OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia, Monday December 20^th 2010. The OECS Member States are to make a gradual shift from drafting individual Trade legislation, to implementing uniform legislation that help make doing business better in the OECS.

OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia, Monday December 20^th 2010. On June 18, 2010, the OECS Member States of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Revised Treaty of Basseterre Establishing the OECS Economic Union, in order to pave the way for the deepening of OECS integration.

(Castries December 17, 2010)- Germany’s newly appointed Ambassador to the OECS, His Excellency Stefan Schluter, presented his credentials to the OECS Secretariat on Thursday December 16^th 2010. The OECS Director of Economic Affairs, Mr. Randolph Cato, presided over the ceremony in the absence of the OECS Director General, Her Excellency Dr. Len Ishmael.

OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia, Wednesday December 15^th 2010. The preparation of a Draft Work Plan for the Implementation of the Trade Policy Regime in the Economic Union will be the focus of a meeting of Permanent Secretaries and Senior Trade Officials from the independent Member States of the OECS on Friday December 17, 2010: