Federal Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) et. al, the Hon. Akilah Byron-Nisbett, is the first woman to sit on the Council of Ministers for the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL). 

ECTEL is the regulatory body for telecommunications in its Member States.

They are: the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

It is made up of three components – a Council of Ministers, a Regional Directorate and a National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC) in each Member State.  

Her tenure runs from October 2020 to September 30^th 2021.

Mrs. Byron-Nisbett relayed her elation of the appointment to the VONNEWSLINE:  

 The Hon. Akilah Byron-Nisbett. 

ECTEL was established on May 4^th, 2000 by a Treaty signed in St. George’s, Grenada by the Governments of five Eastern Caribbean States – Commonwealths of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.