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Ministers with responsibility for Health in the OECS met in Kingstown, St. Vincent on Friday 11th September, 2009 to discuss a wide range of topics impacting the health sector in the region. ...
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OECS Ministers of Tourism have expressed keen interest in merging resources to towards developing the region’s tourism products. This is among outcomes of a recent videoconference organised by the OECS Secretariat. ...
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Following successful training sessions in the User Module of DevInfo, the OECS Secretariat in collaboration with UNICEF and the CARICOM Secretariat is conducting a training workshop in the application of the Database Administration Module of DevInfo. ...
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The OECS Secretariat will convene the 12th Meeting of OECS Ministers with responsibility for Health in conjunction with the Ministry of Heath of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in Kingstown on Friday 11th September, 2009. OECS health ministers meet annual...
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OECS Secretariat, Castries St. Lucia August 31st, 2009: The OECS Secretariat states that the high quality of its service has increased consumer confidence in its pooled purchasing of medicines for Member States. Head of the OECS Pharmaceutical Procurement...
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OECS Secretariat, Castries St. Lucia August 31st, 2009: The (OECS) Secretariat and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) have signed a grant agreement to support efforts of the OECS Secretariat and Member States to strengthen ...
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In its continued effort to build capacity, the OECS HIV AIDS Project Unit (HAPU) has introduced its latest initiative to improve data surveillance through a Preceptorship programme which began in August. This programme targets monitoring and evaluation (M...
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At a special session of OECS delegates during the Health Information Systems (HIS) workshop held in Belize from August 17-19, 2009, the countries of the Eastern Caribbean States drafted a plan of action aimed at developing an OECS strategic plan by 2012 t...
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The OECS Trade Policy Unit is collaborating with the Regional Integration Unit to convene a two day consultation on regional integration and cooperation in St. Lucia, August 17th to 18th. ...
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OECS Secretariat, Castries, Saint Lucia July 22nd, 2009 The OECS Secretariat has shipped supplies of a special antiviral medicine known as Tamiflu to all OECS Member States for combating the H1N1 or swine flu virus. The Secretariat’s Pharmaceutical Pr...
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OECS trade experts meet in Dominica this week to discuss tariff liberalization. The two day meeting scheduled for September 12 and 13 hopes to harmonize tariff liberalization offers that member states will be making in the CARIFORUM-EU negotiations. CAR...
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OECS member states have agreed on a common list of products imported from the EU which will be excluded from tariff liberalization once the CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement comes into effect next year. This was one of the main outcomes of a mee...
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The sensitive industries of the less developed countries (LDCs) within the CARICOM region, will top the agenda of a meeting of Trade and Private Sector Officials from these territories, when they meet in Saint Lucia on October 22-23. The meeting which i...
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Saint Lucian manufacturers were given a full update on developments relating to the CARIFORUM/EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) when they met for their sixth annual general meeting earlier this month. Head of the OECS Trade Policy Unit Virginia Paul...
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The OECS Secretariat has announced the departure on retirement of Mr. Colin Bully, Executive Director, Export Development Unit, Dominica. Mr. Bully has retired after 20 years of dedicated service to the OECS Secretariat and the people of the Member States...
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Dominica national Mr. Vincent Philbert has been named Head of the Export Development Unit, Dominica, under the OECS Secretariat, taking over from Mr. Collin Bully effective July 1, 2009. Mr. Philbert is a 1990 graduate in Economics from Cambridge Univers...
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Trade officials from the OECS Member States that are members of the WTO will meet in St Lucia July 28th and 29th to discuss the outcomes of a review of their trade policies which was completed in November 2007....
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The fourth Meeting of the OECS Council of Tourism Ministers ended in Puerto Rico, Friday October 6th with several decisions geared towards enhancing joint marketing, achieving greater benefits from cruise tourism, improving security for the yachting secto...
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OECS Secretariat, Castries, Saint Lucia May 26th, 2009 The OECS Secretariat launched its DevInfo in-house training exercise for staff on Tuesday May 26 at its Headquarters in Saint Lucia. The training exercise represents one of several ongoing and planne...
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Tourism Ministers of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) met in regular session at their 8th OECS Council of Tourism Ministers Meeting, held at the NIS Conference Room in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on April 21st, 2009. ...
