 Welcome to NTIA Nightly. I am General Norville. This edition stops stories. Saint Lucia commemorates Vector Awareness Week. The Ministry of Equity sensitizes 2021 community after-school program facilitators, and the Ministry of Health and Wellness cautions the public on the Saharan dust. Saint Lucia joins the global community in commemorating Vector Awareness Week, which is marked in country by the commencement of the rainy season. Vector Awareness Week this year seeks to bring attention and support to efforts to prevent vector-borne diseases, and is being observed under the theme, Act Now, Know How, Vectors Leave Breed Feed. How many Mark tells us more? Vector Awareness Week is held annually by the Ministry of Health and Wellness. This is in an effort to educate the populace on the dangers of vector-borne diseases and vector management in the home. The observance is being held from June 7 to 13, 2021 under the theme, Act Now, Know How, Vectors Leave Breed Feed. This coincides with the commencement of the rainy season, a potential risk period for vector disease outbreaks. At the launch of Vector Awareness Week on Monday, 7 June, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, President Emile explained the importance of the public's participation in the week-long observance. Vector-borne diseases does not discriminate. It affects people of all races, ages, and income levels, and it is because of this we must raise awareness of the diseases, its symptoms so we can more easily identify it and more effectively manage it. This week, and leading into the rest of the year, as we observe Vector Awareness Week, let us equip ourselves with the knowledge, tools and resources available to fight in the battle against vector-borne diseases. In 2020, St. Lucia experienced one of the worst dengue fever outbreaks, recording a total of 1,306 cases and three resultant deaths. St. Lucia continues to be affected by vector-borne diseases, especially dengue fever. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Glensford Joseph said cases of the disease have been recorded in country for 2021. So far for 2021, the Department of Health and Wellness confirmed 14 cases of dengue, 10 of which occurred within the first five weeks of this year with the last three five weeks interval, occurring for one to two of the cases. Of these, 68% were male, 21% were hospitalized and no fatalities have been recorded thus far. Due to constraints brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, majority of the activities for the week will take place virtually. Cheryl Eugene Centrumine is the Assistant Chief Environmental Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The Department of Health and Wellness is not deterred and remains committed to the objective of reaching the masses and our approach this year will be for the most part virtual, which takes in the airing of public service announcements, development of television productions and dissemination of media cards, which will be the highlight of the week. Vector control officers underground will be intensifying surveillance activities and conducting fogging operations to control the ADT jeep time mosquito while our baiting program will continue concurrently. Other activities include the launch of the official Facebook page of the Environmental Health Division and a television production entitled the Vector Encounter a Closer Look, which will focus on the importance of reducing vectors. Activities to commemorate Vector Awareness Week will continue throughout the year. The Department of Agriculture is continuing efforts to raise awareness about the significance of the role played by professional pest managers in maintaining the nation's quality of life. In that first, the Division of Plant Research and Development of the Ministry of Agriculture joined with global partners in observing world pests day this past weekend. We hear more from Anissa Antoine. St. Lucia's tropical climate facilitates a year-round crop growing season and supports continuous generations of both pests and beneficial organisms. With the emergence of pests threatening the production of crops, the Department of Agriculture is now increasing efforts and emphasis on pest control methods not aimed at complete eradication but rather at maintaining pest populations below economic thresholds. This year's observance focused attention on building awareness on the importance of pest control to protect food, human health and the environment. In highlighting the importance of persons being knowledgeable about the current pests, which may affect the agriculture industry in St. Lucia, Chief Plant Research Officer at the Plant Research and Development Division, Hannah Romain, notes that her division has been able to keep pests and diseases, such as the Blaxico-Toker and Moko disease at bay. Over the years, we have been sharing few pests that are not present in St. Lucia but are of major concern to us. One is the banana fusarium oxysporum cubensae, which we call it TR4. It's not present in St. Lucia. It's moving on the horizon. Currently, it's in Colombia. It has moved to Peru. And of course, we understand how our banana industry, how sensitive it can be. And at present, we are putting all measures in place to ensure that we keep this one out of St. Lucia. Pest management is very costly. And over the years, what we have come to realize is that the pests, when they do come in, there's no control. Irradication is just not possible. So we are urging the public to be aware of the pests that move on commodities. Miss Romain notes that her department's initiatives to both control invasive species and to augment public awareness of pest control methods are in keeping with the Department of Agriculture's overall goal to increase food safety. Activities such as the Don't Pack a Pest campaign have provided a platform to raise awareness about the dangers of transporting food and agricultural commodities across the region. She states that the Department of Agriculture will continue to provide support to farmers across St. Lucia with effective pest control solutions to help prevent the risk of crop loss. Our farmers are the primary producers. They ensure that they provide the food that we have on our tables. And whatever activities that they are engaged in on the farm is critical for our health. Tomorrow. Now, just note that we've now understanding that to access foreign markets, you need to be able to meet the residual limits. For example, in terms of pesticide residues, that you need to be able to meet the residual limits for your country of export. Thankfully, the Ministry, the Government of St. Lucia, has seen the need to put this in place. Now we are able to tap into foreign markets and we are now able to conduct tests to ensure that the foods that we are exporting meet the requirements of the export market. The public is reminded that permission must be granted from the Plant Research and Development Division before any plant materials are brought into the country. Individuals interested in bringing in new plant commodities and agricultural inputs, such as crops, flowers and futilizers, must first visit the Plant Research and Development Division for a pest risk analysis. Once completed and accepted, a plant import permit will be issued to the applicant, allowing the importation of that commodity. