 Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Genelle Norville, this edition's top stories. Government reinstates legal licenses restrict protocols. The Ministry of Health releases repatriated St. Lucia's from quarantine and the castries provisions market to provide an avenue for farmers. The Government of St. Lucia has announced a reinstatement of legal licenses for businesses approved to operate, having recognized the strides made by St. Lucia in adhering to the guidelines and protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Government of St. Lucia has worked with health officials to relax some of the partial shutdown measures. Certain sectors have reopened with the establishment of specific protocols to guide the resumption of activities in areas such as the construction sector, public transportation, hardware and home supply stores, and more recently religious services and ceremonies. The Cabinet of Ministers continues to meet and assess the situation on a daily basis in consultation with stakeholders to review certain issues relating to the operations of the country. Among these issues is the suspension of legal licenses. Minister for Commerce, Industry, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs Hon. Bradley Felix indicated that several factors were considered before a decision was made, including whether the population had understood the need to practice social distancing. Another factor was the need to balance maintaining the gains made in limiting the spread of the virus and minimizing the impact on the local beverage manufacturing sector, especially with regard to the number of persons employed in the sector. Minister Hon. Felix noted that taking all this into consideration, the Government has decided to lift the suspension. As of this coming Friday, 8th May 2020, the Government of St. Lucia will reinstate legal licenses in St. Lucia for the sale of alcohol beverage. This measure will allow for the sale of alcohol by only licensed businesses from the list of approved businesses that are currently permitted to operate under statutory instrument SI 56 of 2020, namely supermarkets, mini-marts, small grocery shops, wholesalers and gas stations. However, the resumption of the sale of alcoholic beverages from approved licensed business outlets will be governed by strict protocols. These protocols are as follows. There shall be no loitering, assembling, socializing at the business premises where alcohol is sold and purchased. There shall be no consumption of alcohol at the place of purchase. Alcohol sales can only take place between the hours of 7am to 6pm. The public is also reminded that a person who contravenes the emergency powers disasters COVID-19 curfew order commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both and for a feature of goods or money in respect of which the offence has been committed. Therefore, as we lift the ban on the sale of alcohol, we urge St. Lucia to drink responsibly. All liquor licenses were suspended in St. Lucia on Monday, March 30, 2020 as part of the measures implemented by the government with advice from the Department of Health and Wellness to combat the spread of COVID-19. The Ministry of Health released its repatriated St. Lucia's from quarantine at the Rodney Bay Public Health Facility, more in this report from Fernelle Neptune. A total of eight St. Lucia Nationals who repatriated from a cruise ship would be leaving the Rodney Bay Public Health Facility where they spent 14 days in quarantine. The individuals have shown no signs and symptoms of the virus. Minister for Health and Wellness, Senator the Honourable Mary Isaac highlighted the importance of people being placed in quarantine. It is very important that the government take it on its own to quarantine persons when they arrive in St. Lucia because I don't know if you remember initially, we were asking people to home quarantine and that did not work well at all. So it is the government's responsibility now to ensure that persons are taken into quarantine in order to protect the rest of our population. That is the only way you can be sure that the people are adhering to the protocols and that they are going to remain in quarantine for the 14-day period. Two of the individuals described what life in quarantine was like. We enjoyed it, it was part of the protocol that we went through, but it was good, we enjoyed. We learned a lot because I came from the origin spirit and when we got to St. Lucia it was, we really enjoyed every minute of it and we learned quite a lot in terms of wearing the mask and washing your hands and those sorts of things. And I guess I'm going to take that back home with me. It's healthy to be safe and to be here and make sure that you are not spreading the coronavirus and just to make sure that we're protecting our loved ones before we go home and we don't spread it to the people that we love. The eight individuals who left the Roddy Bay Public Health Facility would each presented with a letter stating that he or she is in good health. Supporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Phenel Neptune. Bangkok St. Lucia recently introduced a customer relief program to provide much-needed financial relief to its affected customers who are experiencing challenges in servicing their loan commitments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Acting Managing Director of Bangkok St. Lucia, Mehfod Francis highlights the benefits of the program and addresses some of the concerns of the public. We have more in this report. A number of St. Lucia's have been negatively affected by the pandemic and concern and worry is growing with respect to the ability to service loans and in some cases where the next source of revenue is coming from. In an effort to alleviate that burden, Bank of St. Lucia recently rolled out its COVID-19 customer relief program offering customers a moratorium up to six months, waivers on late payment fees, reductions in merchant fees and temporary credit increases, among others. The Acting Managing Director of Bank of St. Lucia, Mehfod Francis goes on to explain what a moratorium is and how it functions. A moratorium is essentially the deferral of loan repayments for a period of time. It is not tantamount to the write-off of the debt. Customers who can continue to service the debt obligations are encouraged to do so because a crude interest component will have to be paid at a time later in the future. As it relates to the interest, Mehfod Francis says Bank of St. Lucia is also offering customers a variety of flexible options as to how this accrued interest will be treated. One such option is that this interest is paid over the remaining life of the loan and it could be staggered in such a way that the monthly payments are not onerous on the customers. In addition to that, customers will be afforded the opportunity of paying the interest as a lump sum both at the end of the moratorium or towards the very end of the loan. According to Francis, bank officers have already begun the process of reaching out to customers who have submitted requests to finalize their relief arrangements. Bank of St. Lucia advises that due to the volume of requests received thus far that this process will take some time but wishes to reassure the public that the institution remains committed to providing relief to all those affected during this time via its COVID-19 customer relief program. From the Government Information Service, Lester Joseph reports in The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Natural Resources and Corporatives, Hon. Ezekiel Joseph said that the opening of the castries provisions market provides an avenue for farmers to sell their produce. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted several industries, including the tourism industry, forcing hotels to close their doors. It is interesting that farmers who supply these hotels now have an abundance of produce. The Minister expressed that the opening is no doubt opportune. Because of the minister of agriculture right now, because of the overproduction we have on the field because we are entering into a program where we would target in local production, local utilization and also the tourism industry. Now the closure of the hotels all over our farmers now have product sales. So a facility like that can only give support to our farmers. And you see, what's also important, while we talk about productivity, food safety is also important. Because we, when we walked around, we saw the products on the ground, right? It's not a good sign when it comes to especially veritable that you have to utilize raw. So it really dawned on us that we had to undertake that project. And I'm happy, at least we are delivering the first phase of this project. And I'm looking forward to phase two and phase three. Minister of Responsibility for External Affairs and Parliamentary Representative for Castries Central, Honourable Sara Floodbovra, indicated that the opening of the facility provides an opportunity for even more improvements in the realm of vending. We can now provide the framework for what the vendors do here to be improved. Because this provides with an opportunity to put even more effort into diversifying your product. Everybody doesn't have to sell the same thing into making sure that your product looks more attractive, so that it can be a real pleasure to walk through here. Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation, Honourable Guy Joseph, highlighting the government's vision for the castries market, indicated that government remains focused on improving the lives of the people. Sometimes people think you develop the market for the tourists and for this person and for that person. The convenience that is created here is created first for our people who are the main occupiers of this facility on a daily basis. Whether a purchaser comes or not, our vendors are always present. And the level of comfort that is afforded is afforded first and foremost to our vendors at the castries market. So we need to understand where we are going and what we are attempting to do as a government. And as I've said before, I always believe that we should have an authentic St. Lucia Avenue, where everything sold in that place should be made in St. Lucia. And the prime minister has already articulated that the castries market should become that place where we sell what is made or grown in St. Lucia. That was Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation, Honourable Guy Joseph. The Department of Education and Innovation is maintaining its emphasis on the importance of reading to students and the wider public amid the impact of COVID-19 on the education sector. The Ministry of Education has taken a different approach to reading month this year to reflect the actual and varied circumstances of the learners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Education took a different approach to reading month this year to reflect the actual and varied circumstances of the learners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme for reading month 2020 is readers as independent learners and critical thinkers. The Ministry's aim is to support students as they become increasingly independent in their learning as well as to help students become critical thinkers. Curriculum Officer of English Language at Camdo, Angel Caglin, explained that students will engage in activities that encourage them to question content in the media and to create their own content as part of a strategy to help them develop improved attitudes towards information around them. For young children who have this natural curiosity and for older children who are working towards independence, they want to do things on their own, they want to make their decisions. Really highlighting these two or taking advantage of these features of our students to really encourage them to be persons who took charge of their own learning. Another aspect that contributed to the theme is the fact that during this period of time we were inundated with information from all sources. Whether it was images, videos, messages, whatever the case may be, there was so much information and really and truly we realized that not a lot of persons understood how to manage that information. And so we thought critical thinking is really something that we all need to develop not just students at school, we're talking about all of our people. Caglin noted that although the regular calendar of activities could not occur, a calendar has been planned out to guide parents and educators throughout the month. We were still able to design an entire calendar of activities for each day of the month starting from the 4th which will be the first Monday all the way down to I think is the 29th which would be the last Friday. We have a calendar that persons can access either on the education, Facebook page, any website that we have come do and so on and of course which has been shared with educators and these activities are specifically designed for both offline and online activities that every person can participate in. As students remain the main focus, there will be many opportunities for the adults and educators to improve on their attitudes towards initiative and critical thinking. All of us educators, students, parents can now look at what are we learning that's actually going to help us through the situation that we're in and even beyond the situation that we're in right now. Specifically for educators, it means that we have to see instruction in a different way. We cannot expect to replicate what was happening in the classroom at home. Our parents are not professionals, they're not professional teachers. They don't have that background or that experience, most of them. So what we really want now is to have a more global view of reading. What's the purpose of reading? We've been told it's comprehension but I would say the purpose of reading is to be able to create new information and create new content and use it in a significant manner. The Curriculum Officer for English Language reassured the Ministry of Education's commitment to the parents, students and stakeholders during this time. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. 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