OECS FULLY SUPPORTS CSME, SAYS DOMINICA’S PRIME MINISTER

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Hon Roosevelt Skerritt has assured that the countries of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) “are in total support of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).&rd...
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BRAZIL TO SUPPLY OECS MEMBER COUNTRIES WITH ANTI-RETROVIRAL DRUGS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Persons living with HIV/AIDS in Member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will soon benefit from the supply of anti-retroviral drugs which is being provided by Brazil for the next five years. Prime Minister, ...
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We have taken 21 years to return to where we began. When we started we were anxious but ever fearless. However cautious we were of success, we never once doubted our quest: the importance and permanence of the OECS.  When future generations of the Caribbean look back across the passage of our regional development, I have no doubt that they will recognise the beginning of the OECS project as a trul

Honourable Ministers of Government Excellencies Members of Parliament and the Senate Other Distinguished Guests CARICOM Nationals Ladies and Gentlemen I want to thank my friend and colleague Ambassador Bullen for his very kind introduction indeed as I do for the invitation to be here. Ladies and Gen...
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Twenty years ago on June 18, 1981, the Treaty of Basseterre gave birth to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It’s founding fathers fashioned a remarkable admixture of functional cooperation between its Member-States and an embryonic confederal structure which possesses the seeds for a further deepening or strengthening in the visionary quest for a confederal political union, at a

  Members of Parliament, Excellency, Dean of the CARICOM High Commissioners, Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very pleased to be here representing CARICOM at this celebration of the 28th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguara...
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THE OECS IN OUR CARIBBEAN CIVILISATION BY DR. THE HON. RALPH E. GONSALVES, PRIME MINISTER, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES (OECS), 18 JUNE 2001

  Twenty years ago on June 18, 1981, the Treaty of Basseterre gave birth to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It's founding fathers fashioned a remarkable admixture of functional cooperation between its Member-States and an embryonic confederal structure which possesses the ...
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Reforming The OECS : A Paper From The Government Of Antigua And Barbuda, Presented By Hon. Lester B. Bird,  Prime Minister Of Antigua And Barbuda To A Meeting Of The Authority Of The OECS, Grenada, Saturday, 28 April, 2001

INTRODUCTION The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is a founder member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Lester B. Bird, is the only survivor in Government of those persons who signed the Treaty of Basseterre on 18th June 1981 brin...
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STANDARDS MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING IN OECS TERRITORIES

Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are to benefit this year from a project to establish and enhance their standards management capacity. Three OECS States, the Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, are to be brought in li...
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CARICOM HEADS HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OECS JUDICIAL PROCESS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have expressed their support for and confidence in the integrity of the judicial process in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Eastern Caribbean. In a statement at the end of the XVIII Meeting of th...
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