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Sascha Wil­son

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the re­cent high-lev­el vis­it by US Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen­er­al Dan Caine, is a pos­i­tive move for T&T. Re­spond­ing to crit­i­cism by the Op­po­si­tion over the lack of trans­paren­cy and tim­ing of his vis­it, amidst es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions with Venezuela, Mooni­lal said he did not want to speak “too much” on that mat­ter, as the specifics lay with the Prime Min­is­ter and the min­is­ters with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for law en­force­ment.

“These are mat­ters of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, and I will leave those mat­ters to be dealt with by the Prime Min­is­ter and rel­e­vant law en­force­ment min­is­ters. But I can say it au­gurs well for the coun­try that such a high-lev­el, and pos­si­bly the high­est-lev­el mil­i­tary com­mand of the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment has vis­it­ed this coun­try and is hav­ing talks on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and the threats we face in the Caribbean as a whole by nar­co-traf­fick­ers, hu­man traf­fick­ers and the drug car­tels and so on.