Grenada Tourism Minister Meets With Counterpart From Ontario

By: - August 26th, 2014

Above: the meeting in Toronto

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Grenada Tourism Minister Alexandra Otway-Noel met last week with her counterpart from Ontario, Minister Micheal Coteau.

Coteau, the son of a father from the Grenadian island of Carriacou, is also Ontario’s Minister of Culture and Sport.

According to a statement from the Grenadian government, the two Ministers discussed “various issues of mutual cooperation.”

The two were joined by Grenada’s Honorary Consul General in Toronto, CJ Augustine-Kanu.

Otway-Noel additionally met with Antigua and Barbuda’s Tourism Minister, Asot Michael, on the trip.

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