Trinidad to host Canada-CARICOM business meeting

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will host a meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canadian public and private sector officials to share best practices, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has announced.
Addressing a public meeting of her United National Congress (UNC) at Gasparillo, south of here on Monday night, Prime Minister Persad Bissessar, who last week paid an official visit to Canada, said that “one of the things that we agreed upon, was that Trinidad and Tobago and Canada will co-host a CARICOM public-private partnerships seminar and business-to-business meetings in Port-of-Spain to share best practices and determine how they can be applied”.
She said Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and herself “acknowledged our shared vision for a more integrated Caribbean region and affirmed the importance of bilateral trade and investment.