{"id":7466,"date":"2010-04-08T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:57:44","slug":"leaders-and-finance-officials-to-hold-joint-talks-in-st-john%e2%80%99s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/leaders-and-finance-officials-to-hold-joint-talks-in-st-john%e2%80%99s\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders and finance officials to hold joint talks in St John\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/520x1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7469\" title=\"CB Trinidad Americas Summit\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/520x1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/520x1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/520x1.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ST JOHN\u2019S, Antigua, CMC &#8211;  Leaders of the nine-member Organisation of  Eastern Caribbean States  (OECS) will get a status report on plans to  create an economic union  among member countries when they meet here on  Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials\u00a0from the St  Lucia-based OECS Secretariat are scheduled  update a joint meeting of the  OECS Authority and the Eastern Caribbean  Central Bank (ECCB) Monetary  Council on the initiative scheduled to  start being implemented in June.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the agenda for  the one-day meeting is a presentation by the  ECCB on recent economic and  financial developments in the sub-region  and the outlook for the months  ahead, and progress made to date on an  eight-point stabilisation and  growth programme for the Eastern  Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the  discussions will feature the situation at  CLICO and British American,  two insurance firms with vast operations  across the OECS and which have  been feeling the fallout from the  financial problems plaguing parent  company, CL Financial, in Trinidad  and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be  hosted by Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. The  Prime Ministers of  Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and  St Vincent and the  Grenadines; along with the Chief Ministers of  Anguilla and Montserrat;  and the Premier of the British Virgin Islands  are scheduled to be  present in St John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Antigua  and Barbuda and  Grenada,  the two OECS governments where  the leaders do not oversee the finance  portfolios, will also be  represented by their Finance Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>ECCB Governor Sir Dwight  Venner and OECS Director General Dr Len  Ishmael are also expected to  attend the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST JOHN\u2019S, Antigua, CMC &#8211; Leaders of the nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will get a status report on plans to create an economic union among member countries when they meet here on Friday. 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