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An in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert is call­ing on T&T and by ex­ten­sion Cari­com to do more to help de­fend Guayana over Venezuela’s am­bi­tions in the on­go­ing bor­der dis­pute.

The for­mer act­ing di­rec­tor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions, Dr Ray­mond Mark Kir­ton al­so called for a re­gion­al mil­i­tary de­fence force to de­ter Venezuela’s am­bi­tions over its bor­der dis­pute with Guyana.

He spoke yes­ter­day at a High-Lev­el Pan­el Dis­cus­sion en­ti­tled “The Guyana-Venezuela Bor­der Dis­pute—a mat­ter of re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al sig­nif­i­cance” host­ed at the Cipri­ani Col­lege of Labour and Co-op­er­a­tive Stud­ies cam­pus, Val­sayn.