This country will join Barbados in not sending a representative to the upcoming meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jamaica.

A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister explained the decision.

“Prime Minister Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley said Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has this country’s support. PM Mottley has the full support of the Government and the people of Trinidad and Tobago in outlining our principles and vision of Caribbean unity. In the expectation of Caribbean unity, the Prime Minister of Barbados speaks for Trinidad and Tobago,” said Prime Minister Rowley.

Prime Minister Mottley has said that as Chairman of CARICOM she will not agree to send her Foreign Minister to attend a meeting to which some members of CARICOM were not invited. She described the move as an attempt to divide the CARICOM region.