Prime Min­is­ter Dr the Hon. Kei­th Row­ley will trav­el to Wash­ing­ton, DC  to par­tic­i­pate in a se­ries of meet­ings with high-rank­ing US Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

Prime Min­is­ter Dr the Hon. Kei­th Row­ley will trav­el to Wash­ing­ton, DC to­day (Tues­day 13th Sep­tem­ber, 2022) where he will par­tic­i­pate in a se­ries of meet­ings with high-rank­ing US Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. 

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley is sched­uled to at­tend a hear­ing of the US House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Com­mit­tee on Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices on the im­pacts of de-risk­ing on the Caribbean to­mor­row. The hear­ing will be held un­der the Chair­woman of the House Com­mit­tee on Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices Con­gress­woman Max­ine Wa­ters.

On Thurs­day the Prime Min­is­ter is sched­uled to meet with US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris who will meet with the Ac­tion Com­mit­tee Caribbean Lead­ers.

These Com­mit­tees were es­tab­lished fol­low­ing the high-lev­el meet­ing be­tween CARI­COM/CAR­I­FO­RUM lead­ers, US Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden and Vice-Pres­i­dent, Ka­mala Har­ris in June at the IX Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia.

The Prime Min­is­ter is the co-chair of the US/Caribbean En­er­gy Se­cu­ri­ty Ac­tion Com­mit­tee.
Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, the Hon. Stu­art Young will ac­com­pa­ny the Prime Min­is­ter.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, the Hon. Colm Im­bert will act as Prime Min­is­ter un­til Dr Row­ley's re­turn.