St Kitts-Nevis PM to imagine chairmanship of OECS

St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Honorable Dr. Terrance Drew will assume chairmanship of the Group of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) when the OECS Authority holds its 73rd assembly in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The incoming chairman will likely be among the many audio system on the opening ceremony on Sunday 18th June 2023 which begins at 5:00 pm on the Japanese Caribbean Central Financial institution Auditorium.

Sunday’s assembly may also serve to commemorate the forty second anniversary of the sub-regional grouping, which got here into impact on 18 June 1981. The forty second Anniversary of the OECS is well known in Saint Kitts and Nevis from June 13-19, 2023, below the theme ‘Imaginative and prescient. Integration. Sustainability’. 

Following the opening ceremony, Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew and his OECS colleagues will talk about a number of points together with regional integration, safety, well being, and renewable vitality.

The Group of Japanese Caribbean States is a worldwide intergovernmental group whose mission is to advertise regional integration within the Japanese Caribbean.  Regional integration happens when neighboring international locations, that share bodily or cultural traits, be part of forces to pursue related targets, equivalent to to facilitate commerce, change sources, and resolve issues collectively.   

A Flag Elevating Ceremony will precede the Opening Ceremony on Sunday June 18th on the Zuliani Roundabout in Frigate Bay at 4:00pm. Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew; Minister of Overseas Affairs, Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas; Director Common of the OECS, Dr. Didacus Jules and Governor of the Japanese Caribbean Central Financial institution (ECCB), Mr. Timothy Antoine will likely be current on the ceremony.