US applauds T&T’s Cuba vote

SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gov­ern­ment came in for praise on so­cial me­dia site X, for­mer­ly Twit­ter, from Unit­ed States Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau on Fri­day night for vot­ing with the US against re­mov­ing its em­bar­go on Cu­ba.

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Lan­dau re­spond­ed to a post from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on her Gov­ern­ment’s rea­son for vot­ing against the an­nu­al Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the US eco­nom­ic, com­mer­cial and fi­nan­cial em­bar­go on Cu­ba.