For­mer Ja­maican am­bas­sador Cur­tis A Ward has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is now firm­ly “in the crosshairs” and is like­ly to face se­ri­ous fall­out for what he de­scribes as its un­re­served sup­port of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tions against Venezuela, while sharply crit­i­cis­ing Caribbean lead­ers for what he called weak­ness and fear in the face of Wash­ing­ton.

In a strong­ly word­ed post pub­lished on Box­ing Day yes­ter­day, Ward ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go of align­ing it­self with US ef­forts aimed at regime change in Venezuela, ar­gu­ing that this de­ci­sion has placed the coun­try’s peo­ple, in­fra­struc­ture and econ­o­my at grave risk.

“Per­sad-Bisses­sar has placed a mil­i­tary tar­get on the backs of the coun­try and the peo­ple,” Ward wrote, as­sert­ing that T&T now faces con­se­quences far greater than any short-term ben­e­fits de­rived from clos­er ties with Wash­ing­ton. “It is a sce­nario in which more Trinida­di­an and To­bag­on­ian than Amer­i­can cit­i­zens could be killed.”