To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for hav­ing “more balls” than her male Cari­com coun­ter­parts, cit­ing her han­dling of re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and geopo­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments dis­cussed at last week’s Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis.

Speak­ing on Sun­day in his first brief­ing af­ter at­tend­ing the sum­mit, Au­gus­tine said Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s analy­sis of events sur­round­ing Venezuela showed prag­ma­tism and a clear un­der­stand­ing of in­ter­na­tion­al pow­er dy­nam­ics.

Dur­ing her Feb­ru­ary 24 ad­dress, Per­sad-Bisses­sar crit­i­cised Cari­com for not de­fend­ing mem­ber states Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana when Venezuela was “threat­en­ing vi­o­lence” against them.