(OECS Secretariat, Thursday, July 26th 2012 Castries)An ongoing seminar in Saint Lucia for OECS Statisticians on Poverty and Inequality Measurements has been welcomed as timely as OECS Member States work towards enhancing key economy driving sectors such as Agriculture and Tourism.

(OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia, July 20^th 2012) The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat will convene a follow-up OECS training workshop on Poverty and Inequality Measurement in St. Lucia from 23^rd – 27^th July, 2012.

(Castries, July 12, 2012,) The Prime Ministers and Ministers for Agriculture of the OECS shareholder Governments of WINFRESH met with the Board and Management of  the company, at the Landings, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia on July 7, 2012.

(OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia Wednesday June 20^th 2012), The assessment phase of a Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) commissioned by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is now drawing to a close. The Regional Strategy aims to establish a framework for the better coordination of ongoing and prospective regional initiatives in the field of statistics, build capacity for the development of key statistical series which are harmonized from one country to the next and improve arrangements for the governance of the regional statistical system so that it can provide stronger support for the OECS Economic Union.   The design of the RSDS will be based in large part on the results of an assessment of the regional statistical system as it presently exists. With assistance from a consultant, the OECS Secretariat is now finalizing the results of a study which has attempted to assess the capacity of the national statistical systems of the six participating member states – Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines – as well as the statistical operations of the OECS Secretariat and related institutions.