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. The Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment held a one-day workshop at the Chase Gardens Human Resource Center on Monday, June 7, 2021. The workshop was designed to facilitate the transfer of critical knowledge and skills needed to enhance the competencies of the community after-school program facilitators. Heros Shevri Marios with the details. The Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment held a one-day workshop at the Chase Gardens Human Resource Center on Monday, June 7, 2021. The workshop was designed to facilitate the transfer of critical knowledge and skills needed to enhance the competencies of the community after-school program facilitators. Mr. Jim Zavier is the Deputy Director of the Community Service Unit and the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment. One of the strong points of the program is dealing with behavioural modifications in students who have been identified with some behavioural problems. And so we want the feedback that they are improving both in the school work and the behaviour at home and at school. And so they would be reintegrated and would be sort of referred to as normal students once again. Workshop facilitator and Community After-School Program Coordinator Antonia Rene Marios stated that as a result of this workshop, CAST facilitators will be better placed to examine behavioural issues and plan interventions to deal with the challenges brought about by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The children being at home all of those times, some children being shut in away from their friends, their playmates and so forth. You know, the children have a lot of pent-up frustration and anger and so forth. It's just a way to help the facilitators prepare so they can help the children deal with those issues if and when they come up at the program. One workshop participant who applauded the venture was Miss Cili Bernard who stated how important it is to get trained when dealing with children who are in need of assistance. It is important to get trained to be in this program because you're dealing with kids, kids that have problems, kids that have low self-esteem, those that need help in different areas that we are not trained to and we don't want to go ahead in this thing and further damage or cause more harm than good so it's really good to be trained and to know how to help them get better in whatever area that they're lacking. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment, Mrs. Velde Joseph stated that persons involved in the delivery of the community after-school program must be aware of the ministry's mandate. We believe that before we actually implement those programs within communities that there needs to be an orientation of facilitators as well as coordinators. All of those persons would be involved in the delivery of the services within the program or within the centres. The reason for that is we believe that persons need to be on the same page with us. They need to understand the thinking of the ministry, the expectations of the ministry, the philosophy of the ministry as it relates to the delivery of community after-school programs. They need to understand that there are standards that need to be upheld as we deliver these programs. She also stated that with the economic situation brought about by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ministry has now to limit the number of community after-school programs that can be implemented around the island. We have had 15 centres. This year, of course, we understand the situation, the economic situation as a result of the impact of COVID-19 and so we are limited in the number of centres that we can implement. This year, we have three centres. We have the Fuwa Show after-school program, the Martial After-School Program and we will be introducing a program at the Kareli Chase Gardens HRDC. These programs are being supported through the YEP project, the Youth Enforcement Project, and that project is financed jointly by the Caribbean Development Bank and the Government of St. Lucia. So we want to thank both the bank and the Government of St. Lucia for providing the necessary resources to support these programs. The Community After-School Program will run from June 8th to July 30th, 2021, following which the ministry will host a series of summer programs in August before the commencement of the Community After-School Program in September 2021. Reporting from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment, I am Chevri Marius. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has been advised by the Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARFA, that high concentrations of Saharan dust are expected to affect the eastern and southeastern Caribbean over the next two to three days. It is highly likely that during this period, particulate matter levels will be above the outdoor equality guidelines that have been established by the World Health Organization. As such, there may be an increase in symptoms in people with asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is even more important that people wear face masks to contain droplets from sneezing and coughing, and the continued deterioration in air quality may pose additional problems for the most vulnerable. The Ministry of Health and Wellness implores people with allergies, sinusitis, asthma and respiratory conditions to be on the alert for flare-ups in their condition and seek medical attention if they experience difficulty breathing. They are also asked to limit outdoor activities and to ensure they use properly-fitting masks when they go outside. Students sitting in the 2021 regional examinations are given additional time to prepare. We get the details from Caricum News Times to Sanking English Francis. Students sitting in the 2021 regional examinations were given two additional weeks of final preparations. Dr. Wayne Wesley, registrar of CXC recently announced the Carbian Examination Council's decision to postpone all upcoming examinations by two weeks, following consultations with regional stakeholders. The council approved the delay of the sitting of the regional