spent tens of thousands of dollars
00:44:30to do this and you have things such as predial arsony and then you have the floods and then you
00:44:36have disease and then you have all sorts of things. So it's good to see developments taking place and
00:44:43hopefully there is some sort of rigid structure in place to assist the farmers and those who are
00:44:49involved in the agriculture sector. One of the things that we also look at is
00:44:56there's a company, a conglomerate called NCB Financial Group. Now NCB Financial Group, if you
00:45:02are from Toronto, Bagel, Guardian Holdings, if it is in like the West Mall area, that big building
00:45:08there, Guardian, right? So Guardian is a subsidiary of NCBFG. NCBFG would have held their investor call
00:45:16last week and NCBFG, they would have had some significant changes over the past year. So we
00:45:25would have seen their former CEO and deputy CEO going on administrative leave, eventually resigning
00:45:30from the organisation. That would have caused a new CEO to be put in place, which is
00:45:36Mr Robert Almeida and also within that, there's a businessman called Michael Leachin, a very
00:45:44popular businessman. So within that, the significant changes that took place within NCBFG,
00:45:50Mr Leachin would have exited as executive chairman and also returned as executive chairman. So
00:45:56there's a level of volatility that took place within the leadership of the organisation.
00:46:00Now this is three quarters after all that would have taken place. So Mr Almeida is saying we know
00:46:07that there was a volatile situation, we know that there were significant changes, but as it comes
00:46:10to this point, we believe that we are on the growth path, that everything has more or less
00:46:15settled. The storm that would have taken place would have settled. So we decided to focus on
00:46:20that because it would have been major regional and international and local news with respect to NCBFG
00:46:27because, as I said, in particular, Guardian General, where a significant number of people
00:46:32have their insurance and so on. Did he speak about the financial stability of the organisation?
00:46:39So the organisation has seen an increase in profitability. So he also is saying that in
00:46:45terms of financially stable, they believe that the company is where it needs to be at this point
00:46:50in time and they also have projections to move forward. One of the things that NCBFG would have
00:46:56done recently is they would have issued an additional public offering for some of their
00:47:00shares. Now there were, I think it was about 23 million US they were trying to raise at the point
00:47:05in time. They did not meet that target. So Mr. Almeida also speaks to that, that even though
00:47:10they didn't meet the target, there's no real intention to go back to the market to raise
00:47:14financing at this point. But you know, things always change on the landscape. Did he give a
00:47:20reason for that? I did. I just do. I think that people just weren't interested at that point in
00:47:24time. And that may have been because of what we saw the year before with all these changes,
00:47:31because all these things come together to help people make their decisions in terms of investment.
00:47:39Now NCBFG, there's also NCB Merchant Bank and they would have assisted in terms of the initial
00:47:46public offering of Solace Limited. So Solace would have had an IPO, that IPO would have come to an
00:47:52end last week Friday. We are still awaiting to see what would have transpired in terms of the IPO,
00:47:57but that also plays a part in terms of NCBFG and what they intend to do and some of the things that
00:48:03they would have done in this past quarter. Also we would have heard from the Chief Executive Officer
00:48:08of Guardian, which is Mr. Ian Chinnapoo, and Mr. Chinnapoo would have spoken to what,
00:48:14how they would have been impacted by hurricane barrels. So you know, hurricane barrel would
00:48:19have passed through the region a couple months ago. And just looking at in terms of persons
00:48:26filing for insurance claims, I seen at this point in time they do have final figures, but it is
00:48:33estimated to impact them in terms of like US 10 million. Yes. When you take reinsurance and
00:48:39everything else into perspective. So we decided because of all the elements that NCBFG has and
00:48:46how it impacts us in terms of locally, Guardian General, NCB Merchant Bank, we wanted to highlight
00:48:52what was taking place within NCBFG itself. All right, Joelle, we must go to a very short break.
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00:50:15All right. So, welcome back everyone. So, we are continuing our discussion on the
00:50:23Express Business. Of course, Joel Julian is here with us. We touched on a few stories
00:50:29in the Express Business. Joel, what more do you have for us? All right. So, we have Endeavor
00:50:33Holdings Limited. Now, Endeavor Holdings Limited, these are like properties and stuff like that,
00:50:39and the financial year would have come to an end in April. So, they would have published the annual
00:50:46report. And coming out of the annual report, we just have Mr. John Abood. He's the chairman
00:50:51of Endeavor Holdings Limited. They're talking to the space, like what the landscape is looking
00:50:57like in terms of rental of property and so on. And he's saying at this point in time,
00:51:01there still remains challenges in terms of rental property for business like offices.
00:51:07But he says while they have those challenges taking place, people are looking for outlets,
00:51:13for like food and beverages, that sort of sector. And also talks about the increase in revenue that
00:51:20even though there are issues in terms of rental property, that they have seen an increase in
00:51:25revenue coming from some of the properties that they have in terms of like malls, et cetera.
00:51:30All right. So, we highlight what is taking place in terms of EHL and also the landscape in terms
00:51:36of rental property. Apart from that, we have our guest columnist. We have Riyad Mohammed,
00:51:42who takes a look into agriculture itself. We also have Mary King and Dr. Phyllis Morrow.
00:51:51Go ahead. Go ahead, John.
00:51:51I was going to say that, you know, well, the magazine is our flagship product,
00:51:56but we always enter the pages of the Express Business, the Express newspaper itself,
00:52:00you know, because I say we are just a small part of a larger organization, a larger team.
