Sobers off to Washington for US–Caricom talks

Akash Sama­roo

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers will rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at a high-lev­el meet­ing be­tween the Unit­ed States and Cari­com in Wash­ing­ton to­day. Re­gion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives are ex­pect­ed to meet US Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau to dis­cuss mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est.

The meet­ing, de­scribed as a Unit­ed States–Caribbean Di­a­logue, comes amid chang­ing US for­eign pol­i­cy to­wards the re­gion and ques­tions about how Caribbean gov­ern­ments man­age their re­la­tion­ships with ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners.