Chairmanship of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) will be transferred to the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit, Council Member for the Commonwealth of Dominica during the official Handing Over Ceremony on 21 July at the Office of the President, State House, Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica.
Prime Minister Skerrit will succeed the Outgoing Chairman, the Honourable Gaston Browne, Council Member for Antigua and Barbuda.
The Monetary Council is the highest decision making authority of the ECCB and comprises the eight Ministers for Finance of the ECCB member governments.
Chairmanship of the Council is rotated alphabetically each year among the eight ECCB member countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Following the Handing Over Ceremony, the Council will convene for its 88th Meeting where it will receive the ECCB Governor’s Report on Money and Credit Conditions in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.
Following the meeting, the new Chairman will host a media conference where he will present the Communiqué, and along with other members of the Council, field questions from the media in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
The Ceremony will be streamed live on the Bank’s YouTube Channel – ECCB Connects.
I reading some real RIDICULOUS and DUMB comments under these article. It’s embarrassing to see how small minded our people can be. Jeez people it’s a rotating position, just like the Caricom chairman post. No Skerrit cannot give ECCB money to his supporters. Do you people even know what is ECCB and what the organizations is about, it’s policies? Man I just cannot digest that we have people that foolish. My God, it’s freaking embarrassing!! The most we can do is hope he makes a positive impact on the organization and in doing so make the EC dollar even stronger.
The Steeper the Slope
is the Faster the Roll
The Higher the Rise
is the Harder the Fall
People, the position is rotating, meaning, every country gets a turn to head the Council.
Nonetheless, PM Skerrit, best of luck. Please use this opportunity to bring to light the perils that Dominica face vis-a-vis the banking policies implemented by the ECCB and other strategic policies which hinders us financially. Thank you.
Dear Lord, please let him rotate and not gyrate.
Mr. PM, tell your citizens who owns the ECB. Who tells you what to do? Let me help you. The ECB is nothing more than a front for the private banker mafia (Rothchilds, Rockefellers, etc.) who control the the world’s monetary system and indeed our lives.
The ECB is a 100% privately owned organisations. Its shareholders are the same private, foreign individuals that own ALL centrals banks of the world. If you do not believe me, write to the ECB and demand to get a list of all its shareholders. Trust me, they won’t give it to you!
The PM is nothing more than a stooge. He just does what he is told by his masters and then gets backhanders (like all the others) for being good slaves.
What they are doing must be good because the EC dollar has not suffered the fate of the Guyanese, Trinidad nor Jamaican dollars that you’d need a suitecase full of each to just purchase a torn t-shirt. Your thoughts.
Congratulations PM Skerrit. You must be doing something good to be honored with this position even though it is rotating, for one year.
It shows why I support you.
Good luck and God bless!
It is not an honor, merely a rotating position, shared between heads of state in the eastern Caribbean currency union. If Pappy was Dominica’s prime minister – it would be his turn.
slight correction it’s a rotating position for the Ministers for Finance of the eight countries.
If it took brains, and academics to be in a position like that, some people could not stand on the sidewalk and look into the building housing such office is located!
Nothing political in the Caribbean requires any amount of intelligence any fool in politics in Dominica, and the rest of the
Caribbean can sit in such position and mumble!
Even Man Eat Raw Dog Meat could hold that position oui!
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What is going to happen, somebody is going to contaminate the office by taking Dominica corruption into it.
I know who is the corrupted fellow eh, but I doh even calling him name eh; but is the Mountain Chicken Carpaud (Carpo) Mentality; Dr. Punjab, that Sir. Knight Indian doctor of nothing eh!
Alyou see I doh call nobody name?
@ Mr clown above, You are a sick joke and ignorant loser double standard and the rest of it, You always going on how knowledgeable and clever you are and yet you would choose to come on DNO and make an ahole out off your self, You talk your Religion and God you are not no godly person you are about hate for the Prime minister and his family hate to all Labour ministers their is nothing good about you but evil spirits the same goes out to that malicious minority Socall party, I did not mention anybody by name!
Mr. Man Eat Raw Dog Meat: I do not care what you say; still writes ” Socall.”
I may not be a Godly man, which I know I am, and know the term is ” so called” or so call!
You are a dunce, and one of Roosevelt Skerrit puppets oui!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
You said “since I leaving in uk I know there is no god.”
I might be hatful, and don’t like that Mountain Chicken Carpaud (Crapo) Mentality Sly Eye Sir Knight Me Almost Nearly Cousin Dr. Punjab Indian doctor of nothing Roosevelt Skerrit; Nevertheless, I know that there is a God, and without him you are nothing, the same as Dr. Punjab eh!
Take that for calling me hatful!
Well done.
Way to go mr PM
Am … before we go ah ga ga. This is an ALPHABETICAL rotation of the chairmanship. Not a SELECTION or ELECTION.
In other words stop being foolish
Listen, it was his turn in the barrel, that’s all.
Good luck Mr prime minister Doctor Skerrit, you are the man, You are blessed, you are a champion of Dominica, you have put Dominica on the world map for all the right Reasons and not negative thank you Mr Skerrit, we love you have a good day 21-7-2017 the reds are marching through.
WAY PAPA!!! I am now beginning to tremble that our strong regional EC dollar may no longer be strong.Anyway I know that there are 7 other heads,that I have confidence in,so maybe I can allay my fears a ittle.Hope this particular year with Skerrit at the helm of the Union,flies/passes by at supersonic speed!
WAY PAPA!
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW
One of the deadly sins is envy.
Envy will get you nowhere.
Eat your heart out as always.
Hello and good afternoon my people. Well I hope our PM don’t think that he can give away the Bank money to his party supporters like he’s doing with our CBI money.
Do not be ridiculous which you are to make such a foolish comment.
IS THIS A JOKE OR FOR REAL?-So even Caricom drink the coolade. Back when DA was a real country and Caricom meant something Skerrit would not be allowed near a Turf culb. We or them made him P.M.
Is it what I grew up hearing my granny saying” La fin de Monde” It’s been definitely on since 2004
I hope those people in the media asked the hard questions. This is the best of our region huh? Smh. Majority of potential development project that have gone down in DA was by funds and grants. Today we see a hotel development from passport sales funds. Where was the ECCB in all this. I would like to know if these projects are not viewed as profitable enough. If skerrit were to be the final sY o. The ECCB that institution would die a painful death.
Ha ha ha ,a chairman that cannot debate, Cannot invest ,and have no good leadership skills?, Well ECCB is in trouble