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Sascha Wil­son

A for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter is call­ing for greater diplo­ma­cy as ten­sions rise be­tween Venezuela and Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s an­ti-nar­cotics cam­paign in the Caribbean.

In his fea­ture ad­dress at the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion (RKF) din­ner at Achie­vors Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day, econ­o­mist Win­ston Dook­er­an said the geopol­i­tics play­ing out in the wa­ters of T&T and Venezuela is a re­minder that pol­i­tics, like life, is un­pre­dictable in its jour­ney.