PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she is prepared to lead negotiations in Venezuela with respect to resurrecting the Dragon gas project. She said the UNC had been working to find a way to breathe life into the Dragon shortly after it won the April 28 general election.

Persad-Bissessar made these statements at a news conference at the VIP Lounge, Piarco International Airport, when she returned home from the US on October 1.

After a meeting between Persad-Bissessar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the US State Department on September 30, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the State Department issued separate statements to announce an agreement had been reached with respect to continuing TT-Venezuela cross-border energy initiatives.