[CARICOM Conference Summit]
Regional leaders are keen to forge stronger links with Africa, and they will also take time to discuss their first CARICOM-African Union Summit to be held in June, as well as the 15th Meeting of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development.
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BARBADOS TO HOST 31ST CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS RECEIVE TRAINING IN OECS “FREE MOVEMENT” IMMIGRATION PLAN
[Caribbean News\OECS “Free Movement” Immigration Plan]
Ambassador Colin Murdoch: “The fundamental objective of the OECS Economic Union is to remove barriers, consolidate markets for all Member States and support the rights and privileges that are given to any citizen and national of the Economic Union.”
Under the Revised Treaty of Basseterre, citizens of all Protocol Member States in the OECS Economic Union are free to move, live and work throughout Member States.
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OECS CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES ARE PROVIDING CRITICAL ASSISTANCE TO BAHAMAS IN WAKE OF HURRICANE DORIAN
[Hurricane Dorian]
OECS Director General Didacus Jules: “Dorian reminded us that our sisterhood is not just a common history and that our brotherhood bears the scars of the same vulnerabilities… Today is a role call of family, a call to give not as charity but as the obligation of family. Bahamas’ burden of pain is also our anguish, Bahamas’ loss is our impoverishment… And, sadly with the inevitability of climate change, tomorrow for any of the rest of us.”
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