TRINIDAD: May 4, 2016: Following the arrival in Washington D.C. of the Trinidad and Tobago delegation led by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Monday 2nd May 2016, a meeting was held between Prime Minister Rowley and President of Howard University Dr Wayne Frederick today (Tuesday 3rd May, 2016).
The discussions at this meeting centred around the opportunity for Trinidad and Tobago and Howard University to collaborate in the areas of health care training and other human resource issues with a view to improving health care delivery in Trinidad and Tobago. It is notable that Dr Frederick was born in Trinidad and Tobago.
Prime Minister Rowley also met today (Tuesday 3rd May, 2016) with President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Mr Luis Alberto Moreno at the bank’s headquarters in Washington D.C.
Immediately following the meeting with the IADB, Prime Minister Rowley and the Trinidad and Tobago delegation attended a cocktail reception in their honour co-hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Council of the Americas at the U.S Department of State. The reception served as both the close of the Council of the Americas 46th Annual Washington Conference and the opening of the U.S. Caribbean Central American Energy Summit.
Additionally today (Tuesday 3rd May, 2016), Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Senator Dennis Moses represented Trinidad and Tobago at a meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department on issues surrounding correspondent banking. It is notable that this issue was also a point of discussion at the recently held Twenty-Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community held 16-17 February, 2016 in Placencia, Belize which Minister Moses also attended.
Immediately following the meeting with the IADB, Prime Minister Rowley and the Trinidad and Tobago delegation attended a cocktail reception in their honour co-hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Council of the Americas at the U.S Department of State. The reception served as both the close of the Council of the Americas 46th Annual Washington Conference and the opening of the U.S. Caribbean Central American Energy Summit.
Additionally today (Tuesday 3rd May, 2016), Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Senator Dennis Moses represented Trinidad and Tobago at a meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department on issues surrounding correspondent banking. It is notable that this issue was also a point of discussion at the recently held Twenty-Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community held 16-17 February, 2016 in Placencia, Belize which Minister Moses also attended.
