Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

Minister Cazimere indicates that the project's main objectives include improving teachers' pedagogical practices, strengthening the use of data at the school level, and harmonizing curricula across the region.

A regional intervention to really harmonize curricula across the region, ensure that we all in the OECS countries are, you know, following something that is, that, that is indigenous to us as a people.

That we have standards that we can follow, and we can monitor and evaluate what we are doing as it pertains to our pedagogy at school and how our children are actually absorbing curricula.

So I think that was very well done.

The WISLE Project is a regional education initiative covering all four Windward Islands: St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Grenada.

In St. Lucia, implementation is being led by the Ministry of Education.

The October twelfth to sixteenth, twenty twenty-six World Bank implementation support mission also provided an opportunity to strengthen institutional capacity, address challenges, and coordinate related education sector initiatives, including OECS SKIP.

From the Department of Education and Digital Transformation, I am Gina Phillippe reporting.

No question an amazing, he brought into politics an amazing intellect.

I mean, he was director of the Institute of International OECS? No, no, Director General of the OECS, but before that, ISA, eventually we gave Sir Arthur Lewis, he was director, and he was a prolific writer in his own right, and well-respected academic, part of the emerging regional and intellectual tradition of the period, part of that group of intelligentsia, regional intelligentsia.

So it was very, very difficult for him and it was a period too.

when the country was beginning and searching for something different, something new, they had become very tired of the government.

Following the establishment of the OECS SKIP Grants Management Unit within St. Lucia's Ministry of Education, attention is now being placed on ensuring that the necessary systems and expertise are in place to support the efficient administration of grant-funded initiatives in a timely manner.

At a closing seminar recently held at the National Skills Development Center, NSDC, in Vieux Fort, consultants presented their findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

Project Manager of OECS SKIP, Edith Emmanuel, notes that the project is also designed to equip officials with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively oversee and sustain initiatives that contribute to national development.

The Dominican Republic expressed hope for an extended UN gang suppression force in Haiti.

OECS nations held a meeting with European Union officials regarding the mandate to phase out citizenship by investment programs.

The United States Virgin Islands announced have partnered with Global Impact Assets, LLC, to develop the third Wall Street Financial District hub on St. Croix.

And with new development projects underway, MSC Cruises, the world's largest privately held cruise company, is nearing $1.5 billion in investments in the Bahamas.

Also participating were the Global Fund and Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization.

Caribbean Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development, Alison Drayton, said digital health is necessary for more integrated systems that promote continuity of treatment, disease surveillance, and secure cross-border health information sharing.

Now, news from the OECS.

The Office of the Prime Minister of St. Lucia reported that St. Lucia's Prime Minister, Philippe J. Pierre, Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister, Gaston Brown, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Governor, Timothy Anton, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Director General Dr. Didacus Jules met with the European Commission for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, and other EU officials in New York during the 81st United Nations General Assembly.

This is the OACS Newslink, a roundup of major news happening across the OACS today.

In the headlines, OECS joins St. Kitts and Nevis to celebrate 43 years of the island's independence.

Fishers and residents of Bekwe set to benefit from a modernized fish market due to the major EU-funded biospace investment.

The OECS and the United States Embassy advance dialogue on areas of mutual interest.

Over 150 young farmers, women and differently abled persons in agriculture from Grenada and across OECS member states are given a voice and a platform by the OECS Commission and regional leaders.

Good day viewers and welcome to this edition of OECS Newslink.

I am Jacques Kingson-Compton, your host for today.

The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, or OECS Commission, joins the government and people of the Federation of Senkits and Nevis in celebrating 43 years of independence.

Suffering.

So there was a negotiated sum so that we can help with the policyholders in the O- in the OECS countries.

And she actually made, her government made a payment of, of that agreed sum.

That's And she left office.

As you know-

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... of the five, of the six OECS countries, independent countries-

Mm-hmm