A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship.
The legislation, The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016, was sponsored by the ranking member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, a Democrat, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican and a former Chair of the committee.
It requires the US Secretary of State and the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to submit to Congress a multiyear strategy that focuses on a new approach to the region and to the