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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has offered no comment in response to Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez’s claims that the country was being led ‘off a cliff’ on the dragon gas deal- adding that she has had no official communication with Rodriguez or the Venezuelan government. 

Speaking at the National Cycling Velodrome in Couva while visiting the national recruitment exercise ongoing at the facility, Persad-Bissessar said she believed the country was instead going uphill and that she had no information on a war between the US and Venezuela. 

During her presentation at a Venezuelan economic forum yesterday, Rodriguez had questioned the United States Treasury Department’s granting of an Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licence to Trinidad to negotiate with Venezuela for the development of the Dragon project, stating that without Venezuelan gas, T&T’s economy would collapse.