T&T: Dealing with Haiti via Washington

A Caricom delegation will head to Washington tomorrow to meet with Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss the current situation in Haiti, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday.

However, US officials in Washington could not confirm the delegation would meet with Powell.

“There will be a meeting, but it could be with Assistant Secretary (of Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger F Noriega),” said Gonzalo Gallegos, Public Affairs Advisor to the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs for the State Department.

Gallegos had no further details on the meeting.

The delegation, which will consist of Jamaican Foreign Minister K D Knight, Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Assistant Secretary General of the Caricom Secretariat Ambassador Colin Granderson, a Trinidadian, will discuss Caricom’s recent fact-finding mission to Haiti with State Department officials.

Where is Brazil in all this?