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Sayantan Chakravarty
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Trinidad and Tobago has been in the news of late. The Indian cricket team that made a hasty exit from the Cricket World Cup 2007 played all its preliminary round matches in this twin island nation. Despite all the support the team received not just from fans who had flown in to watch the games, but also from local Trinidadians of East Indian origin, our cricketers flattered to deceive.

But cricket has just been one factor in our increasing bonding with T and T. In March a 70 member trade and cultural delegation visited India led by Minister of Trade and Industry Kenneth Valley. The delegation comprised members of state agencies interested in developing further India’s growing interest in trade and investment in T and T. There were also members of the famed steel bands that strutted melodious Calypso, Socca and Chutney.

Minister Valley’s visit was followed by that of Minister for Energy and Energy Industries, and Public Administration and Information Dr Lenny K Saith for the Commonwealth conference on the digital divide. Minister Saith is no stranger to India, his grandparents moved to T and T as indentured workers and he himself came to study in India in the mid 1950s at what used to be the Roorkee Engineering College. Since then he has visited India at least 15 times. Importantly, he heads the Energy portfolio and this is the area that is powering Trinidad’s growth and taking it closer to developed nation status. Minister Saith also acts as Prime Minister when the PM travels out of T and T.

We also bring you a smorgasbord of NRI and PIO achievers world over and business news that increasingly chart international acceptability of India’s growing economic super power status.

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