Foreign Ministry rejects report of sitting minister’s US visa revocation

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs is re­ject­ing a re­port that the Unit­ed States visa of a sit­ting min­is­ter has been re­voked, in­sist­ing that no serv­ing mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment has had their US visa with­drawn.

In a state­ment pub­lished on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day, the min­istry di­rect­ly chal­lenged a re­port in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ex­press head­lined, “Sit­ting Min­is­ter’s US Visa ‘Re­voked’...As Se­nior Ju­di­cial Of­fi­cer Con­firms Be­ing Sum­moned to Em­bassy.”

The min­istry said, “Con­trary to a sto­ry in to­day’s Trinidad Ex­press au­thored by Mark Bas­sant, the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs is pleased to in­form the pop­u­la­tion that no sit­ting Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter’s US visa has been re­voked.”