PORT OF SPAIN North/St Ann’s West MP and former energy minister Stuart Young yesterday denounced the Government’s declaration of a use of deadly force policy on any unidentified vessel entering T&T waters from Venezuela.

“It is the height of irresponsibility and “arguably borderline insanity”, he said in a release.

Young called on the Government “to engage in proper diplomatic communications with Venezuela and to appreciate that as the Government you have to act responsibly and judiciously. Carrying on with false bravado associated with soap-box politics is not only unbecoming, but frankly dangerous in the circumstances.