Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 64th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence has drawn con­grat­u­la­tions from King Charles III, Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio and Caribbean lead­ers, who high­light­ed long­stand­ing friend­ships, re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty and op­por­tu­ni­ties for deep­er co­op­er­a­tion.

King Charles III

King Charles III de­scribed the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed King­dom as an “en­dur­ing part­ner­ship” root­ed in shared val­ues and mu­tu­al re­spect.

In a mes­sage to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, the King said he re­mained proud of the Com­mon­wealth’s role in fos­ter­ing “un­der­stand­ing, co­op­er­a­tion and op­por­tu­ni­ty” around the world.

Charles al­so re­ferred to the es­ti­mat­ed 25,000 Trin­bag­o­ni­ans liv­ing in the Unit­ed King­dom, say­ing they en­riched the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two coun­tries.

With the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing sched­uled for No­vem­ber, Charles said he looked for­ward to the two coun­tries com­ing to­geth­er to reaf­firm their shared com­mit­ments and “chart a course for the fu­ture.”

He re­called his 2008 vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly his ex­pe­ri­ence of the coun­try’s bio­di­ver­si­ty.

Charles wel­comed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ef­forts to strength­en cli­mate re­silience and en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship, say­ing he looked for­ward to the two coun­tries deep­en­ing their part­ner­ship on those chal­lenges.

The King and Queen Camil­la ex­tend­ed their “very best wish­es” to Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo and the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go for a peace­ful and pros­per­ous year ahead.

US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio

Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio con­grat­u­lat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go on be­half of the Unit­ed States.

Ru­bio said the two coun­tries share a long­stand­ing part­ner­ship built on a mu­tu­al com­mit­ment to re­gion­al pros­per­i­ty.

He said the re­la­tion­ship was “stronger than ever” as the coun­tries work to­geth­er to com­bat transna­tion­al crime, strength­en re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and sup­port en­er­gy re­silience and co­op­er­a­tion.

Ru­bio said the Unit­ed States looked for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to ad­vance shared pri­or­i­ties with Trinidad and To­ba­go and build­ing an even stronger part­ner­ship in the years ahead.

Guyana Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali

Guyana Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Guyana.

Ali said Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go share “deep bonds of friend­ship, his­to­ry and re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty.”

He said Guyana joined Trinidad and To­ba­go in cel­e­brat­ing its achieve­ments and wished the coun­try con­tin­ued “peace, pros­per­i­ty and progress.”

“Hap­py 64th In­de­pen­dence An­niver­sary, Trinidad and To­ba­go!” Ali said.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley de­scribed Trinidad and To­ba­go as “one of the great pil­lars of our Caribbean fam­i­ly.”

In a mes­sage on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Bar­ba­dos, Mot­t­ley said Trinidad and To­ba­go’s “cul­ture, cre­ativ­i­ty, en­ter­prise and spir­it” had en­riched the re­gion.

She said the ties be­tween the two coun­tries were root­ed in fam­i­ly, friend­ship and a shared his­to­ry that was “deep­er and more en­dur­ing than any sin­gle mo­ment.”

Mot­t­ley said the Caribbean’s fu­ture would be strongest when coun­tries chose “re­spect, sol­i­dar­i­ty and the greater good of our re­gion.”

“Hap­py In­de­pen­dence, Trinidad and To­ba­go,” she said, wish­ing the coun­try con­tin­ued pros­per­i­ty and a role in car­ry­ing “our Caribbean civil­i­sa­tion for­ward.”

Venezuela Am­bas­sador to T&T Al­varo Sanchez Cordero

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to T&T Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero and his wife, Móni­ca Rey Jiménez, al­so ex­tend­ed greet­ings to Trinidad and To­ba­go and at­tend­ed the mil­i­tary pa­rade at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah yes­ter­day.