Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and a del­e­ga­tion from Trinidad and To­ba­go had an op­por­tu­ni­ty to dis­cuss cy­ber-de­fence and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty is­sues with the US Deputy Un­der Sec­re­tary of De­fense, Melis­sa Dal­ton, at the Pen­ta­gon, yes­ter­day.

A re­lease from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter says dur­ing the meet­ing held on Mon­day (Jan­u­ary 29, 2024), re­ports that oth­er of­fi­cials from the De­part­ment of De­fense were al­so present for the meet­ing in­clud­ing Daniel Erik­son, Deputy As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary of De­fense for the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

“Dis­cus­sions fo­cussed on a num­ber of ar­eas in­clud­ing de­fence co­op­er­a­tion, bor­der se­cu­ri­ty, part­ner­ship with the Delaware Na­tion­al Guard, cy­ber-de­fense and cy­ber-se­cu­ri­ty, as well as re­gion­al mar­itime in­ter­dic­tion,” the state­ment said.

In ad­di­tion, on Mon­day evening, Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley met with the Di­rec­tor of the CIA, William Burns, at the CIA’s Lan­g­ley Head­quar­ters in Vir­ginia.

The T&T del­e­ga­tion led by Dr Row­ley in­cludes Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne; Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young MP; and Chief of De­fence Staff of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, Air Vice-Mar­shal Dar­ryl Daniel.