Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice leader David Ab­du­lah has launched a blis­ter­ing at­tack on the for­eign pol­i­cy di­rec­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment, ac­cus­ing it of un­der­min­ing re­gion­al uni­ty, aban­don­ing long-stand­ing diplo­mat­ic po­si­tions and “hand­ing over” Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty to the Unit­ed States.

Speak­ing at a vir­tu­al me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, Ab­du­lah said the coun­try’s stance on key in­ter­na­tion­al is­sues, from Cari­com re­la­tions to Cu­ba and the Mid­dle East, sig­nals what he de­scribed as a “clear and dan­ger­ous shift” to­ward Wash­ing­ton’s geopo­lit­i­cal agen­da.

Ab­du­lah strong­ly re­ject­ed re­cent Gov­ern­ment crit­i­cism of Cari­com, ar­gu­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains one of the biggest ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the re­gion­al bloc.