Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has met with a high-lev­el ex­ec­u­tive team from the Cana­di­an-based Sun­wing Trav­el Group, just weeks af­ter Sun­wing be­gan a ser­vice from Toron­to, Cana­da to To­ba­go.

The meet­ing took place to­day at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, St Anns.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) said that Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Stephen Hunter, Vice Pres­i­dent Daniel Di­az and Ex­ec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Busi­ness Af­fairs Sabah Mirza rep­re­sent­ed Sun­wing at the meet­ing.

The state­ment by the OPM said dis­cus­sions fo­cused on Sun­wing’s in­ter­est in an in­creased pres­ence in To­ba­go in­clud­ing an in­ter­est in the op­er­a­tions of the state-owned Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort.

Sun­wing Trav­el Group, which is the largest in­te­grat­ed trav­el com­pa­ny in North Amer­i­ca, re­cent­ly ac­quired a chain of Rex Re­sorts’ Caribbean ho­tels and is now the own­er of Tur­tle Beach Ho­tel in To­ba­go.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Ran­dall Mitchell and Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, Camille Robin­son-Reg­is al­so at­tend­ed the meet­ing.