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Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is stand­ing firm in her sup­port for the US Navy’s pres­ence near Venezuela, telling crit­ics that for the next five years her for­eign and do­mes­tic pol­i­cy will un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly be “Trinidad and To­ba­go first.”

She al­so dis­missed claims that her stance weak­ened Cari­com’s po­si­tion, say­ing the re­gion­al body was al­ready di­vid­ed be­fore her state­ment last Sat­ur­day.