PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 8, CMC – Two former high-ranking government officials have warned the Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration to dial back on threats to use deadly force against unidentified vessels entering Trinidad and Tobago’s waters from Venezuela, with one describing the approach as “borderline insanity.”
Former prime minister Stuart Young strongly criticised the policy, describing it as irresponsible given the geographic proximity and economic interdependence between the two nations.
“Venezuela is seven miles off of the coast of Trinidad and Tobago and is our closest geographical neighbour,” he said in a social media post. “It is the height of irresponsibility and, arguably, borderline insanity, for our government, led by none other than the Prime Minister, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to declare a use of deadly force policy on any unidentified vessel entering Trinidad and Tobago’s waters from Venezuela.”
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