–stands ready to grant U.S. access through its waters if situation arises, nation’s PM affirms

THE Trinidad and Tobago Government has declared that it will lend its unflinching support to Guyana if the nation is attacked or invaded by the Nicolas Maduro regime of Venezuela.

“I want to make it very clear that if the Maduro regime launches any attack against the Guyanese people or invades Guyanese territory and a request is made by the American Government for access to Trinidadian territory to defend the people of Guyana, my government will unflinchingly provide them that access,” Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar said in a statement, on Saturday.

This disclosure was made as she expressed her nation’s full support for the United States’ deployment of military assets in the Caribbean to combat transnational crime.

Persad-Bissessar, deemed the move a necessary response to spiralling crime in the region.

“The Trinidad and Tobago government has not engaged and has no intention of engaging CARICOM on this matter; each member state can speak for themselves on this issue,” the statement read.

It added that the U.S. government’s deployment of American military assets into the Caribbean region to destroy the terrorist drug cartels has the full support of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

Due to drug, human and firearms trafficking, Caribbean countries, and in particular Trinidad and Tobago, have experienced massive spikes in transnational crime, gang activity, murders, violence and financial crimes.

Cartels have been enabled to embed themselves into the high echelons of Caribbean societies, thereby exhibiting significant influence in political, legislative, media, banking, security and economic decisions, often rendering governments toothless to enact actual change to stop criminal activity.