Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­turned to Trinidad and To­ba­go on Wednes­day evening af­ter at­tend­ing the 51st Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Cari­com in St Lu­cia, and im­me­di­ate­ly went to over­see the re­lief ef­forts be­ing or­gan­ised for Venezuela.

In a so­cial me­dia post on Wednes­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “Tonight, up­on my re­turn from St Lu­cia, I was joined by Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, to vis­it the Galleons Pas­sage and in­spect the hu­man­i­tar­i­an re­lief sup­plies be­ing pre­pared for ship­ment to the peo­ple of Venezuela. Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with our Venezue­lan neigh­bours dur­ing this time of need.”

The re­lief ef­fort forms part of T&T’s as­sis­tance to sup­port peo­ple af­fect­ed by the twin earth­quakes in Venezuela on June 24.