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Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Sean Sobers has voiced con­cern over fresh al­le­ga­tions by Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, about at­tempts to desta­bilise his gov­ern­ment and im­pli­cat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, while tak­ing aim at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Ca­bel­lo, speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence on Thurs­day, said Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties had dis­man­tled a right-wing ter­ror­ist plot in Plaza Venezuela, Cara­cas, in­volv­ing plans to det­o­nate an ex­plo­sive de­vice. He claimed two al­leged ter­ror­ists were in­volved — one in­tend­ing to es­cape in­to Colom­bia and the oth­er in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go. He al­so said T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter will say it’s a lie “but it is her prob­lem.”

In re­sponse yes­ter­day, Sobers told Guardian Me­dia that Gov­ern­ment first learned of the al­le­ga­tions via me­dia re­ports and not of­fi­cial diplo­mat­ic chan­nels via the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment or its em­bassy here in Port-of-Spain. How­ev­er, he said they are tak­ing Ca­bel­lo’s com­ments se­ri­ous­ly.