PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The visit later this month of US Vice President Joe Biden, and the attendant holding here of the equivalent of a Caribbean summit, call attention to this country’s standing in the region and the world. Those events underscore T&T’s international recognition and its responsibilities within Caricom and beyond.
The choice of T&T as the venue of a Caribbean leg of a high-level US official tour to Central and South America reflects the regard in which this country is held, despite reports sometimes feared to depreciate its international image.
As noted by regional affairs specialist Rickey Singh, T&T’s “significant economic and political relations with the US may help to explain the rationale for being the choice among CARICOM states for Biden’s visit.”