00:52:06Some of the things that we have taking place is you would have seen Massey Stores. So,
00:52:12Massey Stores has the in-store pharmacy. You're looking for a little tablet for your headache,
00:52:18you run into Massey, you buy a tablet. So, Superpharm and Massey Stores have come to
00:52:23an agreement where Superpharm will acquire all the assets of the in-store pharmacy.
00:52:28So, that's one of the things that we're looking at. Superpharm, as you know,
00:52:32is this, they have outlets throughout the country, and they are supposed to take over
00:52:38in terms of the in-store pharmacy of Massey, and what does that mean? Now, Superpharm is a 100%
00:52:43owned subsidiary of a conglomerate called Agostini's, and we have seen Agostini's making
00:52:49some plays in terms of the pharmaceutical sector. So, they would have made several acquisitions
00:52:55throughout the region, and then now their subsidiary, Superpharm, has entered this other
00:53:01aspect of pharmaceuticals in terms of Massey and in-store pharmacy. So, we're just looking at that
00:53:07landscape to see what is taking place and what persons can look forward to. That seems to be
00:53:13a major move. A major, major move. Significant move. As yet, we don't have how much the acquisition
00:53:21is in terms of actual figures. We'll also be looking at, because when you have things like
00:53:26this taking place, there also can, there always, there will always be concerns of like job loss
00:53:31and so on. So, that is one of the things that we also have on our radar as to what this will mean
00:53:37going forward. Now, Massey customers, one of the things, one of the assurances that Massey Stores
00:53:43has given is, you know, you go into Massey, you purchase your stuff, you get your points.
00:53:48Yes. What Massey is saying is that customers can, fear not, when it comes to the in-store pharmacy,
00:53:54you will still get your points, even though it's a new, even though Superpharm will now be in
00:53:59control of the assets, you come into our Massey Store, you purchase your pharmaceuticals, you'll
00:54:05still get your points and stuff going forward. But those are one of the things that we still
00:54:10will be looking at, because there are a lot, there's a lot more to come from it.
00:54:14How much does it cost? What does this mean in terms of job security and employment?
00:54:19What can we anticipate going forward in terms of this acquisition? Because
00:54:23it is a major acquisition that has taken place. Yeah. Joel, it's always good to see you and speak
00:54:29with you. Thank you very much. All of the stories that we would have spoken about,
00:54:34it's in the Express Business today. All right. So, Joel, next week, we'll see you right back here.
00:54:39All right. So, it's time for a quick break. We're coming back, everybody.
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01:03:06All right, everybody. So we're speaking now about football and more so the Evolution Football Club.
01:03:12We do have with us this morning, our co-director, Hussani Thomas, and we also have
01:03:18Cupid of the Evolution Football Club. Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming this morning.
01:03:23Good morning.
01:03:25Well, gentlemen, I'm sure that there are people out there who are aware about your club and are
01:03:32familiar about the club. But let's speak about the evolution of this club and how it started.
01:03:41Well, we started back in 2021. You know, during the pandemic, you know, it was tough times
01:03:47where there were a lot of restrictions. You know, we restricted, I believe,
01:03:50five persons in a gathering at one time. So we only had four players, actually.
01:03:57Coach Sarnie's son and daughter and two other players of parents that we know personally,
01:04:04you know, that were heavily involved in the club before. And we just had four alone. And then from
01:04:11there, when the restrictions grew, we grew to 10. And from 10, when the restrictions lifted again,
01:04:16we grew to 20. And we started to grow and grow. And we actually didn't have a name.
01:04:22We were just doing personal training. We didn't have a name.
01:04:25We didn't even take it that far. We just wanted to get the kids outside, get them involved,
01:04:29get them active. You know, because it was difficult being home inside all the time.
01:04:33I'm an outside child, so it was very difficult during that time as well.
01:04:37So Coach Sarnie and I, we had the kids outside. And from there, when people saw that,
01:04:42hey, Coach Sarnie, Coach came back out, let's get out, let's get involved. And then Sarnie and I
01:04:47had the conversation about making this more professional, you know, making this more
01:04:54prominent, more significant, you know, getting our name out there. And we had a long discussion about
01:04:59names. We took a while, you know, with regards to finding a name. And it was through, you know,
01:05:05dialogue with friends and family that, hey, you know, the club is evolving, the club is growing,
01:05:13you know, and then it stopped. What about Evolution Football Club? And we put the name out
01:05:17there. And, you know, we went on the name search and found that there was no one with Evolution
01:05:23Football Club. There was a gym, Evolution Fitness, you know, but Evolution Football Club, you know,
01:05:29we saw it as a unique name and a brand as well too, you know, that we seeked assistance from
01:05:36Hinkson Graphics, you know, with regards to getting a logo, you know, as you can see from the logo,
01:05:42we're evolving from child to adult, you know, and from since then, we've grown a lot. We
01:05:51have become probably the most prominent football club in Central, you know, we stand out, you know,
01:05:59Edinburgh 500 Recreational Ground, you see a sea of red every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,
01:06:04you know, there are a number of kids out in different age groups, because we take kids
01:06:10between the ages of four to 23 as well too, so. Four to 23? Yes, four to 23. We have another 23
01:06:17program as well too. Okay, so Kostani, we're speaking about, when you talk about from four to
01:06:2323, boys and girls. Yes, yes, boys and girls, boys and girls, we have a number of girls,
01:06:29especially in the younger age groups, and yes, it's, I think from age four, we have girls as
01:06:38young as five in the club, especially in the under eight group, you know, that's probably where we
01:06:42have our largest population of young ladies, and they match up, they train as vigorously,
01:06:51as intensely as the boys, you know, so yeah, we're very proud of that as well. Yeah,
