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Despite signs of new tension from Venezuela yesterday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said T&T’s relationship with our neighbour was “peaceful.”
The Prime Minister made the brief remark when asked to clarify the Government’s position amid escalating rhetoric in a diplomatic row sparked by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s claim last week that Venezuelan authorities had intercepted a paramilitary group attempting to enter their country via T&T, allegedly with the aim of destabilising his regime.
Among the group, Maduro’s administration alleged, was a man identified as Guis Kendell Jerome, who Venezuelan Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello identified as a Trinidadian national.
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