Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has left for the Ba­hamas to at­tend a high-lev­el meet­ing with US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris and Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne will ac­com­pa­ny Dr Row­ley.

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

The US-Caribbean Lead­ers Meet­ing is be­ing co-host­ed by the US Vice Pres­i­dent and chair­man of Cari­com, Prime Min­is­ter of The Ba­hamas, Philip Davis.

The talks will build on the US Vice Pres­i­dent’s pre­vi­ous meet­ings with re­gion­al lead­ers at the Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in Los An­ge­les in Sep­tem­ber 2022.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the US Em­bassy, Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris will trav­el to Nas­sau to­day (June 8) to meet with Caribbean lead­ers and ad­vance ef­forts to com­bat cli­mate change.

The state­ment said the Vice Pres­i­dent’s trip “de­liv­ers on the Biden-Har­ris Ad­min­is­tra­tion’s com­mit­ment to ad­vance co­op­er­a­tion with the Caribbean, pur­sue shared pros­per­i­ty and se­cu­ri­ty, and cel­e­brate the com­mon bonds be­tween our na­tions. The Vice Pres­i­dent is trav­el­ling to The Ba­hamas dur­ing Caribbean-Amer­i­can Her­itage Month and will cel­e­brate the long­stand­ing peo­ple-to-peo­ple ties be­tween the Caribbean and the Unit­ed States.”

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, the US-Caribbean Lead­ers Meet­ing will ad­dress a range of re­gion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing se­cu­ri­ty and eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty.

“In par­tic­u­lar, the Vice Pres­i­dent and Caribbean lead­ers will con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions on shared ef­forts to ad­dress the cli­mate cri­sis, by pro­mot­ing cli­mate re­silience and adopt­ing re­new­able en­er­gy,” the US Em­bassy state­ment said.