 Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am Genelle Norvell. This edition, Stop Stories. St. Lucia poised to reap significant economic benefits throughout the phases of the Cabot Sync Lucia project. Cruise passengers on the inaugural call since the pandemic will enjoy varied experiences based on COVID-19 vaccination status and Grade 6 students will soon see the common entrance examinations. The construction and ultimate completion of Cabot Sync Lucia will produce several economic benefits for St. Lucia. The project will not only add a new component to the country's tourism offering but will also provide employment opportunities for St. Lucia. We get details in this report. Founder and Executive Chairman of Cabot Sync Lucia explained that he first visited St. Lucia some five and a half years ago with a view of assessing the possibility of expanding the Cabot brand to the island. Ben Cowindore, who is the founder and Executive Chairman of Cabot Sync Lucia, stated that this initial visit had convinced him that St. Lucia was ideal to build the best golf course in the Caribbean. The Chief Executive Officer explained that if successful, the project could reap huge rewards for St. Lucia, including bringing in a new type of tourist and contributing to the economy. Christine Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of Cabot Sync Lucia. You know, this will bring to St. Lucia a new sector of tourism that currently doesn't exist today. In fact, it doesn't exist really anywhere in the region, which are really tourists that travel just to play golf. So most would come to a resort, enjoy the sun, they see the food, the culture, etc. And there might be a golf course that was part of an amenity of the resort and they might play golf one day, for example. But these are people that actually seek out the best golf courses all around the world and travel just for the golf. And I think what's great about this project is that those people right now are not coming to this part of the region, not coming to St. Lucia. And so it's a whole new sector of tourists. They are also affluent and they also will spend a lot more time here. So when we look at, you know, the economic contribution to the economy that these people will bring, it will be much greater than, say, others that might come on a cruise ship or stay at an all-inclusive resort, for example. The Chief Executive Officer explained that Cabot is very committed to appoints inclusions. She added that upon completion, some 500 individuals are expected to be employed when in full operation. We're very committed to the employment of locals first, then regional, then expat. So we were only sort of bringing foreign workers where there is really a skill gap in one area. And there are a couple of those, yes. But, you know, if you look around our site now, you'll see Lucians everywhere. Our CFO is a St. Lucian, our accountant, our QS, our many members of the construction team. And that it's really satisfying for me to be able to sort of build our team that brings opportunity to this region at a time where we really need it more than anything else. We also have a plan that even where we bring in foreigners, that those people don't stay, you know, very long. We bring them, we train them and that we can get people working for them to actually grow into those roles. Founder and Executive Chairman of Cabot St. Lucia Ben-Kawinduang indicated that the number of individuals employed during the construction phase will vary. The nature of the construction, which is multi-phases and sort of different than a single hotel, which obviously has a construction and then a stabilization, we have a multi-phase, you know, sort of construction schedule that will last a decade. So I think the construction jobs will continue to be ongoing and the 500 is really the stabilized operation. Officials of Cabot St. Lucia have been working assiduously to alleviate several concerns that have been brought to the fore. These include the findings of a recently conducted archaeological investigation and local access to the Queens chain. As it relates to the archaeological investigation, Thompson explained that Cabot St. Lucia has been working with relevant stakeholders, including the St. Lucia National Trust and the St. Lucia Archaeological and Historical Society. The Chief Executive Officer disclosed that the investigation revealed that there is nothing left of archaeological significance at the site. She also was sure that St. Lucia's will have access to the Queens chain. On Kazamar Beach, for example, which is a large part of the Queens chain, there's absolutely no restriction. You know, you come down to the beach, you walk past the Cabot properties all the way to the end like you're accustomed to it. There are other parts of the Queens chain around, for example, Donky Beach and Secret Beach, where it's sort of part of the development, but what we've committed to is that any St. Lucia who wants to access those beaches can come to our reception, can park, and we would escort them down in a golf cart to the beach until they were finished and they wanted to go back and then we take them home. The project, which is expected to be completed in 2022, will be Cabot's third golf course and second resort in its expanding portfolio of world-class properties. From the Government Information Service, I am General Norvel. On Tuesday 29 June 2021, when St. Lucia welcomes its first cruise call since the pandemic, passengers of the Celebrity Millennia vessel will be subject to varied experiences based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. A distinction between fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated passengers will be made and this will determine the extent of liberties they may enjoy during their visit. And Margaret Adams is the Director of Product Development in the Ministry of Tourism. So the fully vaccinated passengers are those who actually have completed the COVID-19 vaccination regimen, which is approved by the Ministry of Health. So they would have had to arrive in St. Lucia at least two weeks. It would have been at least two weeks prior to their arrival in St. Lucia. So these are your fully vaccinated visitors and these persons will be allowed to free room, as we say. Just like your land-based visitors, they can enjoy the services, they can participate in your tours, they can go to the supermarket, they can go to the beaches as well. And these persons will be identified by a wristband and what we have, we have allowed them to utilize a white wristband which will differentiate them from your non-fully vaccinated visitors. Non-fully vaccinated passengers are defined as a visitor who has either taken one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or no dose at all. These passengers will be allowed to enjoy excursions in a controlled and supervised manner and will not be