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Tourism officials from Saint Lucia participated in the 2022 Caribbean Tourism Organization’s (CTO) annual conference, held in the Cayman Islands from September 11 to 15. The annual conference brought together CTO members to discuss and plan key items relevant to the advancement of the tourism industry and member states.
Leading Saint Lucia’s delegation was Tourism Minister, the Hon. Dr. Ernest Hilaire. He was accompanied by the CEO of the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Lorine Charles-St. Jules. The delegation participated in a Destination Briefing to regional and international media, CTO Business Meetings, and a Grand Cayman familiarization tour.
Sustainable Airlift continues to be a pivotal growth strategy for stimulating the continued recovery of Saint Lucia’s tourism product.
As part of the CTO conference, the Airlift Committee of the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority headed by Paul Collymore and Research and Development Manager- Roselieu Augustin, attended the Caribbean Aviation Day symposium hosted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on September 14.
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High on the agenda was a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of this sector, the recovery of the region, and enhancing the benefits of aviation in the Caribbean.
Saint Lucia, having achieved 80 percent of its overall recovery compared to 2019, anticipates a well-performing fall tourism season with increased non-stop airlift from Toronto (YYZ) by way of Sunwing, Air Canada, and WestJet.
From the United States, service continues from Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia. From London, Virgin Atlantic will reintroduce service from Heathrow (LHR) on October 31, and non-stop airlift will continue with British Airways and TUI from Gatwick (LGW).
During the Conference, Charles-St Jules added another layer of accomplishment to her tourism leadership portfolio when she was pinned as one of the newest Board of Directors of the Caribbean Tourism Organization. She will serve in the newly appointed capacity until 2024.
An exciting component of the annual conference is the Regional Tourism Youth Congress where Junior Ministers and Commissioners of Tourism around the region participate in a two-round competition.
Saint Lucia’s Junior Minister of Tourism, 15-year-old Jassie Thomas of the Vieux Fort Comprehensive Secondary School, competed against nine junior ministers, delivering a speech centered around the topic “Community Based Tourism”.
The 2022 CTO conference reinforced Saint Lucia’s position on the continuous development of its sustainable airlift and targeted marketing strategy for the island’s tourism sector.
SOURCE: Saint Lucia Tourism Authority
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MUSIQUE. Biz in jazz
La 19e édition du Big In Jazz Festival va prendre son envol, ce samedi au CDST*. L’occasion d’apprécier, durant deux week-ends, le meilleur des musiciens jazz de Martinique et de la Caraïbe.
C’est Thomas Boutant qui a pris la direction artistique de ce festival créé par son père (Christian Boutant). Il veut en garder la philosophie, à savoir : mettre en lumière les talents martiniquais dans un savant métissage-mixage avec d’autres musiciens de la Caraïbe. Mais le nouveau directeur artistique a tenu à apporter sa touche personnelle. Le Biguine Jazz Festival est devenu : Big In Jazz Festival. Il sourit : « Parce que nos ambitions sont désormais plus grandes encore, parce…
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VOLLEY-BALL. reprise
C’est lundi soir dans la salle Omer-Kromwell du CtosMa que la Ligue a débuté sa saison avec une réunion en présence des présidents de clubs, sur l’organisation des futurs championnats jeunes et seniors, le beach-volley, les coupes de Martinique 2021-2022 et 2022-2023, et la formation des dirigeants.
Seuls huit présidents sur les quatorze clubs affiliés à la Ligue : le Rayon de Petite Anse, le Good Luck, l’Aiglon, le Starball Club, la Mairie Sportive, l’Eclair, la JS Franciscaine et le FEP Monésie, avaient répondu à l’invitation. Cette saison la Ligue prévoit de disputer cinq compétitions, à savoir le championnat, la coupe de Martinique (2021-2022 et 2022-2023), le championnat ultra-marin et le tournoi des clubs champion de la Caraïbe.
Concernant le championnat masculin, les…
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Il manque toujours des places d’accueil pour les enfants de moins de 3 ans en Martinique. L’ouverture de la micro-crèche « Les P’tits Pilotes », quartier Rollin, offre une nouvelle opportunité aux parents du secteur.
Les responsables de la micro-crèche « Les P’tits Pilotes » ont invité, dernièrement, la municipalité et quelques personnalités à visiter les installations qui accueillent 12 enfants de moins de 3 ans, encadrés par 4 éducatrices. Pour mener à bien ce projet, la directrice Tracy Vigilant et son équipe ont dû faire preuve de patience et de persévérance car la création d’une telle structure est assujettie à une réglementation stricte. Au bout de près de deux années, toutes les…
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Ce dimanche 18 septembre restera gravé dans la mémoire d’Annonay Félix Pépin. Pour ses 100 ans, ses proches avaient organisé une fête surprise à son attention. Une journée riche en émotions.