01:06:59so how do parents get their children involved with the club? Right, well, we, I think we are
01:07:07very fortunate that in the way that we're set up, you know, and I credit, you know, Kezia and her
01:07:14space team, you know, that they, that we have, our administrative side of things is
01:07:20digital, right, so, you know, it's no longer a case where we ask a parent, you know, look at,
01:07:25there's a registration form, and you know, can you fill it out, it might get wet, it might get lost,
01:07:31we ask parents to just give them, we give them our contact number, and then they can do everything
01:07:39online, so there's an online registration form, it takes like about five minutes to
01:07:43go through and fill out, and you upload your information and your child's information,
01:07:48and you know, that's how we, so where do they access that information to sign up, to register
01:07:53for the club? Good, so we have the club's contact number, which is 302-9590, but also we are on all
01:08:05the social media platforms, so we're Evolution Club, Football Club on Facebook, on Instagram,
01:08:12even TikTok as well, yeah, but you know, Coach Kuhn, call the man Kuhn,
01:08:21we have a lot of those, you have a lot of those, right, I think that's what I'm thinking about,
01:08:26the children going through the cones, Coach, but you all have had some success over this past
01:08:33two years, right? Yes, we have, most notably being successful in the Republic Cup Youth
01:08:40Tournament on the 20 level, at under 20 level, because we registered our under 14, under 16,
01:08:45and under 20 level, and the under 20s went all the way, we created history as the only club,
01:08:52the first club in Central to ever win a nationwide Republic Cup title, you know, so we're very proud
01:08:59of that achievement, the boys, they sacrificed a lot, they worked hard, the coaching staff as well,
01:09:06too, Coach Sani, who's here, he's the one that spearheaded that effort, I was just there as his
01:09:11supporting cast, because I work more with the under 14s, and I'd love to touch on this story,
01:09:17but I'd leave it to Coach Sani to speak on that, so go ahead. Yeah, well, that Republic Cup
01:09:25under 20 victory was, I think, one for the ages, you know, I think I was telling someone, you know,
01:09:31it's a kind of story that could rival, remember the Titans and those sorts of movies, because
01:09:38we had, after three games, we were, we lost two of our first three games, and it's an eight-team table
01:09:45in each of the zones, so we were seventh on the eight-team table, so, you know, now it was a case
01:09:52of, okay, how do we try our best to navigate this, because I think from even before it started,
01:09:59we had, I mean, we shared the vision as anybody, any other club would, to try to go all the way,
01:10:05but we had the confidence that we could, once it is, we apply ourselves, and things are, you know,
01:10:10fall in our favor, so I explained to the boys that, listen, those three games have gone, we have
01:10:17seven finals remaining, so now they, you know, I see a few faces looking perplexed, because we only had
01:10:24four more group games, and then the penny dropped with some of them that, oh, coach means quarter-final,
01:10:31semi-final, final, so, you know, that was our mantra going forward, that, listen, every game from here
01:10:37on is our final, ended up with, in our third to last group game, where we drew, so now it was out
01:10:46of our hands, we had to depend on other results, and, you know, and those players, those boys
01:10:52continued working as hard as from the very first day, and, you know, I give them full credit for
01:10:58that, because it's easy for them, some of them to maybe fall off the wagon, and yeah, and from there
01:11:05on, we managed to get out of the group in second place, went into our quarter-final against
01:11:12Hillsview College, won that by three goals to two, and then went into our semi-final against Premier
01:11:17Sports Club from South, and they were one of the favorites, they had just beaten Pro Series, who
01:11:25were also one of the favorites, had a player who scored four goals in their four-three victory, so
01:11:32that's what all the talk was, how are they going to stop this player, you know, but we had a plan,
01:11:37you know, we had a game plan, and I think my, our part taking in the TTFAB license coaching
01:11:46course, you know, definitely helped, right, with, you know, the way that we approach games, our
01:11:51preparation, and, you know, we transfer that onto the players. I think that's very important, coach, when,
01:11:58because when, I'm sure that when parents are considering, well, here's what, I think my child
01:12:04has a talent, and I want to get them involved in a club, but parents would think about the
01:12:13experience of the coaches, the expertise of the coaches, so let's speak a little bit about that.
01:12:19Well, just a little touch on myself, you know, I am a former professional and national
01:12:27footballer as well, too, always had the aspirations to pass on my knowledge, you know, from a coaching
01:12:33capacity, you know, I love working with youths at various levels, because I'm a former youth officer
01:12:38as well, too, in a community council as well, so I try to always be a role model, try to be able to
01:12:43give back, and most of our philosophy is based on education, football education, and what better way
01:12:52than to educate yourself to be able to pass on that information to others, and most of our coaching
01:12:57staff are C-licensed or B-licensed certified as well, too, so we have a very experienced coaching
01:13:04staff, and also we have a mentoring program at the club, where our same under-23 players,
01:13:10they come through the ranks, and they coach the younger ones as well, too, so they can gain
01:13:14experience, and there is succession planning, you know, there is continuation at the club,
01:13:19and they are very enthusiastic about working with the younger ones, and also with the
01:13:24success at the Republic Cup level, we were able to add more motivation to these younger ones,
01:13:31you know, and highlight to the parents that we have a program that is self-sustainable, you know,
01:13:38we want to be able to look forward all the time, and we also try our best to get the parents
01:13:45involved, you know, we get the parents involved, we have a lot of community and educational
01:13:50initiatives that keep them engaged and keep them involved, so the parents are very happy right now
01:13:55with what we offer, and long may it continue. All right, gentlemen, we must go to a very
01:14:01short break. We're coming back, everybody.
