Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Caribbean ambassadors and diplomats at yesterday’s opening of the T&T Embassy in Beijing were, from left, Guyana’s ambassador, David Dabydeen, Barbados ambassador Dr Chelston Brathwaite and his wife, Grenada’s ambassador Karl Hood, T&T ambassador Chandradath Singh, Suriname’s ambassador Dr Lloyd Pinas, the deputy head of mission for Bahamas, Sheila Carey, and Jacqueline Bell, Jamaica’s Minister Counsellor.
Not for the first time, I am writing this column from China—in the Beijing Airport waiting for a domestic flight to Shanghai, after a mix-up with the flight arrangements that may yet see me having