 Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Genelle Norville, this edition's top stories. The Tourism Satellite Account officially launched. Students from the Caribbean School of Architecture in Jamaica visit St Lucia. Car for Deans risk of exploitation of the coronavirus to the Caribbean as low. All that plus the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. The Tourism Satellite Account TSA was officially launched on Monday. The TSA is the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism, providing credible data on the impact of tourism in St Lucia and the associated employment. More in this report. The Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries on Monday officially launched the Tourism Satellite Account TSA. The TSA is a standard statistical framework and the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism. It provides credible data on the impact of tourism and the associated employment. It also provides St Lucia's balance of payments and information on tourism human resource characteristics. Minister for Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries Honourable Dominic Fading indicated that the TSA is very important in the process of designing economic policies related to tourism development. Tourism is simply a development tool. It is how we raise revenues through our government to invest in social services such as schools and hospitals and roads and playing fields. All those necessary infrastructure things that people require to have a good quality of life and to advance our country. And so this exercise of the Tourism Satellite Account is of tremendous importance. It's a windfall policy achievement for our government and for indeed St Lucia, the industry of tourism and the people of St Lucia. It gives policy makers a better opportunity to make informed decisions. The implementation of the TSA serves to increase and improve knowledge of tourism's importance relative to overall economic activity to St Lucia, assisting the development of more efficient tourism policies and employment, and creating awareness among the various players directly and indirectly involved in the tourism sector of its economic importance and by extension its role in all industries involving the production of goods and services demanded by visitors, which include the agriculture sector. Donaline Vita is the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries. We have gotten to the point where tourism has been dynamically improving and increasing by leaps and bounds on St Lucia and other Caribbean islands. So its incumbent on us is incumbent on policy makers and we welcome the charge to ensure that we are able to put out research and evidence-based reporting on tourism in the various sub-sectors and generally its performance on our as an economic driver to be able to inform proper policy development and planning. And so hopefully in the coming months and years when tourism starts to advocate a little strongly for the various principles on the various equipment, assets, infrastructure and other infrastructure, whether it be legal, policy and other matters that we are able to back it up with the evidence that is required for persons to understand the importance. Chief Executive Officer of the St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association, Nurani Aziz, highlighting the country's dependence on the tourism sector, indicated that information is key to making the right decisions so as to benefit not only the sector but the people of St Lucia. It is only by measuring this growth and interdependence accurately can we know for sure what the true impact of tourism really is. And only by measuring tourism accurately can we capture the intelligence to drive innovation and creativity to fully extract the promises of tourism. Tourism satellite account has become the standard bearer and the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism. Developed by the World Tourism Organization, the United Nations Statistics Division and a few other global partners, the TSA allows for the harmonization and reconciliation of tourism statistics, helping us to measure the consumption of goods and services by visitors and the domestic supply of goods and services to meet this demand. We have come to realize that growth in arrivals is one thing, but growth in visitor expenditure can be quite another. Statistician from the St Lucia Central Statistical Office, Anu Lafe provided insight into the TSA. Having compiled the data, what occurs is we are the central statistics office together with Stats Canada, Prasak. We're going to compile this data using statistical methods and we're going to apply the necessary methods to create a tourism satellite account. It must be noted that confidentiality is a very important element or a very important thing for we at the CSO. And a number of checks and balances have been in place to ensure that your information or the information from businesses remain private. The TSA was developed by the World Tourism Organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Statistical Office of the European Communities and the United Nations Statistics Division. An annual educational tour sees a group of students from the Caribbean School of Architecture in Jamaica coming to St Lucia with a view of studying the local architecture and it's here Antoine has the details. As part of an educational tour done every year, a contingent of 44 students from the Caribbean School of Architecture in Jamaica visited St Lucia to study the local architecture of the country. The tour is a requirement for third year and fourth year students in completing their bachelor's degree. Andre Bo, Program Director at the Caribbean School of Architecture, noted that the students are coming in with fresh insight which can be beneficial to the country. What we've found and what a lot of them will tell you is that they feel like the city has a lot of potential for growth and perhaps what really needs to happen within the city is a reinvigoration of entertainment and housing in order to have the city not be dead at night. You see one of the key components is a mixed-use city which attracts people to not only visit but want to come and stay and live and work and we all know being part of the Caribbean, our cities have serious traffic problems so if everyone's coming to Cass Street for work, we need very attractive housing communities. We're not just the housing blocks but the amenities that go with housing. You see it's not enough to just put housing. We need places for entertainment, we need places that are not just about the tourists. You see our cities must first be designed for the people and once it's successful for the people then it will become a major tourist attraction. Bo noted