St Maarten Prime Minister Visits Trinidad

By: - November 5th, 2013

Above: St Maarten Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams

By the Caribbean Journal staff

St Maarten Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams visited Trinidad last week for the PAHO/EU Conference on HIV.

The Prime Minister’s visit to the country included a meeting with Trinidad Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran, joined by Dutch Ambassador Lucita Moeniralam.

Wescot-Williams is the Dutch Caribbean territory’s first-ever Prime Minister; she has served in the post since 2010 in two separate cabinets.

In what the government said was a “brief” meeting, Dookeran and Wescot-Williams reportedly exchanged an issue of the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and the book “Power, Politics and Performance: A Partnership Approach for Development.”

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