Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Opposition Leader Gaston Browne have both posited that the OECS Parliament should be the catalyst for implementing change in the immigration policies long agreed to for OECS nationals moving to member states.

The OECS Authority has scheduled a Sitting of the OECS Assembly for Tuesday March 26 2013. In preparation for this sitting a Seminar has been planned to facilitate discussion of the Rules of Procedure for the OECS Assembly, and aspects of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre that support the work of the Assembly.

Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is calling on Caribbean countries to establish a regional reparations committee, pledging to spend the rest of his life seeking compensation from the British for land, genocide against the Garifuna, and slavery.

Antigua and Barbuda will benefit from cooperative support from the Republic of Colombia in the near future according to Prime Minister the Hon. Dr. Baldwin Spencer, following bilateral talks with H.E. Juan Manuel Santos, President of Columbia.

Prime Minister, the Hon. Dr. W. Baldwin Spencer, call on the European Union to provide support that would enable persons in the productive sector to become more competitive.

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer has sent a message of congratulations the Honourable Orville London, Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly and the People’s National Movement (PNM) on their resounding victory at the polls on January 21, 2013.

The President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly has described Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Baldwin Spencer as a real friend of Haiti.

The OECS Heads of Government met in Rosalie Bay Dominica, 23rd November 2012, where the 56th Meeting of the OECS Authority was convened. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon. Ralph Gonsalves.

Finance and Economy Minister the Honourable Harold E.E. Lovell will represent Prime Minister the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer at the 56th Meeting of the OECS Authority in the Commonwealth of Dominica which opens on Thursday at the Rosalie Bay Resort in Roseau.

Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer and President of Haiti, His Excellency Mr. Michel Martelly had wide ranging bilateral discussions on the margins of the Thirty-Third Regular meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, which begun yesterday at Sandals Grande St. St. Lucian Spa and Beach Resort.

Reports and policy recommendations on matters directly impacting Antigua & Barbuda and other participatory states will be among the issues to be discussed when the third 3rd Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), meets in Jamaica, Thursday.

On behalf of the Division of Industry and Commerce, I extend warm and sincere greetings to our Colleagues and friends from the CARICOM Secretariat – Mr. Ivor Caryl and Mr. Steven MacAndrew - two very conscientious professionals from the Secretariat who, over the years, have continued to carry the mantle of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

The assessment phase of a Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) commissioned by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is now drawing to a close.

The Regional Strategy aims to establish a framework for the better coordination of ongoing and prospective regional initiatives in the field of statistics, build capacity for the development of key statistical series which are harmonized from one country to the next and improve arrangements for the governance of the regional statistical system so that it can provide stronger support for the OECS Economic Union.

The design of the RSDS will be based in large part on the results of an assessment of the regional statistical system as it presently exists.

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. Dr. W. Baldwin Spencer has congratulated newly elected Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas the Right Honourable Perry Christie on his party’s resounding victory at the polls on Monday.

Former St. Kitts government Minister Dwyer Astaphan has yet to apologize to Antiguan parliamentarian Hon. Asot Michael over a controversial commentary.

Dear Mr. Astaphan,

I seek a retraction of that viciously inaccurate, wantonly slanderous, and deliberately harmful article which you wrote and published in the St. Kitts and Nevis online newspaper SKNVIBES.com in St. Kitts and Nevis on April 11, 2012, in the St. Kitts and Nevis Observer on April 13, 2012, and which was reprinted in the News Pages in Antigua and Barbuda on April 14, 2012, and further carried on Caribarena’s website on the World Wide Web on April 16, 2012.

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer has sent a message of congratulations to the Belizean Prime Minister the Hon. Dean Barrow on his re-election to office following General Elections on March 7.

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer is today in Paramaribo, Republic of Suriname for the 23rd Inter-sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the Foreign Minister of Haiti, the Honourable Laurent Lamothe on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) identifying of a number of areas in which CARICOM can assist its Member State.

Members of the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community CARICOM, on Monday held discussions with Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer before departing on a two-day mission to Haiti.