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01:16:14All right. So welcome back. So we continue our discussion on football and more so the Evolution
01:16:37Football Club. Of course, we do have co-directors and head coaches,
01:16:41Hussani Thomas and Curran Cupid. Coach Sani, let's speak a little bit about support,
01:16:50because support is very, very important and you all are doing a lot of great things in your
01:16:56community with these young people, but you need support. You need resources. Yeah, definitely.
01:17:03I think being a young club that we would have started and we've grown from the ground up,
01:17:09you know, obviously equipment and resources is something that we definitely need. And even with
01:17:17the weather that we have, you know, wear and tears, it's always something that we need to
01:17:21replenish. So, you know, we definitely would like support from the business community.
01:17:27I think that being in the central area and even the Edinburgh 500 area, I think it's definitely
01:17:33an attractive place that businesses can definitely be seen. And I think we have
01:17:40a number of followers. You know, we have a large membership and between 1,000 to 3,000
01:17:49people will follow us on the different social media platforms as well. So, yeah.
01:17:54Yeah. So if sponsors need to contact you, how do they do that?
01:17:59Well, they can do it through the social media platforms, the same contact number we said 302
01:18:049590. Also as well to, they can come and visit at Evolution Football Club home in Edinburgh 500
01:18:13recreational ground, lovely facility. You know, we're very blessed, you know, to also have the
01:18:19councillor for area that supports, you know, the community council, the Edinburgh 500 Sports and
01:18:26Arts Society. They're very present with regards to supporting what we're trying to do. Also,
01:18:32we recently started our interphase because our community is built of phases, phase one, two,
01:18:39three, four. And the interphase competition is in all the sporting disciplines, netball for the
01:18:45ladies. Also men are also invited to come and play as well. So I actually take a part in the
01:18:51netball as well too. Cause you know, there's male netball competitions, basketball, cricket,
01:18:57football mainly, you know, which is probably the biggest attraction in the community as well too.
01:19:03So most of our players, they actually stand out, you know, it's nice to see that the development
01:19:10is, you know, moving over and translating into their performances when they play their leaders
01:19:15at their different phases, you know, their role models where players look up to. So
01:19:19sponsors can feel free to come at the venue. They could take a look at us, you know, they could look
01:19:26at our videos on the social media platforms and if they choose to visit, they're always welcome.
01:19:31Yeah. Coach Sani, continue along that point for me that Coach Kern has made about developing
01:19:42the athlete, developing the footballer, because as you know, and we were speaking off air,
01:19:48but sometimes you have at the secondary school level, there is this thrust at winning, winning,
01:19:55winning, winning, winning, winning, and not really thinking about the holistic and total development
01:20:03of the individual in his educational background, what's going on at home. So it has to be holistic
01:20:14development and not this myopic view of what we have sport to be in Trinidad and Tobago, right?
01:20:22Yeah. Let's talk about that development by your club. Yeah, I think you made some excellent points
01:20:27because I think our philosophy at the club is about holistic development. Indeed. We want to
01:20:36ensure that we develop young footballers, but more importantly, young people. I see people
01:20:44because we have boys and girls at the club who can now be contributors to society in a positive
01:20:50way. So over the past two years since we've been in existence, we've embarked on
01:20:56a number of workshops. So we have the SCA workshop for parents and kids who are about to embark
01:21:03on the SCA exam or take the SCA exam. We have first aid courses that we offered for staff as
01:21:10well as parents and even some of the older players at the club. Also, we have partnered with
01:21:16or we have aligned ourselves with Eastern Credit Union and they now
01:21:27can have offered to do some financial literacy for the club as well, which will
01:21:33definitely assist the boys and girls who are entering the young adulthood and can now be able
01:21:41to fend for themselves. Yeah. Coach, we just have about a minute again, but I just want to say that
01:21:48you all are doing very important work in the community because we know the environment that
01:21:55we are operating in Trinidad and Tobago and we know the headlines. I don't have to tell you about
01:22:01the headlines, but you all are doing, as I say, very important work in the community to not only
01:22:07get the young men and women involved in sport, but for them to stay in sport and to stay on that
01:22:14straight and narrow path. Coach, as I said, you have a minute again. Any final comments?
01:22:22For us, thank you very much for having us and we feel so proud of our achievement thus far
01:22:29for such a young organization. I hope that we continue to grow and gather that support
01:22:34from Financial Trinidad as well, too. And I hope that they see the important role that we play,
01:22:40you know, in the future because we want to continue investing in the nation youth
01:22:45because they are our future. So we hope that with this interview and possibly further conversations
01:22:51that we can have their support. Yeah. Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming this morning.
01:22:56We wish you all the best in your future. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right.
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01:26:03All right, so welcome back everyone. So it's time for our CPL segment. The countdown is on as the
01:26:08Women's CPL gets underway on Wednesday 21st to the 29th at the Brian and Lara Cricket Academy.
01:26:15Today fans will have the opportunity to take photos. You'll get that. You will have the
01:26:20opportunity to take photos with the WCPL trophy and who knows maybe you might get the chance to
01:26:27see some of your favorite players. We are now joined via Zoom with Peter Miller, head of PR
01:26:33and Communications at CPL. Mr. Miller, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
01:26:39Thank you very much for having me. It's lovely to be here. Of course. Well, I suspect for people
01:26:43who are looking at us and the announcement that I just made that they do have the opportunity,
01:26:49fans do have the opportunity to see that trophy and they may get the opportunity to also
01:26:54take a few photos with some of the players. Where is all of that happening?
