For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is keep­ing silent on a high-stakes diplo­mat­ic ini­tia­tive an­nounced by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last month, rais­ing fresh ques­tions about the sta­tus of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to se­cure its share of cross-bor­der en­er­gy re­sources from neigh­bour­ing Venezuela.

Near­ly a month af­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clared that a diplo­mat­ic del­e­ga­tion would be dis­patched to Cara­cas to en­sure the coun­try ob­tains its “just share” of oil and gas re­serves, there has been no of­fi­cial up­date on whether that mis­sion has ma­te­ri­alised.

The Prime Min­is­ter had in­di­cat­ed the move was part of a broad­er ef­fort to re­vive stalled en­er­gy projects in­volv­ing shared re­sources be­tween the two coun­tries, an is­sue of grow­ing na­tion­al im­por­tance giv­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­pen­dence on the en­er­gy sec­tor.