PM postpones China visit; Dookeran at CHOGM

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has postponed her visit to China at which she was supposed to formally open the Trinidad and Tobago embassy in Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Persad-Bissessar to China when he was in Trinidad on a state visit in June.

The T&T Government is also considering the establishment of a Trinidad and Tobago cultural institute as part of its diplomatic mission in Beijing.

The PM was also scheduled to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka last week. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and permanent secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Reynold Cooper represented Trinidad and Tobago at that conference.