ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca—Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit yes­ter­day thanked the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment for sus­pend­ing a procla­ma­tion that would have pre­vent­ed Do­mini­cans from en­ter­ing the North Amer­i­can coun­try from Jan­u­ary 1 next year.

Speak­ing on the state-owned DBS Ra­dio, Sker­rit said fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions with Unit­ed States of­fi­cials at the em­bassy in Bar­ba­dos, as well as the State De­part­ment in Wash­ing­ton, an agree­ment had been reached to sus­pend the procla­ma­tion that had been an­nounced on Tues­day by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

“I would like to thank the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment it­self for un­der­stand­ing the sit­u­a­tion and agree­ing to set aside for the time be­ing the procla­ma­tion …and so this is good news. The anx­i­eties that we all would have should  be set aside,” Sker­rit told ra­dio lis­ten­ers, adding that Roseau was look­ing for­ward to con­tin­u­ing the good re­la­tions it has en­joyed with Wash­ing­ton in the past.