Pres­i­dent of the Is­lam­ic Mis­sion­ar­ies Guild and Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer of Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Im­ti­az Mo­hammed, is call­ing on Mus­lims to stop sup­port­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), ar­gu­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s for­eign pol­i­cy has be­trayed the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

Mo­hammed’s com­ments came in re­sponse to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing a re­cent meet­ing be­tween For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers, Is­rael’s Non-Res­i­dent Am­bas­sador and Am­bas­sador Ey­nat Shlein, Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al of MASHAV, Is­rael’s Agency for In­ter­na­tion­al De­vel­op­ment Co­op­er­a­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, dis­cus­sions fo­cused on es­tab­lish­ing a co­op­er­a­tion work plan tai­lored to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s key de­vel­op­ment pri­or­i­ties.