Browne warns T&T could face scrutiny in US congressional probes

For­mer for­eign and Cari­com af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go could be named in con­gres­sion­al in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing the De­moc­rats’ sweep­ing vic­to­ry in the US midterm elec­tions.

Dr Browne said the coun­try could face con­se­quences for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s close align­ment with Trump, par­tic­u­lar­ly her Gov­ern­ment’s sup­port for US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean.

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Speak­ing at an Op­po­si­tion press con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Op­po­si­tion Leader in Port of Spain yes­ter­day, Dr Browne ac­cused Per­sad-Bisses­sar of aban­don­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tra­di­tion­al ap­proach to for­eign pol­i­cy in favour of what he de­scribed as a rad­i­cal, MA­GA-style phi­los­o­phy that con­flicts with the coun­try’s na­tion­al in­ter­ests.