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Caribbean News Global
April 22, 2021
By Caribbean News Global
USA / GUYANA – US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken encounter foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) virtually on Wednesday, April 21. The roundtable discussion was an initial engagement between the new US administration and CARICOM, as reported.
The meeting agreed on the need to work together on “several issues of mutual interest,” also noted the “inextricable link between the Community and the US.
US Department of State, media note, said, the virtual meeting, “demonstrate the United States’ commitment to working with all countries in the region to advance bilateral and regional interests.”
RSS Air Wing Keeps Flying with United States Support
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On Friday, April 9, U.S. Southern Command donated a C-26A maritime patrol aircraft spare engine to the Regional Security System (RSS) Air Wing, as well as additional aviation spare parts including gyros, landing actuators, and navigational transponders. The donation, which is valued at approximately US$750,000, is part of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) Foreign Military Financing Program and was led by U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown with support from US Army Fixed Wing Program Office and U.S. Army Security Assistance Command. Since March 2020, the RSS has also flown multiple weekly COVID-19 relief support flights, transporting test kits and supplies for CARPHA, CDEMA and other regional organizations.
Ambassador Curtis Ward.
As 2021 dawns, Jamaicans in the diaspora are looking forward with renewed hope and expectations, with a reset to several issues brought to the fore during the pandemic and a change of administration in the United States.
Curtis Ward, Jamaica’s former ambassador to the United Nations, hopes that the Government will find a way to pivot from its support for the Donald Trump regime to take advantage of an expected better relationship with the incoming Joe Biden administration, which takes office in less than three weeks.
“My hope is that Jamaica will be an active part of a unified CARICOM that will speak with one voice to be able to work with the Biden-Harris administration to take advantage of several initiatives that will be expanded,” he said, referencing the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative and the Caribbean Basic Energy Security Initiative.