Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister on official visit

Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister, Paula Gopee-Scoon, is paying an official visit to Cuba, according to a report on www.cananews.net.



It said her agenda includes meeting with her Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, and presiding over her country\'s delegation to the Third Meeting of the Joint Commission between both countries.



Gopee-Scoon will also attend the activities on Tuesday marking the occasion of the Cuba-CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Day.



“Four countries of that bloc - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - established diplomatic relations with Cuba on December 8, 1972, breaking the isolation over Havana in an atmosphere of hostility and greater pressures,” Granma said.



Prime Minister Patrick Manning is also in Cuba for a “routine medical examination”, according to a brief statement from his office.



Last December, Manning, 63, underwent surgery in Havana to remove a malignant tumour in his left kidney.



He said the cost of the surgery at the Cimeq Hospital, where he had valve replacement surgery in 1998 and had a pacemaker inserted in 2004, had been met by the Cuban government.



The statement said Manning returns home on Wednesday.