Lead Ed­i­tor- News­gath­er­ing

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed con­cerns that Trinidad and To­ba­go could lose re­gion­al back­ing for its bid to sit on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, say­ing she does not care if oth­er coun­tries with­draw their sup­port.

“I sim­ply do not care if any­one with­draws their sup­port. That is their choice,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said yes­ter­day, re­spond­ing to a re­port by the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC) which sug­gest­ed that Port-of-Spain’s de­ci­sion to sup­port the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary build-up in the Caribbean could jeop­ar­dise its 2027–2028 Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil nom­i­na­tion.