Trinidad PM and regional unity team off to Suriname and Haiti
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| Published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning had meetings with the prime ministers of Belize, Bahamas and Jamaica during the past two days and on Tuesday was due to visit Suriname and Haiti to meet the leaders of those two countries.
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| Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning. AFP PHOTO |
Manning, who is accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister, Paula Gopee-Scoon and Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Edwin Carrington, is sensitising the various leaders on proposed economic union by 2011 and political unity by 2013.
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Manning and his team at Monday night's meeting that "political union has implications for the structure and indeed the future of Caricom", and added that it should be discussed at the highest level – Caricom.
Foreign Minister Gopee-Scoon told the Trinidad Express on Monday night that the meetings with all three prime ministers were successful, and hopes that they would have fruitful discussions with the Suriname and Haiti leaders.
Manning and the prime ministers of Grenada, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago signed a Memorandum of Understanding on August 14 for a political union. | | | | Reads : 213 |
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