NEW DELHI: India and Jamaica on Tuesday inked agreements for cooperation in digital public infrastructure and linking their online payment systems as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Andrew Holness outlined steps to enhance cooperation in defence, security and trade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on October 1. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO) Holness is the first Jamaican premier to visit India at a time when New Delhi has begun enhancing cooperation with countries in the Caribbean as part of its focus on the Global South. Besides his meetings with the Indian leadership, Holness is interacting with trade and industry leaders to attract investments in areas such as information technology. The two sides signed key agreements for cooperation in sharing India’s successful digital public infrastructure to promote financial inclusion and social and economic transformation, and for integrating India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with Jamaica’s Jam-Dex. They also signed two other pacts for cooperation in sports and cultural exchanges. “We are ready to …