Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, Sean Sobers, is adamant that there is no tension between Venezuela and this country.

“There are good relations with Venezuela and we will maintain having those good relations...There are no tensions,” Sobers said yesterday. He was speaking during a clean-up exercise at the Gasaprillo Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) centre in Gasparillo.

Following Prime Minster Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s support for the United States deploying warships in this region and for its military airstrike in the Caribbean on a Venezuelan vessel that was allegedly carrying drugs, she has faced criticism, including by the Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Interior Justice and Peace, Diosdad Cabello.