C’est chez l’une de ses filles, Danielle, que la fête s’est déroulée, quartier Dominante à Marigot. Une journée durant laquelle la famille a témoigné toute son affection au jeune centenaire. Les proches avaient mis, pour l’occasion, les petits plats dans les grands. Au gré d’une exposition préparée pour la circonstance, Annonay Félix a pu replonger dans son siècle de vie. Ustensiles et objets d’antan, photos, éléments du patrimoine… tout était là pour faire ressurgir les…
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The Saint Lucia Golf Association will put on the first Saint Lucia Amateur Invitational between September 23rd and 25th at the Sandals Golf and Country Club.
Eleven of Saint Lucia’s best golfers will compete in our nation’s first ever World Amateur Golf Ranked event and have a chance to become Saint Lucia’s first ever world ranked player.
To add to the prestige of the event, the winner will also earn the right to represent Saint Lucia at the Latin American Amateur Championship in Puerto Rico early next year. The players competing will be as follows:
Harith KhanRomanus InglisEugene EdwinTim MangalKeymaine ThomasSamuel RichelieuAnthony SpalloneTerry VerdantCorey DevauxKenneth MathurinMervin RobertVictor Charles
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Players will walk 54 holes over three days off of the championships tees. Tee times will start on Friday and Saturday at 1:00 PM and Sunday at 8:00 AM.
Members of the public are encouraged to follow their favourite players during rounds of play.
The SLGA is proud to announce that Blue Waters and Exel Signs are sponsoring this historic event.
SOURCE: Saint Lucia Golf Association. Headline photo courtesy Mick De Paola (Unsplash.com)
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JAHMARE Nesbit, son of murdered security guard Jerry Winston Stuart, says he will forgive the men responsible for his father’s death, but it will take a long time.
Nesbit’s father was shot and killed outside the Pennywise Super Centre on La Bel Air Road, La Romaine on Monday. Nesbit knows his father would have forgiven those responsible in a heartbeat.
Speaking to the media at the Forensic Sciences Centre on Wednesday, Nesbit said Stuart would want him to do the same, but right now forgiveness is the last thing on his mind.
“It’s really hard, but you have to learn to forgive and forget. I may be not be ready to forgive as yet, but maybe in time. It doesn’t make sense to keep the hate. It would just bring negative vibes. I’ll just try to keep the faith.”
Stuart, 49, of Longdenville in Chaguanas, who worked with Allied Security Ltd, was shot and killed outside Pennywise Plaza in a heist.
The police later killed four suspects in a shootout and arrested three people.
Stuart’s co-worker Jeffrey Peters, 51, was also killed. A third colleague, Peola Baptiste, 57, was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. On Wednesday she had a stroke and was moved to the ICU.
Stuart, the father of two, had worked with Allied Security for the past 14 years.
Nesbit said, “He was a hardworking fella and he really loved all his children…He make sure I get my education, he sent me to school and he just out there to make an honest dollar, and to hear that he’s gone….
“We trying for the best. We trying to be strong for my grandmom, because right now she hasn’t felt it as yet.”
He said he found out what had happened through a video someone sent him via WhatsApp.
“I saw the van, but I didn’t know who it was yet. I try calling him to find out who it was and I didn’t get through with him. I called again and he didn’t answer.
“Normally when I call twice, he would call me back one time, no matter what he’s doing. I went and bathe and saw no missed call. Icalled and again and no answer and I start to get worried.”
He said it was through a mutual friend he found out his father had been inside the van and was killed in the shooting.
“I was in disbelief, so I went straight to the company just to hear it was really him in the van,” he explained.
He told Newsday his father’s death had brought the family closer, as he is expected to meet Stuart’s second child from America face to face for the first time.
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FILE PHOTO: A woman picks out her fresh vegetables from Charlotte Street vendor, as the scores of people rushed to get their last-minute food items on Friday. – AYANNA KINSALE
A Sangre Grande vendor is painfully aware of increasing food prices, but is looking at the bigger picture. He does not believe the rising costs of goods is unique to Trinidad and Tobago.
He waxed philosophical on Tuesday.
“I feel is global, inno, I ain’t feel is we alone. Because we not in Russia, and Russia is the same thing like we. We suffering, Russia suffering, Guyana suffering, everybody suffering.”
The vendor, who asked not to be named, sells on Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, seven days a week.
He argued that the market is not bad as he gestured to a grocery, saying that was the problem: prices there rise and never come down. Worse, it seems they change their prices overnight, some products by 50 cents, others by a dollar. His greatest annoyance, however, is the price of bulk cheese.
On a walk on Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, on Tuesday, Newsday found tomatoes are currently priced between $19 and $25, depending on the vendor. The vendor said after tomato prices increase, they will go down.
