Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will make an of­fi­cial vis­it to Guyana fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions with that coun­try’s Pres­i­dent, Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, yes­ter­day, where both lead­ers agreed on a wide-rang­ing de­vel­op­ment, trade and eco­nom­ic agen­da aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

The two lead­ers dis­cussed co­op­er­a­tion across sev­er­al ar­eas, in­clud­ing food se­cu­ri­ty, in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties, en­er­gy in­te­gra­tion, tech­nol­o­gy ex­change, hu­man cap­i­tal de­vel­op­ment and se­cu­ri­ty. They al­so agreed on the es­tab­lish­ment of a work­ing group to re­move bar­ri­ers to trade and im­prove com­pet­i­tive­ness be­tween the two coun­tries.

The work­ing group will in­clude rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the pri­vate sec­tors of both na­tions and will fo­cus on ad­dress­ing de­vel­op­ment chal­lenges and op­por­tu­ni­ties iden­ti­fied dur­ing the dis­cus­sions.