Communiqu
The Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) held its 62nd meeting at the Sandals Grande Antigua Resort and Spa in Antigua and Barbuda on 18 July 2008, under the chairmanship of Dr the Honourable Errol Cort, Minister of Finance, Antigua and Barbuda. The meeting was preceded by a handing-over ceremony to mark the change in chairmanship from the Honourable Victor F. Banks, Minister of Finance of Anguilla, whose tenure of office as chairman had expired. The protocol of the Monetary Council dictates that chairmanship is rotated annually among the eight member countries. Council welcomed the newly elected Minister of Finance of Grenada, the Honourable Nazim Burke who was attending his first meeting of the Council following the recent change of government in that country. As mandated in the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Agreement 1983, the Council met to
