 Coming to you from our GIS studios, I am Anithya Antoine and this is your media news brief. The tourism industry in St. Lucia continues to experience a steady increase in visitor arrivals in 2019. The year-to-date tourism arrival figures suggest that there is a steady increase of approximately 6%. According to the Minister for Tourism, Information and Forecasting, Culture and Creative Industries, Honourable Dominic Fede, the increase of 1,246 airline seats has been instrumental to the growth in arrival figures. Minister Fede informed that new airlift will also be added in December this year and the government is better in conditions in the city of Castries due to the steady increase of cruise ship visitors. In Lucia's Prime Minister and Chairman of Caricombe, Honourable Alan Shastney will be leading the Caribbean community's response to fiscal demands placed on member states by the international community. Our primary concern is the blacklisting of Caribbean countries, deemed to have harmful tax regimes, as recently determined by the European Union. This poses a significant threat to Caricombe countries, which depend heavily on their financial services sector. Impact Justice and the Attorney General's chambers teamed up to host a workshop on sound policy for better law. Participants included permanent secretaries and senior public officers who are directly responsible for policy development. The Impact Justice project is designed to address deficiencies in the justice sector in Caricombe, outside of those that are directly related to the judiciary and the courts. The project is implemented from within the Caribbean Law Institute Centre, Faculty of Law, UWI Cable Campus, Barbados. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NTPC, continues to forge ahead with the formulation of the National Competitive Agenda, jointly funded by the government of St Lucia, and competes with the Caribbean Partnership Facility. Once completed, the Competitiveness Agenda will provide the NTPC with the framework to measure how well St Lucia is performing, as it relates to various actions, policies and initiatives undertaken to improve the island's competitiveness. This has been your media news brief. Thank you for watching.