01:27:03Yeah, they're happening at Massey stores throughout Trinidad over the next week or so.
01:27:07So it's really exciting to be able to give people the opportunity to maybe win some merch
01:27:10and have an opportunity to engage with the CPL trophy. I'm really lucky that I quite regularly
01:27:16get to travel around with the CPL trophy as hand luggage and I can assure you when I'm traveling
01:27:21around with it across the Caribbean, it gets lots of people very excited at the prospect of taking
01:27:25photos with it. So yeah, the one today is the Massey Goldfuse store between 12pm and 6pm
01:27:32and then there'll be Massey West Moorings on Friday the 16th between 12pm and 6pm
01:27:38and then on Friday and then on Sunday the 18th at Massey Brentwood from 9am to 3pm.
01:27:44So we're going to have Whitney Husbands there to host it. She's the winner of our
01:27:49CPL talent search this year. So she's going to be deeply involved in terms of getting the crowd
01:27:53going. There's going to be questions that people can answer to win prizes from Massey,
01:27:59all that kind of stuff. I'm sure there'll be lots of engaging stuff for people to do and
01:28:04I think it's just an opportunity for everybody around Trinidad to get really excited about the
01:28:08WCPL coming to town and what's going to be the biggest year ever for the tournament. Really,
01:28:12this is the first time that we're going to have it as a standalone event. It's going to be the
01:28:15first time that we're going to have it as double headers with the men's T20 international games
01:28:21and it should be really fun to come out and watch some of the best cricketers in the world.
01:28:24Yeah, so I think it is safe to say that the build-up has begun and we are going to see it
01:28:31over the next few days and preparations are well underway and are ahead and that you all are ready
01:28:40for the opening on Wednesday. Is that safe to say? Yeah, very much so. We're very much looking
01:28:46forward to heading to Trinidad. My long journey there starts tomorrow. Very excited to be back
01:28:51in one of my favorite places in the world and enjoying some of the hospitality that you guys
01:28:55are so famous for. It's always a lot of fun to come to Trinidad. I'm really excited to have these
01:28:59games at night. I think the CPL has always been a night-time product. The bacchanal, as you Trinnies
01:29:06like to call it, and the enjoyment of having a nice cold rum punch of some description in your
01:29:11hand and enjoying the cricket with some music and some dancing and all the rest of it. So yeah,
01:29:15that's really important. I think moving to the point where WCPL is a night-time product that
01:29:20is drawing a big crowd is the next evolution for the tournament and I think I'd like to hope
01:29:26cricket fans across Trinidad will be doing what they can to come out and support what will be a
01:29:31really entertaining product at a really great price. Yeah, well here's what. Let's deal with
01:29:39that. Let's deal with the price because I think that people will be very much interested in the
01:29:44prices. We would have spoken to one of your colleagues earlier this week, I believe,
01:29:49and he spoke about the price is being put in a way that anyone, I suspect, can attend the event,
01:30:00right? Yeah, that's really important to us at CPL. It's really important that the price points
01:30:05across CPL and WCPL are at a point where people can afford to come. They can afford to bring their
01:30:09families. It's just as important to have a crowd in the stadium as it is to have fantastic cricket
01:30:18taking place on the grass in front of you. That's what makes CPL so special. And yeah,
01:30:25having the games at 8 p.m. and 7 p.m. means that people can come after work. It's the summer
01:30:32holidays still. You can bring the family along. You don't have to worry about the kids getting
01:30:35up early for school the next day. They can have a bit of a lie-in after enjoying some CPL.
01:30:41So yeah, some late nights and some enjoyment and all of the fun and festivities that are involved
01:30:46in the CPL, but with the women's players taking part. And I think that's really important. It's
01:30:51really important that we watch as the women's game grows around the world that the Caribbean
01:30:56isn't left behind. We've seen these tournaments increasing in popularity. But to come back to the
01:31:02price point, yeah, the prices are starting at $7.50 U.S., which I think is about $50 Trini dollars,
01:31:07if my maths is correct. And then for the single header games, they're $10 U.S., which is about
01:31:15$70 Trini dollars. So that's really, really good value for people to come along and watch.
