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In Pictures: Kamala Harris Promises to Strenghten US-Caribbean Relations
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US Vice President Kamala Harris, while cohosting a meeting of CARICOM leaders, promised to help the region tackle gun trafficking, combat climate change and establish a Haiti transnational criminal investigative unit to assist the region’s most unstable nation, Haiti.
She committed $100 million in aide in the fight as the Biden adminstration aim to strenghten US-Caribbean relations.
Her visit was significant since she is the most influential US official to visit the Bahamas, since Independence. Prime Minister of the Bahamas Philip Davis is the chairman of CARICOM and cohosted the meeting with Harris.
Photo Credit: Office of the Prime Minister, Chandan Khanna, Andrew Holness Instagram, Nassau Guardian
