Trinidad, Serbia Foreign Ministers Meet

By: - July 13th, 2011

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic paid a courtesy call on Trinidad’s Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal, who was acting Foreign Affairs minister yesterday. Moonilal was in the news last week after calling the decision by Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to reassign embattled Minister Jack Warner and split the Transport and Works ministries a “wise decision.” As a practice, Trinidad appoints acting ministers whenever cabinet ministers are otherwise unavailable or out of the country. Dr Surujrattan Rambachan is Trinidad’s current foreign minister.

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