OCIs for 6th generation of Indians in Trinidad: Modi

Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) cards will be given to the sixth generation of the Indian diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday as he began a visit to the Caribbean nation where more than 40% of the population is of Indian origin.

- Rezaul H Laskar

Modi, the first Indian premier to visit the island nation since 2009, pitched for greater economic, security and technology cooperation between India and Trinidad and Tobago while addressing a gathering of the Indian community along with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the first woman premier of the country.

Later, the PM addressed the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and said that India will work with its partners to give the Global South its “rightful seat at the right table”, create a fairer world order and ensure reforms of global bodies such as the United Nations.

Modi, the first Indian premier to address a joint assembly of the Parliament of the Caribbean nation, described terrorism as the enemy of humanity and said India and Trinidad and Tobago must be united to deny terrorism any space.