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Trinidad PM Leads Team to Guyana

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - August 1, 2011 - 12:44 am

Above: Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Photo: TIS)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar led a team to Guyana Saturday to look at the Caribbean Airlines flight that crashed at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport Saturday morning. The prime minister was accompanied by Foreign Minister Dr Sururattan Rambachan, Minister of Transport Devant Maharaj and two other officials. According to Persad-Bissessar, she had spoken to US Ambassador to Trinidad Beatrice Walters about having the National Transportation Safety Board assist in the accident probe.

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