examinations by a further two weeks. This will provide candidates with extra time to prepare for the examinations. Therefore, examinations will commence on Thursday 28th of June 2021, with release of results the last week in September to the first week in October as previously communicated. Extension of submission of school-based assessment, SBA, the deadline for submission of SBA will be extended to 30th of June 2021 for all CSEP and care examinations. In addition, the topics which were released on May 10th 2021, characters would have submitted queries and council would have noted that CXC is currently responding and in this regard, a review is being done to ensure that there is full clarity regarding what has been submitted in terms of the broad topics. Carbian Examinations Council's Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Wayne Wesley speaking there. This is NTN Nightly, up next, Primers Hutchinson with the NTN Novell Acquire All. Here at St. Lucia Distillers, we produce an award-winning range of rums and rum products. We export our rums to the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Standards facilitate our entry into overseas markets. In the rum business, it is critical that our distillers and blenders get it right. St. Lucia Distillers is HASAP certified. We use two standards from SLBS, the standard for labeling of prepackaged foods. SLNS 1-3 2014 and the National Specification Forum. SLNS 12 2003. We are also a registered member of the West Indies Rum and Spirit Producers Association, WISPA. SLBS ensures that we are up to standard and world class. This message is brought to you by the Commonwealth Standards Network. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Novell Acquire All. My name is Mdm Departement Kineversque Serabilité pour Formation à Gouvernement C'est-L'Eau-Si, C'est-GIS, a semi-biété television national, payeur NTN, Caposito Novell Acquire All, C'est-Primers Hutchinson. C'est-L'Eau-Si, I continue to be position, destination, pre-lair, theination of preference for tourist bussiness and available option at Cézanne Thou. c'est-à-L'Eau-Si, like all the tourist buis umbrella, too. I have completed Em beste business position near Croixtwo-Approchplex. C'est-L'Eau-Si, A minuse в Кур miel 2-3, This year, I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit, so that we won't have to go to the tourist place to pay for this year. The tourist business has continued to increase, and the results have increased. More work, more business, and more money to build a country like several big countries and agencies have been set up for this year. The fourth year of 2021, I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit so that we will be able to do a touristic visit of more than 80,000, 440,000 tourists, up to 5% of the tourist authorities I estimate. I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit so that we will be able to do more than 3,000 tourists. The touristic visit is here to welcome the American Airlines, the JFK in New York and Dallas, and the DFW, a company with 29 new passengers, and a new country to pay for this year. I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit so that we will be able to do a touristic visit so that we won't have to go to the tourist place to take this English trip to the American Airlines, the JFK since 2019. I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit to the JetBlue, so that the situation will be okay. I hope that we will be able to do a touristic visit so that we won't have to go to the RFK in New York and Dallas, to bring in more than 4.7 million passengers. Minister of Tourism said that this is a good way to go for the Secretary of Tourism, Mr. Fede, you understand, you understand that this is a big advantage that we have to consider, especially with the coronavirus. Projects in this area have helped me to trust that many countries in the world are still in the industry. The artist, Christy Gustav, is the officer of the American Airlines, and the vice-president, who has been appointed as the vice-president of the Air Force. And this is a good way to go for the Secretary of Tourism, as well as to bring in more than $100,000 to the United States in the Shogo Beach Hotel, American Airlines, who has been traveling every Sunday for two and a half years, and for Dallas, that's for Dallas, and for New York, and for the third year of the year. If the public is here to register a bill of election affairs, you will not be free to participate in an exercise for election affairs in order to find a place to vote. It's assistant chef, officer of the election, a bi-way election, and then there is Mrs. Olympia Lennel, who is doing the job of saying her discussion on her NTN television. According to Mrs. Lennel, it is a choice for us to decide if we want to vote, well, not to vote, but to participate in a constitution. It's the only way we can do that, because we have to register now. Because to do that, we have to register. With this, to register, we have to do, we have to buy a place, but we have to buy a place to register. With to register, we have to register a citizen, a country, we have to register for 18 years, with a commonwealth citizen who has waited for this country for 7 years, continuously. With this, with all these barriers, we have to come to the electoral office and come to register, but we have to do it with the NIC. This is a requirement for us to register. The Agricultural Department is here, you are observing a national health service, I have security protection to eat. This was the 7th year in 2020. It is an observance of all nations, that is, the United Nations, established since 2019, except for agriculture and food. This is to continue to pursue different ways to serve food in a way that is safe and that is protection for health. The Agricultural Department, which is the initiative for this, has significantly reduced the number of people who can get sick, because they can't eat what they can't. An official chef of the research and division of the development team, Hannah Romain, said that the Department has to continue to ensure that the cultivators receive all the necessary food to ensure that they are able to provide international security. Coordinators for the national health service, for the program of eating at school, because the organization of agricultural food is the F.A.O. Chere Ann Smith, who is the cultivator in Somalia to treat the animals and to serve more technically than in the program to ensure that they are able to provide the necessary food to ensure that they are safe. This was the 6th year in 2020. I thank God for the time. I thank God for the invitation. I thank God for the opportunity to serve life. I thank God for the news. Thank you very much. I thank God for the channel.