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Akash Sama­roo

Act­ing For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says if a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis un­folds in Venezuela due to po­ten­tial land at­tacks from the Unit­ed States, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­ready giv­en her com­mit­ment that Trinidad and To­ba­go will stand with the Venezue­lan peo­ple.

How­ev­er, Padarath made it clear that this does not trans­late to an open-door mi­gra­tion pol­i­cy. He stressed that T&T would con­tin­ue to op­er­ate strict­ly with­in the pa­ra­me­ters of the law to man­age mi­gra­tion.