Above: Bridgetown (CJ Photo)
By the Caribbean Journal staff
New United States Ambassador to Barbados Larry Leon Palmer presented his credentials to Acting Governor General Elliott Belgrave in a short ceremony at Government House this week.
Palmer has previously served as US Ambassador to Honduras and as the country’s Charge D’Affaires in Ecuador.
A career member of the US Senior Foreign Service, he has also had diplomatic postings in the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay, Korea and Sierra Leone.
In the Dominican Republic, he served as vice consul at the US Embassy.
While he will be based in Bridgetown, he will also be accredited to the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean, including St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
He is also the former president of the Inter-American Foundation.
He is the first foreign service officer to serve as Ambassador in Bridgetown since Frank Ortiz, Jr in 1977.