Organisation of Easter Caribbean States (OECS)
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CDB, CARICOM & the OECS Commission Launch Teacher Training Programme to Tackle COVID Learning Loss
15,000 educators across the region, will have the opportunity to benefit from capacity building in key components of the Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme (Let’s REAP) for Caribbean Schools, an intervention designed to address the learning loss that occurred or worsened due to COVID-19. Launched in July 2021, Let’s REAP was developed by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the CARICOM Secretariat…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General, Opening, Agri Investment Forum and Expo II, Trinidad and Tobago, 19 August 2022
Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Your Excellency Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of the Republic of Suriname and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community; Other Heads of Government; Honourable Ministers; Head of Regional Institutions; International Development Partners; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Young People of the Region;…
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Region to get new programme to aid COVID-era learning loss recovery
A new regional programme to help students recover the learning losses of the COVID-19 era will be presented to the public in a virtual town hall session this Thursday, 18 November. The Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme for Caribbean Schools was developed through collaboration by the Caribbean Development Bank, the CARICOM Secretariat and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission,…
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CARIBBEAN-FINANCE-OECS countries benefit from World Bank-financed credit union project
WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank says the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has benefitted from an initiative to strengthen accountability within the non-banking financial sector. It said with credit unions being “key players’ within the nine-member sub-regional grouping, the “Strengthening the Accountability of the Non-Bank Financial Sector in the OECS” has benefitted from a US$455,000 grant from its…
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Caribbean leaders make case for reparations at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — There are no shortages of challenges facing sun-soaked Caribbean countries — burgeoning unemployment, high crime, a chronic health crisis. But for almost every Caribbean leader who took the podium at the world’s leading global forum in New York last week, one issue came up time and again: compensating descendants of enslaved and oppressed Africans in Europe’s former…
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Vote for Merkel Seen as Victory for Austerity
BRUSSELS — As Angela Merkel savored the results of Germany’s national elections, newspapers on the left and right in Greece on Monday gave the same mournful assessment of what the result means beyond German borders. “Victory for the Queen of Austerity,” declared the front page of Ta Nea, a center-left daily. “Merkel victory atop the ruins of the South,” said…
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Unions urged to establish information system within OECS
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), David Messiah is calling on trade unions within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to help establish a labour market information system for the economic union of the sub-region. Messiah told the 17th biennial conference of the Waterfront and Allied Workers Union (WAWU) that such a system,…
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OECS countries sharpening trade negotiation skills
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Trade officials from the sub-regional organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have started a weeklong workshop aimed at enhancing their capacity to formulate effective trade policies and boost participation in regional and international trade negotiations. The event is being jointly hosted by the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat and the OECS and has attracted participation from Anguilla,…
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Savarin: WTO Falling Out Of Favor With The Caribbean
SAVARIN: WTO FALLING OUT OF FAVOR WITH THE CARIBBEAN CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – With the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference just a week away, Dominica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Labour Hon. Charles Savarin has written an op ed (see below), that highlights on-going concerns that the Caribbean has with global trade talks. A member country of…
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Gill: Market Access Simulation Exceeds Expectations
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Senior Director Mr. Henry Gill described a market access negotiating skills workshop that concluded today in Christ Church, Barbados and that brought together trade negotiators from across the Caribbean as “one of the most important preparatory exercises organized to date, as regards the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations or any other…
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