In that year, Colombia showed willingness to expand it's diplomatic ties with Trinidad and Tobago, with programmes including national security, border security, policing, investment, trade, defence cooperation, enhance direct flights to Bogotá, medical tourism, agricultural exchanges, sporting, cultural as well as language education.

On 24 January 2017, a bilateral meeting was held with María Ángela Holguín and Dennis Moses at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

One month later, Trinidadian Ambassador Paul Byam accredited to the former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos as representative of the government of Trinidad and Tobago.

One year later on 15 May 2019, the Foreign Minister of Colombia Carlos Holmes Trujillo held a bilateral meeting with his Trinidadian counterpart Dennis Moses in Port of Spain.

[2] On 17 July 2023, Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Amery Browne met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia William Bush.