India, Trinidad and Tobago eye enhanced cultural relations

India and Trinidad and Tobago will formulate a new agreement to enhance cultural ties between the two countries.
India will also help the Caribbean nation set up a sugar museum at its capital, Port of Spain, Union Culture Minister Chandresh Kumar Katoch said in a statement here.
She said both countries had also discussed a roadmap for enhanced cooperation.
"A new cultural agreement between the two countries will be formulated to replace the 1987 agreement so that it can best capture the modern developments in the culture sector," the Minister said recently during a tour of the island nation.
Also, based on the proposed cultural agreement, the two countries would plan a cultural exchange programme for 2014-16.

"The festival of India in Trinidad and Tobago, which couldn't be held in October 2013, would now be held in October next year under the new cultural agreement and the collaboration would be extended to Trinidad and Tobago authorities for setting up a sugar museum in Port of Spain," Katoch said.

She invited Trinidad and Tobago Culture Minister Lincoln Douglas to visit India at a mutually convenient date along with a delegation of performing artistes to discuss the contours of the collaboration and sign the agreement.
Under the roadmap, India has also offered to collaborate with Trinidad and Tobago authorities on archive maintenance.

"I will be taking up the request of the authorities of Trinidad and Tobago for collaboration in film development with the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the construction of a cultural centre in Divali Nagar with the Union Ministry of External Affairs," she added.