RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Min­is­ter of Works Jear­lean John has sought to re­as­sure man­u­fac­tur­ers and ex­porters that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) re­mains strong, even as re­gion­al ten­sions es­ca­late fol­low­ing re­cent pub­lic ex­changes among lead­ers.

Her re­marks come af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed Cari­com as “dys­func­tion­al,” com­ments that drew strong re­spons­es across the re­gion, in­clud­ing from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne, who em­pha­sised that Trinidad and To­ba­go ben­e­fits sig­nif­i­cant­ly from Cari­com trade.