 Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles, this edition's top stories. Another public sector union and the GNT complete negotiations. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court launches the second phase of its e-litigation portal for St. Lucia. Carapacean kicks off with St. Lucia's football grades, all that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. Another public sector bargaining agent has completed industrial negotiations with the Government Negotiating Team. The St. Lucia Nurses Association and the Government Negotiating Team signed the Collective bargaining agreement, which covers the period April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2022. Chairman of the Government Negotiating Team, Verne Gill, said the agreement reflects outcomes that are beneficial to both parties, including increases in salaries and benefits. The aspect of the salaries that we have agreed upon reflect the following, a lump sum payment of $1,500, which is aimed at addressing the period 16 to 19, a 1% for the period 2019 to 2020, 1% for the period 2020 to 2021, and 2% for the period 2021 to 2022. So it encompasses the whole six-year period, and it means then that we don't have to be under pressure in terms of negotiations for the next few years. President of the St. Lucia Nurses Association, Alicia Baptiste, signed on behalf of the association. I want to first thank the Government Negotiating Team for the cordial way in which the negotiations was conducted, and the mandate was given by my members to sign on behalf of them. And today I'm very happy that we can come together and conclude this long process. And I know at the end, my members are the ones who will benefit from what we have gotten on their behalf. Senior Labour Officer Kissinger Smith was pleased with the cordial relations between the two parties. Negotiating collective agreements can be one of the most difficult things. You have individuals wanting different things, but mainly we see when people come to negotiate collective agreements, we speak to salary increases because of the economy and tough financial, you know, the tough financial situation of the economy, inflation. So people always look forward to seeing some sort of increase in their salary as some type of benefit per se. So we're always happy that parties can come together and negotiations and collective agreements can be signed where people are happy, both parties, the bargaining unit and also the employer can be happy in the end of the signing of this agreement, you know. The agreement was signed on June 4, 2019. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has rolled out the second phase of its elitigation portal for St. Lucia, which includes all new civil matters to be heard in the High Court, more from Genelle Norville. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court's ECSC's elitigation portal serves as a platform to improve the delivery of justice to citizens of the region. The ECSC is introducing the next phase of the elitigation portal for St. Lucia. This new portal will include all new civil matters to be heard in the High Court. ECSC's Chief Registrar Michelle Joint Fables explained that the portal contributes towards increasing the transparency of court services, allowing the ECSC to improve access of its service to stakeholders and speeding up otherwise slow processes. She added that statistics on the portal's usage in St. Lucia is very encouraging, hence prompting the launch of phase two in St. Lucia. From the 1st of July 2019, all new matters filed in the civil division of the High Court in St. Lucia must be done via the portal. In order to file a new matter, or a document in a new matter, a law firm must be registered, user accounts for the legal practitioners and legal secretaries in the firm must be created, and a law firm account must have significant funds to pay the necessary filing fees. What does this mean for the unrepresented litigants? The facility arranged at the High Court, which we refer to as the service bureau, is in effect to assist unrepresented litigants with the uploading of documents for filing on the portal. So today, we want to ensure that the public is fully aware of the portal, how it operates, how it is to be used, their rights in relation to the portals, the rules that govern the portal. According to the chief registrar, the launch of the portal over the 7 month period has seen a total of 203 matters filed, 78 in St. Lucia, 264 legal practitioners have registered, 103 law firms have registered, 43 in St. Lucia, 183 commercial matters have been filed of that 58 in St. Lucia, 17 High Court civil appeals have been filed, 16 in St. Lucia, 3 High Court commercial appeals all in St. Lucia, and 1 Magisterial civil appeal filed in St. Lucia. A number of training sessions have been conducted for stakeholders and other personnel. ECSC's Information Technology Manager, Mark Ernest, described the feedback received since the launch of the portal. During our training sessions, you're getting that type of feeling that it's difficult and why are we undertaking that change, but after a few hours of training and exposure to use of the system, it's a complete turnaround. And that we've experienced in BVI and Gwila as well, a little slower in St. Lucia, but of course we're getting in St. Lucia. ECSC's Court Administrator, Greg Ridge-Rodd, highlighted launches to take place in other member states. Three other member states this year, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Dominica, between October and December, those three member states will be done. And probably in the first three to four months of 2020, we will do St. Vincent's Grenada and Montserrat. That will be the civil matters and court of appeal. And at some stage, we will launch in the criminal jurisdiction as well. The portal went live in St. Lucia on the 26th of November 2018 for all new commercial and court of appeal matters filed on or after this date. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shastney continues to lead the charge for the Caribbean when it comes to sustainable development and the impact of climate change. The Prime Minister is participated in a high-level panel discussion on the theme, Vulnerability to Resilience. You choose at the Caribbean Development Bank's 49th annual meeting of the Board of Governors. The June 5th and June 6th meeting is being held at the Hyde Regency in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, with the panel discussion being led by Hon. Camille Robinson-Rages, Trinidad's Minister of Planning and Development. The purpose of the event is to highlight the current and planned initiatives in regional economies to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen resilience to exogenous shocks, natural hazards and climate change. They will also identify opportunities or initiatives for improved regional cooperation to foster strengthened resilience in the Prime Minister's absence. Minister for Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment Hon. Leonard Montute serves as Acting Prime Minister. The work undertaken to respond and address the long-term effects of the Zika outbreak in St. Lucia was highlighted as the United States Agency for International Development, USAID's flagship maternal and child survival program, hosted a dissemination event recently. More from Fennel Neptune. The national dissemination event provided departments of health officials and other local partners with the opportunity to present the work achieved over the past year as it relates to caring for women, newborns, children and families affected by the Zika virus. United States Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS, Linda Tagliatello, celebrated the partnership of the Department of Health and expressed the need to continue the work to minimize the effects of Zika among future generations. I would like to underscore that while this work focused specifically on Zika, the investments made are far-reaching and will help to prevent, respond and control all meat mosquito-borne illnesses. Today, due to continued work to curb the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses in several communities, reported Zika cases have decreased in St. Lucia. The sudden decrease in cases compared to the same period of April 2016 seemingly suggests that things are getting so much better here in St. Lucia. Permanent Secretary in the Department of Health and Wellness, Felix St. Hill, believes the support from the program is very important as it will assist with addressing the gaps in St. Lucia's health system. This multi-partner flagship program in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development Priority goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths fits quite nicely with our own initiative here in St. Lucia to develop and further our access to health care for children and women. The need to support countries to increase coverage and utilization of evidence-based, high-quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions at the household, community and health facility levels cannot be overemphasized. St. Hill also called on the partners to remain committed to improving the approach towards health care, particularly the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fennel Neptune. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. I'm innovative. I'm competitive. I am productive. I'm creative. I constantly improve what I do. And how I do it. I provide excellent customers to visit. I never stop learning. I give all my best, always. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council embracing excellence. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development in sports. Thanks, Nisha. Welcome everyone. Ryan O'Brien with you once again with an update on happenings from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. Youth in the communities being targeted by the youth empowerment project have been showing keen interest in the implementation of the various programs to be undertaken under the project. Coordinated Joanne Husbands says the programs are being well-accepted by community members who are anxious to be part of what is being proposed. Yes, a lot of youth have been supporting the project. They have been waiting for projects of that kind and waiting for not only the social assistance and the opportunities that it may provide to them and to keep them engaged. But they want to support it because they need and see the need for bringing in this project to help tackle crime, to tackle the behavior and to constructively put a better image towards the communities, towards empowerment of them and to just champion their mindsets, skillsets development and overall national development and public safety. Ms Husbands also highlighted some of the programs to be carried out under the project. Five major components, well four I should say, to the project. The Integrated Court Diversion Program, the Integrated Community-Based Transformation Programs, the Community Policing Initiative and the redesign of the George Fifth Park which is otherwise known as the Gardens. Now the Integrated Court Diversion Program consists of the Youth Recidivism Reduction Program and the Outer School Suspension Program. And we are really, right now we are seeking through the various components of all of the project, the overall project rather. We are seeking specialists through requests for expression of interest. We released it this week to the overall public, nationally, regionally and internationally to submit the expressions of interest so that they could be a part of building, being a part of building the components and to overall change and to help to support the communities. The Youth Empowerment Project is placing particular emphasis on the communities of New Village, Conway, Barnard Hill and Wilton's Yard. The Ministry of Development and Sports will be assisting as a record-breaking number of runners from 11 different countries are coming back to St. Lucia for the third time to take part in the Cruz-Marathon Challenge. Ministry of Tourism will once again host a race with involvement from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. The first two editions of the Southern Caribbean Challenge were held in 2016 and 2017, while last year's event was cancelled due to hurricane damage in the area. During the Seven-Day Challenge, 22 runners hailing from the USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, the UK, Poland, Australia, Pakistan, Italy, Taiwan and the Philippines will take part in seven marathons on six Caribbean islands and one aboard the cruise ship. This year, the group will again include runners from around the world with exceptional running resumes. Between them, there are broken 15 world records and some have run a marathon in over 100 countries. Combined, these runners have completed over 2,000 marathons around the world. The Southern Caribbean Challenge started with a marathon in Puerto Rico on June 2nd. Thursday's run in St. Lucia will be the fifth race of the series. And with that, we come to the end of our segment from Youth Development and Sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. The St. Lucia Tourism Authority under its caribocation brand, which is primarily focused on welcoming regional travelers to the destination, has collaborated with veterans in Sports Inc. for staging of the St. Lucia International Masters Football Invitational, slated for June 7th to 10th, 2019, under the theme Be Inspired. Over this wits-and-tide weekend, the International Tournament, we'll welcome over 400 veterans from 28 teams across the USA, Canada Dominica Trinidad, Grenada Barbados and St. Vincent. Christopher Gustave