En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal has sig­nalled a re­set in this coun­try’s ap­proach to re­gion­al en­er­gy diplo­ma­cy, ad­mit­ting that pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions failed to syn­chro­nise T&T’s hy­dro­car­bons strat­e­gy with de­vel­op­ments in Guyana and Suri­name.

Speak­ing on the sec­ond day of the Guyana En­er­gy Con­fer­ence and Sup­ply Chain Ex­po in George­town, Mooni­lal po­si­tioned Port-of-Spain as an in­dus­tri­al part­ner ready to sup­port emerg­ing pro­duc­ers, while con­ced­ing that op­por­tu­ni­ties for clos­er align­ment had not been ful­ly pur­sued in re­cent years.

Ad­dress­ing del­e­gates, Mooni­lal said the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, led by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, has giv­en a clear pol­i­cy di­rec­tive since tak­ing of­fice in April 2025 to deep­en en­gage­ment with its Cari­com neigh­bours on en­er­gy in­te­gra­tion and long-term plan­ning.