 Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am General Norville. This edition stops stories. Public sector unions agree to deferring salary increases as government revenue continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The rebound of the local tourism sector continues with the reopening of the Canadian market and the celebrating those who built this nation. The membership of the St. Lucia Trade Union Federation, TuF, has entered into an agreement with the government of St. Lucia to defer the salary payment increases and other benefits due to the impacts of COVID-19 on the economy and government revenue. The agreement signed by the various trade unions and public sector associations, comprised in the Trade Union Federation, was entered into on 21 July 2021. The TuF, represented by President Julian Monroe's and the government negotiating team, represented by Chairman Van Gill, agreed that the payment of the 1% salary increase due to officers in grades 1 to 18 from April 2020 be further deferred to April 2022. It was also agreed that the associated retroactive payments be paid as a lump sum by December 2022. The parties also decided that the payment of the 2% salary increase due to grades 1 to 18 from April 2021 be deferred to March 2023 and the associated retroactive payments be paid as a lump sum by March 2023. The agreement provides for a 100% waiver of income tax on the retroactive payments. The agreement for the deferment of salary increases does not replace the collective bargaining agreements currently in place between the government of St. Lucia and the affiliates of the St. Lucia Trade Union Federation for the period 2019 to 2022. Rather, it seeks to detail the implementation of the provisions with respect to the agreed salary increases. St. Lucia's tourism sector has received a shot in the arm with the reopening of a major source market. We get details from Jareen Georges of the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. Commemorating the reopening of the Canadian market, the St. Lucia Tourism Authority, along with tourism stakeholders, will on hand at the Huron Air International Airport to welcome Air Canada Rouge Flight 1878 on Sunday, October 3. The return of Air Canada signals the reopening of St. Lucia's fourth largest international source market. Air Canada discontinued its winter service to St. Lucia in January 2021 during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first flight to St. Lucia returns after nine months following the Canadian government's cancellation of all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean in February 2021. To welcome Air Canada, a delegation led by Tourism Minister Honourable Dr. Ernest Teller comprised the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the St. Lucia Tourism Authority, Thaddeus Antoine. The St. Lucia A&C Ports Authority and President of the St. Lucia Hospitality and Tourism Association, Paul Collimore. The flight landed at 2 p.m., bringing a combined total of 148 returning nationals and visitors to the island. A commemorative plaque was presented to Captain Christopher Clark and crew members who disembarked to greet the delegation. Until the end of October, it's going to be one flight a week. Thereafter, it's going to be two flights a week. And from the middle of December, we're going to be having four flights per week. Certainly, we are delighted to have so many visitors that will be coming to our shores. That adds more business to the taxis, to the sights and attractions, to the hotels, to the restaurants. And all the other sectors in St. Lucia will surely benefit from having more visitors coming in. And of course, we all know that so many persons depend on the tourism sector for employment. And ahead of Christmas, we're certainly looking forward to flights full coming out of Canada. Air Canada's return service to Toronto on Sunday, October 3rd, departed with 51 passengers and facilitated the exportation of £2,545 of fresh produce to Canada. President of the St Lucia Hospitality and Tourism Association, Paul Collimore, speaks of the benefits of another market to St Lucia. This opportunity with having another source market reopened provides that opportunity for them to have the flights to come back to St Lucia. Also, we see this here as an opportunity for all of our services to reopen. We see our taxi service providers, our DMCs as well, and many of the agents operating here and at the airport, not to mention our accommodation sector as well. So really on behalf of the sector and certainly on my own behalf, we want to say welcome back to Air Canada, welcome back to the Canadian visitors. And this market is very important to our overall business here on the island as well. We hope that moving forward that the demand will continue to increase and that we can see more increase in the coming into St Lucia. Air Canada's winter schedule will include four weekly flights as of Christmas. St Lucia is also set to welcome back WestJet and Sunwing in the weeks ahead. In 2019, St Lucia welcomed over 40,000 Canadian visitor arrivals to the island. Keeping the destination and the diverse Canadian market top of mind, the St Lucia Tourism Authority will continue to drive its robust, targeted marketing and public relations campaigns in the market, creating more awareness of the destination and access routes. During George's St Lucia Tourism Authority. The Ministries of Agriculture, Health and Education have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve St Lucia's national school feeding program and school gardens. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries Rural Development and Food Security has joined efforts with the Departments of Health and Education for the purpose of expressing their commitment to collaborate and integrate efforts to achieve the common aim of enhancing school gardens and the school feeding program in St Lucia. The school feeding program aims to reduce hunger and improve food security in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for poverty and malnutrition. The memorandum of understanding forges greater international coordination of efforts for an improved and sustained national school feeding program. Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education Michelle Charles asserts that the school feeding program benefits not only students but also parents, farmers and entire communities. We have noted the impact that insufficient or poor nutrition has had on our students. We are familiar too with scenarios where the absence of the school feeding program correlates closely with high absenteeism in schools. And we are all too cognizant of what can happen to our school age children who slip through the education cracks in parts due to lack of food and fall prey to social ills. I say all of this to emphasize the point that the implementation of initiatives such as these have a far-reaching impact and auger well for our communities and society as a whole. This memorandum of understanding is supported by the CARICOM FAO Mexico Initiative, Cooperation for Climate Change, Adaptation and Resilience in the Caribbean. National Project Coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization's School Feeding Program, Sherriann Smith, explains that the framework of the initiative in light of COVID-19 supports participating countries in their efforts to protect livelihoods, ensure adequate access to healthy foods and ensure sustainable management of natural resources. The Sustainable School Feeding Program initiative is based on activities such as the involvement of the Educational Committee, the adaptation of adequate and healthy school meals, implementation of educational school gardens, improvement of school kitchens and storage areas, direct purchases of products from local farmers and school gardens, improvement of the national school feeding policy in St. Lucia, an assessment of the health assessment of students. Our understanding is that school feeding in St. Lucia, as elsewhere, have long been established and recognized as an important instrument in facilitating learning, especially for poor and vulnerable children. Healthy and well-nourished children learn better. Representative from the Mexican Embassy based in St. Lucia, Carlos Ivan Gonzalez Osuna, underlines the Mexican government's commitment to aid in St. Lucia and deepening diplomatic ties. It is for me an honour and a satisfaction to participate in this ceremony that marks the launch of the implementation of the project on Resilient School Feeding Implementation Program, which is part of the Mexico CARICOM FAO Initiative, Cooperation for Climate Change, Adaptation and Resilience in the Caribbean. Recently reoriented in order to mitigate the economic and social impacts generated by the COVID-19 disease and which has a budget of more than five and a half million US dollars in the entire initiative, which benefit 14 countries in the region, including the six Eastern Caribbean states. The memorandum of understanding took place on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at the Tissue Culture Conference Room in Union. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting. Minister for Health, Wellness and Early Affairs, Hon. Mose Jabatist, has urged the nation to pay homage and celebrate the contribution of senior citizens to the development of St Lucia. The call comes as the Ministry commemorated International Day of the Older Persons on the 1st of October. It is a time for us to reflect on the contributions of elderly St Lucians to our development. It is also a time for the new Ministry for Health, Wellness and Early Affairs to use the occasion as a springboard for a new kind of engagement with our older resourceful people. We salute the contributions they have made to the development of our beloved homeland. It is because of their commitment to building strong families and communities around the island in their youth that we can be proud of the resilient people we have become. We cannot forget them in this era. Indeed, we are the generation that will actualize their vision of a St Lucia which is consistently able to offer its citizens the very best in socio-economic opportunities. The global celebration of older persons is being held under the theme digital equity for all ages. Some of the focus areas under the theme for 2021 are bringing awareness of the importance of digital inclusion of older persons, highlighting policies to leverage digital technologies for full achievement of the sustainable development goals. Addressing public and private interests in the areas of availability, connectivity, design, affordability, capacity building, infrastructure and innovation. Exploring the role of policies and legal frameworks to ensure privacy and safety of older persons in the digital world and highlighting the need for a legally binding instrument on the rights of older persons and an intersectional person centered human rights approach for society for all ages. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Early Affairs sees the International Day for Older Persons as the start of our contribution to the decade of healthy aging which commenced this year 2021 and will go until 2030. It gives us an opportunity to bring together our government, international agencies and development partners, academia, professionals, the private sector and the media for 10 years of collaborative and innovative actions to decisively impact and improve the lives of older people, their family and wider communities. In keeping with changes in international oil prices and government's application of the Modified Market Pastry Petroleum Pricing Mechanism, the retail price of LPG 20, 22 and 100 pound cylinders has changed. The retail price of gasoline, diesel and kerosene remains unchanged. The price changes take effect from Monday, October 4, 2021. Diesel and gasoline remain unchanged at $13.95 per gallon. Kerosene remains unchanged at $10.06 per gallon. The 20 pound LPG cylinder increased from $30.80 to $31.70. The 22 pound cylinder also increased from $33.88 to $34.87 and the 100 pound cylinder is now $220.32 from $211.31. The next adjustment to the retail price of fuel products will be on Monday, October 25, 2021. This is Ntia Knightley. Primers Hutchinson is up next day with us. This is a message from the Minister of Health and Wellness supported by Powell on this station. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NtN Nouvelle of Cuyolom. This is GIS, the National Television Association of NtN, and the new director of Cuyolom, Primers Hutchinson. The MetaFair in Observation, Excaliburation, Moai Ritage Cuyol established a NtN studio to announce its main activities for the Salar Salar Salar Salar for the first time in October as a resident. The Balinese Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar Salar salів sal Sixắtw tells the whole story, there has been a wave. The people of S.... There used to be time for people had to finish their studies and spend time to care for other people and learn how many working years they had on their studies. Executive Director for Fodassion for Development Culture, that's CDF, Madame Ramona Henry-Wayne, talk about the activities to change all these Greek goals that I have done so far for development culture. It must be there, in history. For 20 centuries, you have had a lot of work to connect local, regional, and all the people who connect with you. So, I think it's important to know that we are on our way. We are on our way. For Jacobs, who just passed, who passed, we have Honorable Charles Kadeg who passed, we have Virginia Alexander who also passed, we have Vincent Joseph Yutovic, and Gaff Saint-Touman who also passed. So, I think it's important to know that we are on our way. So, because you are on your way, you are on your way, you are on your way, we have learned how to work. How to work. So, we are on our way, we are on our way to work. We have learned how to work. So, you can appreciate what you have done, you can start reflecting on what you have done, and contribute to what you have done, to certainly see. Executive Director, for the moment, in place of F.R.C., Mr. Melchor Henry, explain the way that we celebrate this, because it's a result of the coronavirus. According to Mr. Henry, even if we observe this, because it's done in the same way as before, it's necessary to continue to cement the cultural sense unless we settle it. So, we can start by giving a good feeling. We can look at all the women's rights, we can discuss, benefit all these different women's rights as a programme salary. A programme salary, you can use it as a television, you can use it as a YouTube by a course. We have a lot of programmes, we can use it everywhere, it's to encourage people to talk about it, and talk about it in a way that they can understand. Okay? A lot of the time, we want to bring it to the public, but we can't do it, we can't do it in a way that we did before. So, we're going to do a documentary, now I don't know how to say a documentary in Kuyang. Now, do you know how to say a documentary in Kuyang? We're going to put it in a programme. A programme. Asulavis Cessen, Cessen Descat. Cessen Vielon, it's a lot, we have Julian Charlie Augustine, who is a traditional music collector, and then Charlie can speak, and then a young man who is a violinist, Yannick James. Okay? Now, we're going to talk about it three times a month. So, we're going to put it in a paper to pass the connection by young people. That's the best way to do it. We're going to ask the church, and from a Christian perspective, we are going to put it in the paper. If you are a Christian, I would say we are going to send it to the church. And then we are going to send it to the church. So, we're going to put it in our paper, and then we're going to ask the church to send it to the church. I'm going to give it the term again of my right as well as your lot novel. I'm going to say this. Many of us have a culture in our Dr. Ernest Hiller. And, adversely, for observers of my right as well, D. Milvete, I think it's necessary for them to be able to understand the culture of J.W.I. as we continue to debate, and I think it's important for them to understand the culture of J.W.I. especially the traditional women to be able to serve. I think it's important for all these activities that I have in place, and for them to be able to do it, but I think it's important for them to understand the culture of J.W.I. and Dr. Hiller as well. I think it's important for all of these organizations to be able to participate and support these activities for observers of our right as well, and for the various competencies that we have. The Ministry of Culture also supports the N.T.N. and G.I.S. to provide public representation to the people of the Earth, to the people of the Earth, to the people of the Earth. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for today. I'm going to call on the minister, I'm going to invite him, and I'm going to go ahead and then tell him to preserve his life and to present a lot of news in his presence and in his presence. Thank you, Mr. Janelle. Messy uphill primus. We now take a look at the weather. Sunrise Wednesday at 5.53 a.m. Winds will be blowing from the east near 21 miles per hour or 33 kilometers per hour with occasional gusts. The weather will be fair to partly cloudy and hazy with a few scattered showers. Tides for Castry's Harbour will be high at 3 p.m. and will be low at 8.50 p.m. Tides for Viewford Bay will be high at 4.7 p.m. and will be low at 10.17 p.m. Seas are locally rough with waves and north easterly swells 6 to 8 feet or 1.8 to 2.4 meters. Small craft operators and sea beavers are advised to exercise caution due to brisk winds and locally rough seas. The Atlantic high pressure system will continue to generate moderate to brisk easterly winds and locally rough seas around the eastern Caribbean region during the next 24 hours. A tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. That brings us to the end of NTN 9th Lee. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Channel Novel.