01:31:20If you think you're paying $50 Trini bucks to go along and watch a men's T20 international
01:31:26between the West Indies and South Africa with some of the best players in the world,
01:31:30followed by a women's game with some of the absolute superstars of the women's game,
01:31:35not least the TKR captain, Deandra Dotton, who I'm sure people will be really excited to see
01:31:41and really excited that she's back in the West Indies fold. So yeah, it's going to be a lot of
01:31:45fun and hopefully, as I said, really good value. And that's going to encourage people to come out
01:31:49and engage with the women's game. Yeah. And I want to speak a little bit about the expertise, really,
01:31:58and the talent of the women who will participate in this tournament, because, you see, sometimes
01:32:05we feel, oh, it's the women. They're not as exciting to watch as the men. I want you to
01:32:13speak a little bit about some of the women that you have described as superstars in women cricket
01:32:21today. Yeah, I think we've seen around the world how that opinion is changing and changing rapidly,
01:32:27and it's been changing over the last 10 years. We've seen sold-out crowds for World Cup finals
01:32:32in the UK, in Australia. We've seen fantastic crowds attending when the Women's T20 World Cup
01:32:36was in the Caribbean in 2018. The attitude and opinion towards women's cricket, quite rightly,
01:32:44I think, is changing and changing rapidly. And if you look at the way that the game has
01:32:49evolved for the salaries that these women can earn now and all the rest of it around the world,
01:32:55that is a significant change, and there is a lot of excitement about it. There's some really,
01:33:01really talented athletes who are taking up the sport, and I think that's quite important from
01:33:05the women's sport development point of view is for the best young athletes to see cricket as
01:33:11being a genuine career option. I think in the past, and in the recent past, unfortunately,
01:33:16it's been something you've been able to do as a very high-level hobby rather than something that's
01:33:22your day-to-day job. Now that's rapidly, rapidly changing, especially if you look at the salaries
01:33:28that people are getting at the Women's Premier League in India, and then obviously in the UK,
01:33:33you've got the 100, you've got the Women's Big Bash in Australia. So some of the players that
01:33:38are coming along this year is really exciting. I mean, just from the overseer's player point of
01:33:42view, just in TKR, you've got Meg Lanning, who's probably the most decorated women's cricketer of
01:33:47all time. Jess Jonathan, who's right up there with her, won all of the trophies with Australia.
01:33:52Dhikr Pandey, really exciting Indian seam bowler, who will generate some pace and will generate some
01:33:57excitement and bring a lot of experience. And then I think the player I'm most looking forward
01:34:01to seeing in that TKR squad is Jemima Rodrigues, who is a very, very attacking top-order batter,
01:34:08who scores runs really quickly, has an absolutely fantastic personality. I think she's someone who's
01:34:14going to bring a lot of fun to the social media channels and all the rest of it, as people get
01:34:17to know her. And that's just one squad. There's some really, really high-level players. And as I
01:34:23often say to people when people are talking about overseas players coming to the men's or women's
01:34:27tournament, it's not a difficult sell for us to come and say to people, come and spend some time
01:34:31in the Caribbean, right? Because who doesn't want to go and enjoy some sun and some entertainment
01:34:36and hopefully find a day off where you can go down the island in Trinidad or all the other
01:34:41things that you can do, pop over to Tobago. Yeah, it's going to be really exciting for us to be back
01:34:46watching these players. All right, Mr Miller, please stay with us. We are going to a very
01:34:50short break, everybody. We're coming back.
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01:37:06Washer, dryer, wash it, fluff it, spin it, spin it, dry it, clean it, fold it, wear it, sort it, and soak it.
01:37:14Rinse, rinse it, load it. FDA gonna make you bend it, crush it, toast it. At courts, you can get it.
01:37:29All right, we'll see. See, I'm getting in the mood here. You see, you see that? All right. So we're talking about the WCPL and of course with us, we do have Peter Miller, Head of PR and Communications at CPL.
01:37:48Mr. Miller, let's talk a little bit about the impact that programs, initiatives, however you want to put it, such as the CPL and more so the WCPL, that it has had on the game of cricket and more so on young women and girls in the Caribbean. Let's speak about that impact.
01:38:15Yeah, I think it's really important, as I said, for it to be a viable profession for young athletes, right? You know, this is the thing. If you look at young athletes as they come through, they're not good at just one sport, right? If you're good at athletics, the chances are you're good at golf, you're good at tennis, you're good at all these games. And it's us finding a way as a sport to try and attract those good athletes to come and, one, try our game.
01:38:35And that's about as getting as many kids as possible to come along and play cricket, because we don't know who's going to be good and who isn't. And then showing them that they have heroes and they have people that they can look up to. So they can say, right, OK, look at the career that Deandra Dotton has, that Hayley Matthews has, that Anissa Mohamed has had. And then allowing those people to be the role models for them to see, right, OK, I can turn that into a career. And WCPL is a small part of that.
01:38:59But if you look at the global landscape now, if you look at someone like Hayley Matthews, who I think unquestionably, for me, is the best all-round women's cricketer in the world, someone from the Caribbean, someone from Barbados. She's had the opportunity that she's played in the Women's Premier League in India. WCPL is not at the point that we can compete with those salaries, but it's great to see those female players earning those big, big salaries in India.
01:39:23You've got the Women's Big Bash in Australia, which is a really well-established competition running alongside the men's tournament. The 100 in England going on at the moment. And then other tournaments popping up around the world, you know, the tournaments like the Fair Break International. There's been exhibition games around the Pakistan Super League. And I think what it's shown is that the sport of cricket doesn't just have to be something that is a career option for male players.
01:39:50And for me, it's really exciting to see that develop. You know, there was a time where you had the only focus really would have been the international game. And that obviously is a smaller market for these guys to try and apply their trade.
01:40:04There's Juliane Goswami, the former Indian seam bowler. She's going to be a mentor with the Trimbago Knight Riders this year at the WCPL. And she was speaking yesterday on ESPN. And she was talking about how making franchise cricket the priority for women is how you grow the game. Because that's a way that it becomes a bigger possible profession. And you're not having the very talented players just through force of their lives getting in the way, having to walk away from the sport.
01:40:31And that, for me, I think is really important. And that's where things like WCPL and these other leagues around the world are very important for women's sport and women's cricket in particular.
01:40:42But I think that you would agree that I think that women can now feel that, especially in the game of cricket, that there's this niche and that there's this space for them and that they are being taken seriously because of their experience and talent. And it is now a viable opportunity for them.
