PM Narendra Modi arrived in Trinidad & Tobago for two-day visit on July 3 and 4, marking first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to this Caribbean island nation since 1999. Addressing the Indian diaspora in his first engagement in the country, he lauded the migrant community’s resilience and economic and cultural contribution. Read on:
1 / 7Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Trinidad & Tobago on July 3 and was personally received by country’s PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar as well as cabinet members and parliamentarians at the airport in Port of Spain. Trinidad & Tobago is the second destination in PM Modi’s five-nation tour that also includes his participation in the BRICS summit in Brazil. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
2 / 7PM Modi presented a replica of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh (UP), along with holy waters from UP’s Saryu river and the Mahakumbh held in Prayagraj in early 2025. Modi called it a symbol of the deep cultural and spiritual bonds between India and Trinidad & Tobago. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
3 / 7PM Modi addressed Indian diaspora hours after landing in the Caribbean island nation. More than 4000 people gathered. PM Modi announced that the sixth generation of Indian diaspora in Trinidad & Tobago will be issued Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards. “They left their soil, but not their soul,” he said. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
4 / 7PM Modi said that India will soon be among the top three economies of the world, driven by missions on artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computing as the new engines of growth. “For New India, even the sky is not the limit,” he added. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
5 / 7Modi announced that India is now actively working on creating a comprehensive database of the Girmitiya community in Trinidad & Tobago. The community comprised indentured labourers sent from British India to work on plantations in South Africa, Fiji, Mauritius and the Caribbean islands. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
6 / 7PM Modi also posted a few snaps from a dinner hosted by PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar. He was served on a Sohari leaf, which he said, is of great cultural significance to the Indian-origin people in Trinidad & Tobago. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
7 / 7PM Modi also met singer Rana Mohip at the dinner in Trinidad & Tobago, who had sung ‘Vaishnava Jana To’ when the Indian government marked 150th Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi a few years ago. “His passion towards Indian music and culture is appreciable.,” the PM wrote on X. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)
