KRISTY RAM­NAR­INE

Kristy.ram­nar­ine@cnc3.co.tt

Rwan­da’s pres­i­dent Paul Kagame will be in Trinidad to at­tend the Con­fer­ence of the Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM).

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that Pres­i­dent Kagame is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive in the coun­try to­mor­row (Ju­ly 4).

Pres­i­dent Kagame is one of sev­er­al high-pro­file lead­ers at­tend­ing the 50th an­niver­sary meet­ing in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter of South Ko­rea Han Duck-soo, US Sec­re­tary of State An­tho­ny Blinken and As­sis­tant Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs of Chi­na Hua Chun­y­ing.

The African leader has be­come a ma­jor fig­ure­head, ad­dress­ing re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ences on a range of is­sues in­clud­ing African de­vel­op­ment, lead­er­ship, and the po­ten­tial of ICT as a dy­nam­ic in­dus­try as well as an en­abler for Africa’s so­cioe­co­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion.

No­tably, Rwan­da’s ad­mit­tance to the Com­mon­wealth took place dur­ing the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing held in Port of Spain in 2009, which was chaired by Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pres­i­dent Kagame is ex­pect­ed to at­tend Gold­en Rhythms: CARI­COM at 50 – the 50th An­niver­sary Cul­tur­al Con­cert at NA­PA on Ju­ly 4, as well as the din­ner be­ing by Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley on Ju­ly 5.