Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) econ­o­mist Patrick Wat­son says he is “fright­ened” by some of the ac­tions the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion in Port-of-Spain is tak­ing as he not­ed that T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is po­si­tion­ing her­self as a faith­ful “dis­ci­ple” of US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

He al­so made it clear he has lit­tle faith that T&T would reap eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits from its close al­liance with the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

In an in­ter­view with the Busi­ness Guardian, Wat­son shared his views on the lat­est de­ci­sions the Gov­ern­ment is tak­ing both re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.