One year ago to­day, on April 28, 2025, the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go went to the polls and de­liv­ered a man­date that would do more than just change a do­mes­tic agen­da.

For years, the na­tion’s for­eign pol­i­cy was char­ac­terised as a left-lean­ing stance cen­tred on non-in­ter­fer­ence, of­ten po­si­tion­ing T&T as a sov­er­eign ac­tor dis­tinct from the in­flu­ence of glob­al pow­ers.

Since the 2025 man­date, how­ev­er, the ad­min­is­tra­tion of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has shift­ed this tra­jec­to­ry, mov­ing to­ward a se­cu­ri­ty-based al­liance with the Unit­ed States un­der the frame­work of the “Don­roe Doc­trine.”