Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor Dr. Amery Browne, vis­it­ed the Em­bassy of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca to sign the con­do­lence book opened in ho­n­our of for­mer Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador Joseph Mon­del­lo, who passed away on Au­gust 1, 2022 in New York.

Mr. Mon­del­lo was the last US Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go and served in that ca­pac­i­ty from Oc­to­ber 2018 to Jan­u­ary 2021.

A re­lease from the Min­istry con­firmed Min­is­ter Browne’s vis­it to the US Em­bassy to ex­tend con­do­lences on be­half of this coun­try.

The min­istry re­ports that Min­is­ter Browne was re­ceived by Mr. Shante Moore, Chargé d’Af­faires, a.i., US Em­bassy, to whom he ex­pressed sym­pa­thy and asked that con­do­lences be al­so con­veyed to Mr. Mon­del­lo’s fam­i­ly on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

“Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca share long-stand­ing, friend­ly diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions. The pres­ence of the Em­bassy and the en­gage­ment with US Am­bas­sadors to Trinidad and To­ba­go in Port of Spain have fa­cil­i­tat­ed the deep­en­ing and strength­en­ing of these re­la­tions, in­clud­ing dur­ing Am­bas­sador Mon­del­lo’s tenure,” the Min­istry said in the state­ment.