Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie Abe, arrived yesterday for an official two-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago.
From Piarco International Airport, Prime Minister Abe proceeded to the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, to pay a private courtesy call on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The Japanese Prime Minister then held a bilateral meeting with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne and later met with Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller.
Today, there will be a Caricom-Japan Summit, which is scheduled to start around 9 a.m. at the Hilton Trinidad in St Ann’s.
After that, Abe will continue a series of bilateral meetings with Caricom heads. He is set to meet with the Barbados delegation at noon; Dominica at 12.20 p.m.; Grenada 12.40 p.m.; Guyana, 1 p.m.; Haiti, 1.30 p.m.; St Kitts and Nevis, 2 p.m.; St Lucia, 2.20 p.m.; St Vincent and the Grenadines, 2.40 p.m.; and Suriname at 3 p.m.
He is expected to leave Trinidad and Tobago at 5 p.m. today.
Before his arrival in T&T, Express Political Editor Ria Taitt was invited exclusively to submit two questions to Prime Minister Abe. Following are the questions asked and the answers he gave:
Source-TRINIDAD EXPRESS
