The Unit­ed States is con­grat­u­lat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go on the cel­e­bra­tion of its 63rd an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence.

In a state­ment, the Unit­ed States not­ed the part­ner­ship shared with T&T in ad­vanc­ing sta­bil­i­ty and pros­per­i­ty across the hemi­sphere. The mes­sage high­light­ed on­go­ing co­op­er­a­tion in dis­man­tling transna­tion­al crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions, dis­rupt­ing nar­co-traf­fick­ing net­works, and build­ing re­gion­al en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty for the ben­e­fit of both na­tions.

The state­ment em­pha­sised that these ini­tia­tives demon­strate the val­ue of the part­ner­ship and its re­gion­al im­pact. The Unit­ed States reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with T&T, un­der the lead­er­ship of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in the ar­eas of re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, eco­nom­ic growth, and sta­bil­i­ty.

Mean­while, the Gov­ern­ment of Guyana al­so ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to T&T on its in­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary. In his state­ment, Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali con­veyed greet­ings on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Guyana, ex­press­ing best wish­es to the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ali said the an­niver­sary of­fered an op­por­tu­ni­ty for re­flec­tion and recog­ni­tion of the na­tion’s progress and the re­silience of its peo­ple. He reaf­firmed Guyana’s com­mit­ment to the bonds of friend­ship and co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the two coun­tries and ex­pressed his in­ter­est in strength­en­ing ties in the fu­ture.

Guyana and T&T have main­tained long­stand­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions, with co­op­er­a­tion across mul­ti­ple sec­tors, in­clud­ing trade, se­cu­ri­ty, and re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion. Pres­i­dent Ali said Guyana val­ues the part­ner­ship and re­mains fo­cused on en­sur­ing its con­tin­ued growth.

T&T gained in­de­pen­dence on Au­gust 31, 1962, and has since main­tained strong re­la­tions with coun­tries across the re­gion, in­clud­ing Guyana and the Unit­ed States.