India and Trinidad and Tobago have signed eight agreements in sectors including tourism, healthcare, infrastructure and Ayurveda during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s two-day visit to the Caribbean nation.
Ministry of External Affairs in a statement said, MoUs were signed between the two sides for solarisation of Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs building, vector control, infrastructure upgrade of Nelson Island where the Indian immigrants were stayed initially and for setting up of an Indian Chair on Ayurveda at the University of the West Indies.
Dr Jaishankar, who concluded his two-day visit to the to the Caribbean nation yesterday, held talks with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and other senior leaders on expanding bilateral cooperation and reviewed progress on announcements made during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Trinidad and Tobago last year. Discussions also covered cooperation in infrastructure, security, forensics, healthcare and capacity building. The two sides reaffirmed coordination in regional and multilateral forums, including on issues concerning the Global South.
In the presence of Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar, Dr Jaishankar handed over the first batch of two thousand laptops to selected schoolchildren and inaugurated an agro-processing facility for which machinery worth one million dollars was provided by India last year. Ms Persad-Bissessar and Dr Jaishankar jointly inaugurated Trinidad and Tobago’s National Prosthetics Centre in Penal.
Dr Jaishankar visited the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago where his presence was acknowledged and PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar delivered a statement in his honour.
He paid respects at Mahatma Gandhi’s Bust at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Cultural Cooperation. He visited the Dattatreya Mandir and Hanuman Murti in Central Trinidad.
The Ministry of External Affairs said the visit gave fresh impetus to India’s ties with Trinidad and Tobago.