allowed to roam public spaces like the city centre. They are non-fully vaccinated. They are not allowed to be taken pictures and roam in the city. They will be operating within a bubble of predetermined experiences. They would have to book through your cruise agents or through the cruise desk. Adams assures that despite this and other controls in the sub-sector, as it is gradually reintroduced, locals will be able to immensely benefit. She says fully vaccinated passengers will be allowed to patronize shops in the city centre as was the norm pre-COVID and the vendors arcade will be open to receive passengers. So your locals will be able to participate. I can say that the ministry has been working assiduously in preparing them for providing services. Your tours, your transportation sector, your transportation providers, your sites and attractions, your vendors. In fact, as of yesterday, we had a meeting with our vendors to prepare them in terms of what are the expectations, what are the guidelines surrounding cruise passengers when they do come in. So the locals will be able to participate. I must say that they will be able to benefit from the services that they will be able to provide to your fully vaccinated as well as those who are non-vaccinated but within a bubble. The inaugural return of cruise tourism on June 29 with the Celebrity Millennium jumps at the season that will see most of the 30 schedule calls between August and October of this year. The upcoming National Health Insurance Scheme, NHI, will ensure the poor and vulnerable are not left behind. Jack Hinkson Compton tells us more. Upon launch of the NHI system, the government of St. Lucia seeks to provide the more underprivileged elements of society with insurance coverage. Chief Economist for Research and Policy in the Department of Finance, Janai Leos, says the cost of coverage for those unable to afford will be subsidized by the state. One of the notions that the state is looking to do is where persons are poor and vulnerable and what not to ensure that those persons can be provided with insurance policies that would allow them to access an array of services and benefits that they otherwise would not have. So I think CARES has been placed in the design of this that whatever is to be designed, the poor, the vulnerable and what have you will be proxy means tested to ensure that they meet the requisite standards for poverty and vulnerability. For the development of the NHI system, we'll determine the most pragmatic model to produce a public safety net. One of the things that we have been working with the World Bank and our other stakeholders as we are in the design element is to address which modality is best. So would it be best for the state to purchase all of the policies and then have persons who are poor and vulnerable receive from the state and also persons who are not poor and vulnerable but would like to purchase insurance to do that for the state as well or whether it may be best to have the state simply focus on the poor and vulnerable and allow your non-poor to be able to access through the employer, through a provider of their choice and so forth. The intent of the final phase of NHI is to include all demographics including the underprivileged and persons in retirement age. From the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Jacques Hingson Compton reporting. Come Tuesday 29 June 2021, some 2,167 grade 6 students across the island are expected to sit the common entrance examinations. Chief Education Officer in the Department of Education Dr. Fiona Philip-Meyer expressed elation that despite the many challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, students are finally able to sit the exam. She shared words of encouragement. You've come this far. It has been challenging for you but I also saw the joy when I went into the various schools and saw how our grade 6s I would think for the most part loved being back at school. So we want you to take that energy into your common entrance. We want to encourage our parents to be kind to our students, to not put undue pressure on them, to really enjoy the moment with them, to applaud their efforts, to appreciate their skills but to wish them well. As they move into the final days, it is just time to relax with family and we do hope that whatever results come out, we can be pleased with them. We are part of the Universal Secondary School Education Program and so every one of our children gets an opportunity but we want to make sure that whichever secondary school they go to, they are pleased with their own efforts and so we wish them well, wish our parents well. The Chief Education Officer also indicated the move to Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment, CPEA, which will assess students on a continuous basis. We note that we are moving into CPEA in the next two academic years. There is a progression. A lot of training has happened for our teachers. We continue to work with our parents in terms of information and the CPEA is the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment run through the office of CXC with us and it is another opportunity for us to look at other skills and not only the traditional sit-down common entrance but assessments as we go along throughout the period of time that will also contribute to the students' end grades. I'm sure that many parents can look online to find out more information about the CPEA and similarly we are providing parent meetings to give our parents more information in a more intimate and small group setting. Chief Education Officer in the Department of Education, Dr Fiona Phillip-Meyer. The Government of St. Lucia continues to make strides towards achieving public sector modernization. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the significance of digital technology in the workplace which can improve efficiency and productivity. The Government is working assiduously towards this via the online platform DigiGov. We get details from Homer de Mark. Digital modernization is a key agent of change in the operations of the public service post-pandemic, a conversation that is amplified on the heels of Public Service Day 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the necessity of digital technology in the workplace and has highlighted when used efficiently technology can vastly improve productivity. The Government of St. Lucia continues to work prudently towards achieving public sector modernization. Significant strides have been made via the online platform DigiGov. Marlon Nassos is the Director of Public Sector Modernization. Digital technologies will fundamentally and continuously change how we operate, how we do business. Government has not been spared that either. As a result, we see ourselves focusing heavily on digital transformation and how over time this digital transformation can assist us in providing