BVI and US discuss border security issues
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| Published on Friday, April 13, 2007 |
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ROAD TOWN, BVI: Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands, Dr Orlando Smith, headed a delegation during a meeting with a congressional team from the United States House of Representatives in the Territory to discuss areas of mutual interests relating to border security.
The Chief Minister was joined by Governor David Pearey, Deputy Chief Minister Ronnie Skelton, the Minister for Communications and Works Elmore Stoutt, Attorney General Cherno Jallow and several other senior government managers.
The visiting US delegation comprised members of the Committee on Homeland Security under the leadership of its chairman Representative Bennie Thompson.
Other delegates included representatives Mike Rogers, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Henry Cuellar, Al Green, Daniel Lungren, and Bill Pascrell; delegates Donna Christensen and Eleanor Holmes Norton; and Captain Tunstall of the US Coast Guard.
Director of the BVI International Affairs Secretariat Lorna Smith, who wasl also a member of the BVI delegation, said the meeting’s objective was to discuss security issues of common concern to the two governments.
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