Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have com­mend­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ad­dress at Tues­day’s launch of Cari­com’s 50th con­fer­ence, with Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath rub­bish­ing the Op­po­si­tion’s crit­i­cisms of her ad­dress.

In her open­ing re­marks, Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­liv­ered a force­ful de­fence of her un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, while sharply re­buk­ing mem­bers of the re­gion­al bloc for what she de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence across the re­gion and their fail­ure to con­front Venezuela in de­fence of Guyana.