SAN Fernando West MP Dr Michael Dowlath and San Fernando Mayor Robert Parris are optimistic that San Fernando can benefit from increased trade between Trinidad and Tobago and India.

They expressed their optimism when they addressed an Invest India forum at RRM Plaza, High Street, San Fernando, on August 9.

Dowlath, who is also Education Minister, said he is pleased with the donation of 2,000 laptops for schoolchildren arising out of one of the bilateral agreements signed in TT last month during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.