Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) celebrates forty first anniversary

Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has referred to as on the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) to proceed to do extra for the socio-economic growth of the sub-region regardless of its achievements over the previous 41 years.

Mitchell, who’s chairman of the nine-member regional grouping, mentioned the achievements of the OECS “illustrate the energy and resilience of our integration motion, significantly in a world setting the place the distinctiveness and inherent vulnerabilities of Small Island Creating States, aren’t thought-about a precedence for all”.

The OECS teams the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines, St. Kitts-Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.

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Final weekend, the OECS, celebrated its forty first anniversary underneath the theme, ‘41 Years of Integration: Overcoming Challenges to Construct Resilience and Sustainability”.

Among the many actions marking the event, was a thanksgiving service, the OECS Colours Day, and an official flag elevating ceremony.

In his deal with, Prime Minister Mitchell challenged the regional grouping to beat all future and unexpected challenges, by remaining aggressive, responsive, and related. In line with him, ‘As we go into the longer term, our dedication to financial harmonization and integration, safety of human and authorized rights and the encouragement of excellent governance amongst our unbiased and non-independent international locations stays embodied inside our compass. With our Revised Treaty of Basseterre, we should proceed to extend the runs on the scorecard and stay responsive, aggressive, and related”

The revised treaty was signed on June 18, 2010, in St. Lucia. It established a single monetary and financial house the place items, folks and capital transfer freely. It additionally permits the harmonization of financial and governmental insurance policies regarding taxes and income.

“The international locations of this financial union proceed to undertake a typical strategy to commerce, well being, training and the setting, in addition to the event of essential sectors similar to agriculture, tourism and power,” the OECS Fee mentioned.

Mitchell mentioned the OECS “should additionally proceed to embrace gender fairness, inclusion, empowerment of youth, digital innovation and entrepreneurship as cross-cutting and important options of our integration motion,” he added.

The St. Lucia-based OECS Fee mentioned every week of workers appreciation actions ending on July 1, will sign the top of celebrations for the forty first anniversary.

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