better services to the public. We do have that transformative type of activity within the Government and we're hoping that this project, this process can then be the catalyst for how technology would impact our society and our people as a whole. The DigiGov platform facilitated over 10,000 online driver's license applications after only one year of operation. Another public service agency which will soon benefit from Government's modernization efforts is the Civil Status Registry. The entity will experience complete automation of its vital records management system and digitalization of its operations through DigiGov. Valinda Peer is registrar of Civil Status. Modernization will serve to increase the accessibility of services. It will increase that exponentially with emphasis at the convenience to the customer. That's what we are really focusing on. For that reason, we would like to encourage customers to utilize the online platform once it's introduced so that they can access it via the electronic device any and everywhere. We anticipate a decrease in the long lines and waits at the Civil Status Registry and we are also expecting an increase in the online expedited services via the DigiGov platform. Customers will also be able to monitor and track the status of the application using the DigiGov platform and there will be a two-way communication, whereas the Civil Status Registry would be the one that was informed of processes as it happened but now the customers would be able to have an input in what is happening because they would be able to receive status updates as it happened on the status of the application. The shift in operations will lead to the effective decentralization of the agency's services. Since within the various communities I expected they will be able to access the Civil Registration System from various communities and the customers will have the option not only to apply online but also to pay online. For customers who do not wish that option they also can go into the various locations for example view for Souffre to name a few and access the Civil Registration System using Service View Agents and to be able to pay online. So we are excited about that opportunity given that it's aimed at improving convenience, facilitating convenience to our customers. It will save time, it will save costs, persons will no longer require face-to-face contact with the registry if they utilize that platform. So we are really excited about such an opportunity. A fundamental consideration during this undertaking is the legal reform to protect customers' information. Amendments have been made to the Electronic Transactions Act and FSR underway to improve the enforcement of the Data Protection Act. From the Government Information Service, I'm Huma Di Mark reporting. This is NTIA Knight Lee up next, Primers Hutchinson with the NTIA Nouvelle. Climate change can affect all of us. If the climate is bad, we have to learn how to take care of all the animals. When the weather is hot, we have to find a place where we can live. We have to find a place where we can live and go to their side. This list can contribute to a small amount of gas in the space. For TPI, we can try to do everything we can to ensure that we lower the amount of gas in the service to prevent the weather from getting hotter. We have to lower the amount of gas in the service to mitigate climate change. We have to make sure that all the people in the world have access to gas, oil and coal. That's exactly why the weather is getting hotter. That's what we have to do all the time to adapt. We have to do everything we can to prepare and recover for these negative consequences because of climate change. We all know how to do that. For example, we can ensure that all of us protect ourselves from the climate change. We have to do everything we can to protect ourselves from the climate change. We have to build a channel where we can do everything we can to survive climate change. We have to find information about this great national government adaptation and even learn to protect the cold and all our citizens. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the N-T-N-Nouvelle Aquéole. Thank you so much, General. Thank you Madam Department of the University of Sabilité for the information about this government. This is G-I-S. This is the national television of N-T-N-Nouvelle Aquéole. This is Primus Hutchinson. This is the national television of Sabilité for the country which is a channel for the future of reality which is the one that the people who occupy the most power in this country cannot stay in the bottom of the Salah. The government established a great system in the Salah and put its main priority in this country. I am in charge of the economic affairs and research in the financial department of the General General of the University of Léos. The government has already decided to have the responsibility to pay the Salah for those who are not capable. Léos said that there are plenty of places to look for all the people who can stay here to be able to receive the Salah service and provide a lot of national services and benefits which can normally find the opportunity for the Salah service. But all the Salah needs are also in place to make sure that the people who are selected and the people who are very capable are able to do what the government is doing to establish a system of people who are capable and who are capable of finding the people who are able to provide the people who are able to pay the Salah service to those who are not able to receive the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are able to choose to work in the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. Butto Thuis Celebrity Millennium I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are able to provide the Salah service. Butto Thuis Celebrity Millennium I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are able to provide the Salah service. I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. Butto Thuis Celebrity Millennium I am also looking for people who are capable to provide the Salah service. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the country was well protected from the public. This was established by a good program of tourism that was done at different levels for the sector to live in operation. We have to continue to live in operation sector. This will continue without pause. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. This was done by a good program of tourism that was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by a good program of tourism that was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. All of this was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. This was done by Jid to ensure that the sector was well protected from the public. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Channel Novel.