Premier McKeeva Bush is heading to
London to attend the annual Overseas Territories Consultative Council meeting
this week.
This is the first meeting of the
council since the United Kingdom’s new coalition government took office. The
gathering of UK Overseas Territory leaders includes an audience with Her
Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
The council is a forum where
British ministers and the heads of overseas territories meet to discuss
important policy issues.
Premier Bush is set to hold talks
with Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and Minister for Overseas
Territories Henry Bellingham on 16 November.
The same afternoon Mr. Bush and the other overseas territories leaders
will go to Windsor Castle for an audience with Her Majesty, the Queen of England.
Chaired by Undersecretary of State
Bellingham, the 17 November council meeting has a full slate of issues on the
agenda.
The heads of delegations meet with
the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday morning, 18 November.
That afternoon the premier meets with the Friends of Cayman at the Cayman
Islands Government Offices and later with members of the Cayman Islands
All-Party Parliamentary Group at Westminster.
On Friday, 19 November, Premier
Bush and Minister of Education Rolston Anglin will host a reception for
Caymanian students at the Cayman Islands Government Office.
Other members of the UK delegation
are Attorney General Samuel Bulgin, Cabinet Secretary Orrett Connor, Financial
Secretary Kenneth Jefferson, the Director of Civil Aviation Authority Richard
Smith and Political Assistant to the Premier Richard Parchment.
The premier returns home on 20
November. During his absence, Deputy Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly will be
acting premier.
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