JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – December 7, 2022…
Saint Lucia has become the most recent nation to join the Commission of Small Island Sates on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS) whose purpose is to seek climate justice for small island states, utilizing the international legal system.
The Instrument of Accession was signed today by Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip Joseph Pierre.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, who is Co-Chair of COSIS, an organisation which he founded with the Prime Minister of Tuvalu at COP26 in Edinburgh last year, said
“I am personally and officially delighted that the Government of Saint Lucia has joined this initiative to seek climate justice for small islands that have suffered, and are continuing to endure, the harmful impact of Climate Change on our countries”.
“Prime Minister Pierre and I discussed this prospect in Egypt during COP 27 last month and we agreed on the value that COSIS adds to our fight for compensation to our island states for the damage caused to us by major polluting countries”.
In noting that Saint Lucia is the second country to join COSIS over the last week, Prime Minister Browne expressed the hope that other Caribbean countries would get on board “in our collective interest”. Vanuatu, a South Pacific nation, joined on December 2nd.
He noted that COSIS now consists of six (6) small island states that will shortly be seeking an opinion from the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), regarding their legal rights for compensation for climate change damage.
As the depository country for the COSIS treaty, Antigua and Barbuda today deposited Saint Lucia’s Instrument of Accession with the United Nations Secretariat
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the most underachieving politician ever in Antigua’s history is Lovell …now he wants to be the hero..🙄🙄
@ Really!
Harold Lovell brought 5 FIVE STAR HOTELS TO ANTIGUA.
Please compare that with Gaston’s record.
Over 40 hotels locally owned hotels came on stream under Harold Lovell’s watch.
Please cpmpare that to Gaston’s record.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
VC Bird International Airport
Sir Viv’s Stadium
Transport Board BUILDING
Treasury Building
Public Library
Swetes Secondary School
Glanvilles Secondary School
5 Islands Secondary School
Parliament Building
Golden Mile – Friars Hill Road
Fisheries complex Point
Fisheries Complex Parham
Fisheries complex Barbuda
Revolutionized technology – GATE programme
Five fire tenders
North Sound Housing Project
2,500 students received scholarships
Gave over $50 million in backpay to Civil Servants
Police Air Traffic Control 38 per cent pay increase
School meals programme
Dollar Barrel initiative
Increase pensioners for seniors
PVC Carib
Building clinics in Cedar Grove, Browne’s Ave, Gray’s Farm
Negotiated loan for seaport
Under UPP, Forbes Magazine stated that Antigua was one of 10 countries in the world poised to become rich
Street lighting project
Construct Antigua and Barbuda
Just to name a few
@ TRUTH
PUT Smh and Really to shame!!!
MEK DEM SHUT UP.
Maybe DEM NEED SOME OF GASTONS AND CUTIES TEARGAS TO CLEAR UP DEM BRAIN……THEY NEED TO EXPERIENCE THE PAIN AND AGONY WE WENT THROUGH. EVIL SET OF PEOPLE
The only reason the Islands are slow in joining is because unpopular Gaston in charge! People just don’t like his arrogance, nor rip-off mentality, never see come see attitude and ghetto behaviour! Sorry for marga dawg, tun round bite you man!
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