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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Young acts as PM as Dr Rowley meets US officials in Barbados

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Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young follows Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley out the briefing room after the post cabinet press briefing at White Hall.

Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young follows Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley out the briefing room after the post cabinet press briefing at White Hall.

ROGER JACOB

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is trav­el­ing to Bar­ba­dos to­day to meet with se­nior U.S. gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Ac­com­pa­ny­ing the Prime Min­is­ter on the trip will be Dr. Amery Browne, the Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

While Dr Row­ley is in Bar­ba­dos, Min­is­ter Stu­art Young will act as Prime Min­is­ter.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, the fo­cus of the dis­cus­sions will in­clude the Bridgetown Ini­tia­tive—a pro­pos­al call­ing for sig­nif­i­cant re­form of the in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial sys­tem to ad­dress chal­lenges faced by small and de­vel­op­ing na­tions.

The 2022 Ini­tia­tive led by Bar­ba­dos fo­cused on re­form­ing the way rich coun­tries fi­nance poor coun­tries in a cli­mate cri­sis, de­tail­ing ways to change how de­vel­op­ment fi­nance works. It sought to get in­sti­tu­tions to treat re­gion­al states more fair­ly in the cur­rent dif­fi­cult times and to get terms and con­di­tions con­cern­ing ex­ter­nal fi­nanc­ing.

At yes­ter­day’s Post-Cab­i­net Me­dia Brief­ing, the PM re­vealed that in the ef­fort led by Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley, he had been to Wash­ing­ton on more than one oc­ca­sion, and the US del­e­ga­tion has been to the Caribbean.

“We think we made some progress, but it’s crys­tallised in some­thing called the Bridgetown Ini­tia­tive, which we need to de­fend, grow and ad­vance in the US au­thor­i­ties and to the in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial bod­ies. There­fore, we meet in Bar­ba­dos,” Row­ley ex­plained.

Dr Row­ley is sched­uled to re­turn on Sun­day.


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