Trinidad And Tobago

TT, China Sign Deal
13 May 2006

NEWSDAY (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)--Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday announced that the National Academies for the Performing Arts in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando will cost USD100 million and construction work on the projects is expected to commence very soon. Through strong bilateral trade relations between the Republics of China and Trinidad and Tobago, three sets of documents were signed. The first was the Framework Agreement signed by Chinese Ambassador Xing Huang and acting Foreign Affairs Minister Danny Montano. The second was the Concession Agreement which was signed by Manning and Ruo Gui Li, president of the Export Import Bank of China and the third was the Commercial Contract where Udecott chairman Calder Hart and Tong Jisheng, president of the Shanghai Construction Group (SCG) International (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited, put their signatures on the document. Source: http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,37372.html (Reliability: 8)