Free movement through OECS set to take effect

  

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Published on January 26th 2011 by James Dumont

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada -- Grenada and other member-nations of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are eliminating the need for passports to travel to and from each others countries.

It’s one of the outcomes of the ratification of the Revised Treaty establishing the OECS Economic Union, which permits free movement of people in the sub-region covering the Windward and Leeward Islands.

Free movement, and a range of other issues relating to the Economic Union, were discussed at the 52^nd Meeting of the OECS Authority in St. George’s on January 24.

Host Prime Minister, Grenada’s Tillman Thomas, said free movement of people throughout the OECS should take effect within a few months.

“We are setting the date of August 1^st of this year. By that date, we expect OECS citizens to be moving in and out OECS states without restrictions, once you have a driver’s license or I.D. card,’’ Hon. Thomas told reporters at a post-meeting news conference Tuesday.