PM’s ‘one-on-one’ with Trump unclear as summit ends

Akash Sama­roo

While the Par­lia­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go was in­formed that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar would en­gage in one-on-one dis­cus­sions with Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Shield of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit, it now ap­pears that the in­ter­ac­tion was not a for­mal closed-door meet­ing but rather “an en­gage­ment” just be­fore the of­fi­cial pho­to op­por­tu­ni­ty.

On Fri­day, on the eve of the sum­mit, Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Nicholas Mor­ris told the Low­er House, “Mr Speak­er, the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter will have one-on-one dis­cus­sions with the Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, as well as se­nior of­fi­cials in his ad­min­is­tra­tion, in­clud­ing Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio, Unit­ed States Trade Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jame­son Greer, and Sec­re­tary of En­er­gy Chris Wright.”