00:00Going forward, particularly after missions, maybe every quarter, we will come back to the public because I know the official
00:08overseas travel is seen as a vacation.
00:11It is not. The TTMA doesn't have lunch. I didn't have lunch at lunchtime on those days because we went
00:17straight.
00:17Ms. Batiste is here to bear me out. These are not fun, fun trips.
00:22Visits were made by the Division of Finance to New York, Miami and Canada.
00:28She said the visits form part of a deliberate strategy to expose Tobago businesses to international markets, connect them with
00:38buyers and distributors, strengthen their export capabilities and position them for sustainable growth.
00:45Miami was 165.6. The figure that I gave you before, that was Miami. And Canada was 202.864,000.
00:58I must indicate that these missions, we actually pay per delegate the organizations that facilitate the TTMA and the Trantobago
01:10Chamber.
01:11They cater for several things, ground transportation, air, hotel. We don't have to do all of those things.
01:16On the New York mission.
01:18The total cost, I must say, of that is approximately $155,000.
01:25And that was the investment we made for nine entrepreneurs to travel to New York.
01:32Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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