Former T&T high commissioner criticises PM’s ‘grovelling’ before US

Akash Sama­roo

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go high com­mis­sion­er to In­dia Dave Per­sad is ac­cus­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of go­ing too far in try­ing to please the Unit­ed States, warn­ing that prag­ma­tism should not be­come “grov­el­ling” at the ex­pense of the coun­try’s dig­ni­ty and self-re­spect.

Per­sad, an at­tor­ney and for­mer diplo­mat, made the crit­i­cism in a com­men­tary ex­am­in­ing Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ad­dress to the 81st Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York last week and her Gov­ern­ment’s in­creas­ing­ly close re­la­tion­ship with the US.