that as part of their assignment the students will be designing 40 buildings in Cass Street including theatres, museums and police headquarters. The contingent presented the findings of the study tour to architectural students, urban planners and local architects at the South Lewis Community College. Kurt Harris is the Dean of the Division of Technical Educational Management Studies at Sal CC. The presence of the School of Architecture here in St. Lucia is really to help one them attain their goals as it relates to their final project but also to get our students to get an improved learning experience and to also give them that insight into what they can get into the further studies. When you look at the amount of work that has been done within one week, it speaks to the quality of the learning experience that they have at the Caribbean School of Architecture and it also speaks to the amount of dedication that those students have to put in that much work and get that quality of work out in one week's time. Kenyatta Burt, final year student of the Caribbean School of Architecture stated that the experience has been exceptional. So far this presentation is going well and if this analysis goes well it only leads to us designing better and more interesting architectural buildings and I think I can speak for my classmates in saying that we are very confident about our studies as well. The presentation of the findings took place on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the South Lewis Community College. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. As the Caribbean region continues to heighten its level of preparedness in the face of the coronavirus COVID-19, the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARFA deems the risk of exploitation of the coronavirus to the Caribbean as low. More in this report. Even though the World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern, the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARFA deems the risk to the Caribbean as low. The novel coronavirus has been detected in two other countries in the region of the Americas, that is the USA and Canada. Assistant Director for Surveillance and Disease Prevention Control at CARFA, Dr. Lisa Endar said the likelihood of someone coming from China with the virus to the Caribbean is very low. The coronavirus is similar to when we were preparing for SARS. So in terms of capacity, the region has built their capacity in terms of emergency preparedness and response. So in terms of laboratory capacity, in terms of response, every country has an emergency and response plan. So this is not something new. Viruses come and go, so they know what to do. So it's a matter of, you know, ticket, of dust, and, you know, just like SARS, it's the same type of response. Every country has response teams. They have a triage of how the information should flow. If you do have a suspect case, what do you do if you have the isolate? How do you isolate? The only difference is that to isolate this, you may need different crime rules or media, and that's something CARFA is already getting. So what we're really encouraging our members to do is to ramp up ports of entry screening. The first thing is to avoid importation. So we have to be even more careful in terms of, you know, being vigilant at our ports of entry. But the other thing we want to encourage is for the immigration department to also ramp up vigilance, to interprove, to ask the questions in terms of drug. The Council for Human and Social Development on Health agreed to begin drafting a communication strategy to combat misinformation on the virus. They also agreed on the need for a coordinated approach to port of entry screening. Even as member states initiate actions to reduce the risk of the coronavirus entering their jurisdiction. This is Ntia Knightley. We'll be back in a moment. Welcome back. The Training Division of the Department of the Public Service has been embarking on a series of training programs, primarily focused on report writing, an area which has been identified as requiring attention. It is the Division's mandate to ensure that the right training is made available to government employees in keeping with their training and development needs. In that vein, the Division has conducted a number of 5-day report writing training programs, targeting the bodily correctional facility, the St. Lucia Fire Service, and technical officers. Members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force are the focus group for the period of January to March 2020. The training is geared toward assisting participants in recognizing and applying the steps required from start to end in report writing. Identifying the best methods for constructing reports, effectively and strategically communicating with stakeholders, managing, interpreting, and communicating key messages to a range of target groups, developing the knowledge and the practical skills required to produce effective documents and reports, and understanding and applying the structure of the report document. The Training Division is hopeful that upon completion of the program, participants would have acquired the abilities to combine appropriate data and critical reasoning skills to draft logical and well-reasoned reports that are coherent and persuasive. The program outline covers the following areas. The report, definition and purpose, the internal memorandum, the formal report, techniques, the classical arrangements, drafting and revising the report. The Caribbean Community, Carycom's Chairman and Prime Minister of Barbados, Honourable Mia Mortley, recently visited Guyana. Carycom News Times to San King English Francis tells us more. Chairman of Carycom, Prime Minister Mia Mortley of Barbados was in Guyana on Monday the 3rd of February to fulfill a packed agenda. Prime Minister Mortley and Carycom Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRoc stopped briefly at the funeral service of Guyani's legal luminary, Mr. Baymo Pollard. They paid respects to Mr. Pollard's family and signed the Book of Condolence. During her visit to Guyana, Prime Minister Mortley engaged with members of the Executive Management Committee of the Carycom Secretariat. She met with the Secretariat's staff and expressed appreciation for their efforts in delivering the benefits of integration to the people of the community. How is it that what we are doing can make a difference to being able to change the course of the destiny, not of our countries alone, but of individuals, individual families, individual communities and individual companies? I've come here, therefore, conscious that the people who come to work every day to make this reality, our reality, are primarily you in this Secretariat. And therefore, first and foremost, I want to thank you for your continued commitment to a project that many have doubted is capable of surviving. Your role in this Secretariat is to help us transmit that message, help us develop the systems that are necessary to make our citizens' lives easier. As Guyana prepares to hold regional and general elections on the 2nd of March, Prime Minister Mortley and Secretary-General paid a courtesy call on the leader of the opposition at his office in Georgetown, Guyana. The chairman and the secretary-general also met with several private sector representatives. The Kharkam chairman ended her visit to Guyana with an interaction with the media. She told the media that regional integration needs to be carried and sustained to ensure that future generations benefit. Stay with NTN Nightly of NEXIS, Primers Hutchinson with the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. Call the Ministry of Tourism at 468-4629 to be part of this movement. