Click to view full size

Shane Su­perville

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has called on the gov­ern­ment to ur­gent­ly strength­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­fence ca­pa­bil­i­ties fol­low­ing ac­cu­sa­tions from Venezue­lan of­fi­cials that the coun­try has backed US mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in the re­gion.

In a video shared yes­ter­day, Grif­fith ref­er­enced Venezuela’s claims that T&T sup­port­ed US troop move­ments in the south­ern Caribbean and ap­proved the seizure of a Venezue­lan oil tanker.