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Friday, February 21, 2025

China Society praises Young’s ‘historic achievement’ as next PM

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Angelo Jedidiah
24 days ago
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China Society president Charles Cheng, from left middle row, Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne, Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in T&T Yang Han, Senate President Nigel de Freitas, House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George and Senator Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal at the Chinese Spring Festival Temple Fair in Chaguaramas on Saturday.

China Society president Charles Cheng, from left middle row, Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne, Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in T&T Yang Han, Senate President Nigel de Freitas, House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George and Senator Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal at the Chinese Spring Festival Temple Fair in Chaguaramas on Saturday.

ANGELO JEDIDIAH

AN­GE­LO JE­DIDI­AH

Re­porter

an­ge­lo.je­didi­ah@guardian.co.tt

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s im­pend­ing ac­ces­sion to the role of prime min­is­ter has been met with im­mense pride by mem­bers of the Chi­na So­ci­ety.

At this year’s an­nu­al Chi­nese Spring Fes­ti­val Fair, the de­ci­sion by the par­lia­men­tary cau­cus of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment to vote for Young to be prime min­is­ter, when Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley steps down, was de­scribed as a his­toric event. The de­ci­sion was sup­port­ed at the par­ty’s gen­er­al coun­cil meet­ing.

Speak­ing at the two-day cel­e­bra­tions at the An­chor­age in Ch­aguara­mas, Chi­na So­ci­ety pres­i­dent Charles Cheng praised Young’s an­tic­i­pat­ed ap­point­ment, wish­ing him the best in his fu­ture en­deav­ours.

“Al­low me to take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to recog­nise the his­toric achieve­ment of a mem­ber of our com­mu­ni­ty with Chi­nese her­itage. I re­fer to the Ho­n­ourable Stu­art Young SC, who will be our next Prime Min­is­ter,” Cheng said. 

“Min­is­ter Young quite right­ly refers to him­self as a Trin­bag­on­ian. He is of Chi­nese her­itage and we the Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty are very proud of him. We wish him all the best as he takes Trinidad and To­ba­go for­ward.”

Over the week­end, hun­dreds vis­it­ed the Chi­nese New Year cel­e­bra­tions to ex­pe­ri­ence Chi­nese arts, cul­ture, and drag­on boat rac­ing.

Chargé d’Af­faires at the Em­bassy of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na in T&T, Yang Han, host­ed a num­ber of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials at the event, in­clud­ing Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Nigel de Fre­itas and House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George. Young and Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley were not in at­ten­dance.

Al­so speak­ing at the event, For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne shared that Chi­na and T&T con­tin­ue to main­tain strong diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions span­ning 50 years.

He said he ex­pects bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions to deep­en and strength­en.

“We de­pend, we are de­pen­dant on the ex­cel­lence of our re­la­tions with im­por­tant part­ners such as the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na…long may it live,” said Browne.

The For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter al­so said that there will soon be the in­tro­duc­tion of Chi­nese en­ter­tain­ment pro­gram­ming to be aired on lo­cal tele­vi­sion, as part of both coun­tries’ ef­forts to con­tin­ue pro­pelling mu­tu­al cul­tur­al col­lab­o­ra­tion.

“I want to wish that the next 12 months, the Year of the Snake brings good for­tune to all of us, Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na.”


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