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For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has called on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment to adopt a calm and diplo­mat­ic ap­proach to de-es­ca­late ris­ing ten­sions with Venezuela.

His ap­peal came hours af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued a stern warn­ing to Venezuela Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro that dead­ly force would be used against any ves­sel en­ter­ing this coun­try il­le­gal­ly via Venezue­lan wa­ters.

The Prime Min­is­ter’s re­marks fol­lowed claims by Venezuela’s In­te­ri­or Min­is­ter, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, that a T&T na­tion­al, iden­ti­fied as “Gis Kendel Jheron,” had been de­tained in con­nec­tion with al­leged “ter­ror­ist ac­tiv­i­ties” af­ter be­ing ap­pre­hend­ed while at­tempt­ing to ac­cess Venezuela from T&T wa­ters.