By Kenton X. Chance
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, June 17, CMC – The chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre, Tuesday called for the fast-tracking of a regime to ensure the free movement of goods.
“We cannot progress in fits and starts. We cannot step off the desired path of the revised treaty to chase after shiny objects that appear along the way,” Pierre, the St. Lucia Prime Minister, said as he addressed the Seventh Sitting of the OECS Assembly taking place here.
“We must steer the course. We must be brutal in our self-assessment, rigorous and prompt when adjustments are needed, and uncompromising in striving to attain the objectives of our treaty,” Pierre told the meeting, which was being held for the first time since March 2022.
He said the work on the free movement of goods began several years ago.
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