As anx­i­eties grow over Venezuela’s de­ci­sion to de­clare Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar per­sona non gra­ta to that coun­try, end its gas agree­ments with T&T and the im­pend­ing ar­rival of the US air­craft car­ri­er USS Ger­ald R Ford in­to the re­gion, ex­perts re­main di­vid­ed on the im­pact and this coun­try’s re­sponse.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, how­ev­er, re­tired Brigadier Gen­er­al Carl Al­fon­so, a for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter, called on cit­i­zens not to pan­ic.

“I keep hear­ing that there’s go­ing to be a war, and Venezuela is go­ing to at­tack Trinidad and so on and so on. I don’t know where they got all their in­tel­li­gence from. I don’t think Venezuela is go­ing to at­tack Trinidad. Why would Venezuela at­tack Trinidad? Why would Amer­i­ca at­tack Venezuela, is an­oth­er sto­ry. And I think we all know the sto­ry,” Al­fon­so said.