Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley MP is ex­pect­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a se­ries of meet­ings with mem­bers of the Unit­ed States Con­gress to­day, Wednes­day 27th April 2022.

An of­fi­cial state­ment from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter notes that to­day’s meet­ings are part of an over­all mis­sion to ad­vance “the in­ter­ests of Trinidad and To­ba­go”.  

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter al­so re­ports on the Prime Min­is­ter’s meet­ing with for­mer US Sen­a­tor, Chris Dodd, in Wash­ing­ton DC, Tues­day 26th April 2022, not­ing that these fur­ther dis­cus­sions fol­lowed their meet­ing in Bar­ba­dos, last week.

For­mer Sen­a­tor Dodd was ap­point­ed by US Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden as the Spe­cial Ad­vi­sor for the Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as, which will be held in Los An­ge­les in June.

Al­so present at the meet­ing be­tween PM Row­ley and Spe­cial Ad­vi­sor Dodd was Bar­bara Fe­in­stein, Deputy As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary at the Bu­reau for West­ern Hemi­sphere Af­fairs at the US De­part­ment of State. 

In ad­di­tion, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young MP; and Am­bas­sador to the US and Mex­i­co, An­tho­ny Phillips-Spencer, Brigadier Gen­er­al (Ret’d.), ac­com­pa­nied the Prime Min­is­ter.

On Sun­day 24th April 2022, Dr Row­ley de­part­ed for the se­ries of meet­ings sched­uled to take place in Wash­ing­ton DC, this week.  Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert MP, is act­ing as Prime Min­is­ter un­til Dr Row­ley's re­turn.