Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela will not af­fect To­ba­go’s tourism in­dus­try, nor will they threat­en the coun­try’s re­gion­al or na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

“There is no war. T&T is not a tar­get,” the Prime Min­is­ter said. “The tar­gets are nar­co-traf­fick­ers, gun-run­ners, and hu­man traf­fick­ers.”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar dis­missed claims that the is­land’s fish­er­men are be­ing ex­posed to dan­ger be­cause of re­gion­al con­flict. “A source in the in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia said that Trinidad and To­ba­go is a na­tion of fish­er­men. Noth­ing is fur­ther from the truth. We have fish­er­men, we have oth­er in­dus­tries, we have oth­er forms of in­come,” she said as she an­swered ques­tions from re­porters out­side of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Leg­is­la­ture Build­ing in Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day.