“Tomato have a time to go up, tomato have a time to go down. This time of year tomato doesn’t ever be cheap. It’s rainy season.”
He said tomatoes might go down a little as soon as imported ones enter the market. “Foreign goods cause the local goods to drop lil bit, and it will pick back up for Christmas again.”
After that, he said, it is dry season and tomatoes are normally very cheap, $1-$3 per pound.
The vendor said this year was “the year of the breadfruit and zaboca,” having got at least four breadfruit crops already and expecting more. He did not know why breadfruit was so abundant, but guessed it might have been because of climate change or the weather.
He sells his breadfruit at $5 per pound, the market average. He said the price of breadfruit is what it is because he pays somebody to climb the tree, and the higher up, the more costly. He must also buy the breadfruit from the man who owns the trees, then pay for transport to the market.
On imported produce like potatoes, onions and garlic, the Sangre Grande vendor said their prices are usually stable.
“Only when the port playing the fool, that does go up.”
Another vendor, who also asked not to be named, said prices need to come down because only poor people were feeling it.
She too shared her struggle at the grocery, where money does not buy as much as it did a few months ago.
On tomatoes, the answer was the same: “Rain falling, sun not shining.”
She said tomatoes, sweet peppers, pumpkin, pimentos and seasoning went up the most. All of these increases she attributed to the rainy season. She said pimentos went up by $200 to $400 or more, “Sometimes we used to pay $50-$100 a bag for 20 pounds.”
She said bodi and bhagi were at the standard price of $5 a bundle, while ochro dropped in price, and was now at ten for $5. Cucumbers, she said, were “floating,” purchase by purchase.
Additionally, she said, “Right now Indian fasting, so they are not eating any meat. Although rain is falling they are fasting. When Hindus fast, the vegetables rise a little because that is what they eat.”
(Hindus may have begun fasting for various religious occasions from the end of August to October 5. Then, immediately after October’s full moon, comes the holy month of Kartik, in which Divali falls, on October 24. According to the SWAHA’s calendar, Kartik ends on November 8.)
The vendor said pumpkin used to be $1.50 per pound, but now it costs between $6 and $8.
A shopper from Blanchisseuse said, “The prices of goods is ridiculous. I don’t understand how a single parent is going to feed their children.”
Mariana comes to Charlotte Street to make market because produce is always more expensive in the countryside, “plus we don’t have these things in Blanchisseuse.” Looking at the prices on Charlotte Street, she said she has no choice but to adjust what she buys, but, she still finds the Charlotte Street vendors are reasonable. What concerned her most was the cost of transport from Blanchisseuse, which is $22 one-way, as well as the price of margarine.
A small farmer from Las Cuevas, Peter Noreiga, grows baigan, which is currently priced between $10 and $12 per pound. He said he believes what has driven up the cost of goods is the high cost of chemicals.
Besides that, he said he pays an additional cost to cross the river linking his farm to the Rincon Road whenever it floods. He said the price of produce goes up depending on the number of hands from farm to table.
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FORMER Red House hostage Wendell Eversley is calling on THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine to respond to allegations of wrongdoing and impropriety within his administration.
At a news conference last Thursday, in which he announced his resignation as Deputy Chief Secretary, Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) political leader Watson Duke alleged that there was corruption within the THA to favour Trinidad contractors.
Augustine has since denied the allegation and said he plans to sue Duke. He said he is consulting with his attorneys, one of whom is a King’s Counsel.
On Wednesday, Eversley said Augustine must respond to the allegations under the Freedom of Information Act.
He said he travelled to Tobago specifically to present copies of the letter to Augustine and Chief Administrator Ethlyn John.
Eversley said under the act, Augustine will have 30 days to respond.
But when he arrived at the Victor E Bruce Financial Complex, Scarborough to present a copy of the letter to Augustine, Eversley was not allowed to enter the building.
He told reporters someone was asked to collect it on Augustine’s behalf.
Eversley wondered how Duke knew about the alleged contracts.
“Was he part and parcel of the executive then when these contractors were selected? So he has to answer these questions because these are things very serious.”
He recalled the PDP, in the run up to the December 6, 2021, THA election, had campaigned against corruption and mismanagement in the assembly.
“Are they continuing to do the same thing that we are fighting against and talking about?”
Eversley said good governance must prevail in all organisations.
“We are talking about taxpayers’ money. We hearing people talking about contractors coming from Trinidad. So what are you trying to tell me – there is no contractor in Tobago who could do these jobs?
“Contractors in Tobago not equipped? That is old talk and nonsense. And today under the Freedom of Information Act, I need to know who are these contractors…”
Last week, PNM Tobago Council political leader Ancil Dennis also said Augustine has serious questions to answer in relation to the allegations made against the THA.
Dennis said the allegations attacked the integrity of the assembly and its procurement processes.
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