01:41:09Yeah, I think so. And I think it's really important that the stories that these women tell to our young cricketers, our daughters, all these people around the world are positive stories, right? I think the difficulty has been so often in women's sport in the past. And I like to think of myself as someone who listens to what women have to say. And what often happens is that you'll find a situation that they're telling not great stories. We weren't treated the same. We weren't given the same amount of respect. We weren't given the same amount of exposure.
01:41:36And that's what's really great with you guys at TV6, giving the exposure to these women's cricketers and telling the stories. I've been really enjoying watching the conversations you've been having with these great female players over the last couple of days. I thought Keshona Knight yesterday was so much fun talking to her and giving these girls an opportunity for them to be able to tell their stories and tell how they got into the sport. And that's really, really important as we look to grow the game, right?
01:42:01You know, I want to be at the point where the kids at the ground are as excited about getting Keshona Knight's autograph as they would be Andre Russell's. And it's for those of us who work in the media and those of us who work in cricket to try and make sure that that happens. And I hope WCPL is playing a small part and hopefully a growing part in that.
01:42:21You feel that the day is going to come where, if I can compare it to other sports, where one day it is going to come where the world will know who the WCPL players are and they are going to be familiar faces.
01:42:42We are going to be seeing them on the big billboards and participating in the multi-million dollar ads. And when it comes to merchandising and playing a great role, you feel that a day like that is going to come or have we reached there already?
01:43:00I don't think we're quite there yet. I hope we're moving in that direction.
01:43:02Certainly, if you look at the crowds and interest in TV numbers coming out of India for the WCPL, that's certainly moving in that direction. If you look at the crowds that The 100 gets for the women's games, just as it's going on at the moment, there's 15,000, 20,000 people turning up to watch these games.
01:43:21That's really important. I always think of that great film where they talk about, if you build it, they will come. And there's an element of that where you need to put these things on to be able to have the opportunity for them to showcase their skills.
01:43:35We had some really great moments last year in the women's CPL. We had Sophie Devine scoring 100 in the very first game. We had Sriyanka Patil bowling brilliantly throughout.
01:43:46We had Amanda Jade Wellington doing superbly. We had Hayley Matthews being player of the match in the WCPL final last year.
01:43:54So I think it's finding a way for us to showcase those performances, for them to become the storied things that we talk about in the future.
01:44:03The stuff that our sports fans and cricket fans talk about with our kids when they're growing up to get them to fall in love with the game. And that, I hope, is what WCPL is finding a platform for.
01:44:14Do you, or I may not want to use the word prediction, but do you foresee somewhere in the future, because there has been a discussion over the past few days about the expansion of the competition and having more teams involved in the competition. Do you foresee that? Do you see that in the future at all?
01:44:39Yeah, I think so. You know, it's very much ambition. You know, I think Pete Russell was on your show. My boss, the CEO of the tournament, was talking about potentially expanding to four teams.
01:44:47I think where CPL has had a success over the years is it's not looked to overstretch itself, right? I think what can happen with these is you get excited about your success and you grow too fast and you grow too quickly.
01:44:57And that isn't a recipe for longevity. I think the fact that we're heading into our 12th CPL this year, a tournament that started in 2013, by far and away the longest running tournament of its type in the region.
01:45:10That's because the people who are above my pay grade and who make the important decisions, make these decisions with the thought of longevity in mind.
01:45:21And from that point of view, it's about building up the number of cricketers that we've got that can play at this level. And I think there needs to be an understanding that we need to start from the grassroots to build up towards us having those cricketers that can take part.
01:45:33I think there probably is enough players for four teams. I'm not qualified enough to tell you if there's players enough for six teams, because I'm unfortunately not involved enough in player development. That would be a question for Cricket West Indies and all of the things that they deal with and the fantastic job that they do in terms of growing the game.
01:45:49But yeah, I mean, for me, in an ideal world, speaking as Peter Miller rather than a CPL employee, I would say I'd love there to be six teams, just as I'd love there to be eight CPL teams and eight WCPL teams.
01:46:02But it's about expansion at a rate that makes sense for the tournament and for cricket in the region as a whole.
01:46:09And it does no one any good to expand so quickly that you find that the tournament is falling apart and not achieving what it needs to achieve.
01:46:19So I'm hopeful that Pete Russell and everyone else involved in that can get us to four teams, then five teams, then six.
01:46:26And the sooner that happens, as far as I'm concerned, the better, the bigger the tournament gets, the better.
01:46:31It could have its own window.
01:46:32That would be nice, wouldn't it?
01:46:33And then I would get to spend two lots of six weeks in the Caribbean, which would please me greatly, but upset my wife.
01:46:40All right, Mr. Miller, please stay on the line with us.
01:46:43We are going to a very short break again, everybody.
01:46:45We're coming back.
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01:48:42FDA gon' make you blend it.
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01:49:25You ever try talking to a child and there's a total and complete misunderstanding
01:49:30and it turns out into a shouting match? Be mindful of what you say and more importantly
01:49:35how you say what you say.
01:49:40Today I want to share with you just a few thoughts on communication.
01:49:43To build healthy parent-child relations, communication is not an option. Effective
01:49:49communication is the lifeblood of good relationship between parents and children.
01:49:55Please listen attentively to your child.
01:49:58Everyone hears, but not everybody listens.
01:50:00Listen actively.
01:50:03Use language they can understand.
01:50:05Use language that is appropriate for their age.
01:50:08And make sure that when you're speaking,
01:50:10be very clear and be very, very specific.
01:50:13So what does behave good means?
01:50:15What does stop behaving badly means?
