Director general of the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr Len Ishmael, has described the soon to be OECS regional parliamentary assembly as a “people’s assembly” during a recent visit to St Kitts and Nevis.
Ishmael, who was in the Federation to update key officials including prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, on specific OECS matters, explained that the OECS regional parliamentary assembly will be viewed regionally.
“The work of the assembly is to debate issues of strategic policy interest to the OECS as a whole before they become law on the level of the region, and so it’s very much a people’s assembly,” Ishmael noted. “So much so, that heads of government will always determine that this is an assembly that will move. It will sit in all the locations and it will be broadcast live. So citizens of the OECS have the right to see and hear what is being debated on their behalf.”
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