Leaders hope Trump will visit for talks on new US policies

Cari­com lead­ers are hop­ing to have a meet­ing with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to dis­cuss the pos­si­ble im­pact of his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s poli­cies on the re­gion.

Re­veal­ing to Guardian Me­dia what were some of the mat­ters dis­cussed at the cau­cus lev­el of Cari­com lead­ers at the 48th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Cari­com Heads which came to an end yes­ter­day, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da PM Gas­ton Browne said, “We looked at the geopo­lit­i­cal is­sues and the changes in the Unit­ed States and we are hop­ing to en­gage se­nior mem­bers of the US ad­min­is­tra­tion as soon as prac­ti­ca­ble. We are hop­ing that will be suc­cess­ful to invit­ing Pres­i­dent Trump to the re­gion.”

PM Browne added, “I think it is very im­por­tant for him to pay some at­ten­tion to the third bor­der of the US and al­so for him to en­ter mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sions as to how US poli­cies will im­pact the re­gion, es­pe­cial­ly the small­er coun­tries.”