Journey
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will take a trip to Barbados today to attend what is anticipated to be his last conference of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
CARICOM Heads of Government will satisfy in Barbados from February 19– 21, for their 48th Regular Meeting.
In December, when Rowley revealed his intent to retire this year, he specified that he wished to go to the conference to turn over his obligations and total matters including a number of CARICOM sub-committees, which he chairs.
The Meeting’s opening event is set up for tomorrow afternoon at the Lord Erskine Sandiford Centre, Bridgetown.
It will include addresses by the chairman, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor; outbound chairman, Prime Minister of Grenada Dickon Mitchell; the brand-new Premier of Montserrat, Reuben Meade, and CARICOM secretary-general, Dr Carla Barnett.
Unique Guest, president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and secretary-general of the United Nations, António Guterres will likewise deal with the event.
“The conference will concentrate on a number of concerns consisting of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, Food and Nutrition Security, Climate Change and Finance, the continuous obstacles in Haiti, Security Issues, Digital Resilience and External Relations. In addition, Maritime and Air Transport and Reparations will form part of the conversations,” a post on the Facebook page of the Office of the Prime Minister has actually specified.
Energy Minister Stuart Young will function as Prime Minister till Rowley’s return.
Rowley will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Dr Amery Browne, who had actually made an application for, and after that withdrew, his election to change Rowley as individuals’s National Movement’s prospect for Diego Martin West in the upcoming basic election.
Hans Des Vignes was last night picked as the PNM’s prospect for that seat.
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