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Akash Sama­roo

While po­lit­i­cal par­ties are ex­press­ing hope for a pos­i­tive out­come for T&T fol­low­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s up­com­ing meet­ing with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, they are al­so voic­ing some reser­va­tions.

Those con­cerns range from calls for full trans­paren­cy on what will be dis­cussed, to ques­tions about the Prime Min­is­ter’s ca­pac­i­ty to rep­re­sent not on­ly T&T but the wider re­gion, and fears that the talks could pave the way for an ex­pand­ed US mil­i­tary pres­ence lo­cal­ly.