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. Mr. Madam Department of Universities, information on government services, GIS, National Pay and NTN, and Nouvelle Aquial, visit Primers Hutchinson. The Ministry of Equality, Social Justice and Local Government have organized a program of assistance in order to set up an assessment among the officials who are participating in the department. The objective initiative was to help improve the ability of the officials who can operate in these diverse communities in order to meet the needs of the officials who started the new social work. It is clear that the Ministry of Social Justice, Social Justice and Local Government have led to the introduction of the Poyot division, which was an easy job. According to Poyot, it is not the reason that it took the decision to surprise the officials because it was necessary to prepare the report every day to present to the audience, not only to the magistrates and to the council. In addition, it is also necessary to prepare the report in order to adopt the children for those who want to be able to access the children who are in need of accommodation. Madam Poyot also announced that the report should be prepared for regional and international countries. It is important that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet the needs of the officials who are in need of accommodation. It is important that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet the needs of the officials who are in need of accommodation. To find good acceptance in front of the agencies and organizations in regional and international countries. In addition, Poyot, it is also important that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet the needs of the officials who are in need of accommodation. Nile James, who is an official who is responsible for the actions and the situation of the family, has also mentioned that he will also strengthen the importance of the information that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet. Nile James has also mentioned that he will also strengthen the importance of the information that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet. It is also important that the official staff of the Poyot division should be able to meet. In the following days, on February 12, I said the third Amigo Department of Salon. The International Institute of Agricultural Cooperation of ICA in collaboration with the Institute of Agricultural Research in Carraibla, to change the day-to-day exercise of management because of the fast-forwarding capacity, the opportunity, the economic, and the ability to do so with a lot of examples. At the end of the day, I would like to pay attention to the institutions that work in the business, for example, the Ministry of Agriculture, the authority of the management, the business development, and the business. Greg Rowland, who is the head of the management, a city that has a significant development in the agricultural sector, and today, it is also taking the opportunity to generate a service in the first place, to run various materials in your first-order business. Rolinsk Accre also aims to strengthen resilience in the economy today, to adopt new technologies such as a sustainable water system to manage the materials in the first place. Ministers have made a call on behalf of Ezekiel Julesreff, declaring that it is to keep the whole business in the first place, particularly in the wild animals, to examine the various ways that are possible for their lives, and to manage them, and then to implement them in operation. The participants are from the Belize, Jamaik, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guiana, etc. In this case, I have put restrictions on the residents of the country who will be affected by Covid-19, as well as those who have been affected by Covid-19 for public health and international degrees. The Committee of the Funds has decided to organize a certain model, to organize, to decide to see the discussion, and then I will send a message to those who have been affected by Covid-19, who have been affected by Covid-19, who have been affected by Covid-19. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Sharon Belma-George, has said that it is about health. I have taken all these precautions that are necessary. To try to approach the health care of the people of this country, Dr. Belma-George has said that the health situation can continue to affect international countries, and for this reason, I have advised all countries to take all the precautions that are necessary. For this reason, the Committee of the Funds has decided to put all the quality of health in place, to make sure that all the resources that are necessary are protected by the citizens. Dr. Belma-George has announced that he will approve the government's decision to put all the restrictions in place so that the health care of the people who are affected by Covid-19 can continue to be in place. So, the health care of the people who are affected by Covid-19 can continue to be in place. And that is why I have decided to take all the precautions that are necessary to protect the people of this country, to protect the people of this country, and to help me consider the health care of the people who are affected by Covid-19. Thank you very much, Dr. Belma-George. It waves 6 to 8 feet or 1.8 to 2.4 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to brisk winds and rough seas. The Atlantic High Pressure System will continue to generate moderate to brisk easterly winds and rough seas around the eastern Caribbean region for the next few days. Moisture and instability in the lower levels of the atmosphere will cause occasional cloudiness and showers over the eastern Caribbean islands during the next 24 hours. The sun will rise Tuesday at 6.26 a.m.