Planning Minister Marc Bean is to represent the Island at the KPMG National Infrastructure Strategy Seminar in Miami this week.The two-day summit, to be held this Thursday and Friday, is intended to address the issues and challenges facing island jurisdictions in regards to planning infrastructure.Public Works Minister Michael Weeks, Planning Permanent Secretary Derrick Binns and acting Public Works Permanent Secretary Randy Rochester will also attend the meeting, as well as Director of Sustainable Development Charles Brown and Wedco general manager Andrew Dias.Mr Bean said: “Our presence at this summit will go a long way to assisting us, in collaboration with a number of other island nations to the south, in developing our National Infrastructure Strategy, a Throne Speech commitment.”The Minister attended another KPMG Infrastructure Summit in September, also held in Miami.“The first summit introduced to the delegates a number of issues that had been identified through various public private partnership projects which had taken place over the region,” he said.“At the end of the summit, the delegates suggested that they would find a focused session on the development of a National Infrastructure Strategy useful. This seminar is in response to that suggestion.”