A delegation from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), headed by its President Patrick Yarde is in Miami, Florida for a Public Services International hemispheric meeting on ‘Racism and Xenophobia’,

According to a press release from the GPSU, the meeting, which opened yesterday and ends today, included an agenda item requested by the GPSU: ‘Presidential Elections: The American case with Obama’.

Other matters up for discussion are: ‘FTAA Colombia/US and Relationship with Workers and Racism’, ‘OAS Inter-American Convention Against Racism and all forms of Discrimination and Intolerance – Update’, ‘Governments in the Americas: Exchange of Good Practices’, ‘Durban Review Conference: Geneva, April 2009’ and ‘Haiti – Update’.