01:50:17Be very clear and be very specific.
01:50:20Please do not use any derogatory words
01:50:23to them at all, at all, at all.
01:50:25Use kind language, because that helps to set
01:50:27a positive tone in the house.
01:50:30Express your feelings and your satisfaction to the situation.
01:50:34And of course, please encourage your children to do so as well.
01:50:38Remember, the conversation should be, children,
01:50:42we love you.
01:50:43We love you, and we respect you.
01:50:46Do the best you can.
01:50:47It's all that you can do.
01:50:48Be mindful of what you say and how you say it.
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01:50:58The letter for today is C, for communication.
01:51:00All right, so we are putting you in the mood for the WCPL.
01:51:13And we are continuing our discussion
01:51:15with Peter Miller, head of PR and Communications, CPL.
01:51:20Mr. Miller, I know, because CPL has a history,
01:51:24and WCPL, they do have a history,
01:51:27of making these events better than the year before.
01:51:33Is there anything that you can tell us this morning?
01:51:35Any surprises that you have up your sleeves?
01:51:40The surprise is to come along the way, especially when we get
01:51:43down to away from Trinidad and to other places,
01:51:46unfortunately, if people want to travel.
01:51:48I'm not going to spill the beans.
01:51:49But there's some really exciting stuff planned
01:51:51for St. Lucia for the men's tournament, which is great.
01:51:54Some really exciting stuff around the final in Guyana.
01:51:58So the planning for CPL starts, I would say,
01:52:01probably in November each year.
01:52:04And then we spend a lot of time going through it.
01:52:07It's a small team that work really, really
01:52:09hard to pull it all together.
01:52:10I am a very small cog in that wheel,
01:52:14as far as bringing all of it together.
01:52:17But yeah, I think the important thing
01:52:19is making the most of the product that we've got,
01:52:22and then knowing the markets.
01:52:23I've been hugely fortunate to travel around the Caribbean
01:52:25and get to know people.
01:52:27It's one of the thrills of my career
01:52:28to have been able to go and do that.
01:52:30But also relying on the people that we've
01:52:32got that live in those markets and work in those markets.
01:52:34And I think that, for me, is probably the success of CPL.
01:52:37It's kind of the central core team that travels around,
01:52:41and the way that they work with the local team
01:52:44to pull all of this stuff together.
01:52:46So when it comes to WCPL, there's
01:52:49a lot of things that need to be sorted.
01:52:50There's been emails flying back and forth about buses
01:52:53to get players around, catering, all that kind of stuff.
01:52:55I think if you were to think about CPL
01:52:59for all of the little bits from 100 miles up,
01:53:04you would start having an anxiety attack very, very soon.
01:53:07I think the key is to break it down into much smaller segments
01:53:10and find a way for it to work.
01:53:12So yeah, it's coming together.
01:53:14There's always a late rush and a late push.
01:53:16The time for planning is very much over.
01:53:18This is the time for doing.
01:53:20And there's a lot for us to do.
01:53:22But yeah, we're really excited.
01:53:24We're really hopeful that with this WCPL segment,
01:53:26people are going to come out and support.
01:53:28We're really hopeful that they visit CPL T20.
01:53:31Sorry, I'm going to say that again.
01:53:32It's windyscricket.com that you need
01:53:34to go to to get these tickets.
01:53:36And then you can also visit the box offices
01:53:40at Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Queensborough
01:53:42to go and get your tickets.
01:53:44The WCPL will only exist if it gets fan support.
01:53:47So I really hope that some of the things
01:53:50that I've said over the last half an hour
01:53:53have resonated with people,
01:53:54and it will see them coming out and supporting us
01:53:56when we get underway on the 21st of August.
01:53:58Yeah.
01:53:59So, all right, Mr. Miller,
01:54:00we do have just about 30 seconds again
01:54:02for the cricket enthusiast
01:54:04who is looking at us this morning and wondering,
01:54:07I wonder if I should come to the WCPL, boy.
01:54:10They still don't know for sure.
01:54:12What do you want to tell them?
01:54:15That there's an opportunity to watch
01:54:16truly world-class cricket at an absolutely amazing price.
01:54:20There's lots of other fun, you know,
01:54:21fan giveaways and all the other stuff
01:54:23that we are doing across the tournament
01:54:28that will be really exciting for fans to be there.
01:54:31But ultimately, as much as the fans make the experience,
01:54:33the stuff around it make the experience,
01:54:35the cricket is going to be absolutely first class.
01:54:37And I hope as many people as possible come out and watch.
01:54:40Yeah.
01:54:41Mr. Miller, it's always a pleasure speaking with you.
01:54:43Thank you very much.
01:54:44And we wish you all the best.
01:54:47Bye for now.
01:54:48Thank you very much.
01:54:49Bye now.
01:54:49So that's going to do it for our programme for today.
01:54:52See you here tomorrow, everybody.
01:54:54Bye for now.
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01:55:17You know what we, what we love,
01:55:18what we got, we got you.
01:55:20When we ballin' now, that's what we ballin' now.
01:55:24We stop the mouth and the voice,
01:55:26the other teams can't touch me
01:55:27cause we ballin' now, that's what we ballin'.
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01:55:32yes, we give them the sticks.
01:55:34No sense in a get-mix.
01:55:35So we give them the sticks,
01:55:36yes, we give them the sticks.
01:55:37No sense in a get-mix.
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01:55:40sticks, sticks, sticks,
01:55:41sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks.
01:55:43Tell them we ain't done with sticks,
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