For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go has be­come a soft tar­get should the Unit­ed States launch mil­i­tary ac­tion against Venezuela, ar­gu­ing that the coun­try’s off­shore gas plat­forms could be among the first as­sets placed at risk.

His com­ments, made dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at his Good­wood Park home yes­ter­day, were aimed at coun­ter­ing what he called wide­spread “mis­in­for­ma­tion” sur­round­ing the Sta­tus of Forces Agree­ment (SO­FA), which he re­newed with Wash­ing­ton in De­cem­ber 2024.

Row­ley in­sist­ed the agree­ment con­tained no pro­vi­sions for regime change, mil­i­tary in­ter­ven­tion or any for­eign mil­i­tary base on T&T’s soil.