“We are not going to harm Trinidad and Tobago.”

This is the commitment that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave to Prime Minister Stuart Young during their bila­teral engagement on Wednesday in Kingston, Jamaica.

Young, reporting to the nation on his talks with Rubio during a post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall, Port of Spain, yesterday, said that during the meeting with Rubio, he went into “granular detail” on the importance to Trinidad and Tobago and the region of the Dragon gas deal with Venezuela and what it entailed.