OECS environmental ministers to meet in Anguilla next week

THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – Ministers of Environment and Sustainable Development from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will meet here later this week to discuss environmental issues affecting the nine-member grouping.
The October 3 meeting will allow for the sub-region to also build on the green economy workshop held earlier this year and which examined streamlining environmental issues into development planning and decision-making, according to an OECS statement.
It said that the ministers are expected to hold talks with development partners and donor agencies on funding needs for undertaking sustainable development related projects and programmes in the region. They will also receive reports on the environment from the St. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat.