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Five months after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar declared the Dragon gas deal “dead”, it seems to have been resuscitated.

The latest development in the cross-border Trinidad and Tobago-Venezuela natural gas project followed Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s meeting yesterday with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

MEETING RUBIO: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar introduces members of her Cabinet to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, at the State Department yesterday in Washington, DC. From left, Sean Sobers, Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs; Barry Padarath, Minister of Public Utilities; Saddam Hosein, Minister of Legal Affairs; Nicholas Morris, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs; and Randall Karim, Head of the Foreign Service.