| Description | File of correspondence and related documentation, (minutes, notes, reports and financial statements). Includes correspondence on the withdrawal of Barbados from the East Caribbean Currency Authority (ECCA), and measures to be taken to effect withdrawal, (covering also the implications for the ECCA, the General Reserve Fund, BCCB coins in Barbados, the distribution of surplus assets, and currency relations). Further correspondence relating to: the future of the ECCA; plans to transfer the Authority's headquarters to St Kitts from Barbados; proposals for the introduction of a new law to regulate banking within the Associated States; local exchange rate problems, with a plan for a study of policy in this area. File also contains: draft amendments to the East Caribbean Currency Agreement 1965 (amended 1968); report of the withdrawal of Barbados from the above agreement; records of meetings between the Council of Ministers of the West Indies and the Government of Barbados regarding Barbados's withdrawal from the Agreement (includes reports of committees and drafts of withdrawal agreements); ECCA statements of their assets and liabilities, security holdings, distribution of profits and outstanding Treasury Bills; copies of the minutes of the first and second meetings of ECCA officials; and a copy of the minutes of the 16th meeting of the West Indies Associated States (WISA) and the ECCA. |