Posted on 10 October 2012. Tags: health care, health ministers, ministers meeting, oecs secretariat
St. John’s Antigua- OECS health Ministers will be looking at ways to pay for health care when they meet in [...]
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Posted on 03 October 2012. Tags: behavioral changes, employment opportunities, enhancement, governments, juvenile delinquency, mandate, million dollars, oecs secretariat, preventative measures, prevention is better than cure, secretaries, social workers, thrust, youth delinquency
The man given the mandate to lead efforts to reduce juvenile delinquency says governments in the region have been cooperating.
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Posted on 10 August 2012. Tags: assembly co, eastern caribbean states, economic union, heritage hotel, integration unit, len ishmael, oecs secretariat, proud moment, regional parliament, symbolic moment
On the precipice of launching the inaugural Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Regional Assembly this afternoon, stakeholders from the OECS Secretariat lauded
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Posted on 04 November 2011. Tags: community organisations, economic union, junior minister, oecs secretariat, parliamentarians, regional agencies, regional institutions
Senator Joanne Massiah, the junior minister for legal affairs, wants term limits placed on the tenure of persons appointed to head regional agencies such as the OECS Secretariat.
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Posted on 16 August 2011. Tags: administration of justice, ambassador colin murdoch, antigua and barbuda's oecs commissioner, conceptual stage, economic union, European Union, free movement public education, launch, law enforcement, magistracy, oecs secretariat, on hold, pending eu funds, regional police force, regional prison
A planned public education programme on the full free movement of OECS nationals will not be launched this month as anticipated.
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Posted on 09 February 2011. Tags: analysis workshop, attend, capacity building, data collection, director education, dr patricia, education data, education management, education officials, education planner, education policy, institutional arrangements, legal framework, management information system, ministry of education, oecs secretariat, patricia george, quality assessment framework, research dr, serviceability, statistical data collection, statistician, workshop
Three technicians from the Ministry of Education recently returned from The Capacity Building in Statistical Data Collection and Analysis in the OECS workshop in St Lucia.
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: august 1, blanket statement, broad view, caribbean community, caricom, described, eastern caribbean states, economic union, Immigration Department, labour department, legislative competence, member states, oecs secretariat, public debate, regional working group, sub regional, trade union congress, Union, work in progress
While dates have been set, the framework for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Economic Union is still being established.
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Posted on 26 January 2011. Tags: antigua & barbuda, caricom countries, caricom secretariat, debris removal, demonstration, devastating earthquake, disaster response, donation, encouragement, Government of Antigua, haiti disaster, health and sanitation, makes, manpower, ministry of foreign affairs, oecs secretariat, Permanent Secretary, project planning, regional levels, regional security, representational activities, response, security matters
With a starting point of $100,000 from the government last January following Haiti’s devastating earthquake and encouragement to citizens to make donations, funds on the Haiti Disaster Response Account grew to $153,331.41.
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