BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC—St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew will lead a delegation to Guyana later this month as Basseterre takes over the chairmanship of the Barbados-based Regional Safety System (RSS).
The regional safety chiefs will meet on Thursday, March 21, adopted a day later by the Regional Council of Ministers.
The Twin Island Federation will assume the chairmanship of the RSS Council of Ministers for 2024 – 2025.
The RSS, which resulted from a unified response to safety challenges that threatened the steadiness of the area in the course of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, is accountable for fostering nearer collaboration amongst member states in numerous domains, together with—however not restricted to—combating the trafficking of unlawful narcotics, responding to nationwide emergencies, conducting search and rescue operations, and implementing immigration management.
Additionally it is accountable for safeguarding fisheries, guaranteeing customs and excise management, endeavor maritime policing duties, addressing pure disasters and different emergencies, managing air pollution incidents, countering threats to nationwide safety, stopping smuggling actions, and safeguarding offshore installations and unique financial zones.
In October 1982, 4 members of the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS), specifically Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, entered right into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Barbados to facilitate “mutual help on request.”
Subsequently, St. Kitts-Nevis joined the RSS following its independence in September 1983, and Grenada joined in January 1985. The MOU underwent revision in 1992, and in March 1996, the RSS attained authorized standing by a treaty signed in St. George’s, Grenada.
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