For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, a for­mer Min­is­ter of En­er­gy, is press­ing the gov­ern­ment on its sud­den an­nounce­ment of a diplo­mat­ic mis­sion to Venezuela, de­mand­ing an­swers on whether it recog­nis­es Del­cy Ro­dríguez and whether Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad‑Bisses­sar still treats her as per­sona non gra­ta.

“Do you recog­nise her as the cur­rent act­ing Pres­i­dent of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela?” Young asked at a PNM me­dia con­fer­ence to­day. “We still can’t get an an­swer to that.”

He not­ed the gov­ern­ment has spent years in­sult­ing Ro­dríguez and un­der­min­ing re­la­tions with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s clos­est neigh­bour.