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THE OECS FOUNDERS TV SERIES: SIR VAUGHAN LEWIS

A special production in observance of the 35th anniversary of the OECS

Sir Vaughan Lewis, the first Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is the featured personality in the fifth programme of the television documentary series, the OECS: The Founders which continues on Monday November 21st.

In the programme, Sir Vaughan recalls what led him to leave his Professorship at the University of the West Indies to take up the position of Director General of the OECS and reflects on his tenure and the major events which shaped the OECS during that period.   Sir Vaughan served as Director General of the OECS from 1982 until he demitted office in 1996 to enter politics in St. Lucia and succeed Sir John Compton as Prime Minister of the country from 1996-1997.

The OECS Founders series was commissioned in observance of the 35th anniversary of the OECS on 18th June this year and is produced and presented by Earl Stephen Huntley of the West Indies Media Corporation (WIMEDIA). The pilot series airs on NTN Saint Lucia at 9:00pm on Mondays with rebroadcasts on Tuesdays (9:00am and 3:00pm), Saturdays (8:00pm) and Sundays (12:00pm and 8:00pm).

The programmes will be aired regionally through a variety of broadcast mediums. Persons are encouraged to check their local television station listings to tune in. The series can also be viewed on the OECS Website by clicking here: http://www.oecs.org/index.php/homepage/history 

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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 and Guadeloupe. 

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