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Cuba’s Raul Castro Heads to Trinidad

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - December 6, 2011

Above: Cuban President Raul Castro (UN Photo/Mark Garten)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Cuban President Raul Castro will pay a State Visit to Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow, coinciding with his participation in the CARICOM-Cuba Summit.

Castro, who will be in the country until Friday, will meet with Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and President George Maxwell Richards, holding a bilateral meeting with the former at the Diplomatic Centre.

The fourth CARICOM-Cuba Summit also begins tomorrow.

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