A cross section of professionals involved in the HIV Response in the Caribbean met in Trinidad and Tobago recently for a training workshop aimed at preparing them to meet the requirements of reporting on progress to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS ) on HIV and AIDS. The Caribbean is proud of its record as the only region that recorded 100 percent of countries reporting for the 2008 UNGASS.

OECS Secretariat, Castries St. Lucia October 28, 2009: For the first time, officials of all Member States have assembled for talks on developing an OECS Foreign Service and School of Diplomacy. 

The meeting in Saint Lucia from October 26th to 28th and organized by the OECS Secretariat, saw resource persons including diplomats from Mexico, Brazil, the OECS and Spain sharing successes and challenges in training and working in the Foreign Service. 

As the Caribbean celebrates “Caribbean Statistics Day” on 15^th October 2009, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Secretariat along with its Member States joins the region in celebration of the first Caribbean Statistics Day, under the aptly adopted theme, “Better Statistics, Better Management, Better Development Outcomes”.