Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young was among Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) lead­ers meet­ing in a vir­tu­al ses­sion on Fri­day, ahead of face-to-face talks with Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio in Ja­maica on Wednes­day.

Two se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that the meet­ing be­gan at 2 pm on Fri­day and was on­go­ing up to 5.30 pm.

Young had al­so in­di­cat­ed to re­porters on Thurs­day that he had “spent quite a while on the tele­phone this morn­ing” with Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley, who is al­so the CARI­COM chair, “shar­ing ideas” ahead of Fri­day’s meet­ing.