Gail Alexan­der

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley spent yes­ter­day on Capi­tol Hill in Wash­ing­ton, where he par­tic­i­pat­ed in a se­ries of meet­ings with mem­bers of the US Con­gress and he re­turns to Capi­tol Hill to­day for meet­ings with US law­mak­ers.

This was con­firmed in a state­ment by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) on yes­ter­day’s sched­ule of the PM’s week-long Wash­ing­ton trip.

Ac­cord­ing to the OPM’s state­ment, yes­ter­day’s dis­cus­sion with US Con­gress mem­bers, “fo­cused on ad­vanc­ing the in­ter­ests of the peo­ple of T&T” and on the con­tin­ued strength­en­ing of the re­la­tion­ship with the US.

Cur­rent mat­ters of for­eign pol­i­cy, na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and the en­er­gy in­dus­try were among the is­sues on the agen­da.

Row­ley met first with chair­man of the House Com­mit­tee on Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Con­gress­man Ben­nie G. Thomp­son.

He then met with William F. Hager­ty, Rank­ing Mem­ber of the Sen­ate For­eign Re­la­tions Sub­com­mit­tee on State De­part­ment and US­AID Man­age­ment, In­ter­na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions and Bi­lat­er­al In­ter­na­tion­al De­vel­op­ment.

Row­ley al­so met with Chris Van Hollen, Mem­ber of the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Re­la­tions.

His last meet­ing of the day was with Robert Menen­dez, chair­man of the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Re­la­tions, and Tim­o­thy M. Kaine, chair­man of the Sen­ate Sub­com­mit­tee on West­ern Hemi­sphere, Transna­tion­al Crime, Civil­ian Se­cu­ri­ty, Democ­ra­cy, Hu­man Rights and Glob­al Women’s Is­sues.