In­dia’s Min­is­ter of Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs Dr Sub­rah­manyam Jais­hankar says Trinidad and To­ba­go stands to ben­e­fit from deep­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with In­dia in ar­eas rang­ing from dig­i­tal pay­ments and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals to en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and re­new­able en­er­gy ini­tia­tives.

Speak­ing dur­ing a one-on-one in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day evening, Dr Jais­hankar out­lined In­dia’s vi­sion for strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions with T&T and the wider Caribbean re­gion.

The In­di­an min­is­ter, who par­tic­i­pat­ed in a two-day of­fi­cial vis­it to this coun­try, said the trip was aimed at ad­vanc­ing dis­cus­sions and de­liv­er­ables fol­low­ing the vis­it of In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di to T&T last year.