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Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism over her com­ments on Cu­ba at the Cari­com sum­mit.

Dur­ing her speech at the meet­ing’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Tues­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Trinidad and To­ba­go will not sup­port what she de­scribed as a com­mu­nist regime and re­buked re­gion­al lead­ers for what she called in­ter­fer­ence in Cu­ba’s in­ter­nal af­fairs.