is the marketing manager for Caribbean and events at the SLTA. Most obvious thing is that these visitors need to eat. They need places to stay, they need transportation to move around and probably even a good souvenir. That means more money to hotels, restaurants, sporting facilities, taxis, groceries and even gift shops alike. We also have to remember that because of media and the broadcast rights that people get to see St. Lucia on TV, for example, millions of viewers get to experience a little taste of our beautiful island and hopefully put St. Lucia on the budget list. Veteran's football ambassador Brian Charles Lara says there is much St. Lucia can gain by the hosting of the event. The next couple of weeks, hundreds of people will be coming to play football, to watch football. They can be walking through your streets, they don't want something from sandwich to take back. They don't want to taste your food, they don't want to meet your people. And let me tell you something, it's not the runs that grow, it's not the run that brings you back, it's your people. How comfortable they are, how engaged they are. And this is something that we have around the program, we have amazing people that can hold on and engage foreigners and they keep coming back. So I want to encourage you to keep doing that as well. Local greats like Titus, Titi Elver, Elijah Joseph, Alvin Zavie, Valenches Joseph, Leighton, Raton, Sanderford and Trevor Cadet are all geared to put on a show. Matches will kick off concurrently on June 8, 9 and 10 at 10am, with various teams competing on the hour until 5pm at the sub-sporting facility, the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground and at the Grosley Plainfield. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTN Novella Queo. Pamela, I noticed that you built your retaining wall on my property. You will have to give me my land back or compensate me for that. My contractor isn't dumb. I trust that he will not build anything on your property. Where is your proof? Let's go to court. This situation does not require you to go to court. Looks like we have to go through mediation here. Mediation is a way people resolve conflicts like this. Someone, a third party, comes to speak to both parties. This person is called the mediator. The mediator is impartial. He or she makes sure that communication between both parties is effective and efficient. So, the mediator is a judge? No, the mediator is not a judge. Mediators, unlike judges, do not decide cases or impose settlements. Let me get a mediator to handle this retaining wall and that kitchen. Kitchen? Yes, your kitchen also falls on my land. Let me call the mediator. Welcome back. We join Primes Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Aquail. Hello, Ministers. I am Minister of Agriculture, Lapeche, Plans des Affaires, Physical, Resource Natural and Co-operative. I am Harold Stanislaus. I am sure that it is possible to register in the country more effectively and that there is a cause for more appearance and that it will cut the administration of the affaires as much as possible. I am Stanislaus. I am sure that it is possible to finish the affaires as much as possible and that there is a position to find information because it is more easy to register in the country so that your service can be done as quickly as possible so that you can organize the information that you deserve. So, I am sure that it is possible to find the right situation so that you can do the right thing about the affaires. Minister Stanislaus also announced that you will be able to complete your exercise which will start to be implemented in the country and that you will be able to use your service to exchange the various companies of the Co-operation and the national affairs. You will be able to register in the country and provide the assistance so that you can go out and eat and have a match to try all the things that will exist in the country and register in the country. So, I am sure that it is possible to finish the affaires for the first time and then quickly facilitate the modern environment. The facility is one that is very favorable to the development of the other countries and I have done more than 18 billion dollars in finance support and also 14 billion dollars in business for the 4,600 projects in 170 countries. It is easy to facilitate the modern environment and it is possible to do the same to help the national affairs of the Civil Affairs Office and other organizations such as OCOA and WEG in the way of coordination. For example, for this time which already had 4.4 billion dollars in conservation activities at the level of the earth which is 4.2 million dollars in place to manage the salaries and 6.6 million for these countries to not cut land and to come. So, I would like to say to you that please stimulate the OCOA which already has a lot of facilities in the city and also to coordinate the development of the university and also to promote the finance assistance that will be provided to the public and it is possible to do the same to help the society and also to support the OCOA which will provide good benefits for many organizations in the coming years I hope for these benefits. OCOA has signed an agreement with the government which I have put in place for the Civil Affairs Office and also won which was represented by the government which came to negotiate and also signed an agreement which was covered during the 1st of August 2006 which was signed by the government which came to negotiate and also presented benefits for all the citizens who found the salaries and also the benefits which were in place for the OCOA and also covered the 1,600 dollars which was signed in 2016 to 2019 and also in 2008 2018 to 2019 and also in 2019 to 2020 and also to 2020 and also for 2020 and also for 2020 for 2020 and also for 2020 for 2020 for 2020 for 2020 for 2020 and also for 2020 of the Wabdes Association which was formed these three are the 4G which are the 4G We can view opposite to Tunisia. Messy uphill primers, and here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Fair to partly cloudy skies with a few light showers, a weak surface trough is expected to affect the northern Lesser Antilles during the next 24 hours. Two tropical waves located over the central and eastern tropical Atlantic are moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 km per hour. The most cyclone formation is not expected over the tropical Atlantic during the next 24 hours. The tide for Cassie's Harbour was high at 6.13 pm and will be low again at 10.31 pm. The tide for V4 Bay was low at 12.50 pm and will be high again at 7.20 pm. The sea is moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Thursday at 5.34 am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 pm with a repeat at 7 am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.