Ke­jan Haynes

US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris shared a call with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day, dis­cussing the strength­en­ing of en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and cli­mate re­silience of the Caribbean.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the White House, “The Vice Pres­i­dent con­veyed to the Prime Min­is­ter that the Trea­sury De­part­ment would take ac­tion to help meet the re­gion’s long-term en­er­gy needs.”

The Vice Pres­i­dent and Prime Min­is­ter agreed to con­tin­ue to work to­geth­er on these and oth­er com­mon chal­lenges, in­clud­ing ad­dress­ing the sit­u­a­tion in Haiti.

Har­ris has had close ties with Cari­com, hold­ing sev­er­al meet­ings with Caribbean lead­ers since tak­ing of­fice.

US Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­dace Bond list­ed the meet­ings in a state­ment, “In Sep­tem­ber 2022, Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris an­nounced the re­sults of three high-lev­el com­mit­tees that she es­tab­lished to pro­duce near-term so­lu­tions to press­ing en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, food se­cu­ri­ty, and fi­nance chal­lenges con­fronting the re­gion.

"At the Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in June 2022, Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris launched the US-Caribbean Part­ner­ship to Ad­dress the Cli­mate Cri­sis 2030 (PACC 2030) to sup­port the re­gion’s long-term en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and cli­mate re­silience pri­or­i­ties. The Vice Pres­i­dent and the Prime Min­is­ter dis­cussed PACC 2030 progress, in­clud­ing re­cent trips by the US Gov­ern­ment’s PACC 2030 In­vest­ment Fa­cil­i­ta­tion Team to sup­port a pipeline of clean en­er­gy projects in the re­gion."

Bond said it "re­in­forced the close­ness, strength, and depth of our over 200 years of friend­ship and co­op­er­a­tion."

Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris al­so con­grat­u­lat­ed the Trin­bag­on­ian peo­ple on the elec­tion of Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo.