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[Media Invitation] Official Handover Ceremony of Six (6)Automated Passport Control Kiosk Machines to Grenada and Press Conference

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What: Handover Ceremony of Six (6) Automated Passport Control Kiosk Machines & Press Conference

Date: Thursday, 6 March, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Arrival Hall of the Maurice Bishop International Airport

Live stream access: Youtube Facebook {Request live feed from UWITV via email to maxi.baldeo@uwitv.org)

Background:

The Third Meeting of the OECS Council of Ministers for Immigration to be convened on March 5, 2025, at the Radisson Beach Resort in Grenada, will emphasize political dialogue and collective actions for further OECS integration and for advancing more efficient and secured borders within the Member States. ​ A key discussion will be the examination of measures for enhanced border security. The enhancement of the border security architecture is vital for advancing regional integration in the Eastern Caribbean. The border security architecture including the Border Management Systems (BMS), the Online ED Forms and other passenger processing technologies, aids immigration authorities in identifying and recording travelers, including visitors and victims of natural disasters and human trafficking. Additionally, it helps manage potential or actual security risks by using biometric data for travelers moving anywhere within the OECS Single Economic Space.

The six (6) automated Kiosk Machines to be handed over to the Government and People of Grenada on March 6, 2025, forms part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Border Management Enhancement Programme. Through this programme the OECS Commission is seeking to strengthen border security by enhancing the Border Management architecture.

 

Remarks:

  • H.E. Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the OECS
  • Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM
  • Honourable Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister and Minister for, inter alia, National Security, Home Affairs, Public Administration, Information and Disaster Management
  • Ms. Carlyn Mc Quilkin - Permanent Secretary (Ag) ​ Ministry of National Security, Home Affairs, Public Administration, Information and Disaster Management

 

Marvin St. Louis

Communications Specialist, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean Sates

OECS Communications Unit

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

 

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint Martin. 

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