{"id":110372,"date":"2014-01-12T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=110372"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:37:25","slug":"uwp-team-dominica-north-america-tour-enters-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/uwp-team-dominica-north-america-tour-enters-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UWP TEAM DOMINICA North America Tour gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110377\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110377\" alt=\"Clad for the cold (left to right) Thomson Fontaine, Lennox Linton, Joshua Francis\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/UWP-Team-Dominica-300x286.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/UWP-Team-Dominica-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/UWP-Team-Dominica-642x612.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/UWP-Team-Dominica.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clad for the cold (left to right) Thomson Fontaine, Lennox Linton, Joshua Francis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The United Workers Party (UWP) team began its 7 city tour of North America on Friday January 10<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2014 with a series of meetings in the US Capital, Washington DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>UWP Leader Lennox Linton says the team met with the State Department coordinators of US government interagency policy in the Eastern Caribbean; top officials of the National Democratic Institute; and Congressional delegations on Capitol Hill with a keen interest Caribbean and global affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a busy and punishing but productive first day struggling with the arctic blast that has been battering the eastern seaboard of the US\u2026 \u00a0We were very well received as we embraced the privilege of sharing our vision of Dominica emerging as a responsible global citizen and reliable partner in the advancement of democracy and sustainable development in the Western Hemisphere.\u00a0 The team is particularly excited about the prospects for building strategic partnerships in the cause of meaningful transformation of the socio-economic landscape in Dominica\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A release from the UWP states that former IMF economist, Dr. Thomson Fontaine and Attorney-at-Law Joshua Francis, participated in the Washington DC meetings. Former UWP Leader Ron Green, according to the release was expected to join the team later that day for its meeting with Dominicans in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia (the greater Washington DC metropolitan area).<\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Hector John was also expected to arrive in the US on Friday and will be with the team for its engagements with Dominicans in North America beginning with the January 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2014 meeting at the Robert Street Hotel in Newark, in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; The United Workers Party (UWP) team began its 7 city tour of North America on Friday January 10th, 2014 with a series of meetings in the US Capital, Washington DC. 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