PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar will be leading a delegation to the United States for a series of engagements with Administration officials,  multilateral agencies and the Guyanese diaspora in Washington D.C. That visit is from May 12 to 19, after which President Ramotar will be participating in the CARICOM/Mexico Summit on political and economic cooperation being hosted in Barbados on May 20, before returning home on May 21.
The schedule for the Head of State was announced by Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his weekly post Cabinet media briefing yesterday.
According to the HPS, President Ramotar will be accompanied by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh; Housing and Water Minister, Mr. Irfaan Ali; Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Mr. Robert Persaud and Director General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper.
The Guyanese President will be engaging officials of the State Department in Washington D.C. on further collaboration between the Governments of Guyana and the U.S., regarding issues of security and economics.
Luncheon mentioned the expanding Caribbean Basin Security Initiative that has resulted in more programmes by the American Administration, subsequent to the Summit of the Americas last held in Trinidad.
He said President Ramotar will also be holding discussion on investment and protection of investments, among other areas.
Additionally, he will be discussing political issues, as Guyana continues to be a very important player in the geopolitics of South America, particularly the CARICOM Region, where there are some matters of great interest to both Guyana and the U.S., the HPS informed.