Akash Sama­roo

De­spite be­ing de­clared “per­sona non gra­ta,” Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sup­port to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, say­ing the Gov­ern­ment stands ready to pro­vide hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance as the neigh­bour­ing coun­try grap­ples with wide­spread dev­as­ta­tion.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pressed sym­pa­thy to the Venezue­lan peo­ple fol­low­ing Wednes­day night’s two pow­er­ful earth­quakes, which caused ex­ten­sive de­struc­tion and sig­nif­i­cant loss of life.